What to buy next for my moby ...

Here is the situation. My 'bandaid' broke the other day and arm that engages/disengages the gear on my pulley swung open and badly damaged the pulley. So I threw a new pulley and a couple other items in my shopping cart over in treatland but now I need to spend about $100 more to get free shipping.

Current setup:

-SHA 15.15

-Airsal 74cc

-treats CDI

-de-restricted blunderbuss

What should I spend my hard earned $ on:

-New crank (when the pulley broke, I thought it was my stock crank shaft)

-Performance Exhaust

-Doppler Variator

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Dan (LandLordsMG/PSVMC) /

I'd say grab an exhaust but I think all of the ones on treats at the moment require removal of the pedals.

Perhaps a Cheetahchrome pullstart conversion?

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

The Blisster /

I considered the pull start. I don't mind taking the pedals off and push starting with the exhaust for the time being though.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Dirty30 Dillon /

Why not just pay shipping until you know what you need.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Crank and seals for when you seize the stock one....

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Andrew Squiggman /

helmet hawk. dual kickstands. knobby horn button.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

The Blisster /

1 point exhaust

1 point crank

3 points knobby horn button

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Get an exhaust, then the variator. (edited)

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Dan (LandLordsMG/PSVMC) /

Push starting ain't too bad. get yourself a pipe, and a temp gauge

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Those 74cc kits get HOT with a pipe, just so you know.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

The Blisster /

I'd hope so re-jetting would bring the temp down. I've been eyeing up one of those electronic dashes too but treats has been out of stock I think.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

They just can't get rid of heat fast enough. The cases start to heat up, you get major heat soaking losses, and all that torque they were Supposed to generate falls flat.

Adding a french race pipe designed for a 50cc kit like the Doppler or Malossi will only make this problem Worse.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

yeahhhhh i'm with max on this one. you're at a happy place, don't fuck with it.

unfortunately on the frenchies buying a big gonzo pipe sends you down a road of empty pockets and tears.

if you really want to spend money, a 70cc cylinder head, new crank, bearings, seals and a freshen-up would probably pay dividends in reliablity

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

What Graham and Max said is bang on, don't do the pipe. If you dont seize it, you will strip the threads out on the cylinder at some point. Skip the 74cc and just run the 70cc version for easy plug n play goodness.

I used to run an av7 with a cheap dakar crank, airsal 70 kit, stock decomp head, vm18, gutted blunderbus and er3 variator. It was a really good reliable setup, went low-mid 40's and got there quick. Only beef I had is those big bore kits vibrate like crazy. I had to check bolts all the time to make sure shit didnt vibrate off.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

The Blisster /

Haha weeeellll speak of the devil....

I already have the 74cc kit on there and yeah, it does vibrate like crazy ... like vibrated the nut holding the end of my blunderbus on a mile from work this morning crazy. I'll spend lunch trying to track down a nut within walking distance.

So I think its settled. Stock pipe, upgrade the crank, double nut and/or wire tie the blunderbus cap.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Yeah i dunno what the problem with the vibration comes from. Me and Devin tried to figure it out years ago. The piston is almost the same weight as the stock piston, its the same with stock or aftermarket cranks, seems worse on after market vario but that could just be because of the stock heavy variator damping more and variator bounce.

i don't know a whole lot about balancing single cylinder engines, but it makes no damn sense to me.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

The Blisster /

Just spit balling here but maybe it has something to do with rotational inertia? Yeah the piston is the same weight but you now have a lot more force pushing down on the piston and and the weight of all rotating components are the same. If the after market vario's are lighter (which I assume they are) then that would make sense that the issue would worsen.

All speculation.

Either way, just so long as I can find a way to keep stuff from breaking and/or falling off, I'll be happy.

Re: What to buy next for my moby ...

Dan (LandLordsMG/PSVMC) /

I think the moby stroke does not match well with the 70+cc bore.

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