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Originally Posted by Seeker
I will buy a runner and then decide about refurbishing.
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For what it's worth, I think this is the best approach, although it's getting much harder to find good 70s 2-strokes, as they're mostly well over 40 years old.
When I bought my GT380 back in 1998, it was 'only' 22 years old so components like the nylon oil pipe 'spider' from the oil pump and the oil line check valves all still worked fine, and because the bike was used regularly, they continued to work.
Those parts are now totally unobtanium, and I see many posts on the Suzi forums about split lines, dying check valves etc which basically takes these bikes off the road.
Much as it pains me to say so, Yamahas are probably the easiest strokers to restore and get parts for. Their oil pump systems are simpler (and can easily be deleted without ill effect if you need to). It's much harder to do that on Suzis or Kawas.
A lot of the crank and gearbox bearings on Suzis and Kawas are now no longer made, along with rods and pistons - but you can get all of these for most Yam strokers from the 70s onward. Also the LC and YPVS motors were developed into the Banshee quad engines and there's a lot of common parts.