DIY Guy in Flint, Michigan

[Psycledeliac]

Hello all

I'm gonna take a stab at this whole MB thing and I've already gotten a wealth of information from this and other great sites. Thank you all for your help!

I have had a '77 Schwinn Caliente for forever or so, love it to death, got about a billion miles on it, gettin' sick of all the pedaling, tho.

So I got me an old snowblower for twenty dollars, it's a '78 Toro Snowmaster 20 with a lil' Tecumseh 2.5-ish HP 2-stroke engine in it (thank you Google, lol)

The thing runs great, gonna rip the motor out and drop it onto the back of the Schwinn, all friction-drive style-- er- somehow..

I am excited! This is gonna be fun, I will let y'all know how the experience goes.



haha these smileys are awesomeness deluxe!!

 

[SAVED1]

welcome psycledeliac to the MB forum. the build you have sounds interesting hope it works out for you.

 

[Dave31]

Hello Psycledeliac, Welcome to the forum glad you joined us.

 

[Psycledeliac]

Hi thanks for the welcome!

Got the motor outta that snowblower pretty easy, there's a whole bunch of frame parts and brackety type things I may be able to use, cuz I don't like spending money so much. Lol.

I spent half a day holding the motor over the back wheel and staring at it, waiting for some kind of epiphany, which sort of came. I have a hanging bracket for a very large television like you would see in a sportsbar or tavern, it is made out of steel c-channel type material, I'm gonna grab the ol' hacksaw and see what happens.

I would like to start a build thread in the DIY section once I get enough done with some pics to at least be of some entertainment value.


See y'all later