destruction of the beast

[gummieshark]

Hello everyone here I'm going to be doing a little log of rebuilding and painting of my taco 100 mini bike. I bought this bike a while back planning to fix it up and make it look some what pretty again. Here are some pics of the tear down.

 

[catfishman]

cool have fun with it

 

[gummieshark]

Here some more pics hopefully the weather will stay nice.

 

[buckeye]

Nice bike to play with. :thumbsup:

 

[gummieshark]

Those welds were a pain to grind down and I think my air impact either froze or broke. Does anyone know why someone welded those extended bars on the swing arm. I think because the shocks are a little taller or maybe because they didn't have a jackshaft at the time. Any input if I should remove them or leave them on.

 

[Havasu Dave]

Any input if I should remove them or leave them on.

No idea why they'd be there. On my Taco 99 (essentially the same setup) I have one-inch longer shocks, and it's no problem at the stock mounting holes. :shrug:

Maybe larger wheels were on them at one time, and they needed clearance?

I'd get rid of them. I went with OldMiniBikes jack shaft setup. My favorite mini.

You sure got a nice bike there to mess with.

 

[incogrhino]

Maybe a longer seat at one time.:shrug:

 

[gummieshark]

Good news is I took them off with an angle grinder and started to sand down the frame. Bad news is while I was sanding I noticed a little blood on my hand the cut is nothing more then a Ez superglue bond but whoa it was really close to cutting that Finger in half.

 

[gummieshark]

Hey winter is over time to bust out the bikes. Here is this make shift gas tank I made out of mini propane tank looks good so far.

 

[TANKSAREUS]

Nice job on the tank :thumbsup:

 

[gbabins1]

Hey winter is over time to bust out the bikes. Here is this make shift gas tank I made out of mini propane tank looks good so far.

I have made a few tanks from propane bottles also... one word of caution: JB weld will eventually leak when exposed to gas / long term. I would use gas tank putty. So far I have used it with no issues. :thumbsup:

 

[gummieshark]

Gas putty makes sense ill keep a close eye on the tank in the meantime. Stay tuned for paint hopefully happening this week

 

[gbabins1]

:thumbsup:

 

[deejaaa]

where did you get the cap/neck for the tank? looks good.

 

[gummieshark]

The l.p. tank is for my mini grill. Advise to be very carefull when handling these I removed the valve core when the tank was completely empty and let it sit for week. Before I drilled into it I lit my lighter by the opening where the core was and there was a little flame. there might be another way of draining all the gas out with water or something. But I drilled into it anyways with no big booms. The fitting is a fuel line and the cap was from the garden section of the store. Here's some paint primer I did today.

 

[gummieshark]

Sorry this is a better picture of the paint before I spray the color should I sand the primer a little and with what type of grit sand paper.

 

[bob simon]

I would use a scotch brite pad

 

[gummieshark]

Good idea with the scotch bright pad I had a couple laying around the workshop. Here's some pictures of the paint time to dry and assemble tomorrow. Tonight ill tune up this tecumseh engine I can't believe it take 30w engine oil thats some thick stuff.

 

[gummieshark]

Recent photos I've been working on this custom spring tenstioner I made. Without the jackshaft this mission has been a wild ride.

 

[jdogg]

Nice tensioner design!! :thumbsup: Bike looks good!!