Bucket rules (or lack, thereof)?

[gatch]

Soooo.

2 months and little progress. As usual my squirrel brain has been distracted by many other shiny things. Few of them being motorcycle related.

But ! With the weather the way it is, I'll be forced into my shed more.

I am most of the way through dummy engine mounts. Making copies out of steel will be easy. One of the rear mounts will have to be moved, but I'm cool with that. I've decided that folding pegs are homo as, so I'll make hollow ally ones with the obligatory nylon bungs. I have a megaphone pipe to suit the gl motor. The stock gl carb seems to be quite big if I'm not mistaken ?

Motivation people, give it to me ! In legal tender form.. Go on then.

[Bert]

Soooo.

2 months and little progress. As usual my squirrel brain has been distracted by many other shiny things. Few of them being motorcycle related.

I've decided that folding pegs are homo as, so I'll make hollow ally ones with the obligatory nylon bungs.

Motivation people, give it to me ! In legal tender form.. Go on then.

get motivated easter is only weeks away...

Re: pegs, wellington kart boys demand folding; so as homo/silly as it is thats what is required if you want to race down there... though you had a solution for this anyway?

still want that piston?

[Buckets4Me]

I've decided that folding pegs are homo as, so I'll make hollow ally ones with the obligatory nylon bungs.

make them fold (you will probably find you cant race on the new track if you dont)

and finish the dam thing

[fi5hy]

Make them fold matey I don't want to send you home for not having homo pegs

[Str8 Jacket]

Make them fold matey I don't want to send you home for not having homo pegs

Yes, but I would laugh.....

[gatch]

Gay with aids !

I do have a solution but I don't like it.

Sods.

[gatch]

still want that piston?

Yes, I'll still take it.

[gatch]

Have identified 5 things I would like to make at work tomorrow. Spacers for engine mount. Adapter plates (steel), adapter block for rear engine mount, front axle spacer and the fuel tank/tap adapter.

So much spacing and adapting. Adaption.

Almost like marriage, but more rewarding

[gatch]

Sooo, I made some mounts out of steel today.. And left them on top of my tool box at work..

Hopefully some of the team are hard at work tomorrow..

[gatch]

I have got the next 4 days off work, so that I can go to work and use the machinery to (hopefully), complete the fabrications and machinations on my spartan.

I'm nearly foaming at the mouth..

[gatch]

Started working on the rear engine mounts today. Got annoyed at the crap temporary stand I had thrown together. So I welded up a sweet paddock stand.

Then I dummied up the rear mounts with some packing sheet, transferred this across to a paper pattern, then laid them on our profile cutter and cut some out of 5mm steel. Drilled holes and deburred holes, VOILA. Studs all line up first time.

Have ordered some bright 10mm 4140 to make some proper studs. Tomorrow I tackle the spacers used to keep it all central, studs, rear brake and hopefully get onto making the gay with aids folding footpegs.

Picture tomorrow maybe.

[Kendog]

gay with aids folding footpegs..

What's wrong with folding pegs?

[gatch]

What's wrong with folding pegs?

Manufacturing them from scratch is much more work then making rigid pegs..

[F5 Dave]

Just buy some old 2nd hand honda brackets that have a square section. That gives you your folding bit & a spring too. Then make some pegs from bar, which is just two flats & a slot (if you want to use the spring) with a curve on the end & a hole for a pin & some knurling on the foot area. Ok maybe a hole in the end to push some nylon.

[gatch]

So here is where I am at, at the close of play today. Engine mounts and studs are all done. Loud looking second hand exhaust pipe is mounted. Throttle is hooked up. Fuel line/tap done. In current trim it weighs around 92kg. So when done I may still scrape in under 100kg..



Tomorrow I need to..
- think about making a new intake manifold, as I foolishly over looked the angle the engine is mounted on.
- find the piece that bolts on to the clutch cover, that holds the outer part of the cable captive.
- reduce the wiring loom to the essentials only.
- FOOTPEGS.
- refit the rear brake in its entirety.

Time for a beer.