What are you doing today? Thread

[ironchop]

I sure wish you were selling these.

A good quality custom made replacement is worth $100- $150 to me. Screw the Chinese ones

[DDQ]

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[Minter fab]

I will be doing year end maintenance on my te300i snow bike. I think we are done riding for the year

[coolpool]

^ Sorry for your loss.........of snow. I can't wait for this shiite to be gone, lol. Cool bike btw, looks like fun!

^^ DDQ, wouldn't want to camp anywhere near that gen set........what is someone thinking!

[knappyfeet]

The CDI on my 82 200E was acting odd, spark then no spark, decided enough is enough, time to pull the CDI off and go build another one of my design to put on it. Got the PCB built, box made, tomorrow i will get it potted and put on and no more intermittent spark! Yeah i know, they are available fairly cheap now days, but i prefer to build my own and control the quality of the components in it, they run much better then the cheap ones.

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It would be nice to get one for a DR650......First gen.

It's hit and miss on ebay for a used one

[kb0nly]

I sure wish you were selling these.

A good quality custom made replacement is worth $100- $150 to me. Screw the Chinese ones

I thought about it, problem is i don't have enough time for another side business building these... LOL... I have made a few and sold them to guys locally fixing ATC's and older Honda quads, but they are all hand built one at a time, i even test the components to bin the caps for their quality before building them into a CDI.

Today i potted it, i have taken apart OEM CDI's and they always seem to be sitting on the bottom of the box with no potting or very little between the PCB and the box, it should be fully encapsulated. I pour some in the box, give it 10-15 mins so the stuff at the bottom starts to firm up then put in the board and pour in the rest, if you get the amount just right it will fill up the bottom of the connector shell and around the contacts and the little channels in the connector shell, a good watertight seal. I haven't had one fail yet, the ones i have made will probably outlive me since some of the OEM ones are still kicking 40+ years later.





If i get some time someday i should build a dozen of them and just keep some stock on hand in case guys need them. Not sure what i would sell them for, i put more time and labor into them then they are worth probably, but i demand quality out of these. I burned through three chinese ones on my 200ES before i built one and put it on last summer, i've made close to 20 of these now for myself and others locally. So far so good!

[kb0nly]

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That is just insane... LOL

[kb0nly]

It would be nice to get one for a DR650......First gen.

It's hit and miss on ebay for a used one

Those Suzuki CDI's are a bit of black magic... I have seen the insides of one, there is a lot more going on with the circuity in them. Would have to get one down to bare PCB and reverse engineer it fully first. Who knows maybe it is a pretty basic CDI with a lot of extra buildup on it, not sure, but i do know guys on other forums that have fought Suzuki CDI's and their replacements.

[knappyfeet]

I will be doing year end maintenance on my te300i snow bike. I think we are done riding for the year

That's a sweet looking machine.

It reminds me of Robbie Maddisons KTM on water.......he's got more guts on one hand than I do in my entire body. I always wondered what would happen if the bike died while on the water for whatever reason.... I'm guessing it would sink like a dumbell and another KTM would retire to the deep.

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[oldskool83]

I dicked with my 300x build more. Frame nearly done

[ATC King]

Replaced the radius arm bushings on my pickup. I put some poly ones on it years back and that's just a poor application for poly bushings. Both the rear sections cracked.

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The radius arm bushings function completely different from other suspension pivots. They are under compression and have to actually flex. The poly just isn't suited well for it, so I went back with rubber.

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This is a two wheel drive, manual steering pickup, and I can actually feel the difference between the two bushing materials. The rubber handles and rides better. The poly doesn't let the suspension flex properly and quickly and small road vibrations really travel through it. I've replaced the rivets on the brackets with bolts, so replacing these is a half hour job and doesn't even require a jack. If the rubber ones are done in five years, it's no big deal to replace them. The radius arm bushings on Ford twin I-beams are a huge part of keeping the front end aligned and working properly, and I'm going to stay with rubber on any of them from here on out.


Oh, and I got a little gravel road trike riding in during the weekend. No trail riding though.
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[plastikosmd]

Prices are plain silly! I needed some pine. In the past, the mill (like reloading) was more for fun>cost savings. Now fun=cost savings!
Took the Peterson out and cut up about 45 3.75x1x96
Fun couple of hours in the nice weather, then back in storage
Such a useful machine

[ATC King]

Isn't odd how lumber prices have shot up, but log truck drivers aren't making any more? They're actually being squeezed by the fuel prices and no increased pay per load.

Friend of mine has a couple trucks and we were discussing it yesterday, with another driver he knows. Funny thing is if they stopped hauling the timber out of the forest, the whole system would be affected...

Of course, the system works by keeping the little guy barley getting by so they can't stop, or they'd loose everything. At some point though, there is nothing to loose, especially when all they're making is just enough to pay bills. Most people would crap themselves if they knew how little log truck drivers got per ton, versus what one 2x4 cost.

Just the cost of regular maintenance on those trucks is staggering.

[plastikosmd]

Ya, friend is an owner operator
Tough racket

[ATC King]

I replaced the trans pan on my car's TH400R with an aftermarket aluminum one, and that premium Moroso gasket. Then I made about a 35 mile trip and parked it in the shop afterwards. If there's a spot on the floor in the morning, I'm going to pull my ball hair out.