ATC500R "Build Thread"

[Mr. Clean]

Dont forget us little people out here. I have many of those parts you might need, I just need to know you need them. I have the brake actuator and spring zinc plated.....with correct OEM bolt.......

Overpriced brake hardware. Embarrassed to say what I got raped on little things like these for because I need them and need them assp.

[JasonB]

Damn it Mike!!!!!! I don't know why but I just assumed water cooled parts were hard to come by all around. Manbearpig (Paul) has hooked me up with a handful of the little stuff I needed, bought some rads from him on eBay and he started throwing parts in the box for me that I asked about. I will check around for what I have left to buy man, I dropped 30$ on that brake hardware and another 30 on that rear motor mount. That's prob not awful but this build has topped what I have spent on used cars lmao

[honda200x1987]

That seat looks brand new! Looks OEM but could it be Mrs.Mosh ?

[Louis Mielke]

Good luck keeping that stainless hardware in place lol.

Dude, liquid cooled parts are plentiful. I have half that stuff sitting in a bucket in my garage.

[manbearpig]

That seat looks brand new! Looks OEM but could it be Mrs.Mosh ?

nope. 100% OEM

[JasonB]

Good luck keeping that stainless hardware in place lol.

Dude, liquid cooled parts are plentiful. I have half that stuff sitting in a bucket in my garage.

I have rattled a lot of it loose and into trails in Indiana and Missouri. I plant to run loctite this to around, never had issues with losing bolts before lol And ya I had handfuls of random parts but building an additional 85/86 based bike has eaten all my surplus parts up and I'm scrambling to take stock of what's missing. I haven't been hoarding enough either, probably the reason I came up so short on little stuff

[JasonB]

That seat looks brand new! Looks OEM but could it be Mrs.Mosh ?

Dude you should have seen the shots he sent me before he cleaned it up, looked nice but Paul put some magic into that seat and it looks freaking OEM like it's 1986 today

[JasonB]

Well I made some progress today. Had to install piston and some other junk




Oh she's a big one!



Piston clipped onto the rod.


Jug over the piston

[JasonB]

Head


Painted the motor, cooking the high temp VHT paint with my heat gun

[JasonB]

So purdy


Working on install


Motor in frAme. That's all for tonight!

[JasonB]

Thanks man! The bolt kit didn't come with any of the drain or check bolts; the water pump cover and tranny check bolts aren't installed in those shots . I'm still waiting on the new clutch basket to show up so I can install the rekluse clutch, there's a few bolts missing from the cases still but it's coming along! When the radiators show up I should have everything to start heat cycling her in, can't wait to hear it come to life. Liz Harvey from SmartCarb assured me delivery of my new carb to still be on schedule for the 28th of this month.

And the head stud nuts, those were something Ronnie (originator of GET IT RAGG!!!) used to sell. He had all kinds of goodies from the machine shop. These stud nuts are sweet, ATC-Eric was kind enough to give me a set he had I love them

[Louis Mielke]

Break that engine in on the stock clutch. Put the rekluse in after you get a few heat cycles, couple rides on it.

You want a few shake downs on the stock clutch so you know everything is fine before you have to go tinker with the rekluse to get it setup. Your friction discs will be broke in and well soaked by then too. You'll probably have the rekluse apart a couple times before you have it dialed in.

Where's the steel sleeves that go in the back of the engine?

Pretty sure those head nuts of Ronnie's are supposed to be run with washers under them. Never seen any used without the stainless washers that go with them.

Did you paint the seals and shift shaft/ output shaft?

[barnett468]

I have rattled a lot of it loose and into trails in Indiana and Missouri. I plant to run loctite this to around, never had issues with losing bolts before lol

ALL nuts should have at least either a flat or lock washer under them irregardless of what material the nut is mating to unless the nuts have a built in flange or step. Step nuts are like the ones used to secure some carbs on “older” cars and not a “shoulder” nut like the ones used for some aluminum wheels.

Most types of stainless washers, nuts and bolts are between grade 2 and grade 5 hardness, and therefore are not ideal where it is critical that the torque of the nut/bolt be maintained.

I mainly use grade 8’s.

Your engine color looks like Pontiac blue on my screen. I like whatever color it is.

The project looks nice!

I hope I didn’t use too many words in my post for some people, lol.

[Louis Mielke]

I used stainless stuff once. After that fiasco it's nothing but oem hardware for me. You can grab hand fulls of oem stuff off eBay typically at a decent price when people lump all the left overs from part outs into lots.

[ATC-Eric]

Jason don't loctite! You need to run with silicone for your hardware!