DC's 20 Day 86ATC200X TF08 BUILD!! Nerfs, Hoosiers, Durablue and other changes...

[Dirtcrasher]

This build must be completed in 20 days for Trikefest.

At this time, everything is in 2000 pieces. Thousands have been and will be invested in this build including the tools to complete it. Not one single part is together with any accessories either.

Some of the plans are 12:1 piston with Webcam, Supertrapp exhaust, 30MM carb, 350X skidplate, Pro Tapers, Douglass wheels on Quadrock rims, OEM seat, Syko perfect fuel tank, Barnett clutch, OEM oil pump, 87 kicker shaft and cover upgrade and on and on......

It WILL NOT be perfect, I do not have the time!! The powerplant will be perfect along with numerous upgrades but some items will be used on this build and replaced when I have the time.

I do not know if I can complete it in time, but I will do my best..... I really want this machine to come to Trikefest

Day 1 - Yesterday

Everything has been disassembled and is being prepped for paint and or powder coating.

The frames I have to pick from -



The motor in pieces - Note how I figure out where each bolt goes back afterwards....



Today I'm finishing wiring and putting hangers in the PC oven, adapting a 350X skidplate to an 86 200X swinger and hoping to rebuilding the forks.

I have never powder coated anything in my life, we'll see how I do.... Planning to powder coat my first item today or tomorrow. I gotta get rolling here!!

[MudBuggy]

yu better get er done so we can all see it in its glory

[edog]

You should have practiced powder coating on something else first.

Good luck!

[honda250sx]

Well only pussy's practice.. Steve's bound to get it right!!!

[Aka_am]

Take tons of pics please

[TwoHundredEx]

Good luck man!
I'm sure it'll be nice when you're done.

[RedRider_AK]

Hey Steve! Any of my parts in that tub there? Good luck with the build. I'm leaving the US in about a week.

[Yamada]

So you take all your weeks of vacation for this project???
good luck

[Bryan Raffa]

hahah the BIG RUSH!! tick tock ,tick tock

[tanks350x]

I'm sure you'll do fine Steve, but if all else fails, you have plenty of bikes to choose from ,good luck anyways!

[Dirtcrasher]

Day 2 -

Fork rebuild time!!

Found the forks to be bent



This is how far you have to go in the opposite direction to get them true again.... They were out .060 and after messing with them I got with .005.



And here they are done with new seals, damper piston rings and fork boots.



Started work on removing the factory swinger skid mounts and fabricating 350X PRM skidplate mounts.



The beginnings



Here they are welded in place permanent



I re welded ALL factory welds after grinding them off



Tomorrow is another day

[honda250sx]

NICE weldin' DC! Lovin' that plate... I can see that swinger in powder all ready? If you need help powdercoating let me know. Ship it out. I will lay some powder for ya!!!

No time for Tech Support in other threads!

ITS BUILD TIME BABY......

[maggiesboy]

lookin' good. Keep it up.

[Dirtcrasher]

The biggest and most important reason I posted this build is that I need MOTIVATION!! Although I must cut a couple of corners due to the lack of time, much of this will be done near perfect in my standards and THAT requires allot of time and energy.

If I forget one bearing, one seal or any equipment I own breaks - I'm not going to get it done in time for Trikefest.

I figured this thread would give me something to look at and be haunted with each and every day until it's done. So please, keep the posts coming !!

DAY 3

Work day today, up at 4AM and home by 6PM. Raining by the time I got in.....

Still managed to get the cases completely sandblasted. What you see here was a TON of work you don't see. When cases are prepped for powder, every single bearing and every part that isn't aluminum or could trap sandblast media is removed.

Once the cases are clean, there are hours and hours of chasing threads, reaming dowel pin bores, stoning every gasket surface along with paint stripping and power washing numerous times.

Right case



Left case



Front case



I still have to sand out all the bad spots and pressure wash them again before I begin the gassing out process prior to PC.

As you can see in the last cases picture, ALEX THE CAT is already eyeballing the sandblasted case as a place to take a leak or a dump

Hoping to try powder coating tomorrow and blast the swinger............. The cases will not be the fist parts I practice on

[DeePa]

lmao that f'in cat.

good progress. can i swing by sat at like 1 ish?

Mike