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Did you check your fuel filter , silly question but I re-read your post and the thought just came to me a clogged fuel filter would bogg down and if fully clogged shut it down . The oil I would say if it was just wet that's ok , mine is wet , but if it's truly blowing oil out the hose then that's something else like rings or valve seats . Also when you replaced the plug how did the old one look ? How did it smell?

Just my 2 cents worth , I used to restore old bikes and would get the project bikes at this motorcycle junkyard so to speak . They were mostly parked in this huge warehouse so didn't have sun light to beam down on them constantly but anyway . Many of the bikes were old Hondas with there original tires .....1960's to 1970's ....with the tubes still holding air . I rode many of them to test while still restoring them . Of course the rubber had hardened and slicked but still took chances on them until new rubber was put on them when completed . Never had one blow out but then would never sell one for someone to ride with them either . I remember one triumph I had , was a 68 bonneville I think , original grips rubber and still had the teets on the tires ...was like 20 or 30 miles on the odometer . The tire I kept and sold with the bike but with the expretion the tires were not for road use ....and I used to only buy used tires when going on my cars for a while till I had blow outs because of the old tires . Rubber breaks down , tires get old and unpredictable , I would never trust an old tire on a bike for anything other than an emergency to get a new one on later in the week or to the next store. To many memories of ridding those old project bikes and havering the front or back get slippery around a corner with that old rubber lol

All this week it has been 32 in the morning and high 30's in the afternoon and overcast so today was like a heat wave .... Lol

[replyingto=chapman6098]chapman6098[/replyingto]Here is a couple I took the other day

www.scootparts.nl/Bodyparts/en/page/715/
I get a lot from them . Don't know what the shipping would be to the states though. Wich retro do you have by the way?

Yup first tool I bought when I started fixing bikes way back was a impact driver ( ya wack it with a hammer ) lasted me almost thirty years an then I gave it to my son . First honda I worked on had those screw head bolts and I stripped one trying it with a screw driver. Went down to ace hardware and bought it , took it right out too even though it was a little stripped . Get you one , they are a must have and usually only cost like 10-20 bucks last time I checked .

Hey everyone . I think I have decided on what to do next to my retro. I'm going with the 18mm carb . It's already set up for 50-70cc scoots . I was thinking about a bbk or carb . Old school hot rodder knows the more you can squeeze out of a motor the better but when you go over the design limits of the internals you can have problems . Although I have thought of getting a bbk the benifits of the low torque are off set by the lowered max rpm . Your moving more mass on parts not necessarily designed for it .Yes you can put taller gears to make up for the speed and eventually have a bigger bike so to speak but then your putting more strain on the parts than what they were designed to do. A bigger carb , better cam ( either for lower torque or higher rpm ) and a good exauhst are makeing the motor breath better and more efficient while still keeping the stresses within tolerance . My scoot does 64 on the flats with no problem add a slight decline or tail wind and it will do 76 without fail, also a slight incline or head wind and it steady at 60 . That's kph not mph lol. Adding a better/bigger carb and it will give me what I think I'm looking for . Of course this is from learning from hot ridding cars in the past and building rat bikes . What's your comments ?