pipeous
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This is not mine, but I have been brainstorming how to do one for a while, so my friend picked one up and came over right away. it was used, stored outside with gas in it, and didn't run. We cleaned it up and got it running and then started stripping parts off.
49cc 2 stroke. odd thing is they have a single fuel line and are gravity fed so the tank has to be mounted above the engine. I'll get more pics as soon as I pop over to my friend's place or he comes here.
I know he has allready welded up some independant arms for the front and used hind joints for pivots (big metal ball ends). the shocks are like tamiya friction shocks and no oil. I noticed watching vids on youtube that suspension is always a brick and they tip too easy. so we tackled the suspension first and pulled the rear off. took 2 of us to compress the springs and unscrew everything. wow compression. for the rear we took some redcat rampage springs I had laying around and compressed a front and rear on to the shaft and put it back together. now it has suspension travel... it'll do until we fab some mounts for next step.
on the front, since it's going independant suspension, we are going to mount a couple LST shocks there. eventually a couple lst shocks in the rear as well
well here's a start. I'll update later as we are going to hook up over the next couple days to do some more work on it... pics still uploading. not much more to say though other than a $40 project as a starting point is pretty cheap
49cc 2 stroke. odd thing is they have a single fuel line and are gravity fed so the tank has to be mounted above the engine. I'll get more pics as soon as I pop over to my friend's place or he comes here.
I know he has allready welded up some independant arms for the front and used hind joints for pivots (big metal ball ends). the shocks are like tamiya friction shocks and no oil. I noticed watching vids on youtube that suspension is always a brick and they tip too easy. so we tackled the suspension first and pulled the rear off. took 2 of us to compress the springs and unscrew everything. wow compression. for the rear we took some redcat rampage springs I had laying around and compressed a front and rear on to the shaft and put it back together. now it has suspension travel... it'll do until we fab some mounts for next step.
on the front, since it's going independant suspension, we are going to mount a couple LST shocks there. eventually a couple lst shocks in the rear as well
well here's a start. I'll update later as we are going to hook up over the next couple days to do some more work on it... pics still uploading. not much more to say though other than a $40 project as a starting point is pretty cheap
