MOPED ARMY

No.

I do think it would be cool to weld up a second port in the water jacket and make a cooling system.

I think o ring the head is probably the way to go, then goop the outer perimeter.

If I remember the reeds are tiny and the cases are super thin around them so you can't hog them out, maybe pour some alumiweld in there?

I’m not too worried about the reeds.

I have tig now so I can do anything.

But yeah I think an o ring might be ok, if it’s good enough for wc scooter kits it should be good enough for this. The jug should spin nice on the lathe just attached to the cyl sleeve.

I just gotta pick a readily available one then chop it

i was actually looking at these goofy little boats guys are making out of pvc pipe, like a mini pontoon kinda thing this summer and thinking it would be cool to put a moped engine on there? i dunno the possibilites are endless, the world is yours, you ain't fully clean until your zestfully clean.

I was talking about this with Stepehn Buzzard earlier this year. I think it would be a fun bike to see what you can squeeze out of it.

I used 100 percent anti freeze in mine. Worked great, never got above 200*. With just a pipe and regearing it I was in the 40s.

I've been buying up all the solo crap that comes up for sale in MN so I have spares and parts to test things on. I have a wrecked cylinder that would be perfect to cut into to see exactly how far you can go before breaking into the water jacket if you want it.

The plan with mine is to adapt the two speed pulley onto it to have something extra interesting.

Nate had some wild plans for one but not sure if he ever got around to playing with it.

Excited to see what you do! And lol at you buying a bike from a priest

I never touched the head nuts it went really well with just a pipe I didn’t want to ruin it. I did change out the reeds for some carbon ones and it made it much more snappy. I tried messing with the variator/clutch and that shit it hopeless, I wouldn’t recommend it.

This idler bearing was the predecessor to the er3? Did Doppler just steal that idea

I didn't take it further apart than this but there is a plastic planetary gear set behind the cover and a two arm clutch behind the chain side half. It looks like a huge set of starter shoes. Very interested to see what kind of engagement this has and what it even does.

Myron's has a basic diagram of it.

2-speed diagram

I know you are not always going to listen to reason, but believe me you don’t want to mess with the spring and weights daisy chain it makes it act super fucked. I tried removing one weight and that sucked, I tried using one long spring hooked to itself and that wouldn’t even engage, then I tried putting a ball chain inside the hardware store spring and that almost ruined the bike in one rip. (edited)

I’ll first try fooling with each rollers weight.

Just a lil lighter, or try a balanced 3 weight on the same spring. I’ll get it

Is that exhaust bracket attached to the swing arm? Did that cause any issues while riding?

Circuit pipe, slightly bigger carb, port the reed area, add 2 beefy boi's at SYP, we rode dubs on one for about 28 miles alone in the woods, beat the pack back, these have a lot of potential

Well I got a copper crushable head gasket from treats with a pressed ridge in the center all the way around.

It fits pretty good after a little cutting so I’ll try that with yamabond on the head. Might work it might not.

Don’t know what the stock squish was but I’ll get it as close to .8 as possible.

So I lapped the head and top of cyl and the base. So I guess porting is next.

I’ll do a grunty port job on this, want a small blowdown for a wide ass powerband.

I’m so happy to be back in the shop.

I’m so out of practice.