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Well another week of speaking in PB has yielded no results, gotta break out the electric knife and metal go-back-together machines.
Last couple of days I’ve been working on atvs. About 2.5 years ago I bought an LT80 for my kids and parked it in the shed. I dragged it out, and spent some money recently. For $100 I bought a new carb, Petcock, starter relay and brake cables. Everything except the relay has arrived, and the atv starts and idles great, takes throttle but has no travel speed at all, like 10km/h screaming like it’s doing 1,000,000. The internet suggests i tear into my clutches, expecting to find the primary clutch either filthy or worn out, the belt very thin or wet, or secondary clutch sticky. Regardless I’m not interested in doing any of this, juuust wanna sell the MF’r. It’s much too loud for in town (thanks to a D&G race pipe).
I also took on my neighbours YFZ50 atv, me thinks it needs a starter, gotta confirm so he can order parts.
Well there’s a good reason Redee has been parked in the exact same spot for almost 2 full years haha. I usually charge my neighbours, but I’ll take on easy jobs for beers. Bicycles for the kids and wives are free, just gotta soft spot for bicycles.
Today I cut down my spare tire, not my favourite task, hurts me to cut truckee. Tried to scrape rusty off the bolts, got them soaking in PB, maybe I’ll be able to remove the hanger and replace it with another that I have. Also must try to locate that…once upon a time i knew exactly where i put it.
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I’ve been spraying the deep creep almost everyday, still no movement, me thinks the mechanism is damaged as opposed to just stuck. Gonna give it another week of deep creepin sprays.
Have been working on atvs the last couple nights, finally got my LT80 sorted out and posted for sale just today. I think last week I got it running, and on the test drive it had lots of rev but no go, like a clutch was stuck, or belt worn thin. It took me a couple nights s to get the clutch cover off, it’s not supposed to come off with the engine still in the chassis. As soon as it cracked loose, a thin black oily substance started ooozing out. Not good for a belt driven system to be in an oil bath.
Anyways, my theory is that the leaking Petcock flooded that clutch housing, and lots of belt slippage turned the gas back and greasy. My fingers are still stained. I cleaned everything with lots of brake clean, then sanded the edges of the belt to take the glaze off. I’ve restored a lot of the speed, but this machine is not for us. Posted on Kijij. Already looking for its replacement
Yesterday in The Shop, I diagnosed a “wobbly wheel” condition on my buddy’s atv. Looks like a bad wheel bearing, but not at the same time.
Quick diagnosis started with removing the wheel, and that’s all it took. The brake drum is also a hub, and is supposed to have splines in it. Looking for parts, think we found a hub for each side, waiting on sellers to confirm spline count.
Today on The Shop, some electrical diagnosis Matts scooter. It’s been blowing it’s only fuse as soon as a fresh one is installed… Matt thinks he may have accidentally hooked up the charger backwards…
I started checking continuity between the battery ground and the fused battery lead off the battery. Shortly after the battery, the voltage regulator takes these two leads And does some wizardry. With the regulator installed i got continuity, with it uninstalled it went away. After some digging, and with a tip from Matt, we found the voltage regulator specs, and confirmed his is indeed pooched.
New one ordered, coming from Texas, hopefully soon. Some glorious weather forecast over the next two weeks.
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Today in The Shop, another donor has been pushed inside. Matt and I jumped on a donor motorcycle, a 1990 DR650S, which aside from the engine and rear swingarm and brakes, is identical to our bikes. The donor however arrived as a rolling chassis, along with an ‘87 DR600S motor! Wild! My bike is an ‘88, Matts an ‘86, so that motor is a perfect spare for both of us. The best part, the price, we split the $400 asking price.
This will be picked on later, nothing on either of ours bikes is in dire need. So it’ll just lean in a corner till I can pack it away further. Matt still hasn’t seen it in person yet, out of town a few more days.
That donor is so much cleaner than my bike top to bottom, may be worthwhile to just toss my motor and carb into that frame.
Last week i got the brakes in natts atv sorted out, fluid flush and bleed.
I got prestons daughters atv sorted out when the AliExpress parts arrived. Fit perfectly, had it all together in 20 mins or so. They went out the next day and sent me a “total success, 1,000 thank yous” text from the trail.
Matt’s scooter is still down waiting on a voltage regulator coming out of the states. Amazing prestons china parts beat matts texas parts by over a week and still counting.
The voltage regulator arrived yesterday, just in time for dog shit weather, like 12 and raining tomorrow.
Today in The Shop, sams Caravan. On her way home from Brampton yesterday, a vicious misfire sprang up. Sam thought a tire was coming off the hub everything shook so badly. I retorqued all the lugs (none were loose), and reset all the tire pressure to comfort her, but the engine light was letting me know this was not a tire issue.
Anyways, borrowed a code reader today (no I’ve never owned one), and cleared two misfire codes. Cylinder 2 is the culprit, so annoyed these gay V6s bury the plugs under the intake manifold. Pulled it apart, only broke one clip, removed plug 2 and it is horribly worn. I’ve ordered a set of 6 off amazon for $35, as opposed to $18 ea at my local store. Wednesday I shall completely re-do this hassle and replace all 6 plugs, as opposed to just this one piece of low hanging fruit.I guess 160,000 kms is plenty on original plugs. Think i change the taco every 60-80 thousand
Been trying to tidy The Shop for the last couple nights in anticipation of having more work to do on stuff.
I managed to weld up the side discharge hole on my push mower after the spring loaded flap door Bluetoothed itself. I only ever mulch or bag, so losing the flap door was no big deal.Attachments:
Busy day in The Shop already today.
I put two bicycle tire tubes in Matts bike, changed the full set of spark plugs into Sam’s van, did an oil and filter change in my mo-laws suv, and cut the spare tire hoist mechanism out of truckee. I just have to figure out what fasteners are required before I can attempt to bolt in a replacement unit I got offa TacoBro years ago. My hands and arms are sore from all the micro burns cutting the hoist out, may not get anymore work done tonight.
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