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Awesome ride today, abouts 40 kms of gravel and No Exits with Matt on his CR250, both bikes performed great with the cool fall air. I think my bike still runs a little lean, but there isn’t much more I can do to richen the mixture other than drilling out to enlarge the main jet a bit. Not ready for such a permanent countermeasure though. I keep eyeing up a carb swap kit I found, a Mikuni TM40 flatslide pumper carb and all the conversion bits will run about $600. Should haul ass, but I got plenty other things to throw that kinda cash at first.
The two-week forecast is lookin’ awesome, planning a ride with Matt for this coming Saturday, hopefully ride in a few days next week too. Freakin’ gasoline took a 13 cent jump last night, that’s total bullshit.
Power washed the bike yesterday, then saw 18 degrees in the forecast for Mon / Tues and said “to hell with winterization!” So I bundled up this morning and rode in. I can finally report that my new voltage regulator is working perfectly, saw 13.0-13.5V the whole way here, and no flickering lights. Success! Gonna take the long way home, figure this may be one of my last opportunities, seeing as I’m a fair weather rider haha.
Yesterday in The Shop, a total floorplan makeover occurred. With help from James, the mighty Taco dragged the donor carcass out the bay door and back onto the crappy part of the lawn awaiting pickup from the scrappers.
After the donor was removed, 75% of the big shop contents were shuffled around and lots went out the door.
I fired up Redee (without hesitation) and got her positioned in the shop. Then the task of stuffing all my items back into the shop took way longer than I thought.
Last task of the day was swapping Sam’s snow tires onto her van. The non-Redee workspace is a little narrow, but is totally doable for most tasks I’ll do this winter (oil changes, tire rotations, greasing etc).Still no pickup, if they don’t show up tomorrow I’m gonna use the Taco to drag it out, my patience is wearing thin. I’ve got snow tires to swap, a floor plan to rearrange and most importantly Redee needs her winter home prepared.
Glad the Taco is working well for your adventures. It’d suck to realize an SUV is where you really wannabe.
I’n really admiring the capability and versatility of your trailers. Having dragged my crappy one to Ardbeg a couple times, I can appreciate how much better built yours must be haha. I’m contemplating a better trailer so I can haul more than one ATV at a time. But my wife has expressed (more than once) the desire to go camping again, but conditional on having a real bed to sleep in. So a trailer of other sorts seems likely to be in my future. Doesn’t at all help my ability to haul more toys to the woods haha.
First snowfall of the year here in Shelburne has me pondering winterization for the toys.
When are you packing away the ‘51? Gonna be tucked away in your garage now that you’ve made lotsa space?
I popped into my local metal scrappers to request a pickup yesterday morning, and now I’m in a waiting pattern. Hopefully they come tomorrow, I’m ready to have the donor leave The Shop.
I’m glad for your sake that you’ve changed them once before you require a trailside fix. The front end of this donor was practically fused together. Didn’t even to to break bolts on the second CV I pulled, just cut out everything in the way.
I got the steering rack and cvs with castle nuts and dust caps set aside for you.
Well, the best of plans fell short to rust, so I needed a few big cuts to get the CVs out. Anyways, they’re out now, and only 1 tiny banged up thread on one shaft. Sorry Evan, but it’s a 1-min fix for ya to grind out one thread.
This rusty donor is ready for the scrapperAttachments:
I’ve gotta plan of attack for those CVs. I borrowed a 35mm socket from my buddy, will cut the nut off the upper BJ, use air hammer to drive it outta the hub, and just throw a weld back on the upper BJ stud to keep it located in the UCA long enough for the donor to be winched onto the scrapper trailer. Hoping the angle grinder and disregard for the donor will help make quick work of this extraction.
Last night I pulled a couple heat shields, the brake pedal/master/booster and devised this CV plan.
Hoping tonight to finish up with CVs, airbox fender snorkel, maybe the battery tray and maybe some of the under hood fuel lines (just for the threaded fittings).
Last night in The Shop, I broke out the hot knife to help remove some good parts off the donor.
I cut out and set aside the trans/tcase and both driveshafts, more of the exhaust, trailer hitch and door mirrors.
Now that the exhaust is out the way I can pull the heat shields and just about have my “harvest list” complete.Evan, what’s the easiest way to pull CV’s on these trucks? Separate the lower balljoint?
Redee has factory 4.10s with an air locker in the rear. I have a full set of 4.56s on the shop floor, but both F/R are open. Torn between +10% torque vs -50% traction. In my estimated 5,000kms of touring, I’ve used that air locker once or twice, it seems a little unreliable at times. I feel like a lunchbox would be fine, and with exception to Ardbeg (once) and No Winter roads (a 20M section here or there) the open diff would be more than adequate.
I’m gonna keep 33s, but long range plan is to go much skinnier. 33×12.5 now, ideal is a 33×10 mud terrain. I will run these Duratracs out though, my attempts at selling them only yielded frustration.
Yea this donor has been taunting me for months, but finally got the tools and time aligned. Pretty sure I got all I NEED so far, but gotta do a triple check before I call the scrapper.
You interested in the brake booster and/or master? Anything else interest you? I’m gonna drop the trans/tcase cause I’d hate to see them go to scrap, they both shifted so smoothly. Gas tank doesn’t leak, front doors are decent.
