1970's Italjet Mini Bike Restoration

[meltedcheese]

Completed engine pic

[Rusted Pistons]

Looks mint! ;D

[oztuning]

Excellent work! I've just rebuilt one of these too! I'll stick a thread on!

[meltedcheese]

Got some little bits in work today to hide the brake cables and wiring so I shall get some pics up tonight of my tidying

[Rusted Pistons]

Pics cheese my man!

[meltedcheese]

Well chaps, spent the evening on the mini bike sorting out the cable runs, just generally trying to make a neat job of it

I fitted all the brake and throttle cables the other night along with the wiring


Picked up some cable trunking, heat shrink and cable ties from work



Cut the trunking to length along with heat shrink




Realised the inlet manifold was on the wrong side flipped it trimmed the fuel pipe and figured a nice route for the throttle cable


Routed the throttle cable under the tank, I think when the seat is on it should hide it completely

Comes out here



Finished ;D not much more left to do now! Woop Woop!

[Rusted Pistons]

Looks awesome dude, I may have to come round and have a gander at the weekend you also may have to try and procure some more of that cable trunking for the blue weenie ;D ;D

Whens the big startup attempt? I'm gonna try and put the Puch motor together Saturday morning and maybe finish the tank on the Capri at some point too.

Looks like such a neat little bike, its almost a shame its so small you can't ride it on the road! Have you painted the alloys yet?

[meltedcheese]

Cheers Dave, got some spare trunking that I am sure will do it fit the weenie think i'm going to start it next weekend at this point. Need to get paid to buy the oil, new plug & wheel paint. Then I shall be cruising the mean Wirral backstreets, with slick hair perhaps

[jonw]

Another Italjet!!!!

My GF has an Italjet Millenniumm scooter.

Great Project.

[nomad]

Great work on yours, looking very tidy

Feb 18, 2011 8:40:59 GMT meltedcheese said:

Right, got some more pics sorted

When I purchased the bike I have no idea what it was, ended up trawling mini-bike forums hunting for the answer. Ended up with some clever soul knowing what it was on moped army ;D
Here is the pic he sent me -



Couldn't believe me feckin luck, soon as I found that out I got straight onto stripping the bike! (After a victory brew of course)

I've got 2 of these on the go now, a twin-shock model same as pic is out on long-term loan at a mates farm (we took it up there for a bbq / testing session, kids like it so much we never got it back :

The new one is monoshock, just split the motor today as crank oilseals have died (we bought it from bloke who learned to ride on it then put it in his dads shed - bloke is now in his 40's so it's been laid up for about 30 years )
It's survived fairly well, good spark & compression, only bits missing are a cap for the petroltank and a sidecasing to cover the alternator.

Goggle - the twinshock Italjet model is JC-5A, monoshock is JC-5C
They were also sold badged as Harley Davidson Indian in the states, I guess they took off the "made in Italy" stickers first

edit for typos ...

[meltedcheese]

Wow good knowledge thanks for the additional information I have got the bug to certainly tackle another one after this, when you put your mind to it they can be quite quick and easy to tackle. Need to prioritise my up and coming projects though Do you know a good place for spares for these little bikes, I believe that they don't really make any of the parts for them anywhere anymore??!

[nomad]

Feb 26, 2012 10:39:32 GMT meltedcheese said:

Do you know a good place for spares for these little bikes, I believe that they don't really make any of the parts for them anywhere anymore??!

PM sent with addy for somebody who was trading in spares (seals & points etc) last year.
He suggested Harglo so you might want to Google them and see what turns up.
Can you PM me if you find anyone else, always handy to know who keeps bits

I've also got a few PDF's of service books & parts lists, unlikely to have your specific model but I find them handy as background info.
If anyone wants a copy just PM me your email.

cheers

[nomad]

Clicky-link below, click on the image for a slideshow of various pics & info, have fun ;D

[meltedcheese]

Great stuff cheers nomad, I'll PM you my email now

[TS]

lovely work

[meltedcheese]

Cheers tallsam, PAYDAY!!!!! Can stray my Wheels up and buy new tyres, Wooo!

[Rusted Pistons]

Sweet!

[meltedcheese]

Well chaps, had a pretty productive weekend on the bike check out the pics!

There was a hole on the inside face of the exhaust so I decided to weld it up in me pa's garage. Useful chap with all the tool/equipment a man could ever need


Some high temperature paint

Hey Presto!

Oil and fuel check!


Exhaust on


The start up vid

It's Aliiiiivve!!!!

Found an oil leak from around the kick-start, the one seal I didn't change that'll teach me

Just need to sort my wheels and tyres now new I shouldn't have started it

[Rusted Pistons]

Tyres tyres tyres! I want a go! ;D

[meltedcheese]

Ordered a Tesco credit card today, I think that should help me out