![]() I wont get any time to work tommorow but will keep you informed of progress, so far I am rapt. I will try to upload some pics as soon as I work out how, The other bike in the last pic is another love of my life, a motorised chopper that I ride to work, it is so comfortable with the sprung seat and fat tires. It is secure and solid and the line up of sprockets is perfect. I then packed the gap between the new tab and the engine and used a longer bolt to secure it, (another spare top mount bolt which is longer). I notched the frame so I had a hole lined up with the new bottom mount and welded a tab over this new hole. The other guys solved this by making an adaptor mount but I was not happy with the design so went another way. When you fit the motor to the top mount you can see half the bottom mount hole and it is no where near the original. Postie did a conversion very similar and there is a US site with a bit of "how to" on it but I have taken a totally different approach. Today saw the fitting of the engine, all complete and bolted up, a bit of buggering around but am very happy with the result. Tommorow after work will see some further progress. I loved the wiring diagram, all in Chinese, lucky colours match almost perfectly. I discovered the mounting bolt holes on the Lifan are undersized, on measuring with a vernier I found Honda bolt size to be 10mm, much larger than original, have drilled out holes to 10 mm and fitted the original carby and manifold to position the carb in the right place for original aircleaner use. ![]() #Used postie bikes trialMotor arrived today and first job before even thinking about transplant is on trial fitting of bits. Have found lots of poor workmanship that has been done to this poor little bike which I have had to undo. ![]() I have been preparing the bike whilst waiting for the engine to arive getting everything clean, repaired and ready. I will try to document my version of "how to" and tell of problems etc found alond the way. I researched the cost of repairs given the damage done and the best way out was a new Chonda engine/gearbox assembly. I have started with a good bike in very sound condition that was abandoned due to clutch failure. I have started my jorney transplanting a 125cc Lifan with a 4 speed clutch type gearbox into my 1998 postie. ![]()
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