Can a 1981 Honda Passport Run After Sitting Since 1985?

This video brought to you by awesome l1 electric scooter. Hey guys welcome back to another episode of Motorcycle Rewind and today we're with a 1981 Honda c70 Passport and it showed up to the collection just like this. I know nothing about it so let's walk around take it all in and then see if we can get it running for the first time in I don't know when. So at first glance it looks pretty complete and unmolested if you will. Leg shield, side covers, a couple of spare caps and spark plugs, air cleaner business, the rest of it. Filter here looks like it says 1985 on it so it's been sitting for since I graduated from high school. Looks like it did get rear-ended. It's got a little buckle right here and right here. Probably happened in a garage. Does have the lower chain guard. Those tend to be missing. Switch and a key. Pretty awesome. Only 3,437 miles on it. Our missing, looks like it may have went down on the side at one point. Missing the mirrors but we do have return signals. It does come with a probably, let's see how much stretch is left in this bungee. It's probably aged out. It's coming apart. No it still has some juice in it. Normally they they don't have any any stretch left in them. So not sure the story in this one but we're gonna see if we can put a battery on it. Check and see if we get some spark. Kick it a couple of times or hopefully push the starter button and it fires up. Need some air in the tires but like I said pretty complete. This guy looks to be busted right there. That was probably a garage mishap. That's broken on both sides so pretty equal opportunity on that. It's not bad. Not bad at all. I like these. The only problem with these and the little Trail 70s is if you have a coil problem you've got to get in there. These may be a little easier and able to unbolt it from here. I doubt it. It's probably bolted up higher but like the Trail 70s you have to take everything out to get underneath it. Not bad. This should be a little bit of fun. Let's actually check and see if this sucker kicks over. Throttle moves. Oh yeah. It's making some noise so hey who knows we'll find out. Let's check the oil see if we have anything in it. Just as long as we have something in it we're good. Maybe it looks like there's something on the stick. Let's try again. Let me stand it up. Yeah I think there's something on it. Yeah and let's get a wrench and pop the spark plug off. We might as well use the spark plug wrench that came in the pile of stuff over there. Oh and by the way we are using our our old easy seat creeper stool that we restored and if you didn't get a chance to see that video check it out. We take this sucker looking from this to make it look like this. Totally functional. So let's get back to pulling this spark plug off. Let's see what it looks like. Oh this sucker is brand new. Now we know why they had new spark plugs in it. That's a good and a bad sign. Good because it's a new spark plug and yay we get a new spark plug. Bad because it's a new spark plug and there was something wrong. Okay I have a battery hooked up. This is just a little alarm battery hooked up and just a jumper wire run. Nothing permanent. It's let's be honest it is temporarily permanent and our spark plug grounded. Let's turn the key on. Yeah key on and then let's just kick it over see if we get some spark. Keep an eye right there. Oh yeah all the Katy Perry's we need. This sucker is gonna run. Let's let's give it the old finger in the hole trick and see if we have any. Oh make sure you turn the key off just in case she got some loose spark that'll come running through here. Yeah yeah we got some. Definitely enough to make this thing run. Okay let's go ahead and take this snorkel off so we can check and see if we can maybe squirt a little bit of juice in there and see what happens. Okay gonna use the heat gun to try to soften this up this guy up to get it off. There we go. Free at last. That's good enough like that. Okay let's give it a little squirt and see what happens. That is definitely enough to start a fire. Let's pull the choke turn the key on and let's kick it. Oh it doesn't engage all the time and hey let's put this on. Okay definitely better shot at running if you have the spark plug tight and the spark plug cap on. Put some more juice in it pull the choke again and then let's see. It is slipping. There we go. Let's see key on we're not getting oh that was there we go. Nope we need the electric start to work. Come on. Hey hey hey hey don't quit keep kicking you never know maybe the next one it's gonna be the one it starts on. Guys it made a little bit of noise that's all we need and so many times I get people that ask me well Eric why do you just spray stuff in it and then kick it because it'll give you the hope you need to do the rest of it. Plus you learn and what we learned from that one seven eight ten fifteen kicks was we got enough compression for this thing to run we don't have enough battery for our starter to work or there's something else wrong with our starter. Maybe if we clean our carburetor we'll get a better shot at it running and maybe kicking over easier. It does slip a bit and maybe maybe we fixed it since we we kicked it enough but let's go ahead and pull this carburetor off give it a quick clean put it back on and kick it some more. So I'm gonna unbolt this carburetor a stroke of bad luck happened I went to move this this guy out of the way just so I could get my wrench in there and it snapped off right there which I think we put a little heat on it we were able to kind of mend it to make it work maybe just move the filter down low here put a small filter right there because to change this I've got to pull everything apart so I'd like to be able to to use that we haven't even looked inside that tank yet but let's go and get this off. Worry about the fuel line that's a problem for another time like maybe 20 minutes from now but we're not worried about it yet. Okay let's pop this guy apart see what's what. What do you think behind door number one or two whatever door you want to you want to claim. It's not awful it's not the worst thing I've seen not the best but it's not the worst let's go ahead and fill this guy up with this carb cleaner and let it soak and then we'll dump it out let that soak let's pop it apart this guy out. Okay let's go ahead and see if we can get this guy out yeah that's good let's see if we can clear this guy up let me hose this off too. So using our jet cleaner just getting it all the way through so here's my jet cleaner just go to Harbor Freight buy a pack of these brushes pull them out and then you have a stack of them and then you use them to clean the jets. So I emptied out the bowl and then I put a fresh carb cleaner in it and now we're just gonna let these jets soak in here the pilot jet and the main jet we'll let them soak for a little bit and we'll finish cleaning it out. And a good tip is when you're pulling these off for the first time especially if they've been stuck to use a little wrench I think this is this is seven millimeter and that way you don't if they're really stuck you get your screwdriver not quite in the right spot you'll just snap the end off of that so you don't want to do that. Okay let's give it a shot see what happens. And it idles still no horn no turn signals let's try it again oh hey gotta love it. So guys I just filled the bowl with a carb cleaner so that I could get it to start because I don't have any fuel line here and I'm gonna need to check out and figure out this I need I need to bring some filters so I can put a small filter here and change this filter and run some fuel line to here so I can do that then we'll be a little better shape. Let's check this tank I didn't even check the tank and see what it looks like. Let's see what's in here oh it's not awful I mean you can see down to the bottom well I can I don't know if you can there's no chunks in it or anything like that there you go yeah yeah it's just empty it doesn't stink which is a good thing so I think we'll be able to a couple of filters a little section of fuel line and maybe we'll fill the tank and rinse it a couple of times before we before we hook it up to the carb but this sucker should go man that's awesome that's awesome I love it. So guys there you have it our 1981 Honda C70 Passport is a runner and we didn't have to do much to it put some battery battery to it we had spark and had to clean the carburetor and it fires up I did put some air in the tires we'll see how long it holds and yeah next episode on this guy we're gonna take it for a ride and see what else it needs I would like to figure out why my starter button is not working I would I would enjoy that but it kicks pretty easy but they have the button so you might as well make it work. So guys I'd like to thank you for watching yet another episode of Motorcycle Rewind and do me a favor like tag share and follow us on Instagram at Motorcycle Rewind and go and hit that subscribe button thanks again guys and have a great day. Meet the awesome L1 electric scooter your new favorite way to zip through life without the fuss. 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