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Garry turned up on this interesting machine yesterday for a bit of work... Well, a small start on a lot of work!

 

As you can see it need a few tweaks in the looks department, but it is a good starting base to build something more pleasing to the eye..

 

It is solidly built and won't fall apart, but I do have to question quite way some of the chassis was built er... the way it is!

 

Anyway, have a few pics :D

 

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Thanks guy's, yes it does have a 70's look to it :D The fantastic Wolfrace slot mags will be staying :D

 

The aim for the trike is to slowly remodel it to make it a lot more comfy and easy to get on and off of for Garry's wife Helen who has MS... Garry won't admit it, but really this is Helen's trike :D

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A small update on Garry's trike, this was done a couple of weeks ago but I didn't want to give the Project "Why Not" engine plan away by showing you a CX engine :D

 

A lot of weight was removed by chopping off the big bits of body work off each side..  The trike is starting to look better :)

 

I think next on the it list to do is sorting out the seat so it's a lot lower and is rather more.. er bolted on than it currently is!

 

I can't wait to get started on the wheel arches, they look so wrong at the moment and need to curve around the wheels!

 

Anyway, a couple more photo's for you.

 

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Evening chaps, the saga of Garry's trike continues with yet more work, this time sorting out the wiring..

 

It didn't take long to remove the seat, fuel tank and fairing to get a better look at the wires..

 

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So why were we sorting the wiring out? These photo's should tell you why.. a real horror story to say the least!

 

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Yes that is household cable that has been used to wire in the brake light switch!

 

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To make life easier Garry had bought a replacement loom from a certain auction site.. As it turned out the seller couldn't tell his elbow from a wiring loom and sent one for a year newer model.. Which meant of course that none of the plugs were the same..

To make it work everything electrical would have to be swapped over from the new model (which as it happens is the same model I broke up for Project "Why Not") including the engine!!

 

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So until the correct loom turns up the best we could do was repair the old one!.. But everything now works bar the indicators but that's due to a knackered relay.

 

Garry also spotted something interesting..

 

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Yes that is only one strand of wire holding the end on the clutch cable!!  This time though a newer cable did fit.

 

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By this time the heat was starting to take effect :)

 

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The fairing with it's built in lights was replaced with something a lot less bulky :)

 

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And the final photo as I forgot to take any pic's from the front :D

 

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I agree Ben, it does look much better without that big lump of plastic fairing on it, the new lights are much neater..

Until Garry get the correct wiring loom most of the old one is still there, but it has been made safe now :)

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