Dump Question about Quad Bikes
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Me an this farmer type fella down the road pulled an old Honda Quad bike out of a hedge with a view to getting it going again.
Now, we've got the engine running at last but still have a bit of work to do on the electrics and brakes.
In consideration of this I was mildly amused to discover that even though it has five or six gears I can't find a clutch anywhere?
There does appear to be an adjustment on the side of the engine via a large grub screw locked into place with a locking nut - adjustment options are increase/decrease.
Am I right in thinking this thing has some kind of centrifugal clutch?
I think the model is a 'Big Bear'?
thanks
Ex
Now, we've got the engine running at last but still have a bit of work to do on the electrics and brakes.
In consideration of this I was mildly amused to discover that even though it has five or six gears I can't find a clutch anywhere?
There does appear to be an adjustment on the side of the engine via a large grub screw locked into place with a locking nut - adjustment options are increase/decrease.
Am I right in thinking this thing has some kind of centrifugal clutch?
I think the model is a 'Big Bear'?
thanks
Ex
Ex Sounds very much like the honda C series engine. If you look down at the left hand side of a C50/70/90 you'll see the same arrangement. Just put it in gear and go
You might find it's a double push to pass through neutral if it's a 1 down, x up pattern. Although if I remember right the C engine has a reversed gearchange, ie 1 up, x down.Hey Rob!
She's deffo a 1-down, x-up, tho I is thinking it might be a Yamaha, not a Honda - feck you'd think I woulda noticed!
Anyway, can't wait to get the bugger out on the (dirt) roads and up into the forest.
Took me bloody yonks to figure that a little link in the top of the carb was responsible for lifting the slide - she'd only run on a constant stream of easy-start, I'm too used to the CV carbs of all my other bikes and thought the diaphram might be split. Fortunately the extremely rusted screw on the carb head came out without much issue and it was just a bit fiddly refitting the linkage.
It's been a complete hoot getting the bugger running, working in a shed full of cow sh1t. You practically need a BIO suit just to get to the shed! The guy that bought it, and had it sitting in a hedge for the last 12 months, has been the mock of the village for *supposedly* wasting his money on it - we are gonna show the feckers!
One of the track rods was snapped during a towing incident but we got that welded back together, the starter solenoid is completely missing so a new one lined up, just need to sort its wiring... and a new battery.
Back brake pedal is completely seized, we're talking 5lb lump hammer and the bugger still barely moves. Oxy-acetaline torch on loan to get that freed up so should be ok.
What else? oh - ignition switch, at the moment there's just a bent nail shoved into two spade connectors.
And finally the front brakes, no hydraulic fluid in the system, hoping there isn't a leak, and fortunately I managed to crack open the bleed nipples the other night without shearing any of them off. *phew*
The bike looks a complete dog, but the engine is running pretty sweet now the carb has been stripped, cleaned and put back.
She must've had an oil change a some stage as the oil is very clean.
Can't wait to get tear-arsing round the forest tracks up the hill behind us, we've also got a light trailer lined up for loading logs, so I'll be off to borrow me Dad's chain saw and collect the winter fuel in the next week or two - fingers crossed.
Been bloody superb to get me nails dirty again and play with spanners, angle grinders and lump hammers oh
She's deffo a 1-down, x-up, tho I is thinking it might be a Yamaha, not a Honda - feck you'd think I woulda noticed!
Anyway, can't wait to get the bugger out on the (dirt) roads and up into the forest.
Took me bloody yonks to figure that a little link in the top of the carb was responsible for lifting the slide - she'd only run on a constant stream of easy-start, I'm too used to the CV carbs of all my other bikes and thought the diaphram might be split. Fortunately the extremely rusted screw on the carb head came out without much issue and it was just a bit fiddly refitting the linkage.
It's been a complete hoot getting the bugger running, working in a shed full of cow sh1t. You practically need a BIO suit just to get to the shed! The guy that bought it, and had it sitting in a hedge for the last 12 months, has been the mock of the village for *supposedly* wasting his money on it - we are gonna show the feckers!
One of the track rods was snapped during a towing incident but we got that welded back together, the starter solenoid is completely missing so a new one lined up, just need to sort its wiring... and a new battery.
Back brake pedal is completely seized, we're talking 5lb lump hammer and the bugger still barely moves. Oxy-acetaline torch on loan to get that freed up so should be ok.
What else? oh - ignition switch, at the moment there's just a bent nail shoved into two spade connectors.
And finally the front brakes, no hydraulic fluid in the system, hoping there isn't a leak, and fortunately I managed to crack open the bleed nipples the other night without shearing any of them off. *phew*
The bike looks a complete dog, but the engine is running pretty sweet now the carb has been stripped, cleaned and put back.
She must've had an oil change a some stage as the oil is very clean.
Can't wait to get tear-arsing round the forest tracks up the hill behind us, we've also got a light trailer lined up for loading logs, so I'll be off to borrow me Dad's chain saw and collect the winter fuel in the next week or two - fingers crossed.
Been bloody superb to get me nails dirty again and play with spanners, angle grinders and lump hammers oh
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