Ian

A few chassis repairs and the Easimow would be ready to go.. Of course now would be the time to stretch it a little to get a bigger engine in

Great photo's guy's, John's workshop is looking a little empty now..

Hi Susie, nice to meet you

She's a very nice find, I'm with the others, don't repaint her just preserve her as she is

On 03/07/2016 at 11:03 AM, Alan said:

Looking good already Ian.   You sure don't hang around.

Thanks Alan, I should be a lot further ahead than I am really, but life, looking and giggling have slowed me down

On 03/07/2016 at 8:56 PM, nigel said:

He does Alan he spends more looking at it and giggling to him self than actually doing any work on it

It's called visualizing and working things out

Well, early Monday morning my welding wire turned which was very nice of it.. Tacking tubes together with a Arc welder has not been fun..

As it happened Mig welding was not fun for long!!    A word of warning chaps, always wear gloves when welding even more so if your welding something galvanized!

Why??

Well a rather nasty evil big blob of molten weld decided to jump and land on my wedding ring where it most unkindly burnt a hole through it and at the same time super-heated the top half of the ring to a very "ouch" sort of temperature!

Getting the ring off was interesting to say the least, it's always been a very tight fit but still turned, but once my finger started swelling!!    With the help of Google, a good chap by the name of Matt, and a length of fine string we managed to get the ring off without having to cut it!   

This was quite bad timing as it was our 9th wedding anniversary yesterday!

For those of you (Hi Nigel) who are saying I shouldn't wear the ring in the workshop, I've never taken it off as it doesn't/didn't really come off without a big fight!

And now onto something tubular..  The quad frame.. A lot of new tube work has gone in to add strength and also give it a bit of style..

While my Mig welder did an "ok" job of welding the frame up, it did seam to be lacking oomph and not powerful enough to do a good job.

So Nigel the good chap he is suggested we drag he's welder through and give it a whirl...     Strong welds??   Ooooo yeah baby

This was one of those corners with a lot of steel bar showing.. It now be filled with weld

So thanks for the use of your welder mate, I now feel a lot happier about riding the quad

A blurred view of the other side..

The rear or the frame is getting a re-shape to to keep the curved theme of the frame going, here's the first part of it.. 3 tubes all with slight bends to get them fitting under the seat lip. When the seat if clamped down only the bottom half of the tube will be showing.

I just love this view from the back, the tank makes it look so meaty and MadMaxy

Cool photo's Doug    Has the stretched Westwood got an OMC engine fitted?

A nice machine James, you just need to put some air in the rear tyre and paint the blue red

A slightly late happy birthday Mark

I didn't know tractor pulling was such a big thing in the Uk!     Thanks for posting the pic's Doug

On 29/06/2016 at 9:24 AM, meadowfield said:

mad max themed.... like it

Thanks mate

On 29/06/2016 at 9:28 AM, Stormin said:

He'll have to get an American highway patrol uniform and helmet. Then he'll really look the part.

Don't you mean Australian Norm?

With the fuel tank braced in the right place I could make a start on rebuilding the frame.. This may sound a strange way of doing it, but I want the frame to be a feature and not hidden away under bodywork.

Every cut and join in the frame has some nice thick steel bar inside to make sure it's all strong enough when welded up.. Everything is only tack welded at the mo as I've run out of Mig wire.

I like the "double down pipe" look, the o/s was easy..

If your thinking the n/s looks a bit close to the carb then you would be right!

It's so close that I had to notch the inside of the pipe to give enough space to get a fuel pipe on the carbs!

Putting some strength back in the front, roll on Monday when my welding wire should arrive and I can zap all the tubes fully together..

On 29/06/2016 at 9:11 AM, Stormin said:

This could be good. New chassis. Big engine. Wonder how many wheels?

On 29/06/2016 at 5:25 PM, pmackellow said:

 

Several

Certainly more than 3

Thanks mate, no idea why Farcebook thinks it's my birthday, but thanks anyway

If your ever down this way my garden could do with a make over

An interesting way of moving the pole.. I like your thinking

That's a nice oops Koen

A nice find Andrew, it's screaming out for a slightly larger engine,, something "in keeping" of course..

Oh, please don't paint it, it has just the right amount of age showing

That lot should last you a while Koen

On 15/06/2016 at 1:56 PM, diggerjames said:

Good start mate that's handy about the splines 

Thanks James, yeah it was very nice of Honda to make life easier for me, though the only downside is the engine has to be offset to the left a little bit. Not enough to upset the handling though..

Progress on this build has been a lot slower than it should of been, but now I have a direction to go in things should speed up..   But first...

With the help of Nigel and his bloody heavy pipe bender new longer and stronger bit's of tube were shaped for the lower rails.. Not welded on in these photo's.

Up until Monday I didn't really know which direction this build was going in....   Get the engine in, get it driving, I hadn't though any further ahead than that really..

Then out of interest I plonked on a Honda Silverwing fuel tank (yes it's from the very same bike that donated the engine to Why Not) just to have a look..

The quad started to look very mean with more than a hint of "Mad Max" about it..   So the tank was quickly hit with Mat black paint and the Honda MadTrax was born

Of course this has now created a lot of extra work, but it will be worth it

The big lamp may or may not be staying... I quite like the look of it but others say it's too big.. We shall see

On 22/06/2016 at 5:10 PM, nigel said:

Yes a big thanks to Rex for all his help, it was a case of one man and two raspberry ripples, but we got there in the end 

yeah it was a bit of a struggle that day.. Good job Rex is young enough to do the bit's we couldn't!

On 22/06/2016 at 7:07 PM, pmackellow said:

So whens the V8 going in then Nigel ?? 

Nice idea Paul, but as you will see the Cushman frame is er.... Way past it's best for a re-power.

On 22/06/2016 at 8:11 PM, Stormin said:

That's a big lump. And I do mean the engine.

   yeah it sure is big, big enough to need a forklift to er.. Lift it..

A few more photo's for ya all, the back axle is quite a hefty bit of kit!

The lever on the diff is for hi/low ratio.. Posh eh

Here's what's left of the Cushman, it's not what you would call straight or square!

And the reason a V8 won't be going in Paul.. Repairs such as the frame snapping and getting welded back together not straight or square!

Morning guy's, thanks for all the kind comment's...    Good news.. Adam is now out of hospital and is on the mend. It will be a slow process though, he is in a lot of pain still and is having a few side effect problems with the medication.. These things take time to heal.

On 14/06/2016 at 6:32 PM, diggerjames said:

Nice start chaps 

Thanks James

Stripping the Cushtyman has not been easy, they are very well bolted together without a captive nut in sight!

A big thanks to Rex for all your help removing the engine

To make life easier out came the grinder to remove some "in the way" metal

"Are we sure the engine comes out through the top"?

With the aid of a forklift it did

Not what you would call a small engine, it should look good polished up sticking out each side from a WH bonnet

Looking good Rhys

Well spotted Norm

I don't know what you mean Norm

That's sooo cool, you have the look spot on

As the saying goes... "Why have 1 when 6 will do"

Saxon (or who ever is making them now) are great trailers, but they need a bit of extra strength added to stop them bending over time..

It can make it hard to get the sides on