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Caught going in to town just right for a gidday. That engine looks like it should be in there.

On 02/07/2020 at 22:14, toms_supply said:

my newly half-assembled monkey with a 110! 

Have you stretched the frame a little on this ?

I went for my bike license on an early yellow tank Ag100. The cop would give you a route to ride and he would follow you. When we got back he asked me if it went any faster ? said you can only do the speed limit in town and he replied " yeah, well you weren't even close to it". Farm gearing sounded like it was going faster I guess ?

A geezer on old minibikes.com pointed out it won't work the way I have it as the drum will spin but not the hub. I need to put the clutch on the wheel side of the jackshaft.

I'm fluffing round with a kart for the kids. I am putting a clone chonda on and there is limited room around the seat. Can I put a sprocket on the crankshaft and run the clutch off of the jack shaft ? Seems like it would still work like this to me, but I have had a few great ideas at times that had a flaw.

Was gonna annoy me that i couldn't find the magazine with the swap info in it. Have a look for Australian Street Rodding magazine #109 July?August 1996, has all the details for you. It should be on their back issue list.

Aussies use these in all sorts of vehicles. Look up some Aus hot rod forums. I think you can use the later bigger stub and brake setup or use HQ Holden stubs/brakes with a drop of location for the top a arm, uses a commodore rack too from memory. I had a complete setup a while back to put in my XP falcon but went back with the Falcon susupension for ease.

In my experience with shocks, the finish is usually pretty thin and i have sanded off any paint. The remaining paint in the lettering comes off easy with a wire brush, A coat of primer and whatever colour on top will see them better than factory applied finish. Standard masking tape round the shaft will be fine.

On 26/10/2019 at 09:12, JoKer said:

hah you've done your bit wit the new center caps catalog!

Oh stink, got our Griffiths order today and they don’t do the caps anymore. Back to the Swapmeets.

Run over them with some 800 w&d with soapy water, then a cloth buff on a drill with autosol. My wards were scruffy as fuck, so roloced them to get rid of the stains then wet & dryed them before a good rogering with autosol, came out really shiny and after a year or so have only just started to dull off. You should have arksed me when you were in this arvo.

Not a bad 3 day rummage around. Got to meet some new faces of old schoolers. Bought a km48 Sachs, a bunch of ammo boxes, a nice mecjar keg, a Carter afb, a bunch of Street rodding magazines and a few other bits. Was looking for a nice original Seagull, most were around $200 to $250.00 but had odd wingnuts or Bodgey fixes. An old guy yesterday morning unloaded quite a nice one as we were walking by. Had a yabber and he mentioned the price would be around the $200.00 mark. Done the rounds and went back to see $350.00 on it, the fucker wouldn’t budge below $300.00 so I left it with him. 

I am coming down again this year, will stop by for a yabber.

1 hour ago, 63Ragtop said:

I spot a engine tucked away in the shed there.

Yeah, 5hp Briggs came with it, but I have a few Tecumseh engines which is what was in it years ago. Will fit the kickstart again I bought recently. 

A mate dropped me in my old Tru Test I had in the early 70,s. Amazingly still has the brake caliper.

I saw and talked to Thomas and Kate, bought a dropped I beam cheap, a QA50 parts manual and a Jammin Gears magazine. Wasn't the best swapmeet but okay. That Townace sat pretty nice alright. Passed a tipped over camper van on Napier Taupo road on way home, was a bit gusty at times.

Will bring my wets jandals just in case.

On 17/03/2019 at 13:17, taiparacer said:

what are the dates for this years meet 

Tommorrow. Who is going ???

Swiped this off the Marineland FB page.

Pics please

Nah, bugger it all, I didn't. Thought he might have been in on it. We were wondering why we entered waiting for our turn, haha.

Ah well, we gave it a crack Lee.