DKW vintage 250cc motorcycle - Shortblock dismantling
Dec 30, 2018 8:50:33 GMT -5
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Post by Lucass2T on Dec 30, 2018 8:50:33 GMT -5
Got it for free from my cousin, a mid 50's 250cc DKW (part of former Auto Union) motorcycle.
A few years ago my cousin and a bunch of his friends had bought a german cottage with a patch of land with it. Somewhere in the back of the piece of land was an old cow shed with in it a deep ditch for the cow's poo to collect or whatever. It was full of rubble and they decided to clean it out. At one moment they found a gas tank in between the rubble, and a wheel, and another wheel and then a chassis and all the rest of some old motorcycle. Turns out there was a fully dismanteled but complete motorcycle in there.
He took it home and through the years had tried to sell it, get quotations here and there for a full or partial restoration...and finally decided to keep it with no clear purpose for it. This summer he came by my dad's and i was working on the cr500. We talked a bit about bikes and such and then he told me he had this old German motorcycle. He told me the story about it and then asked me if i wanted to have it since he didn't really know what to do with it. I was like yeah maybe because first i needed to find a place to store it and sell the 500. Got that all sorted out, so now i have a new project on my hands.
This is how they look
The motor is there but completely disassembled and in crates. I have no real plans for it yet. First I want to reassemble the motor and get it running, then do some basic maintenance. From there im going to decide what im want to do with it.
A few years ago my cousin and a bunch of his friends had bought a german cottage with a patch of land with it. Somewhere in the back of the piece of land was an old cow shed with in it a deep ditch for the cow's poo to collect or whatever. It was full of rubble and they decided to clean it out. At one moment they found a gas tank in between the rubble, and a wheel, and another wheel and then a chassis and all the rest of some old motorcycle. Turns out there was a fully dismanteled but complete motorcycle in there.
He took it home and through the years had tried to sell it, get quotations here and there for a full or partial restoration...and finally decided to keep it with no clear purpose for it. This summer he came by my dad's and i was working on the cr500. We talked a bit about bikes and such and then he told me he had this old German motorcycle. He told me the story about it and then asked me if i wanted to have it since he didn't really know what to do with it. I was like yeah maybe because first i needed to find a place to store it and sell the 500. Got that all sorted out, so now i have a new project on my hands.
This is how they look
The motor is there but completely disassembled and in crates. I have no real plans for it yet. First I want to reassemble the motor and get it running, then do some basic maintenance. From there im going to decide what im want to do with it.
