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Today in The Shop, a $5.85 Spark plug brought Prestons mini atv back to life. Practically fired on the third chug. My oldest rode it the 200 m to Prestons house where his almost 3-y/o daughter was all smiles. The only payment I wanted was a high-five from the lil one, but no luck. A fist bump from Dad was all I could muster. Maybe next time.
I keep looking on kijiji for Japanese stuff as it’s my favourite to wrench on as well, but nothing has really caught my eye.
Today the donor was picked up by my local scrapper, handed Sam an envelope with$200 and was on his way.
So far my 3RZ swap has cost me roughly $1,000. Paid $900 for the donor, bought engine swap mounts for $300, and now sold the carcass -$200. I’ve got roughly a $1,500 rock auto shopping cart, but the sale of the fuel injected SBC and TH350 to offset that cost.
Tomorrow in The Shop I’m hosting my buddy Dave for some beers and BS, will prolly push Matt’s DR back in here to resume work on it. I need to check valve clearance, put in a decompression cable, and do a spark gap test.
The struggle is real.
Anytime I clear up space I tuck another project into it.
What’s your tire tally for the season? Just 1 set of rears?Tried my best to ride in on Tuesday morning, but I turned back home after about 500m, just too foggy. The weather is sooo glorious, but mornings just too crappy. I’m gonna try again tomorrow morning, but not feeling too confident.
Yesterday in The Shop, my buddy Preston’s atv is getting a mini tune-up. It’s a small Yami YFZ80 for his kids, it’s been going well all year but now just wont pop to life. I put the battery on charge last night, and pulled the spark plug to replace it. My local store didnt have a plug in stock today, so I’ll pick one up tomorrow, and hopefully the atv will fire tomorrow night.
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.
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