Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Puch Sabre Winter Madness!!!!

Took the engine off my Sabre the other night. I have an Airsal 47.6 cylinder thats been sitting in a box since I bought it in April. The cylinder is designed for stroked out minarellis, so the stroke of the cylinder is 43mm. Hey, that's what e50s and sabres use! Convienent, right? Yes. Only downside is the Sabres case is 3mm too tall so that will need to be dropped. All of the engine parts have been pulled out and the cases have been soaked in some degreaser from the dollar store. I made a video of pulling the transmission apart that I'll post just as a guide for anyone rebuilding a Sabre engine and needs to know how or where something goes. So now my plan is to have 16mm milled off the deck, two 1/2" plates welded in so there's extra meat for the huge transfers, and new cylinder studs added. Then two plates will have to be added to the top to convert it from piston port to case induction. Then it'll most likely get a DIO manifold added since they're pretty cheep and easy to put on anything.

I don't update this a lot and I'm done with mopeds.

Yup, mopeds are kinda a waste of time I've realized since starting to dabble in shifters and bigger bike. Still have my heart in two strokes though. Got a few new bikes since I've logged on here last. Ones a Hodaka Ace 90 in super rough shape, there will be more on that as time goes on. The engine has been rebuilt, but the rest of the bike will need work before it goes back on. The other is a clean Honda CB350 that just needs a little tinkering and basic maintenance. Also, I've taken the engine off my Puch Sabre to do some crazy stuff with, but that'll get it's own big ranty post. Heres some pictures I guess. So you know, ATF and gas burning on a seized piston doesn't free anything worth a shit. I read that's how Chevy guys do it. Haha! The grey stuff on the top right of the Hodaka tank is Alvin's Lab Metal, a gas resistant body filler. It sucks ass and doesnt work well. if you were wondering.