Update...Dead Bike... No, SHE LIVES..... Hurray

sticky tape should hold it nice and tight

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Davie

sticky tape should hold it nice and tight

Originally Posted by Richie

Found a stand- in engine with friction clutch, having a few problems getting it mounted though...
can anyone help... suggestions on a post card addressed to Richiewhoisreallymissingridinghisbike.

Humm, Never thought of that... I should have as most of my vehicles at work are held together by the stuff...

[Sid Squid]

Whoa! Easy there Richie - That's quite a power hike.

[Richie]

It's Arrived @ 08:00hrs this morning a parcel addressed to me.
A big THANK YOU to Northwind for the complete donor Gear Box.
Today I'll mostly be in the garage with my Lego set.

Rich there are a couple of brickie's over in China putting up a bit of a wall. They reckon they'll be done before you have yer bike sorted! What you reckon?

[Richie]

you know what I'd reckon...
Anyway they've have a couple of thousand years head start...

[Richie]

Right then,

after a bitter battle to remove the front sprocket spacer and bearing from the donor gear shaft, to no avail (Later I managed it with a nylon hammmer and determination).
I decided to purches a new set of circlip plires...(blooody good ones.. I may add, How I lived without these before I'll never know.........)
Stripped the donor gears down to the shaft, and replaced bad gear teeth with good gears and sliders gears and dog teeth down to the naked sharft and made up two good ones.
Next was to start the reassemble of all the things in the garage which were put in tescos resealable bags...in what I thought was a logical order... ( NOT )
Thing's were going fine until I had to put the ROTOR back on....(the thing that makes electric by spinning round, held in place by a woodroof key)... What a pain in the Ar$e to get on.
17 atempts ( I'm lieing as I wasn't counting but it was a bloooooody nightmere) finally got it on.
Next was the cam chain... I thought it was going to be a right horses coK, but by reading a manual twice or three teimes before doing anything with a hammer, crowbar and gas axe proved to be quite easy.
So now that the engine and gear box is now all back together, I shall in be putting it back where it belongs... (In the Bike frame..) hopefully without too much of ball ache.

photos

[northwind]

Originally Posted by Richie

after a bitter battle to remove the front sprocket spacer and bearing from the donor gear shaft, to no avail (Later I managed it with a nylon hammmer and determination).

Nuts, eh? I shifted it about 2mm but it wasn't for coming off. The manuals make it look like it should just about fall off...

Should we start a book on whether or not it'll go (incidentally, all those mocking Richie's timescales here, about 2 and a half years ago I bought an engine with a spun bearing, and picked up a good crank off ebay for £20, with the intention of rebuilding them into one good motor. And to give you an idea of how well that's going, Richie just got the gearbox out of that engine )

[Richie]

Originally Posted by northwind

Nuts, eh? I shifted it about 2mm but it wasn't for coming off. The manuals make it look like it should just about fall off...
)

It Should...

I put load of penertrating oil down there... but in the end, Strip down was the only answer...

Anyway my friend cheers for the go box,
and yes to all thats wants to know, the Curvy gear box is the same as the pointy.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by northwind

Should we start a book on whether or not it'll go )

Please don't do that.....