1970 CT70, 2019 Super Cub 125, and five or six other basket cases
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This bike is sick, dude!Alright so got a little work done on the bike yesterday. Going to button some stuff up tomorrow hopefully.
Got the new cam sprocket installed. I hate installing these things. It’s a tight fit to get everything lined up due to the sprocket being almost the diameter of the opening and just not a lot of wiggle room to get the chain on. Also the adjustable hub is a super tight fit into the cam itself, it being a little thicker takes away some room as well. All in all it probably took me a solid 45 minutes to have the top and bottom end lined up properly with the chain in the correct tooth and then get it onto the shaft.
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Tomorrow going to weld on the new silencer adapter and hopefully get a nice spacer made up on the lathe. Also the shock mount which I had red filled lower has ovaled out. So I made up some spacer/washers to weld up on the mount and reinforce it. Hopefully get it up and running this week.
The YZ shock does at least have high and low speed compression. The LE rear swingarm is the same just aluminum as the L model. Adding a disc could work but you’d need a hub that fits between the arms, weld a mount ect. The drum brake honestly works fine. Unsure about more travel between the two. With the drilled mount I still had to reinforce the new hole as it ovaled over time. And it does affect the linkage rate a bit. The YZ conversion is more work for sure. I just go with it isn’t a race bike and an adjustable LE chock revalved works perfectly fine.This bike is sick, dude!
I'm currently rebuilding a TTR right now. I also got a yz80 roller. Trying to decide weather or not to go through the work of putting the yz rear on. I know you run the LE rear, do you think there is any advantage to having the yz rear over LE, other than disk brakes? I feel calipers could be added to the LE arm fairly easily anyway. Also something I noticed, It looks like you might be able to get more rear end height with the LE rear by moving the mount hole, than you can with using the yz parts. Would you agree?
Cool, thanks for the info!The YZ shock does at least have high and low speed compression. The LE rear swingarm is the same just aluminum as the L model. Adding a disc could work but you’d need a hub that fits between the arms, weld a mount ect. The drum brake honestly works fine. Unsure about more travel between the two. With the drilled mount I still had to reinforce the new hole as it ovaled over time. And it does affect the linkage rate a bit. The YZ conversion is more work for sure. I just go with it isn’t a race bike and an adjustable LE chock revalved works perfectly fine.