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Also as it’s not very busy at work/too windy to do actual work I’ve taken the cub in

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fitted slotted brake pads from webike and new wheel bearings in the rear 

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fired it up for some motovation

hopefully do the front end this week and try and get the lights/indicators working 

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New rear Tyre sure does feel clunky/notchy 

 

 

 

 

 

 

when it’s rubbing my butt

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did some hitting and bending

got a longer chain and thinking I’ll order some longer shocks (325mm firm vs current 300mm floppy boys)

5 days to go (and I’m working 4 of them....)

 

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Longer chain caused it to foul on the mud guard so ripped that of and still lots of rubbing, hopefully shocks arrive tuesday

Mostly wired up the cub today 

fitted a cheap old Stanley spotlight and cut the fairing to suit low bars

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maybe I should order some adventure tyres for it just in case 

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Was only getting 3-9V, messaged @Raizer and he figured out I needed to earth the stator, now it’s 6-13v A+messenger fault finding 
Took the cub round the block, melted the fairing pretty good (need to bolt it in I guess)

wants to pop wheelies in first A+
 

half way round it started chocking and I saw the filter wasn’t on right, tried to mcgyver it with the key as had no tools, until I remembered the factory tool set!

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idled it home and took a few attempts of carb cleaning and swearing to sort it 

 made it all legit with a speedo.... great idea @Truenotch

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still didn’t sort any tyres-might try and same day some tomorrow 

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Sorted tyres, was running fine but had a rattle

then started missing/carb troubles

luckily my new longer/firmer shocks arrived for the *cm50t, should of got a sticker made up....

i like how my rego just says honda motorcycle

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10L tank + 5l should hopefully get me through a day?!

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  • 2 months later...
On 27/11/2019 at 23:01, datlow said:

was running fine but had a rattle

then started missing/carb troubles

Finally decided to have a look at the cub again Tried a carb of a xl185 (fits straight in!)

went good but still what I thought was a clutch rattle

figured I’d check the valve clearances as that’s a common issue apparently 

pulled of side cover to get timing marks lined up and hello a very loose flywheel/magneto bolt and a naffed Key/woodruff 

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Will source a new woodruff and file the rest and see what it looks like

can buy a new flywheel/magneto for a couple hundred but hopefully not required

vtec lyf!

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1 hour ago, HighLUX said:

Flywheel/stator kits are cheap on ali and mine only took a month to show up.

Also whats the go with earthing the stator? Iv got the same issue of low voltage output 

In reply to your text, for the life of me, I cant remember what I did to get mine to work sorry. It wont light the std headlight at idle, but comes on when you give it a bit of a rev. The stator is friggen tiny in the 155z, so guess it just cant pump out the juice at idle? 

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Yeah been looking at ali flywheels etc, crank only seems to come complete with bearings and conrod so bit spendy140-160

the ali loom I bought had a bunch of green wires

just chopped one of them and fitted a round lug to earth on a bolt (I had assumed it was earthed internally and all the ones sticking out were for accessory’s) 

 

and yeah google seems to say they’re like A 55w  ?stator so my 50w halogen headlight + other lights  wasn’t gonna work

found a led bulb replacement so will try that and see 

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Maybe the  pitbike loom just has the engine earth straight to the cdi and coil cause they don’t need no lights, so try earthing that to the frame 

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but yeah I also have one of the yellows to earth cause none of my lights have a return wire so like this

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stripped rear shocks removed rust and painted black, grinder might have slipped and cut the springs (weirdly the flats are at the plastic end and 21mm unlike all the YouTube vids)

installed front guard 

fitted oil cooler (do they get hot enough to melt plastic??)

installed air filter, which seems to have stuffed the jetting so will have to tinker with that again 

removed shit/broken og plate holder and made a side mount 

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