I bought this as a roller off another member probably going on a couple of years ago, so far all I have manged to do to it is drop an NOS mercury clutch on it and chip the nice paint and sell the wheels off it :doah:
How it looked when I got it:
so I started working in it again finally this week. I had sold the 4 spoke 4" that were on because I had scored another set off ebay that needed refinished. the ones that came with the bike were nice and clean but but were clearcoated over raw finish. I wanted to strip them and polish them a bit so instead of redoing 2 sets of wheels I sold the clean clearcoated set for double what I paid for the other set (which gave me a little more budget to work with) and stripped the ebay set.
so they have been sitting for almost a year raw, I had media blasted them but never did much about polishing so this week I polished them up, ordered a needed rear sprocket from oldschoolminibike.com/Frank Mathison and started to get this bike back on track.
stuff I got done this afternoon:
got around to painting the chainguard I already had, half sized tank, and engine today:
I still cant make up my mind about running lights or not, the plan was to use a 1969 lighted 3.5 to keep a "correct" look to it which I may still do. This engine in the pic is actually an HS50!, I already had it cleaned and some parts painted white and it needed to be built anyway so I'm starting with it. HS50's only came with larger shrouds and steel flywheels (mid 70's) so I am converting it over to AL flywheel and early shroud so it still will have the look although I wont be able to use the muffler I had hoped for. BUT I do have parts from an NOS chrome package that has a chrome muff that fits the 4-5hp and since the footpegs are forward of the engine, running the side exhaust wont really be an issue :thumbsup:
I also made sure to grab a shroud with studs so they clear a lighted flywheel if I choose that, which I probably will as I have more of them than standards right now.
the Sprocket came in today I tested a chain on it and the teeth are fine, not like the recent bad batch out of OldMiniBikes, definitly not the same manufacturer. I bolted it up for a test fit on the bike and I am pretty happy with the fit, I just spent half a morning trying to straighten up the sprocket to run more true on my Rupp Cub/Econocyle and this one just bolted up looks to be spinning better than my best efforts with the rupp :doah: so that was a nice surprise!!
so I'm kinda getting there, while I let the clear harden for the next day I will finish some of the detail work and get it a roller again :thumbsup:
How it looked when I got it:
so I started working in it again finally this week. I had sold the 4 spoke 4" that were on because I had scored another set off ebay that needed refinished. the ones that came with the bike were nice and clean but but were clearcoated over raw finish. I wanted to strip them and polish them a bit so instead of redoing 2 sets of wheels I sold the clean clearcoated set for double what I paid for the other set (which gave me a little more budget to work with) and stripped the ebay set.
so they have been sitting for almost a year raw, I had media blasted them but never did much about polishing so this week I polished them up, ordered a needed rear sprocket from oldschoolminibike.com/Frank Mathison and started to get this bike back on track.
stuff I got done this afternoon:
got around to painting the chainguard I already had, half sized tank, and engine today:
I still cant make up my mind about running lights or not, the plan was to use a 1969 lighted 3.5 to keep a "correct" look to it which I may still do. This engine in the pic is actually an HS50!, I already had it cleaned and some parts painted white and it needed to be built anyway so I'm starting with it. HS50's only came with larger shrouds and steel flywheels (mid 70's) so I am converting it over to AL flywheel and early shroud so it still will have the look although I wont be able to use the muffler I had hoped for. BUT I do have parts from an NOS chrome package that has a chrome muff that fits the 4-5hp and since the footpegs are forward of the engine, running the side exhaust wont really be an issue :thumbsup:
I also made sure to grab a shroud with studs so they clear a lighted flywheel if I choose that, which I probably will as I have more of them than standards right now.
the Sprocket came in today I tested a chain on it and the teeth are fine, not like the recent bad batch out of OldMiniBikes, definitly not the same manufacturer. I bolted it up for a test fit on the bike and I am pretty happy with the fit, I just spent half a morning trying to straighten up the sprocket to run more true on my Rupp Cub/Econocyle and this one just bolted up looks to be spinning better than my best efforts with the rupp :doah: so that was a nice surprise!!
so I'm kinda getting there, while I let the clear harden for the next day I will finish some of the detail work and get it a roller again :thumbsup: