The Ebay carbs I bought arrived in the mail - damaged with a vacuum bowl broken. I replaced it with one from the old carbs. I then got some money back from the seller - so overall they only cost me 75 bucks (that's a good deal).
Once the carbs were on I added some new spark plugs and some fresh gas and lo and behold it started ! Nice. These old bikes are hard to keep down. I shot a short video of it and sent it to my friends (Nerd!) They were not as enthused as I was : )
The front forks on this bike are messed up. It appears that the top cap and tube are bent, as are the lower triple trees. Yesterday I had swapped out upper tubes and internals from a 1996 F3 into project retro - converting it to a modern cartridge style. So I took those uppers leftover uppers and installed them into the lowers from the 1993.
Here's a shot of the disassembled fork -
The lower triple is messed up. I ordered a new one from Ebay. And then I cleaned and painted the upper triple.
I replaced the brake and clutch lever as they were both damaged.
It's coming along - I'm not sure if it will be worth a lot when it's fixed but right now I have most of the parts so it's a cheap project.
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