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  1. Truenotch
    Got my cylinder back from the machine shop and plopped it back into place this evening. It runs a lot better than before! I'm going to play with headgaskets tomorrow to fine tune the squish and then head off to a straight road for a few plug chops. If it goes well then all I need to do is: brake shoes, front tyre and get the lights working properly / hard wire some shit.
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    Fitted a kick stand from @Yowzer's A100 parts hoard. I was getting sick of always using the centre stand - this will be much more suitable for parking on grass around the east coast. Somehow it feels more like a "real motorbike" when it's leaning on the kick stand: Gave the exhaust a quick coat of black: Cleaned up the original head. It had a bit of a ding from the clip failure, but has cleaned up OK. I'll run these back to back and decide which to use once the cylinder is back from machining.
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    Buttons sound interesting. I'm planning on using better clips though. The one that fell out was a single ring with no tab to grab when installing/removing it and I'd bent it slightly getting it out. It wasn't 100% seated in its groove but I decided to run it anyway... and then it decided to exit stage left. Not going to do that again .
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    RIP 50cc cylinder: looks like it lost a wrist pin clip which gouged its way out... the rod and everything inside the crank case looks fine and there’s a small ding in the head. This 65cc kit better start working better, plan B just flew out the window .
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    That's a good idea. I'd been wondering if the chamber was causing bad things to happen in the mid/high rpm, so I'll give it a go when the 65cc kit is back from the machine shop.
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    That. Took it for some test hoons with the 50cc cylinder today. Managed a top speed of 83kph on the GPS which isn’t too bad. Rode it out to @mark105‘s place and it was going well.... until the way home. It stopped in Ohaupo and I couldn’t get it going again. Will pull it down tomorrow and figure out what happened.
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    135kw
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    Got the seat re-covered thanks to @64valiant. Dropped my cylinder off for machining this afternoon. I decided to concert back to 50cc until it’s back.... WOW, the 50cc setup goes way better than the 63cc kit does... hopefully everything comes right after machining.
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    Yep, I'm onto it here. Fitted a new set of points after getting the source coil rewound .
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    I’ve been mucking around with the tuning on this but it’s still not pulling all the way through the revs. So I got carried away measuring port timing, squish gap, compression ratio etc: Lifted it onto a table to save the knees of my jeans: The results are interesting: 182deg of exhaust duration and 144deg of inlet/transfer duration according to my super accurate paper dial gauge. This means that I should be able to deck the top of the cylinder a bit to get my correct squish gap. I was worried that my 0.9mm adapter/spacer might have thrown the port timing out, which would mean decking the bottom of the cylinder instead. I’ve also recently learned about how to set ignition timing with points, so I’ll set the timing right while I'm there.
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    It's actually me holding a puncture patch onto my original tube after running over a nail in @Firetruck's section. It went like this: Go see Yowzer Run over nail Say fuck Pull out nail Go home to get tube Replace tube and tyre Fuck new tube by going in dry with the tyre levers Go home to get other tube and puncture repair kit Replace tube again Fuck second new tube by going in dry Patch new tube poorly Won't hold air Patch original tube Refit tube and tyre with LUBE Refit wheel and drive home in the dark with almost no lights It was a hard day. lucky Yowzer and @64vauxhall had beer and @Beaver was keen to help with levering and lubing. For some reason this tag won't go away >>> I can't delete it or type after it. WTF @Truenotch i made my tag go away
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    Hah! It's getting a muffler. Even the people at the gang house across the street were shaking their heads at me . After a week of fretting I figured out the reason it lost spark... It was because the flywheel magnets were touching the lighting stator. I knew it would be something simple! So the stator winding was probably never the main issue, but the dodgy part of the ignition source coil is fixed anyway. Stoked to get to the bottom of it! Threw in the biggest jet that @Raizer provided and went for a few hoons. It bogs massively at full throttle and doesn't pull up to high revs because of the rich mixture. Goes pretty well up to 3/4 throttle though. It sounds great when you blip the throttle! It's got this old dirtbike muffler temporarily. Seems to work well.
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    Success!!! It’s definitely loud....
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    Started refitting the engine: Mounted the spanny - the header is a bit long, but it’s as close as I could get without the kickstart hitting the spanny. Spot welded the broke headlight bracket back into place: And fitted W clips to stop the light flopping all over the show: It’s getting there! For some reason I can’t get spark out of it... I suspect the coil is toast - luckily I’ve got another one on the way. Hopefully it turns up early next week! I also don’t have a muffler yet... it might be loud for the first few runs .
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    Yaaay, new parts day again! Bought a few bits to repair the slippy clutch. New frictions and intermediate plate. This beast has TWO WHOLE friction plates. Also bought a new actuator arm mechanism: At the same time I got a push rod, a ball bearing and a clutch cable. And a nice new clutch lever to replace my knobless one: Drained the oil and got started on disassembly: Lucky I did as I found the main kickstart circlip had lost its ends! This takes all the load when the Kickstart engages... I also got a new throttle cable and a set of points. I was able to make a hybrid of the old and new 2-1 cables to suit my new carb.... Things are lining up well for a weekend hoon? Albeit without a muffler on the spanny .
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    Otherwise you might be able to steal @UTERUS‘s CT for the weekend?
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    Same here - gizz deets. Also, @Archetype will need to sort out a bed for Saturday night if anyone needs a bunk buddy? My friend Richard will need somewhere to sleep too.
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    @Kimjon - google Ken Cairns Electrical and his phone number will come up. He works out of his home garage in Dinsdale and is a good old dude.
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    Yep. Covered everything in resin too. Champ.
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    You’re a legend @Thphantum! Thanks. 2 stroke all the way!!! (Hopefully).
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    Ignition winding rewound. Ken Cairns is great - he’s definitely getting on, but knows what’s up. This job was $30 . Missed a delivery from Yambits today... I’ll collect it tomorrow. It’s got points, clutch parts and a few other goodies to keep me busy.
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    @MichaelJFox - Flick me a message and I'll put you in touch with someone else who's going to book a room.
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    New head arrived today to suit the 45mm kit. It's a high comp head and has a huge amount more cooling area than the standard one.
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    Me too! It's spiralled out of control, so it better go OK.
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