Recent content by FOG

I "designed" my own cylinder head for this little 40cc motor I'm using and figured my 1st clue to if I got it right would be a compression test. Uh-oh. Only 75 psi. Even after I oiled up to simulate the rings being broken in it only got up to 95 psi. Based on past experience below 100 psi they...

I can understand that. It'd make me a bit nervous too. :) FWIW, I've known people that have ditched the key on a flywheel to get optimum ignition timing. Taper's can definitely hold that. Not the same thing tho.

Assuming we're talking about a tapered shaft and sleeve a normal amount of torque will jam the tapers together. You'll probably need a puller to get them apart.

Looks like it got too hot and seized the piston. At an elevated temperature the piston expands to the point where it gets too big and more or less gets stuck in the bore. They can even lock up completely. I know this from an RD400 that locked up on me at 75 mph. That was a slide for life. Once...

If you spread it from the dropouts it will come right back to the same place when you tighten the back axle up. What you'll need to do is lock the dropouts in place somehow before you spread. The back wheel itself won't work. It'll just be in the way. 3/8" all thread and a metal tube cut to the...

I always like to pressure test my 2 stroke motors. When properly sealed they should hold 5-10 lbs for a few minutes. But my little pocket bike motor don't want any part of that! Uh-uh. Total fail! It's leaking all around that piece of plastic I cut down for an insulator. It's only .200 thick...

No experience with one on me, but there are seat posts with suspension available. Google up!

I got too messin' with my Round 2 effort on loose screws to see what 10 degrees might look like and realized, " we don't need no stinkin" 10 degrees"! More like 2 or 3. So I did some skim cuts at ever increasing slight increments and scored! The top portion got a little thinner but that's fine...

Not long ago I punked a male pit with some small rocks. Couldn't hardly believe it but my 1st shot hit him in the nose! The rock bounced back at my feet so I fired again but he was already backing up so I missed. By the time I picked up another pebble he was jumping a fence to get back in his...

I almost got an intake! But not yet ... It's that angle that's messin' me up. When you rotate a surface to an angle the dimensions change. I need to figure out how to deal with that. What got me on Round 2 was the spigot's too low and now the carb's hitting the frame where it used to clear. It...

I pedal just about every day which means getting chased by a dog now and again. The thing is, I can't out pedal a reasonably fit full size dog! So I don't. What I do is stop and get off the bike. Then we either get acquainted or have a confrontation. That part's up to the dog.

Wish I could help because that's a good lookin' bike! There is a sub-forum dedicated to Whizzers where you might poke around for more info. https://motorbicycling.com/forums/whizzer-motorized-bicycles.8/

It's probably your carb. I say that because usually there's not enough fuel left in the bottom end to puddle the floor. It could be leaking into the intake and into the bottom end but most times it's the float bowl overflowing because of a leaking needle and seat. Just my best guess.

The windowed piston is something your reed valve needs to function at full potential. Piston port motors don't have a window because the piston itself opens and closes the intake port. The reed valve does that job in a reed motor so a window is needed to more or less get the piston out of the way.

I was at a practice oval with my dirt track Pinto back in the day when a guy showed up with a Speedway bike and needed help starting it. I shoved for all my skinny butt was worth but that wasn't working. So we switched places and got it fired with me on it. Not having brakes kinda freaked me out...