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Saturday, 19 December 2015

Part 7 Half a Car Wheels and back bulkhead/seat

Part 7 Half a Car Wheels and back bulkhead/seat 

once we have the motor mount in place and the alignment is in the right place the drive shaft extension can be slid on to the trans axle. securing the extension to the motor i drilled a 6mm hole on the drill press through the extension using a vblock clamped down. and drilled in to the motor axle by hand using the hole in the extension as a guide. this worked ok then taped it and used an m6 screw to hold them in place and that's that all good 



the wheel are slid over the shaft and mocked up with the shaft collars on then the axle is cut very slowly by hand :( to the right length. 
in the below Picture you can see the extension installed on the motor


the the bulk head was cut to fit and screwed in place on to 18mm square battons


the upper photo is what the bulk head and the cowl with at the front is the start of the nose cone


and this is from the back of the car 

please feel free to ask any questions i 
Paul 

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Part 6 Half a Car Installing the Motor and Back Axle.

Part 6 Half a Car Installing the Motor and Back Axle.

This is the start of the motor mount, its a 400mm by 600mm by 9mm MDF using the old motor mount from the scooter i used this to drill the holes in the right place so the bolts lined up with the motor mounts. there is a nut holding the bolt in place. then a nut washer rubber bushing washer and a nut on top this holds all in place the nut in the middle can be moved up and down to set the height of the motor.


Lower Photos you can see the nut arrangement better the rubber bushing act as damper for the motor


there needs to be a slit cut in to the ~MDF as the gear box sits a bit low 


upper photo has the slit cut in to it i think its the for the gearing for the Diff 


upper photo the motor is sitting on the damper and the upper nut so this can be raised up and down for the drive shaft. this takes a bit of faffing as the motor needs to be level for the shaft once this is in place and there is no more adjusting to do it can be screwed down to the tub 


next time non to shore as i need to find the photos as with google and backup it takes a lot of 
scrolling to find them as it was almost 3 years a go i started building this 

Paul 

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Part 5 Half a Car Installing the Motor and Back Axle


 Part 5 Half a Car Installing the Motor and Back Axle.

first of all a set of 20mm id bearings are needed, Ebay is the best bet. surface mounted like the photo below do the job well. other parts needed are

Bering 20MM id
4x 10mm bolts
4x 10mm nuts
8x washers
20mm od aluminum tube


the 20mm tub is used to make shore the bearings are installed level, the way this is done is to place the tube in the 20mm holes drilled into the tub and check the level with a bubble stick. if this is level 
this is good, slide the tube half way out and place the bearings on the tube and push them ot the inside of the tub i used some double sided tape to hold them to the tub so i can remove the tube and drill the holes.

Side note: the bottom of the tub is flat so place this on a flat surface and check for level. 


Once the holes have been drilled place the  tube and the bolts in place check for level again and do up the bolts, remove the tube and hay presto... :)


to get the hight of the motor this may be different depending on the donor scooter. I have a 17mm od shaft i need to extend this 200mm so i have 2 bits of 200mm long 20mm od 4mm thick this gives me a 16mm od. this i had bored out to 16.9 od by a local engineering company 


once the motor is in place i used 4 8mm bolts as standoffs to adjust the height of the motor. screwing the bolts up or down to adjust the motor position



this is what it looks like in part 6 i will show you how i make the motor mount 

Dad 

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it pushes blog posts to facebook it can do twitter as well and many others

dad This is also to test it :)