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This is going to be a looong term project, but figured I'd start a thread on it. I have other projects before this one, but I would like to disassemble the better of the two that I have to get the engine etc in the shop and out of the weather. So, this is my first chain drive project. Looks like it should be....interesting, especially given the lack of availability of a lot of parts for bikes this old. Machine on the top is now missing front bumper, and rear rack (BASFNB took those for his kid's 125, split the $100 purchase price of the machine with me), and the top end has been off for no telling how long. Tank has been lined and looks iffy. It only cost me $50. Machine on the bottom has a good tank, engine is complete, and has decent tires and a front rack to replace the missing one on the other bike. This one cost me $100 (funny how I had to pay more for the worse looking one, huh?). This will be for the newest addition to the family, so not in a rush to do it, but don't want to leave stuff out exposed to the elements in the meantime, so plastics are in storage from the machine on the left, along with the good gas tank. Going to pull the motors and carbs and put them inside too. Looks like I have to pull the engine cover and subtransmission to get the chain off, and that has to be done before I can pull the motor. Will update and try to take some pics as I go.

LOL, maybe you could wire in one of those shut-offs from a kid's bike.

They probably made shorter cables to save money on the newer winches. That was the one thing I didn't like about the Superwinch LT3000's I was buying a couple of years ago when they were $120 or so shipped on Amazon; dang cables were short and had to be replaced, or the contactor mounted further up on the wheeler. If you think about it, cutting a couple of feet of copper wire out of 10,000 winches would add up.

Only the early models 01-04 had the oil pump issues. For a long time I was leery of the Rubicons with the Hondamatics, figuring that it was just too complicated to last in the environments that we use these things, but several of my buddies have them and they've put them through heck and so far, so good. My father in law has an 06 with 14K miles on it, and he abuses it every time he's on it. I'm an old school carb'd/footshift/air cooled guy, and I actually picked up an 05 Rubicon a while back. Great trail riding machine. They do have lots of electrical sensors on them which can give you fits (which is how I ended up with this 05, which was fixed with a new/used wiring harness), but they're good machines.

I believe it's a Cessna 152. Little two seater. He has a hanger and grass strip out behind his Dad's place here. He noticed I'd put on some weight the last time I went up with him and said "How much you weigh now?" I told him I was up around 200 (I'm @215 now LOL) and he said "Well it's only about half full of fuel so we SHOULD be able to get off the ground" He used to have a Citabria when we were younger. Let's just say I'm lucky I'm still here.

What Fish said. Wife's winch on her 420 did the same thing. I took the motor off, cleaned everything up with emery cloth, and lightly greased the bearing in the endcap with white lithium grease. It's worked fine since.

I haven't duck hunted since Jan of 2018. We had very few ducks around last year, so I never went. This year the season started off well but fizzled out after about a week. Folks up north are planting food for them and leaving it in the fields. Lots of money to be made guiding duck hunts, so they plant it and leave it, and as long as there is food to be had, the ducks don't move South. I'm debating on whether to try it this year. Only 3 weekends left in the season. My spot was good 6-8 years ago. We had some dry summers, and the place almost dried up, which meant lots of weeds and grass grew during the summer months, then when the fall rains hit and the place filled back up, there were all kinds of seeds etc for the ducks to eat. It's stayed flooded for the last 3-4 years so the only thing that's grown there in the summers is Lily Pads. Since ducks don't eat those, it's been tough to get them to come in. I'd like to blow the beaver dam in the spring, and assuming we don't have a wet summer, hopefully the area up around that I circled in orange would be dry enough for me to disc up and plant some millet. Then my luck might get a little better.

River here is way up. Tons of rain expected coming in overnight tonight and all weekend so going to get worse. Here's my duck hole from the air. The good news is, my buddy found my duck blind that floated off last year. Had 6 telephone poles sunk in the ground, with a treated lumber deck on top, and when I went out to do the top of it it was GONE! High water floated it up out of the ground and off. I suspected it was still out there somewhere but couldn't find it with binoculars, but he spotted it from the air. The maroon line is the usual water level. Red line is our usual riding trail (you can see some other cut-throughs I've mowed). My house is about 1/4 miles out of the top of the picture, so when riding from the house I come in from the top right. Yellow is my missing blind. Green is where I sunk it in the ground. Blue is my other blind, which is probably neck deep at current water levels (too deep to hunt) Pink is where I want to try to put that wooden blind if I can float it over there while the water is up. 2nd pic is taken from the other direction. Our trails cut through those woods going up to the top right corner of the picture. Most of them follow old logging roads from the late 70's/early 80's that we re-cleared.

I'd watch this and see if it pertains to your BX25 mag issues. I have a couple of those, but most of my 25 rounders were Butler Creek Steel Lips, and for the most part they feed very well. When we were shooting mistletoe we were using Federal Bulk ammo, and there was a very discernable difference in report from one shot to the next. BAM, pop, bang, BAM, BAM, thup, BAM. Very inconsistent. I don't think anyone's doing stuff as well as they used to. Growing up I shot Remington Std Vel that dad had (see pic, which I found on the web). No telling how many thousands of rounds I shot and NEVER had a misfire or even a funny sounding report. When he started mouthing about how much I was shooting I started buying Remington Thunderbolt and Winchester Wildcat bricks. Back then you could get a brick of Wildcats at Sam's Club for $9. They all shot great for me too (not the Thunderbolts are probably the most maligned rimfire on the market). The Federal Bulk packs were great for awhile, but I'm a bit concerned about what I heard the other day shooting. CCI Std Vel is good, but it's not cheap. Guess we could all pick up some Eley Tenex which would likely solve all our ammo problems!😆

That was the Warn A2000. They sold the same winch with heavier cables as a 2500lb

I just ordered a set of these when I needed some. Spent a lot of time trying to find cheap alternatives and finally decided my time was worth something and just bit the bullet. https://www.motoalliance.com/atv-utv-wiring-pack

Got this gem today. MINT condition. Seriously, been trying to pin this guy down for awhile. He had it listed at $100, younger guy who looked very “gangsta” who was in Memphis (I was concerned enough about where I cleaned my CCW before I left the house to make sure it was ready, but ended up being a nice enough kid and neighborhood was decent too). Anyhow, it’s horrible looking, but I needed some stuff, and this had it. Top end (mine was missing a lot of parts and the head and cylinder were trash, had been removed years ago and apparently left out somewhere), gas tank (mine was rough), front brake cables are there and don’t look bad, so hopefully I can free them up, and tires look serviceable. Front cooler rack and headlight guard as well. Anyhow, can’t believe I burned the better part of a day driving 70 miles each way to get it, but now I have a solid supply of parts to use when I build the 125 for the kid

Lol. I’ve actually gotten a lot done. Most of the crap in the floor is now put up. I found the plans from when my grandfather built it back in the 80’s. It’s 526ish sq feet iirc

Believe it or not this is after several hours of work. I have made progress since I took these pictures but still quite a bit to do

If I do that the wife does the "You don't want to spend time with me" so early AM it is. She's not a morning person so that's when I work.

I don't do it every day. Just every once and awhile. With 4 women in the house with me that's the only time I can work uninterrupted for more than 10 minutes. LOL

That's what I've been doing too, but that limits me to working when I have daylight, and with a newborn that doesn't happen. If I get my shop where I can work in it, I can get up before dawn when the womenfolk are still asleep and work then.

I'm working on it! Got my parts washer put together, desk moved out, toolboxes moved in, and shelves set up in the back.

Your organization and cleanliness makes me nauseous.

Man that's pretty.

My 06 last spring. Right front wheel caught a tree root, climbed it enough to flip me over. 2nd pic is BASFNB's Rubicon. Those are 26" Outlaws on there. When people do the whole "I can turn 29.5's fine with no GR" this pic is how you know they're full of crap. His Rubicon wouldn't spin these 26's fast enough to clean them out in first gear. Might be able to turn big tires with no GR on pavement, but you won't where we ride.

Looks great!

Trade for an 85 Grand Am with a blown head gasket?

I tried watching "Bluff City Law" since I'm close to Memphis. After two episodes I found that it simply threw every whiny social justice warrior millennial victimization out there and then said causes "won" in the courtroom. I don't watch much TV. Prefer to read. If I do watch TV it's usually on AHC (used to be the military channel). Unfortunately, it's like the History Channel became AHC (old WW2 footage, documentaries, etc) when History started playing crap like Ice Road Truckers, and now the AHC channel is playing crap that has nothing to do with the military, so looks like it's going to the dogs now too.

I was looking at that temp cooling gizmo thread last week. Local kid asked when the fan should cut on on his 350 Rancher. He was at 350Deg with no fan. I told him it should probably cut on about 230 and shut off at 215. That's what I gathered from reading that thread.