Magnificent 7

Good Eye! Yes, giving the bike a so called lift kit in the suspension dept.


Oh, I helped your economy out over there via Chippys.

Chippys?

Yeah , Maico @ Chippy’s or Vintage Iron QLD?

Go few maico parts coming.

My goal is to catch Maico up with Husky’s and finish them to fire up.

Those bottom triples aren't from an 81 . Try 82 on . 81 bottoms triple only had 1 pinch bolt , in 82 Maico went to 2 pinch bolts for the bottom triple . Coming out very nice Darrin .

Thanx!

The 42 mm forks said 82 490. But got triples off guy in Cali so really wasn’t sure of year.
Plus box of parts. I think the kicker is Square type with bolt all way thru. If you know someone?
Have whole new learning curve now.
I do like the bike!

By kicker , do you mean kick start lever ? Back to the forks , are you found to stay with the front drum brake ? Or maybe go to a front disc brake ?

Yeah, kick start lever. Plan on staying with front drum but doing left side conversion with longer lever.

There are a few different options for the front brake lever and are also different lengths . Which kick start parts are you looking for ?

These Maico cast covers are like trying to get gravel out!

Progress! I still have about 1 1/2 hrs left on rest then polish. Soon as I’m done, then the artwork begins on this cover.

It gonna look sharp when done. I have an ignition cover coming that gets polish and artwork.

Maico castings are very roughly finished alright, it looks like you are on the home straight with it though!
I used a KTM kick start lever on my 79 Maico 250MC, same spline, no more broken starter knuckles and folded away nicely, I think it was from a late eighies 250GS from memory.
Tony.

Wheelsmith cylinder cut that Charlie on here recommended.

Also cleaned up front so fins match lower.

Just sharing ideas

Would you consider a Vapor blast on the sand cast cases and side covers. It would trully give a sealed surface and be much less work. Also been using Acid cleaner ? Al has
has exposed carbon molecules along with boron. ( yes I have gone that far as any geek will go ) Now how much black do you still get when sanding , thats the carbon, It will keep coming and coming up.
So what do the anodizers do before applying there metal finish , dip in acid , it almost like a primer that folks do before painted surface ( acid etch surface)
Learned this staying all day in anodizer shop. Doing my tanks before painting and especially on the exposed panel areas. Oh the vapor blasting does the same with pressure with a water sand blasting on AL as the acid only in different manner. Now secret for all, there is nothing like this product, prior to painting it is much less toxic too - Cerakote has the best, best ever solvent in a different verison than you get at paint store its tert-Butyl Acetate Cleaning Solvent. It the best 29 dollars a gallon I have spent. Nothing preps the surface better. Only found it at Cerakote. again sharing idea s to finish prep some of you metal, gosh you have shared so much with us and me It smells less toxic, and has the highest evapration i have seen on solvent. And take a look at Cerakotes new clears for polished metal also I memtion these clears , as artists are using these the protect ther work on plastic, metal, and polished metal. Some of the new clears , dont even new a clear primer. And the thickeness is beyond thin. MUST wear the best masks you almost pass out just smelling these products.

Gary,

Clutch cover is polished. Then ignition cover, when gets here, will be polished too. I did the newer Ktm trick with the Works, toilet bowl cleaner and scotch bright pad. I did top part as test below carb and turned out beautiful, with no effort. I’m not splitting the cases since rod and everything is in wear limits. Looks like fairly new rod. However, someone stuck a new piston in a worn out 2nd to last bore. Think gonna send cylinder out to power seal, to keep this bore and stick new piston in.

Wait till you see the Maico artwork going on both covers.

Good tips. I use Cerakote sometimes and good products.

I have part of the cylinder head polished as a test already. I have a thought of how I want engine to look but won’t know till get bottom end back in frame.

Lots parts coming.

Toilet Bowel cleaner sounds very uncomfortable Darrin! And then a scotch brite pad! Your arse would never be the same again!
Tony.

No doubt!

Goofy, but the stuff just works.

I think you meant "bowl" not "bowel"?

Good catch!

Follow up .
Just for the heck of it, please check out the Cerakote new clears they have. Note only the oven baked stuff works - as a matter of fact only the colors that are baked work

But look at pics and how they cover the polished metals it tricky, its new , still experimenting but always looking for new stuff to preserve out huskies

Please note on Acid boat cleaner i use, Want to clean inside old gumly husky AL tank, pour some in and watch as chemical reaction happens - had in bubbling out the top melting away
the crap and gum. Oh dont drop the steel tank cap in the acid solution - Did want to pick in right out forgot and went back the next day and well it was gone ! it melted away, the rubber gasket was still there

Same thing happens at anodizer the little embeded metal bead tire holders can melt in anodizers tanks and ruin his batch of solution. go to get them out of the rims

Gary,

Good info and will check out new Cerakote clears.

Yeah, rim pins have to come out.

You can get new rim pins at McMaster Carr if you size them up.

Meow!