I've been trying to start a motor bike project for a few years now. I've finally gotten around to starting one! I got the motor from a friend. It was in rough condition and needed a lot of work. I still have no clue what bike I'm going to put this on but right now I'm working on modifying the vertical shaft motor into a horizontal shaft motor so I can use it on a bike.
I'm open to any ideas or criticisicm on any of my work. I'm still young and could use all the knowledge you smart people have to offer.
How it looked before I did anything
Me working on cleaning it up
Cleaned it up a little and now it's time to start going through it.
Really dirty on the inside, but it cleaned up easily
Modification #1 to make it a horizontal shaft motor. Create a custom oil flinger since. The original oil flinger was designed to get the oil on the bottom when it was laying down. If you stood up the motor the oil would drip to the bottom and remain stagnant, and the motor would overheat.
I used some lightweight aluminum siding pieces
Trimmed it up a little so it'd fit
Tested it out
Was too wide it was hitting some parts So I trimmed it up
Fit like a glove!!!
See how it dips down enough to pick up the oil but doesn't touch the bottom. You want it as close as you can get it without having it hit anything.
My next plans are to rotate the gas tank and carb since a carboratour can only function while it's upright. After that I will replace all the gaskets because i don't really trust the ones it already has. Then I will start it up and see if it functions correctly. Once all the engine work is complete I will choose my bicycle and figure out ways to mount it. I will instal a type of clutch system so I can use the bikes original gears so it's more than a single speed. They're my plans do far.
Modification #2 I had to reroute the crank case ventilation tube.
This is how it fit originally
But I had to rotate the carboratour and gas tank so that it could function properly. The only problem with that is that the ventilation tube hit the gas tank and wouldn't reach the carb.
So I took off the tube, cut it down and attached it to some 1/4 in. flexible fuel line and clamped it to the pieces of the original tube.
Put it on and found out the best way to route it
Now to put the blower casing or whatever it's called on with the rest of the parts to see if the hose would clear everything.
And it did!
Gaskets came in today along with the gas tank!
Now to assemble, put oil in, gas heMr up and test her out!!! Hopefully will be in complete working condition by the end of the weekend.
Thought it over and I wanted to put a sturdier so I made a new one out of a right angle brace of some sort.
Put it back together and painted it a matte black
Now I still need to get some oil and gas and see if she starts up. It has great compression and looks good. Still needs some things done to it.
Not using the Tyler bike. The motor wouldn't mount to it right. So I traded a friend for his old Next boy's mountain bike, there's now plenty of room to mount it.
I'm open to any ideas or criticisicm on any of my work. I'm still young and could use all the knowledge you smart people have to offer.
How it looked before I did anything
Me working on cleaning it up
Cleaned it up a little and now it's time to start going through it.
Really dirty on the inside, but it cleaned up easily
Modification #1 to make it a horizontal shaft motor. Create a custom oil flinger since. The original oil flinger was designed to get the oil on the bottom when it was laying down. If you stood up the motor the oil would drip to the bottom and remain stagnant, and the motor would overheat.
I used some lightweight aluminum siding pieces
Trimmed it up a little so it'd fit
Tested it out
Was too wide it was hitting some parts So I trimmed it up
Fit like a glove!!!
See how it dips down enough to pick up the oil but doesn't touch the bottom. You want it as close as you can get it without having it hit anything.
My next plans are to rotate the gas tank and carb since a carboratour can only function while it's upright. After that I will replace all the gaskets because i don't really trust the ones it already has. Then I will start it up and see if it functions correctly. Once all the engine work is complete I will choose my bicycle and figure out ways to mount it. I will instal a type of clutch system so I can use the bikes original gears so it's more than a single speed. They're my plans do far.
Modification #2 I had to reroute the crank case ventilation tube.
This is how it fit originally
But I had to rotate the carboratour and gas tank so that it could function properly. The only problem with that is that the ventilation tube hit the gas tank and wouldn't reach the carb.
So I took off the tube, cut it down and attached it to some 1/4 in. flexible fuel line and clamped it to the pieces of the original tube.
Put it on and found out the best way to route it
Now to put the blower casing or whatever it's called on with the rest of the parts to see if the hose would clear everything.
And it did!
Gaskets came in today along with the gas tank!
Now to assemble, put oil in, gas heMr up and test her out!!! Hopefully will be in complete working condition by the end of the weekend.
Thought it over and I wanted to put a sturdier so I made a new one out of a right angle brace of some sort.
Put it back together and painted it a matte black
Now I still need to get some oil and gas and see if she starts up. It has great compression and looks good. Still needs some things done to it.
Not using the Tyler bike. The motor wouldn't mount to it right. So I traded a friend for his old Next boy's mountain bike, there's now plenty of room to mount it.
