Well I’ve made & mounted the hangers, mostly; these things always take a little longer than expected.
Bit rough but will be strong as & lightish & largely free. I’ve drilled & tapped a hole into the footpeg mounting hole so it will peg it stopping it rotate with the folding mount. Sadly I had to drill again as the first screw interfered when I fitted the gear linkage, doh.
Had a better pic with bits fitted by camera corrupted pic.
Water added & after faffing about with doggy hose clamps seems to not leak.
Must pull the head off & give it a tickle more volume & fire it up hopefully in the weekend.
Not so pleasing was the bearing situation. I decided that getting the rear wheel off was a pain as the spacer stuck into the wheel a bit hanging up on it. If the bearing was a mm or two wider it would not be an issue & just shorten the spacer. So I found at the brg shop they do a 3mm wider alternative to the 6202, a 62202. ok get me one of those in. Well they saw me coming & it was $80 when I went to pick it up. Think I need to find another brg shop as these guys are obviously starting to apply a reaming pricing scheeme to the off the street chap so they can give 80% discount to high trade users. I shuld have walked, but they got it in. . .ahh.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Ok quick run on the dyno & its al pants. Better than last time but clearly not happy. Broke through the double digits, but still in 50 territory. And water leaks. And Gearbox leaks. Jet up, jet down, advance, retard. Some movement but no jump in power. Weird curve, peak at 10500, big dip then another peak about the same at 12000.
This sort of says pipe. The header is way too big as it got taken out at the flange to suit the RS pipe. This was a long time ago & a mistake when I saw the flange welded on, but had to press on as other problems, like it leaking to shit worse.
The RGV carb with its solenoid air bleed has been blocked off, but I’m not 100% this is right or I should put a small bleed in there.
The comm. Is waay too high & the head shape -pants.
But with all these leaks, what a drama. Where the water pump is I think it sucks air & if the water level drops the pump is spinning in air doing nothing. The pipes go down & then up to the pump. While the better way to do it would have been run one pipe down & one up.
Time to give up & start again. Rid myself of these compromises of a botched job by an errant welder. Heck I could have avoided all these problems if I’d just paid Cycleworks to do it.
So what now?
New MB engine. I had a std barrel & bought some cases a while back. I TMed a top end in the weekend. & then fell over a std whole engine the next day. + Possibly a bike. Sheesh. Now I’m swimming in bits.
Problem is that if I put another MB engine in place the frame mounts will need to change as I had a non std crankcase (part of the reason the bleeding thing leaks oil). Ok so I could remount a std crankcase. But then it wouldn’t be full crankcase reed. That means the carb would clash with the shock.
So I’m left with remount the engine & move the shock. Then I could put a std aircooled engine in place. But that’s quite a task & I have little time on my hands for the engineering & less funds than required to just point & pay someone.
Hmm, linkage conversion for the rear? Not much room on the SW to do that. Would give me heaps of room for carb though. Could move the shock over, that requires some serious frame mods & SW brace mods, but doable with a hacksaw & then get it welded. Then have to fit new cases.
Hmm, well a ½ way house is to fit the aircooled barrel to the old cases. Have to cut the inlet port off (to clear the redblock on the cases) & block it up.
Then I’d need to fix the oil leak. I could just grind & devcon the bit that isn’t sealing (the extension welded on). Bush, but that would get me up & racing. But I haven’t removed all the compromises. I could test the crankcase sealing with the barrel moded & on & fill the cases with kero & tip upright to see if it leaks.
It’s a risk but would mean no frame mods required. The downside is that if it doesn’t work well I am no further on & still have to do the big mods & have wasted some time.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
A real dilemma!
There really is no easy answer is there?
I'd favor using standard mount location on the engine but your circumstances don't really make that such an easy option.
. . . Well in my head. I have a plan, just need to get the motivation.
Shit mate, if that's all it takes you jiggered anyway as I have a full carbon fibre chassis built around my 34HP MB based engine. And masses of talent.
Well mine will be 35hp & built out of unobtanium (don't ask me how I obtained it). As for talent, well I'll try out for one of those TV shows, maybe a little song & dance routine. . .
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Well mine will be 35hp & built out of unobtanium (don't ask me how I obtained it). As for talent, well I'll try out for one of those TV shows, maybe a little song & dance routine. . .
A song and dance routine in full race gear...
Sounds like a great side-bet!
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