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its been a little while, but I did some baking today, I gunkoted the spokes hopefully they'll hold up alright. need to order new nipples because these look awful and I seem to have lost one. the color is supposed to be a flat stainless, but truly look like a bare metal, they should look good...

Maybe the two angles are for one sitting in the dimple, the other to make up the distance for not having a dimple?

It does have 2 diameters for the rear only one for the front, but 2 different angles like so And this is the angle issue One thing I do see is the spokes with the 90ish degree bend have rubbing marks on the straight spoke area The ones that are obtuse do not, leading me to believe it has...

Front spokes are all the same, the rear is odd, there are 2 obvious different lengths, but half of each are a little shorter than the other half in that length and are at different angles, so it looks like 4 different ones one the rear, but I know thats not true, likely someone put the wrong...

I finally got tire spoons in and removed the old tires, much cleaning needed. Need to figure out how to order new spokes. Any suggestions?

Little progress, getting the front ready for powdercoating, and cleaning some grossness up. All the guts Getting a little further into the engine, looks like PO loved RTV, got in all over the clutch, looking at the basket almost looks new and a lot of the inside looks great. Allballs is...

looking good, you have a lot of sanding your future. dig the seat pan.

Progress has been slow due to Robotics, the team I mentor (team 1723) ended up winning the Kansas City Regional along with teams from blue springs(team 1785) and olathe northwest (team 1710), it was awesome for them to win, proud of the kids. That being said, a little work has gotten done, I...

Slide hammer did work. Took about 5 pulls and it came right off, its hard to see in the pic, but I was about to get it. I don't have 1/2" impact so I wasnt able to use it, and I did try hanging by the puller, I couldnt get a good shot or the right one. But I did get it off, so all is good.

Thanks for all the suggestions, unfortunately I did not have a lot of luck. So I was thinking how can I pull with a bunch of force? And..........slide hammer, I think i'll buy one. Also had some luck getting off the broken oil injection bolt and the exhaust bolts I had to drill out.

I added some thicker washers, heated the hell into it and I wrenched on it pretty well using a breaker bar, still to no avail. I gave up for now, i'll give it a whirl when I get the motor tore apart more and use the press. Time was spent insted removing the swingarm bushings. Trying to get...

I'm having a hell of a time getting the stupid magneto off, anyone got a good suggestion? And no there is no thread for some puller. I ordered in the steering bearings and swingarm bushings, I need to order in the material for making new fork pistons. Hopefully before too long it will be a...

Your build is coming along pretty nicely, keep it up.

if you redo the exhaust, I think the diesel monsters have a cool heat sheild that could look oemish if copied, but I love the look of the diesel version so I am biased.

Worked on the tailight mount the other day. The tailight is a stainless sauce cup that will have a printed insert with an led setup for 6V. After I mocked the piece with some thin sheet metal, I printed the test piece or two, final version will be ABS and black.

Got some parts blasted, need to powdercoat and paint, pegs will be powdercoated and rest painted.

So did a little more work while waiting for my friend to come over to powdercoat his 4 wheeler wheels. While waiting I powdercoated the gas cap. When taking the bike apart I noticed the driverside foot peg had 2 of the 3 bolts in it and one side welded, so I thought, great it was stripped...

Whole motor is getting torn apart and new bearings and other wear items will be replaced. I might go ahead and buy a head that will work with the exhaust I have and bore it. A more suitable tool will be fabricated before putting engine back together. And I always wear safety glasses when doing...

So not a whole lot going on since I wisely decided to do a bathroom remodel before Thanksgiving. That said, some work did get done recently, and I must say as a mechanical engineer, some of my best work. Tools are expensive it was late and I felt like rigging something so I got the pesky nut off...

Little more progress, removed all Tabs and pieces that are not going to be used. After detabbing the frame I felt a bit ambitious and decided to start tearing into the engine I am a bit mixed on what I found, spark plugs are new, piston looks new??? and cylinder looks ok, and the head looks...