KevTrem
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Evening all.
So, last Sunday we had a bash meet at a BMX track local to us. I snapped the Baja pull start on 3rd pull due to fouled plug and my temper, so that got put away and the truck was pulled out instead. Anyways lots and lots and lots of big jumps, plenty fun until exhaust got loud, snapped the flexi.
Anyways I've now welded that up but when I tried to start the truck it's sounded horrible, like metal rattling horrible.
I've had something similar before, turned out to be a loose coil and loose flywheel due to the easy start nut stripping.
So, pulled it apart, coil tight, flywheel tight, couldn't see anything, so ripped into the engine wondering if the clutch was loose etc. Pulled flywheel off and the key fell out, but in a funny way. This is what I've found, I don't know how I manage to feck things up like this. Anyways got 3 or 4 spare flywheels but they are stock, so gonna spend half hour on the lathe tomorrow and mod them for the easy start.
Wouldn't mind but I had a spare machined flywheel, fitted it to the Baja just yesterday FFS.
Anyways some pics of the damage, crank looks fine BTW.
Last image is 1 machined and 2 spares that need machining.
So, last Sunday we had a bash meet at a BMX track local to us. I snapped the Baja pull start on 3rd pull due to fouled plug and my temper, so that got put away and the truck was pulled out instead. Anyways lots and lots and lots of big jumps, plenty fun until exhaust got loud, snapped the flexi.
Anyways I've now welded that up but when I tried to start the truck it's sounded horrible, like metal rattling horrible.
I've had something similar before, turned out to be a loose coil and loose flywheel due to the easy start nut stripping.
So, pulled it apart, coil tight, flywheel tight, couldn't see anything, so ripped into the engine wondering if the clutch was loose etc. Pulled flywheel off and the key fell out, but in a funny way. This is what I've found, I don't know how I manage to feck things up like this. Anyways got 3 or 4 spare flywheels but they are stock, so gonna spend half hour on the lathe tomorrow and mod them for the easy start.
Wouldn't mind but I had a spare machined flywheel, fitted it to the Baja just yesterday FFS.
Anyways some pics of the damage, crank looks fine BTW.
Last image is 1 machined and 2 spares that need machining.