Free DR200 Dirt Bike with a Seized engine.. Will it Start?? 

I imagine there are many who feel like this but I am very grateful for these videos. It is clear that you have invested the time and money into the sound, shots and editing. Very good work appreciated.

Riding around those tracks on an old dirt bike looks like so much fun.

You ran into about 6 problems that would have stumped me into throwing parts at a problem or saying "ill get back to it." But you just solved them all smoothly with parts on-hand. Really cool to watch. I'd have replaced that carb, wanted to take apart the cylinder, never found the decompression lever etc. Nice work man, I feel like we need to put you in charge of some important stuff, lol.

If you find yourself doing carburetor cleanings often, a good investment is an ultrasonic cleaner. Stoked for your easy fix dirtbike!

The DR200 is one of the best bikes ever made. My wife bought a brand new 2006 SE model. We shipped it still in tue crate to St. Thomas where she rode it daily for 46,000 miles. I rebuilt everything at least once except the motor. I did put a new clutch in after about 30,000 but it didn't need it. With a pipe on it and the right gearing for the area it was a lot of fun. And crazy reliable. I did get to take it off road a little and burn up some corners on a Sunday morning. Miss that bike.

I'm not a big motorbike person, but those Suzuki dirt bikes and similar ones from that era just have that certain something. Very glad to see this one got saved from the junkyard, hopefully it'll bring a lot of joy to you and whoever else gets to use it :)

The Classic Marty T video, something pretty decent for free, needs fluids and a pressure wash, I pay actual money for stuff, has broken valves, wheel bearings all falling out and its -15c here, ahhhh living the life!

Marty: "Looks like a left handed Whitworth screw with a hex head. I think I've got one of those." Sure enough, finds it in the box of rare fasteners. Goes on about the repair. Genius.

That Carb was one of the cleanest carburettors Iv'e seen from a machine that has been stood for years.

A man can never have too many... *Boats. *Tractors. *Chain saws. *Bits of earth moving equipment.... Hell, anything with an engine 🙂. Always a great watch Marty. A motor bike mate of mine would suggest getting the de-comp' system re instated. He said with the DR series, you might have enough horse power to kick the bike over, but the starter gear train doesn't. It could fail. Cheers Pete', Hokitika

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Fantastic! Keep that one around! I think a couple of children round there will enjoy it in a few years!!!

Belter of a bike that, Marty! And you bloody knew it when you copped it for nowt, didn'tcha? Great find! Thanks for sharing!

Very nice free gift. You really make engine work of all types appear so simple! And would imagine for the most part it is when you have acquired that knowledge and skill. Always relaxing when seeing you tackle these issues.

I had a new one of these when I was in my mid 20s, best bike I ever had! 30 years later I am trying to find one to restore....

I prefer the retro technique, and the video is a total hit!👍

Several people that I watch do "will it start" or "will it run" videos. There are a couple where I never doubt them for a second. You're one of them and I put you in the same category as Mustie1. What you two guys do with seemingly nothing sometimes amazes the shite out of me. The first Mustie video I saw, he started a VW engine on the back of his truck tailgate. I was blown away. I found you because of the Angry Rams and the day I found your fixit channel was a gooden.

Hi Marty, Good score. You may already know, carburettors have different heads on the Philips screws and require a special driver, called a JIS. There are not a lot of people know about this, hence the reason the screw heads get flogged out. Thanks for great videos.

Absolute joy. You can almost hear that bike singing to be moving again.

I swear that bike was smiling after you got it running and cleaned it. Nice work. I hope you rode past the house of the person who gave it to you after.

Just needed Rambo to charge out and the video would be complete . Another machine saved from the scarp man .

Those old dr200’s are basically bulletproof. Iv got a later version than that one with the electric start thats been put in a late model rm85 chassis that my daughter uses for trail riding. Perfect bike for a smaller woman or youth that wants all the goodies of a proper mx bike without the temperamental highly strung 2 stroke mx engine.

I'd forgotten just how beautiful NZ is. Lovely drone shots.

i don't think there was ever any doubt that bike would come back to live in your hands, you're a magician, Marty!

Nice job Marty. A spring loaded center punch is great for getting those stuck float pins out. I've always thought I should get a dirt bike, and you've renewed that idea with this video.

I love how you talk through what you're thinking when you are diagnosing issues. It really helps to understand what is going on.

What a perfect bike for the lot! Glad you saved it. Save all the old bikes!

Wonderful video! Great find. It is very satisfying to see a vehicle getting a water bath that isn't tied to a 100-year flood.

Aw, the small engined version of the BEST two wheel tractor of all times! What a lovely find 🥰

You'll be NZ's Mustie1 in no time...

A good candidate for a restoration. Not SEMA show floor but a total strip down, clean, bit a paint, new hardware where needed...Pretty sure you could get around a dozen videos out of a series and I'm positive your audience would love the Marty Rebuilds Series.

Nothing as satisfying as fixing an old dirt bike, not worried about dropping it means more enjoyment. NZ entry for the Dakar😜👌

This is a very nice (despite rusted) complete example of an older DR200. Parts for the DR200 are readily available and cheap (on the used market) within NZ, and parts from even the newest models are extremely likely to fit on your older one as very little change has been made to these bikes over the years. It's good to see you getting it to run! I have a GN125 myself (same engine with a smaller bore and stroke + other minor differences.) so I'm a big fan of these bikes.

You have guts, sir. I do a lot of revivals on similar equipment myself, and I would never feel comfortable taking a machine that I am not familiar with on terrain like that.

I have had my DR since '90 and it is unbreakable with just normal maintenance, I handed it off to my Son and we Dualsport together now!

Whole thing looks crusty. Would be nice to work on something like that, cleaning out that rust and re-painting parts. Glad to see it's still alive!

That's a pretty sweet score, You would be hard pressed to get something like that up here in Auckland

I can see your no stranger to wrenching on a dirtbike. Good to know. You executed the save flawlessly. Love your videos and always look forward to watching them.

Thank you Marty. For taking us along and your time. Always appreciated.

I found my old DR over 20 years ago for a really good price, not quite free, but cheap enough! It's been one of the best bikes I've ever owned. Made me walk once, cause I ran it slap out of gas! Enjoyed the video man.

What a great video! The old carb'd Suzukis are such tough beasts, and so simple to work on and maintain. Thanks for sharing, and I enjoyed the drone shots as well dude.

Hi Marty, there was never ANY doubt you would get it running. Many thanks from Nr Liverpool UK.

Back in the mid 80s i got loadsa old dirtbikes as freebies or super cheap most where easy fixes too id ride them till they broke propperly and sell them as parts or keep them and make frankenstien bikes from several old junkers it was great fun for a teenage me in the uk .

Saw that old bike nad had a flashback to the 70s and 80s riding and racing motorcross and everywhere we could fit a bike into... Those were good times,less complicated... Great deal again Marty !!

Awesome job Marty, and what a ride . It looks like a real test track with obstacles too👍

Oh man, blast from the past for sure! We had a DR200 and XR200 back in the day. The DR looked a bit more weird with how the number place in the front had the light above the plate, but the front disc brake was so much nicer to have then the XR200 drums. I think you have a nice little spare bike to rip, always good to have that! Nice going getting that thing to work and hopefully some other folks will watch this video and tackle a cheap / free bike! About 10 years ago a farmer gave me an XT250 Yamaha, it was outside under a tarp and I had to do the exact same things as you, it was so awesome to hear that thing come to life! Have fun Marty and thanks for the cool drone shots!

Those older dr200's pre road legal, are great. Like 25 pounds lighter that the later ones, less restrictive exhaust and tuning - can get ok power for an aircooled 4 stroke 200cc too. soft suspension is amazing on the rough rocky trails around where I'm at

Terrific job, Marty! You make it , look , so much easier, getting the bike running, than " Mustie 1"!🙂👌Amazing!"Mustie 1"is a very cool, channel on u tube by a V.W. mechanic, Jack of all trades, who works/ repaired any and all small engines! He is out of New Hampshire U.S.A.....

Best way I have found to remove the 4 bolts on the bottom of the carb. Is, drum roll. a dewalt or millwakie impact gun.

Nice work Sir! 👍👍 I'm sure others have mentioned this but when you use pliers, especially vise-grips, when you pull against the moveable jaw you are springing the pliers open and causing them to slip instead of bite. The same with adjustable wrenches. They are made to go one direction. Think of them like a pipe wrench... Bites one way and slips the other.

Nice little dirt squirter! Good on you, you made it running again - it looked like was completely dead…

I bought a DR250 new in I think 1985. It was the most gutless dirt bike I ever owned and I owned quite a few.

I've been watching your videos for a few weeks now. Completely engrossed already and then you do a motorcycle! So hhappy

There is supposed to be a breather tube from the fuel cap to somewhere in the handle bars to stop water getting in the gas.

Good work 👍👍my first bike as a kid was the new 1993 JR pee wee 50cc. Great memories!! Did its job for 3 Generations and never missed a beat.

That must be a blast to ride around the trails on your property. Consider lubing your throttle cable to avoid sticking for extra safety.

Will it start....of course it will....Marty is on it....Good morning from a very cold Scotland Marty.....🙂

Bought a PE175 years ago that was pretty used and abused, and with very little work, it lasted about three more years of my abuse, and was still good when I sold it; very solid machines.

I really enjoy seeing an old neglected bike finally get some love 🏍️👍

Always a pleasure to see a new posting...Excellent work...Thank you for your time and effort to put these snapshots out for us to enjoy.

Top job on the video man, I really enjoyed the break from plant and as usual a sterling job at sympathetically reusitating the old beast must of been fun! I have to remind myself that all work and no play makes Jonnie a dull boy. Keep doing your thing Marty

Your one in a million marty, love watching your videos and ingenuity, makes me smile when you can turn something that has been classed as junk into something very useful and fun 😃

You have quite literally 'polished the value right back into that little dirt bike! The owner most probably got cheesed off with it, and parked it up to just waste away! It now looks loved/cared for. If you value it, care for it! :)

I love you bring old stuff that people give up on back to life. Just blows my mind what people throw away for next to nothing

Score!! those little DR's take some killing. Nice restore as always Marty and that final high drone shot was killer! Merry xmas to you and the whanau 🍻

Another amazing video, you know your stuff. So lucky to find that bike for free. I could only dream of finding something like that. Keep up the good work from the UK :)

Good deal! Got a good running bike! Miss the green warm weather. Snowing and cold here this morning!

I often wish someone would give me an old dirt bike to sort. I am an ex moto crosser and just love to bring things back to life, give them a new purpose. Japanese bikes are awesome to work on, so well engineered. They are all very similar in design that you almost instantly can make a difference to a non runner, as you have just shown the world. Living here in the UK, we don't now have the places to ride like we did fourty years ago, people are just to quick to jump at you, report you, spoil any fun you may want to have. I envy you there and long one day to be somewhere that I can relive my passion for two wheels off road. A great video and I really hope that you post more. Thank you and safe riding.

Marty, your truly the engine whisperer. Have a happy holiday season

Lovely job Marty, I have that exact impact driver too, got my out of trouble with stuck screws many times . All the best to you and the family for Christmas..

I loved this film. It had it all ...hope... despair... Success... motorcycles.. sunshine... drone shots.. fun. Thanks for the vid. Keep it up mate. From a chilly London town.

For stripped Phillips bolts hammer the top down with a punch then hammer the Phillips driver into old pattern. Seems to work for most. Nice way to make half buggered flat screws look new again. Mikuni float pins actually have an indent lock on pin and require you to punch them out. Support the opposite pillar before doing so as you can break them. Get spray carb and choke cleaner for cleaning carbs. Good stuff stinks of acetone and removes paint. Doesn’t evaporate as fast as acetone. Sealed bearings front and back sitting tend to leak oil and leave hard grease. You can pop off seal covers on bearings wash them and grease or replace bearings. I’d mix some two cycle oil and gas for a tank of run time to help lubricate those rings OR you can rev up for a bit and go low throttle to really work the rings loose. First or second gear.

The engine whisper strikes again, nice work Marty. Cheers from Texas 🤠

Whenever any jets are blocked, just use a stripped copper wire and feed it through, and it unblocks them lovely. The oil filter you took out catchs any bits of metal shavings or anything of that sort from entering the engine

Lucky kids! What a great bike - and a great one to learn on too. Thanks Marty. Hope you and yours have a great Christmas when it comes. Les in UK

👍 the smoke will be the oil you poured into the cylinder , another good result that will clean up really well with fine some fine scotch bright on the plastics and then a lick of liquid polish

Great video yet again Marty. Years ago an old guy showed me a great trick for removing stripped screws, dip the tip of the screwdriver in some valve grinding paste. Works every time for me.

Great farm bike now, I like the patina the ole gal has. Love those 80's gold rims!

What a trip. Just got me a free dirt bike just like this one. Same issue. So far I put Mystery Oil in the spark plug hole, but it came out the exhaust port. "No exhaust on bike" So guessing the piston is stuck in exhaust side. I'll try to plug the exhaust port and pour some more Mystery Oil in it.

Although the heads of the screws look like Philips they could well be JIS, a lot of Japanese motorcycle manufactures used to use them. Philip headed screwdrivers tend to "cam out" of JIS screws.

Nice job, looked like it ran nicely in the end. I'd love a crosser!

Great score. Good to see it come back to life!

Great job on the repairs. Thanks for taking us along on your ride. New Zealand is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Well done Mr Marty. Great video.. In the UK people would want over £1000 in that condition. 👍👍👍

Kick it in the guts Trev, excellent quote from Fred Dagg.

After watching this video, I can tell you have ridden dirt bikes before Marty! Glad to see you got it running good!

What a ripper. That drone is pretty good at terrain avoidance.

Another great save, and a great video. For some reason I just knew you'd be a good motorbike rider, the way you spun it in a perfect 180 arc and took off shows hundreds of hours of riding bikes I reckon. Love the way you extend the inside leg and foot for curves and corners too lol.

Well that was definitely a goat track you took it on :)

Nice work Marty! Beautiful countryside too! Always love your videos from half a world away in the States. Thanks!

Marty, as usual I am amazed at your ability to resurrect a junk heap find. Thanks for the video.

Yes, Marty T.... new video... hello from your Brit expat fan, living in Oklahoma, USA.

Great video! Watching from behind enemy lines in California, U.S.

She's mint, the carb cleanup is familiar, nearly all small engines that I have worked on needed carb cleanup before they would run.

Hello Marty. I just love it when folks get abandoned or forgotten machinery to run again. "Bolt Out" or "Nut Out" could be a nice tool to add to your toolbox if you can find them. Have good days! Sears had them.

Great to get it back up and running, I'd recommend checking the brake/clutch fluids, I've found an old bike with almost jello for brake fluid, smooth clutch and more reliable brakes then 😀

I'm intrigued how the drone manages to follow you without hitting any branches! Are you controlling it? Those are some fantastic shots.

I love stuff like this. I'm always watching videos where guys find bikes/cars/quads whatever it is that have been sitting for ages and they get them running again. I would honestly love to try something like that myself as I feel I have learned a lot from watching these type of videos. For me, in my area it is just hard to find stuff like this though. I can find old bikes but most times they are in reasonably good condition, running and guys are looking lots of money for them. I want something not running but with the potential to run again for cheap but very hard to find.

Nice work, guv'nor! Good basic sleuthing and some great carb work. Congrats on your new bike Marty.

I'm surprised you didn't pickup that it was a 12V battery when you took it out. Lead acid batteries are 2.2V per cell. 6V batteries only have 3 cells whereas 12V have 6 cells (2.2v x 6 = 13.2V)