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Well it seems like its been for fukn ever that Ive gotten anywhere with my scooter...with having to rebuild the motor and waiting for parts...yada yada yada....I finally made it over to Al Gava's shop to get the Y and Cradle done.....heres a few pics.....THANKS AL!!!
The motors ALMOST done...

Hey Mike,glad you're moving along with the conversion
If you want when the engine is ready and we fit it in the frame, we can tack weld the engine mounts,spacers and Y with my new toy

That way we can immediately test fit the pipe clearance and the rads and
drop the all thing off at the welder .
It should speed up the process,what do you say?


And yeah,,slowly but surely my garage is converting into a shop.
If I could only move washer and dryer out without hearing it from my wife
Al

Ok, here are the engine mounts, I tried to make them look like stock

and installed

and

and here welded on the frame(I DID NOT DO THE WELDING MYSELF)

and from the other side

Here's he weld of the downtube

and

and these are the welds and filler for the lower extensions of the cradle

and an overall picture of the cradle

There is still some grinding and sanding to be done to remove some of the old weld,it's the next step...beautification

Nice

teemtrubble wrote:Nice

Thanks Mike

How much room do you have between your rad and Y section? That's pretty well the way I am going to do my conversion. I think I am going to cut the frame a little further forward, because it has to go up as well as forward.

I am also going to make my motor mounts 1" thick. I know it's overkill but it can't hurt.

I hope I can find a welder as good as yours.

Good job. Sweet welds!

I like

robertg wrote:How much room do you have between your rad and Y section? That's pretty well the way I am going to do my conversion. I think I am going to cut the frame a little further forward, because it has to go up as well as forward.

I am also going to make my motor mounts 1" thick. I know it's overkill but it can't hurt.

I hope I can find a welder as good as yours.

We grinded the exiting weld at the downtube, we didn't cut the frame, and pushed up the Y about 20-30mm, enough to clear the pipe and springs but making sure the rads could still fit.
Some good pics on this thread http://cr500riders.com/cgi/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1212913934

Algava wrote:

teemtrubble wrote:Nice

Thanks Mike

X2

Your really turning out some nice stuff Al....