Recent content by copyman

Here are some pics of a Fox brake I took apart for a rebuild. It's missing the o ring that would be in middel between the copper contacts. The plastic insulators & O ring are important, if broken or missing brakes lights will stay on all the time. Adjust the castle nut while working with brake...

The rubber o ring goes in between the metal contacts. PM me your email and will send the factory parts manual for all the Fox spoke wheel models. The parts diagram will show exact order of brake parts. That is quite a few Fox brake calipars, do you want to sell one or two of them?

That is a thing of beauty. A real work of art! The size mini bike for a man not a boy. I also like to keep bikes original, they will only be like that once.

I found a pic of the same engine painted all white (see attached, sorry could only save as PDF). This was a Markus build. Although he didn't paint the spark plug wire as the factory did everything else is white.

Hi, Wanted to get some opinions on painting vintage Tecumseh engine. Up to this point I've never painted the fuel line & spark plug wire. I have painted the carb & muffler a few times, but most of the time I don't. Getting ready to paint this 1970 lighted HS40 with metal gas tank (see pics) and...

I just had this same thing with not one but two ealry 70's HS40's. Both completely rebuilt and wouldn't start. Turns out the engines had too little compression. I ended up having to cut valve seats & lap, adjust valve lash to factory specs (.004-.008). Both started up after a few pulls.

I've seen the skis sell for $200+

What sucks is most of the time there isn't insurance coverage and if there is it's hard to show value on a 50-60 yr old min bike. To get real price insurance for what a vintage bike is worth you would have to have them added to homeowners insurance policy with whats called add on rider.

"If all your manuals are in print then the daunting task is ahead of you to scan each page including the front and back pages and convert it to a single PDF. I'd concentrate on owner's manuals as they have a relatively small number of pages" I have a lot already saved as PDF's. As my member...

After spraying with kroil and sitting a few days I always tighten the screw first then loosen with impact, cordless screwdriver or socket with phillip head. If all fails drill it out careful not to damage threads. The screw is available on partstree, jacks, ebay. Tecumseh 590409A (retainer screw)

Would be great if there was a place on this forum where members could download and archive manuals, etc to share. Maybe there is and I don't know about it? I have a lot of manuals & material for Tecumseh engines, Fox spoke wheel bikes like the Trail Tramp, Trail FX, Condor, Street Scamp. Also my...

I missed what type of bike it was and not a collector bike. Not sure I would want to be on a mini bike going 45mph:scooter: Ha-ha 45 feels like 60-70 on a mini bike so I could only imagine what 70 would feel like:eek: Only way I could see going that fast would be if I personally rebuilt the...

This is exactly why I try and sell my finished bikes to collectors.

I must admit when I first joined OldMiniBikes I didn't know much and asked some stupid questions. Most members were helpful but a few members were just plain nasty. I almost left because this but decided not to let a few members chase me away.

Ha-ha after looking at it again compared to the bike you can see it's much smaller than 55 gal drum. 55 gal drum might be bigger than bike!