Terminal Velocity
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Chain drive
I'v had my chain drive mounted since mid june. Those 4 allen plugs I think are to access the bolts to remove the motor and to add grease as indicated earlier. I am using the Honda GXH50. I think the gearbox is pretty loud...so loud in fact that when I'm riding at cruising speed (31ish MPH) I have a really hard time hearing the engine. I think this will be problematic later when I have to diagnose engine problems. When I pulled the 4 allen plugs out (which I didn't know they were plugs at that time) i realized they were just for access. The part that surprised me was how little grease I could see!! I'm assuming he added an approrpiate amount of grease to the gearbox. It is possible/probable that being the gxh50 is mounted to the gearbox that the grease has all slid forward because the gearbox end is tilted up at the back so the engine is parallel to the ground (4 cycle splash type lube).
So far there is about 1600 miles on everything and all is good now. Originally i tried to put his kit together with supplied hardware. the chain kept coming loose and so I kept tightening (which is done by rasing the whole setup). It became clear that his/my mounting method would not work. So...I bought a welder and an old bed frame...recycled some parts from the original kit and welded a rack to mount the kit to. Haven't had a problem since and everything is rock solid (700ish miles). The chain does come a little lose from time to time...but NOTHING like it was. Now I'm happy.....these issues were all super important because this is my new commuter vehicle (100 miles a day). I needed reliability, predictability and dependability. I hope this wasn't a mistake, else this was a very expensive toy!!! So far so good. I'm just hoping the clutch holds well (22 tooth gearbox sprocket and 16 tooth on the rear wheel). My fuel economy dropped from 190 MPG to 175, but I'll make the sacrafice to save time. If the clutch really were slipping THAT MUCH i would expect to smell it after 50+ miles...and i've never smelled anything. Could i be wrong?? Oh well, this is just a bunch of ramblings now. Happy riding!!
I'v had my chain drive mounted since mid june. Those 4 allen plugs I think are to access the bolts to remove the motor and to add grease as indicated earlier. I am using the Honda GXH50. I think the gearbox is pretty loud...so loud in fact that when I'm riding at cruising speed (31ish MPH) I have a really hard time hearing the engine. I think this will be problematic later when I have to diagnose engine problems. When I pulled the 4 allen plugs out (which I didn't know they were plugs at that time) i realized they were just for access. The part that surprised me was how little grease I could see!! I'm assuming he added an approrpiate amount of grease to the gearbox. It is possible/probable that being the gxh50 is mounted to the gearbox that the grease has all slid forward because the gearbox end is tilted up at the back so the engine is parallel to the ground (4 cycle splash type lube).
So far there is about 1600 miles on everything and all is good now. Originally i tried to put his kit together with supplied hardware. the chain kept coming loose and so I kept tightening (which is done by rasing the whole setup). It became clear that his/my mounting method would not work. So...I bought a welder and an old bed frame...recycled some parts from the original kit and welded a rack to mount the kit to. Haven't had a problem since and everything is rock solid (700ish miles). The chain does come a little lose from time to time...but NOTHING like it was. Now I'm happy.....these issues were all super important because this is my new commuter vehicle (100 miles a day). I needed reliability, predictability and dependability. I hope this wasn't a mistake, else this was a very expensive toy!!! So far so good. I'm just hoping the clutch holds well (22 tooth gearbox sprocket and 16 tooth on the rear wheel). My fuel economy dropped from 190 MPG to 175, but I'll make the sacrafice to save time. If the clutch really were slipping THAT MUCH i would expect to smell it after 50+ miles...and i've never smelled anything. Could i be wrong?? Oh well, this is just a bunch of ramblings now. Happy riding!!