1968 Harley Davidson Motorcycle RUNS For The First Time In 30+ Years
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2023
- I get a 1968 Harley Davidson Sprint 250 running and driving after it sat for 30 years. #Vintage, #Rare,
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I think it was an Aermacchi design from Italy and Harley bought them out to offer starter small-capacity bikes - They made it in 250 & 350 sizes and were popular on the European club man circuits racing back in the day
Or possibly an Amurakin "feathered serpent" Quetzacotal..idk?
You’re quite correct it was an Aeromacchi Ala Verde available as a 250 and 350
Aermacchi was indeed an Italian company...their 250-350cc bikes were beautiful...they were about as far away from Harley Davidson as it was possible to get....
Keep doing what you love to do and you will never work a day in your life. Awesome job pleasure watching you turn your hobby into a career.
Q-tip works great for the seat and if you get a stubborn one you can use a dab of tooth paste on the end and use it as a grind compound. Not aggressive enough to hurt anything but just enough to clean up the surface.
Sounds real healthy for sitting 30 years. I still think the engine crankcase looks very funky
Great job on the old HD Sprint. I had an HD Sprint 350 in 1971, fast and reliable however there was lots of vibration. Had to stop about every 45 mins to get the feeling back in my hands. She was the same color as yours. Lots of fun times on her. Thank you for all your hard work on you videos.
The q tip trick is a great way to clean up those seats I'm glad a viewer mentioned that and you tried it !!! nice job !!
Best thing I’ve found for carb cleaning is guitar string, works amazing! Been using them for 30-40 years! G,B and High E strings are the best!! 👍👍✌️✌️
Torch tip cleaning files (cheap for a full set) work great too. They come in many sizes for different jets. They also make a good string nut file for your guitar.
Ah man that's a great idea. Wish I would have thought of that two weeks ago working on an old outboard motor.
@@OnToCamping now ya know bro! Really works amazing people don’t realize the strength of them strings when your only using a 3-4” piece grab ahold of it with some Vice grips or something about 1/4-1/2 from the end and you can stick that thing in a 2x4 lol
I bought a REALLY ugly 1965 Spring in the early 90's. (I'd had a 67 Spring SS when I was 16) I got it running, then took it all apart, with the idea to get it painted and restore it. Found a beautiful NOS seat and a number of other parts. Long story short, life got busy, I moved to Russia to work, and the project sat. Finally, I gave it to a buddy who finished it, had it repainted in the original 1965 color (orange) and he had me come down to try it out. After all the years of not riding one, the 'upside-down' shift pattern on the right side was REALLY confusing. The Sprint was the first real motorcycle in my life after having had a little 65cc Honda. So cool to see this one get rescued and on the road again. Thanks for the video.
That was me that suggested the q-tip trick. It's a Musty1 trick. He used a little valve grinding compound on the q-tip to polish up the surface.
Mustie also uses a little fine lapping compound on the q tip
@@flyingmerkel54musty LOL he calls an old Maytag a hit-and-miss engine nothing can be further from the truth.
Musky is another fool on u tube
Maybe you should invest in a new parts washer or make one. Love your work.👍
Im an old man and Ive worked on lots of different things like this. Its a shame we cant advise you on the slight nuances of these old rickety things in real time and warn you about the inherant flaws in these gizmos, like that carb tickler, etc. Also, the cable installation of the twist grip. Love your videos. Keep up the good work .
On Rust- My son bought a 1982 DR125 in great shape for $140 (barn find) and the tank was terribly rusty- I use apple cider vinegar for these and it typically works great! same on an old boat tank. Just fill it up and let it sit for a few days. Rinse well after and put gas in it so rust doesn't start again. Not sure what the rust remover costs, but cider is like $3-4 :) I also soaked the carb in the same vinegar and it cleaned up really good.
My very first motorcycle was an old Wards Riverside 125 which had a similar shift pattern with a rocker style shifter on the right. Took it trail riding with some friends on their Honda 90s one evening and later that night rode it back home with one buddy in front and the other riding behind because I crashed and busted the lights out. That started my motorcycle journey for the next 5 decades.
My first was a hand-me-down 1965 (Sears) Allstate SGS 250. Think made by Steyr-Daimler-Puch, the same people who made/make the Pinzgauer offroad vehicles?
We had seven Wards bikes and I just picked up a Wards 360 Mojave this past Monday. Of course I have to put it back together but hey, it’s what I road in high school. Just don’t if my knees will allow me to kick it over. Always wanted an Aermacchi Sprint but maybe some day. 👍❤️🏍
Sorry ,rode (not road) in high school.
I’m diggin the couple of old school bikes here lately. Awesome job brother keep it up!! Where is Chuck it’s been a minute?
That button on top of the float chamber is a "tickler".
It is used to prime the carburettor before cold starting.
It pushes the float down a bit opening the needle and allowing fuel to flow.
If it sticks down and the engine isn't burning the fuel in the carb, you get a leak from the overflow vent.
She'll probably start first kick if he gives that carb a tickle before kicking. (Although she did start on one kick when he went for a ride. Not sure if the bike was cold or not. On my 64 Triumph you need to tickle with every cold start.)
Ticklers are so old school and so British I love it.
@@jeffreyness9741 Nothing British about them, most european motorcycles had them on a carburettor, They are cool tho every carburettor should have one.
I had three British motorcycles and they all had ticklers and I thought that was interesting and no British people did not design that but it is still memorable and cool. Apparently these days they don't enjoy having people trickle gasoline out of their carburetors on to their crankcases and all that stuff. thank you kind person it's all good.
That was common on very old bikes, but since this is a Harley, no surprise they used it. Others quit in the 30s.
Those little bikes are awesome! I like the right side shifter. 1st bike I ever owned, back in 1971, was a Norton 650 Nomad (Twin Scrambler), my uncle bought new in Texas in 1958. It had right side shifter, 1 up, 3 down, and rear brake on left side. It has twin Amals, similar to those Delorto's, side bowl with tickler primers. They always leaked gas until the bike started up. Brits located the magneto directly under the carbs. Brit bikes leak everything... oil, gas, electricity (thank you Lucas). The magneto cap looked like a mini light show at night when it was running. Starting it was always an adventure, as gas would drip down where the spark escaped the mag cap, so I had to always have a thick rag with me to put the fire out, which happened pretty frequently. I still have that bike. Starting out and learning on that, then having to re-learn left side shifter and right side brakes was a new experience on my later bikes when I started moto-crossing, and trials riding.
Were they Amal monobloc carbs with the side bowl, or concentrics with bowl underneath?
@@bananabrooks3836 They are twin Amal 276, pre-Monobloc. They have the bowl on the sides
@@JohnnieBravo1 There are things you can do to stop them leaking plenty of hints and tips on lnternet. Some 'modern' parts cause the floats to stick.
Man Im really loving the frequency of your videos 🙌🏻‼️
AERMACCHI ..one of the Best “ Italian Motorcycles “ ever made…..👍🏻
I had a 350, it ran fantastic…!
Unless you have an MV Agusta or an Aprilla .
This is such a great build. Love seeing old bikes fire up after a long time of sitting.
Another cool trick is use some 3m polishing compound on the q-tip to help cut the grime. Super fine lapping compound works as well!
Great video man
Hey joe just want to say since watching your videos I have become so much more confident doing engine work. I have just made a gs125 head, piston, cylinder and cylinder head, plus cam and chain from one engine fit onto a newer fuel injected dr125 engine and without your videos and the knowledge I have gained from you I wouldn’t have succeeded. So thank you, keep up the great videos ❤
Similar story here. He’s convinced me to buy/repair 3 (as of now) Yamaha blasters. So now I have 3 of those babies. My problem seems to be in selling them. I don’t want to sell them ha.
@@jchuston I’ve got the same issue but I did manage to sell a couple still have 5 Polaris 4 wheelers seems like I wind up with spare parts that make the next one just a little bit cheaper to fix and unfortunately buy
@@danelldecker3696 100% agree ha ha. I got a cracked case blaster for $250…but had all sorts of good parts, so now I need another clapped out one to make 1 whole running one.
@@jchuston which leads to the next one and on and on it goes. But hey there is money in it sooner or later and a lot of good times in between. Worse things a guy could be doing. Least that what I tell my wife
Back in sixties I worked at a motorcycle club. The HD Spint won a lot of state championship flat track races. The person who said they was junk, is full of_ _ it.
for the spokes, place a few drops of oil on each spoke. i used to use 3-in-one, but i suppose a more solvent-based may work. spin the wheel so centrifugal force makes the oil move to the nipple and drag a metal object accross the spokes to set up vibration. obviously you can do this more than once and wait a while - day by day even. most things will free up with penetrating oil time and vibration. if you are not impatient time is on your side.
This guy will never make a really good restauration person because he doesn't have patience, have you ever watched the way he Squirtle oil in a hole he gets all nervous and dangled it around like he's having a nervous breakdown
Tidied up a bit that look nice sitting next to my iron barrel Royal Enfield 500.😊
I had two slides stuck in carbs the other day. I soaked them, tried heating them with a propane torch, tried lightly prying with a plastic tool. No movement. I boiled them for a minute or so and the slides came right out. If I had tried this first, I wouldn't have broken one of the throttle shafts.
Take the gas tank off pour small nuts and bolts in and shake tnaks for a few minutes and then empty out all the rust dust. Then put the solution in.
BB's work pretty well to. I've done that before.
@PropheZ23 >I've used clean gravel rinse with water and dry then coat with an epoxy tank coating.
You can also use dish soap, a metal rod, and a battery with leads to chemically pull the rust off the tank.
Marbles are the best thing to use to clean out a gas tank.
I prefer a length of chain.
I had a 1973 Harley -Davidson SS350 Sprint. Made in Italy by Aermacchi. I purchased it new and I think it was about $795.00 plus tax. Harley had two different versions of the 350 Sprint. The SS350 had chrome fenders and though it's a single cylinder thumper, it had dual chrome exhaust. They also made a SX350 Sprint. It was made like a trail bike. The SX had high fenders, I don't recall them being chrome, knoby tires, single upswept black exhaust with a heat shield, I think on the right side of the bike and it had a larger rear sprocket. The SS350 had rubber mounted handle bars. The SS also had an electric starter plus the kick starter. The SX probably had a different set of shocks for off road riding. I enjoyed the Sprint while I had it, which was only for one riding season. Unfortunately for the bike, it all ended one cold day in November of 73 when a guy made a left turn in front of me. Fortunately for me no broken bones that day.
I don't know if Harley imported two different versions of the 250 Sprint in 1968. Looking at the 250 Sprint in this video kind of looks like at one time it may have been setup for off road riding, with the high rear fender and upswept chain guard to accommodate a larger rear sprocket.
I rode one of these back in 1968 when I was 18. Ran the heck out of it. Didn't think I would ever see one again. Great job!!!
Change the crush washers on that oil line don't forget 👍
That would throw me out big time with everything being back to front, you did well really.
You can get forks for your skid steer then you can get your hovercraft out of your out of your field
You should have one of those ultrasonic parts cleaners. Get all the grime from all those carbs you rebuild.
Another gem of a bike that you resurrected congratulations and Bravo.
I always wanted a Sprint 250 but as a kid it was way too expensive, I think they ran about $425.00 new. I bought a 67 Honda 305 Superhawk for $395.00 brand new.
I had a 71 SX 350 that I bought new in high school. I rode it all over the Los Angeles area. It had Pirelli knobby tires standard which made for interesting riding when it rained on the freeways, I did a lot of dirt riding with it too. It was hard to get parts for when it was new, Harley wasn't great about supporting them.
Thank you, Classic Cycle. You are living every young man's dream. Great video, informative and entertaining - Vinny
Put some gravel in your tank and shake it like a Polaroid picture.
a box of metal nuts work. gravel is way to hard to get out.
Or vinegar
Metal nuts, and count them, you can use a magnet, vinegar good, awesome brand dollar store cleaner is better. Polaroid, I don't think he's old enough to know about those!
I found an old review of the Harley Sprint - apparently the lack of a throttle return spring is an intentional feature borrowed from the larger Harleys of the day, to allow steady cruising without keeping a hand on the throttle.
Wow
I had the very same bike in the early 70's took all the street stuff off of it and turned it into a dirt bike knobby tires and all. what a blast!! for a first bike
I don’t know where in WI you live I live in north western WI 50 miles north of Eau Claire, I have a 1974 Honda CB360 with 6th overdrive, it hasn’t been run since 1984, it’s been shedded all that time and their was oil put in the cylinders when it was parked, I’ve been following you and watching you get these 30+ year old machines running and am impressed, it would be fun to sit here in my recliner and watch you get it running.
That engine sounds great! What an interesting bike (made by Aermacchi for HD) They did a 350 version, too.
When a Harley isn't a Harley 😊
And they made some badass racing versions that are rare.
I believe so.@@ronalddaub9740
The Q tip trick works with lapping compound
Jackie Earle Haley as "Kelly Leak" in The Bad News Bears had a '76 SS125.
Another brilliant episode 😎Thank you 👊❤️🇬🇧
Yes I have been waiting for this!!!!!!
My very first motorcycle, a 250 scrambler. Thanks for the memories!
Wasn't the bike an Italian Aermacchi design which Harley acquired to fill their small bike gap?
Yes.
I thought the Italian engines were the 2 stroke 1 75 1 25 and 250
@@1leggedmedia You are correct, also the 250 and 350 4 stroke singles.
Yes, Harley marketing staff was too dumb to foresee the huge boomer generation come of age wanting to ride, when Honda and other Japanese makers brought out smaller displacement bikes, Harley realized they needed to do something for the youth market. They bought a 50% interest in Italian aircraft and bike maker Aermacchi (air machine), slapped HD Sprint decals on the tank and the Sprint was born. H-D also sold the road race -ready CRTT and the factory flat-tracker, the CR, CRS, and ERS. A Harley Sprint set the world 250cc speed record at 176 mph in 1967. The Sprints were very competitive as racers and the CRTT are still raced in Europe and South America, they are renowned for great handling and you can buy all the road race kit, fairing, tank, bump seat, rear sets etc. from an outfit in North Carolina. Great job!
Love the look of that style of bike, add to the fact its a Harley and WOW!
In 1977 I was 10 years old and my brother was 14. We shared a honda 125 that we bought together. Got tired of having 1 bike and pulled a sprint out of a junkyard for $25. Being a 10 year old mechanic I couldn't keep it running and we pushed it back to the junkyard. I waited another 20 years before I bought another Harley
I think I am almost ready to start a new project with an old junked yamaha. I will watch again and again your videos.
😂😂😂
If all else fails, you might apply a little silver solder to the petcock to hold it together. Just use an acid flux.
3:40 should’ve taken the tank off, strapped it to one of your many atv tires on a jack and let it spin.
cool bike. I like your street bike rescues better than the dirt bikes. It's all good though. Nice to see your co-worker there too.
love it, dont forget, one up three down with the right foot !
What a great sound out of a 1968 Harley Davidson , remember Harley was not bought out by AMF until 1969
This is made by aramaki in Italy so none of that matters
@@ronalddaub9740 you obviously can’t spell the English language and also have a hard time accepting the facts of a Harley Davidson production motorcycle that doesn’t sound out of time and leaking oil everywhere
When those old rickety tires disintegrate, you're gonna have a very bad day. Wise up buddy. Nice work anyway.
Yeah he is like a crash test dummy sometimes.
What should he do brand new rubber to ride it across the field? 😂
@@fordfan6474 No , butt going on the blacktop at full speed. Could end badly, don't you agree?
Na I would send it just like he does
Nothing like a fresh bag of Pistachios and a 2Vintage night fix video
What an exhilarating experience. Great job my mam
Very underrated motorcycles mainly because they looked different
The oil leak is the return to the case from the head. Tighten. The carb is a gas dump not a air restriction. Theres a O ring on that little shaft on the dump lever
Buy a Maconie carb. Big performance change.
Add some pasta sauce to the gas tank and a little wine for octane boost
Joe is much better at editing then mechanic's
Great video as always
All he needs is the leather cap and googles to get that vintage look. Lol. And a scarf😂. Great job. Hats off to the guy with the patience of a lifetime.
Lol, even the shift pattern is bassackwards. I had the AMF/Harley version of this bike. If memory serves me it had a bigger motor. I never got it running but I’m sure you could have!
Love your videos man!
You can buy racing heads for this bike,Amerettie…..my friend worked at Harley test facility and had every bike harley made in 1969… he said it was Harley’s best year..
Only it's a aramachi. Harley-Davidson had nothing to do with building that it just has the name on it
And yes you could buy racing equipment and they also had a few are amachi models that are already flat tracker from the factory
@@ronalddaub9740 No, it's Aermacchi, Mr. Know-it-all!
I was racing flat track when these came out,they were very fast and the the first 4 stroke flat track 250,more torque where my suzuki was high rpm,they beat on the corners and I would fly by on the straights.
I remember them on 1/2 mile flat track.
love the videos made my week
You are giving me inspiration to complete my 1974 Kawasaki Z1A 900 "revival" that sat in my garage for 15+ years. I only need to pull the trigger on a new tank (the old one is in really bad shape), new tires and get the carbs synched.
Nice jobs, I really enjoy your videos!
I have a couple kz650s....restored. carb sync and timing adjustment made the bike like new. I did the relay / coil mod and it starts on a half kick.
Great vid. I have a 1973 SS 350 Sprint, professionally rebuilt SX, date correct motor, somewhat rare 5 speed. Fun bike. The kick in the ass is that 100% of the electric starters failed, including mine which never worked. The small planetary gears in the starter fail. Fortunately, mine usually starts in 2 kicks.
When I saw the petcock tap unit not gripping, my first thought was plumber's tape on the threads. Looked like 3-5mm of usable thread there. Any hardware shop would have a roll, and that stuff isn't used for short-term fixes but permanent fixtures.
First off all I watch your daily post look forward to them when I get home from work . I just wanted to mention that when I used to work on old bikes a hand full of 1/4" nuts and the rustolium would take care of all the big chunks of rust and I had pretty good luck with the cap getting cleaned of rust cap the tank insert ear plugs and shake ..
Iv'e seen people use a tiny dab of lapping compound on the q-tip to clean the needle seat on those old carbs.
The King of "Will it Run?". Thank you, Mr. 2vintage.
So how well did you nuke the rust inside the tank? Would've liked to see the end result.
If anybody can bring life after death to these old machines it would be you you got some mad skills my friend
He's got more money than he has patience and I wouldn't let him work on a Tonka truck
Reminds me of my youth, bopping around NM on Yamaha Enduro DTs. Simple bike, great fun.
Glad to see you used the Q-tip trick for cleaning the needle seat that i suggested a while back. Use toothpaste as a polish instead of wd-40.
The guy at Wheels thru time would maybe be interested in this bike.
H.D. Humpty Dumpty , Alls Well after 30 Years + Thanks to Joe @ 2Vintage. Enjoyed that segment Joe, AWSOME MAN.
You swap those handles over to the opposite sides to accommodate your way of operations of riding to Joe. It just switches what hands does what is all on the bike. Most likely A left handed rider owned that motorcycle once before you got it. They usually change.,or have it swapped over to the left handle bar for shifting.& Etc.
Sorry pal, no can do.
He did it again. It's sounds awesome.
Odd that the gear shift and brake are on the opposite sides. That’d take me a minute to get used to.
Reminded me of driving in Jamaica - left side of the road, or a JDM car - driving on the right shifting with the left hand
Early love watching you work on bikes
I had the same exact model and year. It was a great bike and lots of low gear torque. I could cut doughnuts all day in low gear. Glad to see you find one .
I like when your cap fell off Greatings from Sweden. :)
great bike for a full restoration .
Wrong, they're only original once.
toothbrush is what you use to clean small parts or hard to reach spaces. you can actually now buy a cheap electric. i got one and was suprised the battery - alkaline i guess - was still working after a year of sitting. also, use paint-brushes of different sizes in the cleaning. what you are actually doing is " restoration " which results in a bike worth more money if original.
She sounds good boy like to find an 250 dritbike soon
Amazing troubleshooting skills. I knew you were going to break that cable, lol. Love your channel you are a skilled technician for sure. Where did you get your training or are you self taught?
Great job!! My order brother had 73 Sprint. Good bike even thought was AMF SPRINT 350 FROM Cerini Harley was oldest shop eeast if the Mississippi. They should build them again
Not a bad bike for its age joe a few tweaks here and there and it should tidy up real nice great video mate 👍👌🔧🔧🔧🏁🏁🏁❤️
That thing is worth big money as a historical vehicle collector specially now that it's running you just need to polish it up real good get that baby shining
That bike was modified and was a natioal flat track champion. Bars seat and stuff
Awesome video as always. I would use what they call side cutter snips for multi strand snipping.
Or a Dremel with a little cut off wheel. Also Park Tools make a nice cable cutter.
I had a 1968 305 Yamaha 2 cylinder two-stroke first bike with the oil injection. Did 140 mph on Memorial Drive in Boston with that thing and broke the speedometer. Very good bike if you come across one grab it.😎
I can't imagine buying a bike this old. I think I remember some small Harley Davidson's about 50 or 100cc or so in displacement but I don't remember these bikes, they were before my time. I have a 1993 Honda CBR F2 sport bike and I have big problems getting parts for that bike. Buying a bike with rust in the tank would be a big red flag for me.
That bike seems worth making right. Pretty cool.
I had a 250cc Kawasaki thumper once. It was like a pet rock and boring as hell to ride. Those two strokes were the way to go for off roading back in the day.
Yeah I do remember on those Sprints literally everything was backwards.
Not for Europeans.