I'll be going online make a donation tonight. For any interested Hodaka fans, I can vouch for "The Valley Giving Guide". I regularly go through them to provide funds to other local organizations.

Merry Christmas!
Ed

Am I a number generator? (I've viewed the most recent question at least four times. . . . but I still don't have answers)
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It seems like you've addressed the "biggies". Extra gusseting at the steering head. Swing arm lengthened and gusseted. "Kicker tubes" added to the frame. Foot pegs relocated (and the original elephant anchor mount bar removed). Yep, looking good!
Ed

There is another answer which is not so "Hodaka-ish" ---- but I won't go there for a bit. Waiting to see if I described the "square" Clarence asked about.
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A "square" engine has the same bore and stroke. As in 50mm bore and 50mm stroke.
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Oh, oh! (the over-enthusiastic kid in the back of room is jumping up and down and waving his arm )

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I hired on at PABATCO in 1971, so I missed the developmental years of the Hodaka. However, I crossed paths "in the halls" (and elsewhere) with Adolph several times . . . a truly interesting character! It is interesting to hear that there was a big bore AJS in his history. I knew about the ...

Sorry but that isn't a "goop solvable" problem. But the "fix" isn't terribly difficult (whew!). And it can all be done with engine in the frame (whew again). First remove the seal. I like to pierce the "face" of the seal with sharp, pointy center punch to provide an ent...

I'm er, um, more than ten years into that project (can't you tell?) The "give aways" that it is a "current project are as follows: 1) The engine bin was visible from a distance, 2) the engine bin had ONLY one layer of stuff on top, and 3) it only took about an hour of concerted effort...

Virtue is its own punishment?? So a little while back I said I'd dig out a "basket case" Model 03 engine to take a peek at the lighting system wiring at the coils to help out a Hodaka friend in need in this group. And here's what happened - after an hour of shifting things around to get to...

Yes, the "schematics" (Illustrated Parts List) is correct for the Model 96 Dirt Squirt - but the "Specifications" are not correct for this model.
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I did notice while on the Hodaka-Parts dot com website, that the first page of the Dirt Squirt (96) specifications - very near the top - lists that the specs are indeed Ace 100 specs. So, yes, publication error.
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I'm wondering about whether or not the actuation shaft has an O-ring which might be replaceable. Though you may be more comfortable with a working spare on hand BEFORE disassembling the pump. My decades old memories of the innards of that pump just don't provide enough detail . . . but I DO remember...

I'll put it this way - I installed a 100 watt, 12v aircraft landing light on my direct wired, Combat Wombat enduro bike (no battery, or anything else for that matter). That headlight provided 3 main features, 1) very bright light with above idle revs, 2) slightly slower top speed due to pumping sooo...

The kick starter system got a pretty good test (tens of thousands of engines) with the ACE era primary gear ratios. No problem using 'em in a Dirt Squirt engine (which is essentially an ACE 100 engine with a few tweeks). No reason to lose any sleep about stress on the kick start system.

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. . . and it would have been easy to change that. Just swap in the 19 tooth counter shaft gear from the Wombat (5th), and, voila, you have an "over-drive" 5th gear!
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Hmmmm, I can see the container with the Model 03 engine in it. Now I have to plan out how to get it out. The situation is something like, "I need to get item 1, but I have to move item 2 to get to 1 . . . and I have to move item 3 AND 4 to get to item 2. And I have to move items 5, 6 and 7 in o...

Nothing quite like posting a scan of the original . . . but I fear the error is still there. (Which is a real bummer because I MAY have proofed the original before it went in the manual.) So I'll start a spare time search for my 03 engine-in-a-box for a direct look at the actual magneto wiring.
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That is a very nice wiring diagram! But I think it contains an error. The green wire is shown as connecting to the "ground" circle surrounding all of the magneto components - which would mean that both ends of the "green" circuit are connected to ground - which would be useless. ...

Dang, I can't come up with the Model 03 wiring diagram right now, so I can't check what I think I know about the green and yellow output wires. But my memory says that one of the wires is the output from the end of both the lighting coils (which are connected in series), and the other one delivers t...

DOH! Yer right! I wrote down the part number for the COUNTERshaft - when I meant to write down the number for the MAINshaft. The proper part number for MAINshaft for all three models is 944500. Sorry for the error (and for adding to the publishing confusion).
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At 10:30 tonight I discovered that I left the lights on out in the shed - and decided to do something more useful than just turning out the lights. On review of my archived 1970's era printed Illustrated Parts Lists, I found the following countershaft/mainshaft tooth counts, with the countershaft ge...

That was pretty interesting.
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Are you talking about the speedo? No Hodaka came with a tach from the factory.
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Didja ever find out what was going on . . . ?
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