Hi from New Zealand

Touareg · Post by **Touareg** » 29 Dec 2011, 09:33

So, new member from NZ. Thats north of Antarctica and South of Australia for the geographically challenged. Joined as I feel I will soon need advice... I have a MK1 about to be rebuilt and restored to the road, problem is no parts available here. Tech side is no problem as I am qual'd mechanic. (I now work as a tutor in automotive engineering at a trade training establishment). I will be ordering parts ex UK soon and visiting Leisure Trail in July just to top up the goody bag. Not many CRM here at all in NZ from what I can gather and haven't come across another MK1 yet. They were never a model brought in commercially as I understand it. Plenty of IT Yamaha and PE Suzuki still around though. Looking forward to rebuilding this old girl and using her as intended when new!! Ahhh, I can almost smell the Castrol 'R' as I write!

Post by **fallenmikethebike** » 29 Dec 2011, 18:53

Touareg wrote:So, new member from NZ. Thats north of Antarctica and South of Australia for the geographically challenged. Joined as I feel I will soon need advice... I have a MK1 about to be rebuilt and restored to the road, problem is no parts available here. Tech side is no problem as I am qual'd mechanic. (I now work as a tutor in automotive engineering at a trade training establishment). I will be ordering parts ex UK soon and visiting Leisure Trail in July just to top up the goody bag. Not many CRM here at all in NZ from what I can gather and haven't come across another MK1 yet. They were never a model brought in commercially as I understand it. Plenty of IT Yamaha and PE Suzuki still around though. Looking forward to rebuilding this old girl and using her as intended when new!! Ahhh, I can almost smell the Castrol 'R' as I write!

Welcome to the site, and yes there's lots of helpful advice to be had on here, but, make sure you're question has not been posted up previously, having the same question thrown up for the umpteenth time can become wearisome.
IMO, Castrol R is not a good product to have in a modern 2 smoke, oils have moved on significantly in the last few years.
Good luck.
Mike

Post by **back off road** » 30 Dec 2011, 01:03

castrol r smells grate but will gum the rings up big time you want at least semi synthetic oil now

Touareg · Post by **Touareg** » 30 Dec 2011, 04:51

Hi guys and thanks, Uh yeah I realise the old Castrol stuff has been superceded, I keep it for my incense burner along with some AV gas just to keep the shop smelling nice. I was getting nostalgic. The last offf road two stroke I owned was an MX125 back in 1978. I put a lighting coil in that and ran it on the road too. Then I went all 4 stroke,... until last year. Cheers. M

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