hey welcome back so I got a large box from Japan today which is sweet it
actually had a bunch of stuff we've been waiting for for jeans bike to put it
together so wheels they're just I think a knockoff so the Daytona's but they
look pretty nice you got the a f27 Japanese speed speed cluster which fits
the plastics Aegina used sides hands set of handlebars for the the headlight and
surrounded as well and then a set of discs do ZX trees along with a pretty
nice condition black seat and seat bucket the motor is in you can see but
it's not really in I haven't done anything so gene picked up one of these
Aliexpress special motor mounts they aren't a direct bolt-in you do need the
machine up some spacers to align it for whatever wheel you're using so you need
to shift it from side to side and then also you have this link that needs a
bracket welded to the frame that it attaches to and that just keeps the
keeps you from having like a double link there you don't really want that and I
think for most you probably have two clearance off the center stand bits too
just depends on a few different things on your setup but I think what I'm gonna
start with right now is mounting some tires up to these wheels getting some
air in them and trying to make this thing into a roller just so that we can
check the suspension types and get everything set up that way okay so got
those mounted up
issues so the front is a three inch wide by 10 inch monkey bike wheel I'll mount
it on a monkey bike hub dis cub the rear is a 3.5 inch wide monkey bike wheel
mounted on two with a custom adapter some of the issues are running into here
so on the front we can see by the offset here that we're a little bit off there
are two options to fix this option number one is to flip the wheel the
other way felt to take the tire off so these monkey rims are offset deep on one
side and shallow on the other side now that poses a problem on this side
because the valve stem is here and I only had angled valve stems so we'd have
to get a straight valve stem and it would be behind the rotor and it'd be
impossible to put air into it the other option is to just move it over with by
machining the machining a different color and possibly machining back the
hub which is probably what I'm going to have to do on the front just let the
valves I mean it sucks to not be able to put air and your tires or check your
hair pressure that's kind of crucial so I think what I'll end up doing is
modifying the monkey hub on this side over so that it allows me to shift the
wheel over and then it'll be fine we also want to try and run the speedo gear
possible so I have to grab go and find one of those first off and then see if I
can make it to fit in there I should be able to but we will have to see these
are just some Taiwan legs nothing spectacular you got a do set X tree
what's at the disc specific tree here's the aliexpress mount so now that I have
the rear wheel on well maybe we'll do the rear wheel first so the rear wheel
fits this is a 110 a t10 tire but you can see in here it rubs so I'm gonna
have to clearance this out quite a bit I mean ideally you want like a pretty
decent amount clearance in there as the tires rotate
they actually grow in diameter they'll expand out a bit so we can test that
just by spinning it up and getting the wheel speed up really high while it's on
the stand and just make sure it doesn't rub on here that would be bad and the
other problem is the rear wheel is now shifted over let's say three quarters of
an inch to an inch it has to be moved this way so that's not a super big deal
I'll have to relocate the shock mount on this side probably over and in board a
bunch and end up at the front we have the aliexpress mount special so it
actually works out pretty good if you mount it in the stock location you can
actually mount it these ears are perfect you can actually mount it in the tabs
where the center stand goes but when you do that you lose all your adjustment and
the wheel is like really far at the back like considerably and then this linkage
is also too short as well so you've actually have to make a new linkage arm
to tie it all together so you do need to weld here like I mentioned you have to
weld a tab onto there to put this eyelet on to that actually just pulls the link
up so with this one I can just take the mount push it that way and then make a
spacer that goes in here and there and I'll be able to realign the wheel and
then like I mentioned just remove this remove this shock mount and then move
make a new one over here somewhere so I think what I'm gonna do is start with
the motor alignment stuff I also need to make an exhaust mount I won't be able to
get the nut back in there or any anything anymore so what I may end up
doing is taking the bolt feeding it through cutting off the back really
flush welding it in so it's like a stud and then I can put the nut on the front
and that'll should give me enough clearance that it shouldn't be an issue
so I got the wheel pretty much centered on the mould line of the tire here it
seems to be in about the middle of the these two bolts so what I'm gonna do is
just measure the spacing on either side and then I'll need to me shape machine
up some callers that'll fit to align that in the proper space so
what it looks like for the shock what I can do is just make a tab that comes
down maybe from here that just sandwiches in between it and move it
over make a piece of pipe in there so that it can't crush through and I can
put a nut on both sides of that and then it'll that should hold the shock just
fine so with my hub I turned this down two millimeters I still have a bit more
room that I could go and I ended up having to shave out the inside of the
cases in here a bunch to get the rear wheel to clear this is a 3.5 inch wide
wheel and it does clear now but you do have to do some pretty extravagant
things to get the tire to clear it's a pretty low profile tire I actually broke
through into the stator a little bit so what I'm gonna be doing is popping the
stator back out and just back filling that in with some like JB well there
Devcon or something just to keep water from getting in there and that should be
fine it's not a super big deal but the wheel does fit we'll flip it up here now
if you wanted to go bigger than a 3.5 you could take a little bit more off the
back of this probably like three to four millimeters before you might run into
issues with the brake and chews rubbing on the drum I have seen some and I mean
you can still cut the all of that exhaust bracketry off and get a lot more
clearance I have seen that done on some Japanese deals they'll basically just
cut this off entirely and they can put a really wide wheel on then you have to
try and figure out some type of mount but it is possible to do that
so there is quite a bit of room there's probably like about a quarter of an inch
or so the tires do grow when they're accelerating so you have to keep that in
mind you do need to keep an extra bit of clearance in here because centrifugal
force makes the tire expand out as it goes faster but that should work and
clear and everything seems okay I still have the brackets for the exhaust and
it's still pretty meaty through there so it probably won't break if it does I'll
figure something out will weld up some bracketry or something and cap it off
but pretty happy with that I'm still waiting for his front monkey
hub I have loaned him my own so the bike rolls around and I can do some quick
measurements of stuff but whenever that gets here we'll make up some spacers and
maybe machine that to get it all aligned and then be ready to start putting this
thing together but that's it for this evening until next time take care