breakdown truck
Re: breakdown truck
The fella flogging that delightful wee Honda wrote:The 545cc 2 cylinder engine goes like a sewing machine.
Now call me fussy if you will, but I've always rated the internal combustion engine above the sewing machine for its suitability as a means of getting a motor vehicle down the road efficiently and equally, I've yet to use an engine to repair a damaged item of clothing. Or does he mean that the thing rattles like a b*stard and only runs for a few minutes at a time?
I like these tiny Daihatsus too, but it needs a Toyota 1NZ-FE engine transplant to give it the performance to match its stunning looks! I could see that being a far better thing to drive than the frankly rather feeble Aixam that looks vaguely similar but is French, has the world's worst CVT, with only one belt, and has a small vertical twin engine that tends to shake itself to bits when thrashed.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: breakdown truck
JPB wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:47 pmThe fella flogging that delightful wee Honda wrote:The 545cc 2 cylinder engine goes like a sewing machine.
Now call me fussy if you will, but I've always rated the internal combustion engine above the sewing machine for its suitability as a means of getting a motor vehicle down the road efficiently and equally, I've yet to use an engine to repair a damaged item of clothing. Or does he mean that the thing rattles like a b*stard and only runs for a few minutes at a time?
Best of both worlds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-L39ZrL0iM
Re: breakdown truck
Now that's a sewing machine.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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Re: breakdown truck
given what was coming out of the exhausts, I think it may have a slight "problem"
Re: breakdown truck
I think John has been trying to save a few quid rebuilding his lawnmower engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Wp-7kqEKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Wp-7kqEKI
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: breakdown truck
I like the idea of the perspex head, but who'll be first to make one for an OHV engine like the one that actually resides in my lawnmower, picture of just such an engine below, sorry Rich..
Happy birthday to Terry!
And yes, the engine in the Allett is the all-aluminium Reliant one, originally a 600 but where that will fit, so will the big one (848cc/40 to 55bhp) and quite a few Reliant folk own uprated Alletts with the 850, the bloody lunatics!
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: breakdown truck
what could i fit in my ride on mower then? it had a 502 cc briggs engine that died & im too skint to replace it even more so now i have sent the galaxy to have a service & cam belt change... chap found what the annoying rattle was.. only 150 odd euro for the part not including the service kit
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599cc Kubota (Diesel) or 505cc Lombardini (Petrol) engine? French scrapyards must surely have plenty of dead Aixams and Ligier Ambras that could donate one of these dreadful vertical twins.
That could be a really effective form of transport, sort of an internally driven unicycle.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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