more trikes, more bajaj
Got a pic of the quad or whats left of it, gonna fit that sexy monster swingarm to this to make a reverse trike, don’t like reverse trikes but it’s all cheap fun.
Needs lowering, also we found that the lt50 out back has the same 3/90 pcd as the chinese quad axle, we’re borrowing those wheel anywho!
Saw some fricking sweet atv wheels which NEED to be fitted to the bajaj, but thats for some other day, for now i just robbed an xt350 switch gear for the wiring loom, whipped the body off for more repairs then welded in extra steel to support the brake pedal.
Not much done really, did spend the day convincing ted we need those two honda 125 engines for our new trikes and that he had to buy them, and once he has them sure it’ll cost nothing to throw them together, they’d make excellent winter hacks!
busa and mad trike ideas
Did i mention the quad we got last week? going to fit the rear end to the monster pitbike out back and make a trike, probably will lengthen the swingarm then we gotta find wheel/tyres/sprockets. I’m sure we have a big engine around some where to go into it.
Back to the busa, got top fairing on. still think the clock cage is wrong.
before putting on the side faring we inspected the small leak from the starter, the gasket seemed fine, but the oil was coming from the bottom bolt, added a soft washer and threw it back together.
Only the right side fairing on, i’m short some bolts since it don’t have all the original pieces. the pics don’t do the blue justice.
Stuff done.
Well started fine tuning the runners jetting.
My pwk 24mm carb has:
Needle      JJH
Main jet     110
pilot        40
slide        3.1mm  tough to measure this
float height  18.8
Air Screw   2 turns out
The pilot is way too rich, at quarter throttle it’s four-stroking like mad and quarter throttle is from 0-80kmh, couldn’t find a 38 jet online so got a 36, may have to put the air screw out one turn, rather then an optimal 1.5, but with a 36 i should be able to get at least an idle.
Also found an injection kit which seems to be built on microsquirt, very interested.
Not much done to the bajaj, tried to get the drum off to check the brakes, didn’t wanna come, so i assume i need a proper diagram of how the front is supposed to come off or it’s rusted on. Got the wheel changed tho.
Busa tank is ready so got started on the fairing, rear posts for the light needed trimming but no other faults yet.
Nice ain’t it? you can see the hump paint don’t match.
bajaj head light
Bungie cord helping out here with test mounting of gsxf600 head light
Why a gsxf600 light? cause it was closest to hand.
Top is handily mounted on the tab for the plastic horn cover, tabs on the bottom were from the bits i cut off and re-welded back onto the arms. Job done.
Also sorted which wire stopped the engine, only after five minutes of wondering why the feck nothing worked until it dawned on me the rear harness was not attached to the front harness at all, doh!
Runner 180 Kart airbox
Well heres how it looked the other day.
Ended up putting back on the front mudguard , doesn’t suit the massive rear tail and i need that tail since i don’t want a wet arse.
More bits left over.
And this is where i left it to go to the..
..Munster 100! i sponsored a bail for that you know! this suzuki 250 below won the classic.
This suzook was some where down the field.
What the feck is a tsr250?
NomNom
Anyways after the neighbour ciaran won the 650 race (passed him once on a track day) i got back to finishing the runner.
First up was to remove the superglue from the inlet, it was already cracked, but only on the outside. cheapy poo.
Then while i had some epoxy out i fixed up sarges old bandit cover, which will be handy for the gsxf track bike.
My modded kickstart got modded again back to standard so it wouldn’t hit the new airbox, with all the pies cut out of it it’s a bit shorter now, and i have to stand behind it to kick it properly again but at least i have a choke now.
The articule, very light, but beginning to think it really needs a big spring or rubber band to hold the airbox in place rather then the single bolt at the rear, very vibey these things so i’m not gonna be very surprised when that little tab at the back breaks.
How does it go? bloody well, needed to raise the needle for more fuel and what goes with more fuel? more air! the engine is getting more air then when it was just a filter, job done.
well i still have to run it in a bit more and then do proper flat out testing and jetting before it’s really job done. also i’ve scored a pm tuning head with slighty dodgey spark plug threads and the handling is still rubbish. so really not job done i suppose.
cbr6 servicing
Going to the munster 100 on sunday, so though i’d better get the cbr ready.
Lost all my keys the other day so had to chop off the disc lock, that was fun…
filter didn’t wanna come off, the houseing did but the threaded lower part didn’t, got it off in the end with a punch and hammer, champion 306 filter, now it’s got the old faithful HF303.
at 44630, it’s a bit past that last service, but despite the crack (small stone hit it) the filter got almost straight away it still had almost 4 litres of oil inside.
Runner 180 kart airbox
Made a thick adaptor to fit the airbox’s filter
Then with some fiddling about it’s pretty close to fitting, still had to use the heat gun to get some clearance around the rear tyre and a little bit more around the shock for good measure too.
Cardboard mock up of the brace, didn’t get any photos of it done in steel, needs another bit to give it full strength. Nice spot to put the number plate if i get rid of the rear splash guard. It looks a bit too wide but it goes no further then the passenger peg or the kick start.
The mudguard that was attached to the engine is gone, can’t be bothered cutting it up to suit, and it does feck all anyway
As you can see in the last pic, it should fit with out body mods, and it sounds perfect,just a hint of induction roar, will have to get the new job done, get the body work on and go for a proper test ride.
i can just get to the kickstart, mines modded to be a bit higher, but now i have a working choke with the oko so a standard lever would be ok now.
Nice day, wasn’t it?
Same guy who bought that pita LC, bought this but was actually ok, just needed every single bolt tightened up and the clutch lever was fixed so the clutch could be adjusted properly.
150cc engine all aluminium frame massive brakes and pretty good suspension, head stock felt a little loose and the front tyre felt like the profile was too flat. I’d have one with a two stroke engine.
chopped all this up to make my computer table, will screw it together tomorrow.
Half fixed the rusty rear end of the tuktuk, will finish fixing it by continuing the chopping around the corner until it’s all solid.
Jago Jeep wheels
found a set of 15″ vw steelies in the shed of our new house, so it’d be rude not to slap the tyres onto the wellers and try to put the jeep on it’s legs.
No bothers getting the tyre to pop.
Not very stretched at all.
Bit of a difference in gearing huh?
have to find some way to pull the half shafts out of the axle to finish the rear brakes.
Some news
Well i had job last week, i now know more about electric motors and i hate boss’s again.
So before i set off to work we fixed up choco’s R1 with some spares tyres, it fell off the jack and then choco fell off on the way home too (busy playing with the steering damper)
Still last week, i decided before i started work i could get to know a bit more about electricity, queue a massive 63cc two-stroke powered generator that could only cough out 650w
It made power fine but it was a bit unstable, so i pointed the finger at the capacitor. then put it back together
A week of work happen, got quite a sore wrist from it, not doing that again.
Some rs125’s show, up, this one has a 160 rear tyre, might do to roll about on with the gsxf600
Also moved into a new house aswell (busy? yeah) which had a weighing scales, promptly nicked and used to weight the bajaj, 202kg but the scales are out by 7.4% at best so it’s really 217kg and it still needs brakes and a roof and some more metal welded in. Might top out at 250kg i hope, still 100 kilo less then the info i found on the web. 350kg my ass.
Instead of properly fixing things, that will most likely need another pair of hand to do the lifting, decided a bit of cleaning and painting was in order
Still had to do some welding, used the bit of metal that used to hold down the seat to brace the passenger side holdy-iny-thingy
Then painted it red coz thats what was on top of the paint pile, phone cam can’t handle the redness but its alright actually
The bleeding wounds look was spoiled a bit when i accidentally brushed it up against a bush while moving it into the sun to dry. Am i bothered? no.
Will have to pick up some black paint again, and brake lines.
