sperera's baja experience begins

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spent a few hours on the baja last night, got the new ring on, got the fan cover, inlet and carby with all new teflon gaksets. Got the engine, fuel tank and radio tray back on and throttle linkages. Pipe and cage went on last but by this time it was after ten so didnt want to start it up and annoy the neighbours

So hoping to start it tonight and see if everythings ok. Found some bolts that are going to do the job for now so as long as the new ring works ok I should be right for the weekend

Oh and here is step one to better braking. Going to put this aside until I can afford a front disc brake kit hopefully before chrissy.
 

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sperera: That's a very good servo you plan to use on your brakes. FYI, it can run directly on 2S lipo wtihout reducing its life cycle. Mike Mayberry posted this info on RCTECH. BTW, when you decided to run it on 2S lipo, the specs go up, 013 sec @ 375 in/oz. :w00t:
 
jeez thats nuts for a standard sized servo, very impressive indeed.

to be honest though ill stick to the 6v nimh im running now, its never missed a beat and gives me massive run times.

24kg @ 6v should be more than enough for a set of front disc brakes im sure.
 
I am finally changing my front brake servo on the semi. you know I had just tossed a tower pro in there, mg945, and tbh I am amazed it has worked flawlessly. don't need a huge servo if the cables all work smooth.

go to your local bike shop and get the cables that are all straight strand, not the wound type. they don't stretch and very smooth
 
I still havn't set up teh cables on my front discs, as I need to make a link from the bilkhead to teh servo. can you stick a picture up of your set up when you have done it.
 
I don't know if these help or not. I cut the plastic part down that mounts on the tower and drilled a new hole to mount at the bulkhead as the holes are a different spacing there. kept things more inline.
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Thanks pipe, that was exactly what I wanted to see!
I'm overseas on business all next week but i'll have a crack at sorting my brakes the week after I get back.
 
good stuff, ill be buying the FG kit which will come with all cables, thanks for the info, if I need to replce at any stage I know where cheap alternatives are.

i gave the FG first run last night since replacing the ring and got some idle issues, ill start a thread under the engine section check it out and tell me what you think please.
 
well today was a day of dissapointment LOL. fixed the idle problem, nice settles nice and quick but everytime motor gets warm it looses all mid and top end, just cant get it to rev, so looks like i need to replace the top end sooner than i thought
 
true, here's an update. ran a tank on saturday, perfect weather. idle problem seems to have fixed itself? haven't changed anything.

new problem is whenever the engine gets warm it looses almost all mid to top end, so I still think a new top end is reuqired.

now to find which top end I should go for and who has them in stock!
 
I still think you have an air leak... getting warm is expansion. so now it's probably leaning out when under power... have you another carb to try?
 
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