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May 16, 2015 19:32:52 GMT
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Looks very trick Stigian. Looking forward to the next installment. Just been on your Youtube channel too. You've done some great projects, love the 6 wheeler Thanks Brandane and thanks for checking out my MooTube channel.. The 6x6 was a fun machine, loads of power and loads of traction.. Sadly I had to see it late last year to afford a house move.
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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May 16, 2015 20:33:05 GMT
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Great build story, can't wait for the next update! Thanks, the next update is here Next on he hit list was to fire up the engine again. Bike engines tend to sulk if left for too long without running, so with that in mind I dug the wiring loom out and plugged it in.. WARNING.. IT MAY BE A BIT LOUD Once my ears had stopped ringing, it was time to mount the front brake calipers. A few bits of metal, a couple of long bolts with nuts to make captive. I don't think these welds will be coming apart in a hurry Drill a couple of holes through the block it of the steering hub thingys and bolt the caliper on.. The steering became a bit of a joke for a while.. My first attempt worked backwards!! The second attempt steered in the right directions but it was just so heavy! Attempt number 3 worked however A 90 degree angle drive thingy from a Bolens grass cutting deck. A nice curved steering arm.. Which fits here.. And a long adjustable rod to connect the steering box to the front.. Yep, lever steering. And of course a long connecting rod to connect both front wheels together... Sorry about the lack of technical terms, steering design is something new to me I did want to run the exhaust through the frame and out the back, but it soon became clear that I just did not have the space for that.. So I went for a more "out the sides" kinda look.. The exhaust mounting bracket may look a little extreme... But it also doubles up as somewhere to mount the footplates. The right side footplate was made by cutting and shutting two plates to get the right width and shape. The left side needed a few more bits To finish this update for tonight, have a photo of one of the comically over sized air filters I bought by mistake And one of me going for a drive on the bench
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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May 16, 2015 20:47:57 GMT
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Your welcome and yes it looked a lot of fun. Sad that you had to sell it but needs must. I hope the new place has a good sized garage/workshop with it
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May 16, 2015 23:51:55 GMT
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Having seen the photos of it outside,I drive past that nursery twice a day Would never had expected such a beast to be lurking almost right on my doorstep! Cool project !
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Your welcome and yes it looked a lot of fun. Sad that you had to sell it but needs must. I hope the new place has a good sized garage/workshop with it Hi Brandane, the new place doesn't have a big enough garden for a workshop or garage, but the rent is half of what we were paying! So I rent a little unit from my good friend Nigel at a very good price. There is even a mower racer test track and a cafe on site
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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Thanks mate, that made me laugh
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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Having seen the photos of it outside,I drive past that nursery twice a day Would never had expected such a beast to be lurking almost right on my doorstep! Cool project ! You never know what's hiding on your doorstep Feel free to stop in and say hi if you have time when your passing, though I will warn you that Why Not is only a bare chassis at the mo..
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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A bit more for you all.. I though some sort of controls would be handy, you know, brakes, clutch, throttle, gear change sort of stuff.. I did briefly think about foot gear change and a suicide clutch, but then though it might be better to have both hands on the steering wheel while launching at 9500rpm So foot clutch and suicide shifter instead.. A bike wheel spindle bolt thingy was cut down and welded to a strong square of metal. I have no idea what the shift lever was originally from, but it's very old and certainly looks the part A rose jointed rod runs from near the base of the shifter lever forward.. To a L shaped pivoting bracket thingy which changes the movement from forward and back to up and down, which via another rod connects to the bike foot shifter.. Yes nyloc's will be used when it's all bolted back together for the first test run. Pedals next and of course they had to be Wheel Horse pedals to keep the look going. A dig in a box produced this early WH Raider clutch/brake pedal. It was a pleasant surprise to find the Honda's clutch cable was long enough to be hooked up to the pedal without any too tight a turns, so a couple of simple bracket thingys were knocked up. The next day I found these matching brake and clutch pedals in another box! So the clutch pedal was soon swapped over.. Yes the spanner is holding the new pedal up until I make a "Anti-flopper stopper thingy" to stop the pedal from flopping forward More brake stuff next, and this is where things got a bit interesting The front brakes as you know are discs with Qwackersaki calipers, the rears as you will of guessed are the Reliant drum brakes.. Even though Land Rover master cylinders are dirt cheap on Fleabay, I wanted to use bike master cylinders as I had them already.. I wanted to keep front and rear brakes hydraulically separate, so if say a front pipe hose sprung a serious leak then I would still have back brakes. So how to make a linkage that would connect both master cylinders to the pedal but put less pressure on the front master cylinder than the rear? I guess the normal way would be to start with both MC's side by side like this... Sorry about the thumb! But then I thought, what would happen if one MC was above the other Push the lever forward and it moves the top MC (rear brakes) more than the lower MC (front brakes of course) There is adjustment on both MC's for a bit of fine tuning. With the general braking system worked out I was thinking that a hand brake could be handy as there will be times it's parked on a slope.. Also some sort of line lock would be handy if I wanted to do burnouts.. Which I do Now before I head to my workshop I tend to look at the previous days photo's to work out a plan of action for the day when I had a flash of inspiration This is the prototype stage to see if my idea worked. Click on this small pic to see it in action
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Pleased that my "hand brake that swings both ways " idea worked it needed a bit of a tidy up. New lever next to the proto lever. Installed along with a new top connecting rod that has adjustable spring tension and a stopper to stop the top MC from trying to pull the wrong way when the front wheels are locked up. A small but strong return spring. To make the hand brake look more Wheel Horsey I grafted on the top of a WH deck lift lever. The base of the lever will be hidden behind some panels. The throttle pedal is the first clutch pedal I fitted turned around. I will try to make it look more like the other pedals by running some beads of weld down it.. Not sure my welding skills are up to welding the word Throttle on it though A simple bolt on bracket converted the pedal from push to pull. And to finish off for now a close up of one of my "anti-flopper stopper" thingys.. Thanks for reading my ramblings, more to come later when I should get this build thread up to date.. as you will see exciting times are ahead
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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I will try to make it look more like the other pedals by running some beads of weld down it.. Not sure my welding skills are up to welding the word Throttle on it though How's about just "GO"?
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May 17, 2015 12:08:12 GMT
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I love it! Your enthusiasm is unstoppable, which is very inspirational.
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May 17, 2015 12:17:38 GMT
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Hi Brandane, the new place doesn't have a big enough garden for a workshop or garage, but the rent is half of what we were paying! So I rent a little unit from my good friend Nigel at a very good price. There is even a mower racer test track and a cafe on site Excellent stuff. Best of both worlds. Wait till you get the "Why not" round that test track lol
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May 17, 2015 17:19:36 GMT
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I will try to make it look more like the other pedals by running some beads of weld down it.. Not sure my welding skills are up to welding the word Throttle on it though How's about just "GO"? Or even "Hold on"
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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May 17, 2015 17:21:35 GMT
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I love it! Your enthusiasm is unstoppable, which is very inspirational. Thanks Waveman, yeah I do have huge amounts of enthusiasm for this project, the close it gets to the first test drive the more enthusiasm I seem to have
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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May 17, 2015 17:22:33 GMT
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Hi Brandane, the new place doesn't have a big enough garden for a workshop or garage, but the rent is half of what we were paying! So I rent a little unit from my good friend Nigel at a very good price. There is even a mower racer test track and a cafe on site Excellent stuff. Best of both worlds. Wait till you get the "Why not" round that test track lol I can't wait to hit the test track, I see lots of sideways action in my future
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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May 17, 2015 18:21:16 GMT
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With first test drive time getting ever closer I thought it was about time I got the fuel side of things sorted, a WH Commando 7 fuel tank is a good start.. The trouble is it was designed for a small 7hp engine that didn't have the drinking habit of a 48hp V twin at full chat and thus had a very small fuel tap.. So I'm using the fuel tap from the Honda's tank which has the added benefit of it being a vacuum tap.. So if the engine stops the fuel stops flowing. Even though the Honda tank had been empty for 7+ months with no cap or fuel tap it still had a waft of petrol about it.. So I did my normal trick involving some rolled up paper and a blow torch.. And yes I did light it outside If your wondering, by the time the paper had burnt down to tank level I was well out of harms way.. Anyway, nowt went bang so I cut this section out the tank. The new fuel outlet welded to the tank along with a bit of an extension.. The reason for the extension is a lack of space. There was no way the tap would of fitted because the carbs are in the way.. Can't move the carbs and there isn't any other place I could fit a fuel tank. Ideally the tap should be above the carbs, but as the actual tank bit is gravity should still do it's thing and feed the carbs. The old fuel tap hole was filled with a cut off bolt that I made a slot in so it could be wound in with a screwdriver, and then welded up. As you will of spotted from the above photo there is zero room to get any sort of air filters onto the carbs, so I cut the carb ends from the Honda carb to air box rubber thingy.. I knew the two bit's of tube cut from the Reliant axle casing after narrowing would come in handy one day. A cardboard template was made to I could T the tubes together with a nice tight fit. Some cutting, grinding and welding later.. I need to do a little porting to help airflow. Fitted to the carbs It's a very tight fit around the fuel tap, but fit it does I need to trim the ends of the pipe down and make a couple of mounting flanges to fit a couple of these pancake style air filters. They were advertised as being for a twin carb A series engine so they should flow enough air.
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May 17, 2015 18:37:04 GMT
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With the battery box and expansion/header tank fitted.. There was nothing left to put on, so I started pulling her apart. The engine and engine frame comes off as one. Engine from bolted back on the chassis to help keep things where they should be while I do the final welding. And that brings this build thread up to date. I hope to have all the welding done, chassis cleaned up and hit with red oxide primer by the end of play on Tuesday.. Then I can start bolting her back together again and get ready for the first test drive
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My YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/UkWheelHorseBlokeQuote - D'you know, it's people like you, doing totally brilliant and pointless stuff like this that gives me a little hope for humanity
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May 18, 2015 12:01:54 GMT
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That's proper engineering at its best, so few people these days can do this, I cant wait to see it finished
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It will come in handy even if you never use it
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awesome, just awesome! never get bored of seeing a lump of metal go on a lathe and come out the other end as something mechanical! its almost how a sculpture see a statue inside a lump of marble! project is bonkers but I love it. just one question... where the hell do you use a 70mph tractor?
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