Measurements
No pics this time, dead phone again, mostly did measuring today anyway.
quite accurate:
1034mm outer width of spring mounts(includeing 6mm jago frame)
88mm leaf bush width
934mm leaf/spring sadle center
485mm leaf eye to axle
m12 front bolts
quite dodgy:
1346mm wide axle (53″)
1220mm back plate to back plate (48″)
This stuff is from a guy named boswell, who is looking for axle info for his datsun.
the standard 120y axle is 51.5 inches (1308mm) [114.3 pcd]
MGB axle is 52 inches (1320mm) [114.3 pcd]
Ford Capri Atlas is 58 inches (1473mm) [108pcd]
Ford escort English axle is 54 inches (1371mm) [108pcd]
Ford Anglia van std axle is 50 inches (1270mm) [108pcd]
Reliant Scimitar is 53 inches (1346mm) [114.3pcd]
Axle was doing my head in until i saw his info, it must be an escort axle, with an anglia 4.44:1 diff, the brakes however are still annoying me,
Are all 8″ drums the same? I don’t like the single piston sliding thing, but if it were just that i’d live with it, it’s the imperial vs metric thats tripping me up now, are they anglia drums (imperial) or escort (metric)?
English Axle
I’m working my way through getting the rear end up off the ground, degreased the axle three times and finally painted it the other day (dead phone so no pics)
Now I’m trying to sort the brakes, staying with the 8″ drums because there the lightest, but I need to find out where the axle came from to sort what kinda wheel cylinders I need. 4.44:1 ratio indicates an anglia van axle and pictures on the net of anglia wheel cylinders bear this out, that makes it an imperial set-up? also the anglia cylinders are weird having a sort of one piston sliding set-up that doesn’t look like a good idea, sierra’s also use 8″ drums, but I haven’t found out if there backing plates will fit or not, keeping the eyes peeled for escort back plates on ebay.
The brother going raceing again and has taken out the cr250, looks quite well since it’s been stood for 5 years now, started and all with no special work needed.
This is what interested me, one day I’ll 4 or 5 or 6 link the rear of the jago and in the bargain add 16.8 inchs to the wheelbase (up to the 94.8 escort length) second hand motocross shocks are cheap and fully rebuild able mounted a little way up on the link arms should give the right travel, roll centers are bothering me now, low is best but then the shocks are going to be mounted high on the the upper links, would be better on the lower ones, think I’ll four link the axle and make the top ones into a A frame of sorts to control lateral movement. decisions decisions decisions.
15×9 weller wheel
Been busy away from garage and abit sick, so nothing done really.
Just gave it a quick coat of paint, will paint the others with the old tyres on, so that when the new ones are on the jobs done. 195/50 tyres are going on should suit the jago with a little suspension drop.
C90 racer, I would of went for the super charger but now the race team is full and there’s no room for my idea’s.
Sarges vulcan 1500c (it’s not an a anymore)
Got the jets in, they were the wrong ones, but they’ll do for now, so i got on with putting the rest of the bike together.
First obstacle, that can’t have helped the jetting
It was either shot or the man who tightened this deserves to be shot.
A test ride was needed either way, so with only half an airbox and thus half the air going into the engine, off I went, so damn fast I broke the speedo lol. duck tape and a zip was used to temporarily block the dodgy air filter.
After I sorted the head bearings (front tyres flat too) I popped off the exhaust to see if we could get the rattly inner baffles out, no joy, did discover more cracks which I welded up quite well actually and then as we were putting the pipe back on noticed that the jaw thing for the rear brake was nearly off its spline.
Front brake worn to metal
Front brake needed a bleeding (they didn’t work!)
Rear brake barely hanging in there.
Whatever about the crap exhaust piss poor jetting falling off pegs loose head bearing and flat tyres, brakes are fairly important like?!
Progress! Jago Geep
Stuff came from the man from donegal, also just got news sarge vulcan jets turned up this morning!
GT webber manifold
The webber it’s self, it’s got one of those dual stage throttle that I hate.
Had an idea, teds always complaining about his 195/50/15 tyres being to hard/low profile, so for his birthday (which i only found out about yesterday) I’ll get him some bigger tyres and I’ll get the old ones!
The tyre is too big to fit in the vice so it had to come off the other way. I smell of burnt rubber now.
9″ wide rim, 230mm wide from calculation its got a negative offset of 37.5mm, I have no idea how bad it’s gonna handle.
Will 195mm tyres fit on a 230mm rim? don’t know but I’m going to try to get the tyre shop to do it for me coz I ain’t getting the rest of those tyres off, absolute pita.
I said I was going to use 13″ wheels in the last post, but since I can manage low profile tyre’s for these 15″ I’ll try it, anyway I found out that hilux axles are about 59kg and much more available then atlas axles, perfect compromise between weight and durability.
Crossflow and Pinto dizzys
The jagos status at the mo, gonna keep the english axle but swap it for a good 3.54 and run it with 13″ wheels, use the crossflow for as long as possible then if i switch to bike power the 3.54 ought to suit it fine. The full cage idea is gonna wait, just a lowered half cage right now, with the small wheels it much less likely for me to flip it. Low low seats and maybe a floor mounted pedal box, Locost style windscreen would fit lovely on the shuttle, roof and doors can wait.
Pinto distributor cap on the crossflow, amazed it fit, was all set to find some megajolt stuff (still might if the engine is good) and a 36-1 trigger wheel, the crossflows cranks pulley is a bit bent and it needs an alternator a v belt and a oil cap, not much then. oil, oil filter, fan is broken, have a carb and inlet on the way in the post, need an air filter and a gasket, what else?
Pinto dizzy, will actually measure up the difference some other day.
Escort suspension painted
Bough a tin of rustoleum matt black paint, I quite like it, should go well with the gloss red.
Leaves are painted twice., Sarges bike got new front pads, no sign of the jets yet BUT I had a look at a manual for ’em and it seems the b series vulcan had 130/132 jets! maybe those 127’s won’t be enough.
Bush’s were a piece of piss to put together, had to use red rubber grease, which I hope won’t eat anything as I had no graphite.
Speakers mounted via duck tape, much tidier. thinking of doing the laptop as well, so it will match my wallet and phone.
More bits painted, much hammering was needed of the saddle that was used on the 50mm spring, think they tried to squash fit it.
Sarges vn1500a
Not supposed to be like that.. also the wireing for the fan is worn through and the main harness, a water hose has nealy been holed and the fuel filter was on the wrong way around. haven’t even started yet.
All the bits scooped out, the airbox is made of Seven pieces! Oil leak seem to be comeing from the lower rocker cover, engine out job, not doing it, Sarge has had 3 week to come up with the money to pay for the work, does he have any? fuck no. Will i do lots of hard work for no money? fuck no.
Carbs out, jets ordered, it did have 112 front jet and a 115 back so I’m going to try a 125 front and a 127 rear, mostly coz that all I could find, not because there right.
handguards on a sports bike.
Delivery’s came, so first thing was puting the new belt on the runner, just so I could get it out of the garage. Also came the parts for the english axle, right after I decided to not bother with it.
Ran the oily rag around it coz it’s sold, pity I insured it only got a few months out of it. Gotta plough on with the ypvs/xt hybrid need a two-stroke toy!
Sarges vn1500a (or vulcan 88) in all it’s glory.
Yep it looks worse up close. Found the approximate setting for the carbs (one post out there on the net!) no more then 138 main jet and the needle high on the 4th clip
Wanted to get these on for the winter.
There a bit small for wind protection and no use as crash protection
Also the taper insert thing was too small at 13mm, need one to fit an 18mm id, handle bars are confusing 7/8″ is 22mm so when they say to fit a 22mm bar do they mean 22mm od or id? a 22mm id would be massive.
Need a solid conection at the bar to hold the wind shield, rubber won’t do at 120mph.
Birdies haven a bath on the garage.
Also got the rear leaves of the jago half painted.
Sarge’s crack and big hole.
Didn’t do a very tidy job when welding up this pipe, I’m spoilt by the tig welder, still, got it done and neither pipe now rubs on the frame. Went for a test drive then, anything over half throttle and it stutters and misses, front brake didn’t work, head bearings were loose, rear tyre was flat and then to top it all off the throttle jammed one me. On the plus side the cooling system is probably okay, it’s obvious that the pipes have massively leaned out the carburation and that what’s causing it to run so hot.
So I’ll do sorting a jet kit and while the carbs are out I can get around the front head and find that oil leak. doesn’t sound so bad listed like that, wonder what other horrors await under that tank? (note to self, gottta get full pic of sarges vulcan)
Glad to be back in the garage, need to do more tomorrow. Waiting for the runners next new belt.
