| | | DIY Home Built Motorized Bicycle (non kit) Post all about your home built rides here. Weedwacker motors, lawn mower engines ect. This area is for non kit builds | Complete Newbie please help! Discussion at Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum in the DIY Home Built Motorized Bicycle (non kit) forum. Hi everyone names joel. Im new to the world of MB... I do have experience in Nitro and Elctric R/...  | 
05-27-2009, 08:45 PM
| | Motorized Bicycle Newbie | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: New York
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| | Complete Newbie please help! Hi everyone names joel. Im new to the world of MB... I do have experience in Nitro and Elctric R/C so basically thats the skills im relying on. So i was working on a Friction drive for my Honda bike, when while attaching a Peg to my weedeater motor the motor fell out of my lap an onto the floor. The thing with all the fins (im guessing its a flywheel) is off and now when i they to set if back it keeps scraping where the magnetic parts are... my question is how to i lock the flywheel in place and how do i not get it to scrape against the magnet...
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05-28-2009, 12:02 AM
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! the magneto may have gotten damaged. but , loosen the screws, put the flywheel on, and you may need the tool to press it back on ( get 1 from a mower shop and tell them what your doing.. ).. you'll want .018 clearence between the flywheel and the mag.. tear a peice off of a cereal box if you don't have feeler gauges | 
05-28-2009, 11:15 AM
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! Thanks alot, most likely ill have to press it on myself because there isnt a mower shop around my area. i noticed a small groove on the inside of the flywheel and same on the shaft. there isnt anything therewhat should i do about that?
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05-28-2009, 11:37 AM
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! that's the keyway.. if the key is gone, you'll need a new 1. | 
05-28-2009, 12:06 PM
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! Oh ok Cause i put a small piece of metal but it came after a bit... should i epoxy it or bb weld a piece on to keep the flywheel in place..
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05-28-2009, 08:54 PM
| | Motorized Bicycle Newbie | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: New York
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! Dont worry i found the key for the flywheel, and put it back in. Then i pounded it back on with a mallet and finally secured it tight with a few washers, a thick rubber washer and a bmx peg. Thanks alot. | 
06-09-2009, 12:19 AM
| | Motorized Bicycle Newbie | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Louisiana
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! I am a newbie, but a complete newbie. Extremely limited engine knowledge. Only common sense.
I keep hearing footpeg. Where and why would you put a footpeg?
The shaft that turns on my engine?? Would I want the end of the peg to connet to the turning part???
I'm so lost. | 
06-09-2009, 10:54 AM
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! That's what is used to drive the back (or front) tire/wheel.
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07-05-2009, 01:45 AM
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| | Re: Complete Newbie please help! Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronmorg I am a newbie, but a complete newbie. Extremely limited engine knowledge. Only common sense.
I keep hearing footpeg. Where and why would you put a footpeg?
The shaft that turns on my engine?? Would I want the end of the peg to connet to the turning part???
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