My long time friend the pransing horse
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:00 pm
Hi All
My name is Eric and I have had this TY 175 JE for 15 years and I found it in a box at the wreckers. It had thrown a chain and took a chip out of the casing of the selector drum. Everything was dismantled ready for sale. I bought the lot for $400 and fixed the case and put it back together with what I thought was restoring it. Although I’m reasonably happy with how its come together I do regret not just cleaning it and putting it back together as it was in reasonably good condition and full of character which I have now wiped
The bike was missing all its JEness and I have tried to reconstruct the missing parts with what I thought was the right bits. A turns out some of what I thought was wrong. The tail light and bracket are not for this bike. I bought a genuine tail light lens of eBay which would not fit as the reflectors would be in the way if I had the proper tail light backing plate to go with it. I don’t know why but 15 years ago I through the steel under tray that goes under the mudguard away as at the time I thought it was useless rusty rubbish??? Now of course I would very much like the under tray to support the taillight. If you know of a tail light assembly or under tray for sale please let me know.
I did not have a left switch block so got a black one that looked about right, paint striped it polished it, rewired and soldered the internals to match the pins in the headlight and used grey shrink wrap to simulate the original grey wire casings. I suspect the original ones only have one wire coming out where this one has two? If you know of one for sale regardless of condition I would be happy to clean it up.
I’m missing the battery box which is causing a lot of problems as I keep blowing globes. I think I need the battery box to regulate the power. I have taken this bike on our local Christmas toy run for the salvos a couple of times. It costs about $50 for a one day registration but by the time I get home just about every globe is blown. If some one has a battery box they want sell regardless of condition I would be very appreciative. Failing that if I could borrow one for about 3 months I could take it to a sheet metal works or have a go at reproducing one myself.
There are a few other bits and pieced I need but this has taken me 15 years so far I will get around to the rest latter. My daughter has put dibs on this bike so I want to get it right in the end.
Finally what is this? One on each side.
Thank you
Eric
My name is Eric and I have had this TY 175 JE for 15 years and I found it in a box at the wreckers. It had thrown a chain and took a chip out of the casing of the selector drum. Everything was dismantled ready for sale. I bought the lot for $400 and fixed the case and put it back together with what I thought was restoring it. Although I’m reasonably happy with how its come together I do regret not just cleaning it and putting it back together as it was in reasonably good condition and full of character which I have now wiped
The bike was missing all its JEness and I have tried to reconstruct the missing parts with what I thought was the right bits. A turns out some of what I thought was wrong. The tail light and bracket are not for this bike. I bought a genuine tail light lens of eBay which would not fit as the reflectors would be in the way if I had the proper tail light backing plate to go with it. I don’t know why but 15 years ago I through the steel under tray that goes under the mudguard away as at the time I thought it was useless rusty rubbish??? Now of course I would very much like the under tray to support the taillight. If you know of a tail light assembly or under tray for sale please let me know.
I did not have a left switch block so got a black one that looked about right, paint striped it polished it, rewired and soldered the internals to match the pins in the headlight and used grey shrink wrap to simulate the original grey wire casings. I suspect the original ones only have one wire coming out where this one has two? If you know of one for sale regardless of condition I would be happy to clean it up.
I’m missing the battery box which is causing a lot of problems as I keep blowing globes. I think I need the battery box to regulate the power. I have taken this bike on our local Christmas toy run for the salvos a couple of times. It costs about $50 for a one day registration but by the time I get home just about every globe is blown. If some one has a battery box they want sell regardless of condition I would be very appreciative. Failing that if I could borrow one for about 3 months I could take it to a sheet metal works or have a go at reproducing one myself.
There are a few other bits and pieced I need but this has taken me 15 years so far I will get around to the rest latter. My daughter has put dibs on this bike so I want to get it right in the end.
Finally what is this? One on each side.
Thank you
Eric