My Sidewinder off-road buggy build *VIDEO ADDED*

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In a word..... Sweeeeeet!    

Welcome back.... We missed the many pic's from this one


Brake expert.... What's the gig? Could help a fair bit over the web with the right pic's etc, but if you got it covered I'll settle for the test pilots video 




Good job that man 







Ralph.

[zeusrekning]

Awesome work Andrew!!!

Are you you using the front caliper off the bike? I had very poor brakes and worried that the caliper wouldn't be enough. I put new pads on and re-bled. Now they work fine.
Tim

[jones]

Cheers everyone, I think I've found the solution to the brakes problem.

The master cylinder is tiny, from the rear brake of the bike, and the new brake line is all flexible hose which can expand ever so slightly. This results in almost no brakes. I'm going to try putting a larger car cylinder on the pedal and that should solve the problem.

Zeus, I'm using the rear brakes. I've tried bleeding them so much but it doesn't make a difference, AFAIK all the air bubbles are gone. I'll get the new cylinder on monday and I'm fairly certain that will fix it. The caliper had pretty much new pads on it when I got it.

Thanks for the comments everyone,

Andrew

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AFAIK all the air bubbles are gone

 

Reminds me of a little, slightly embarrassing memory......
 

A long time ago... (well, over 10 years)  I once spent damn near a whole day trying to figure out why I couldn't get "a pedal" on a Peugeot 405 after replacing the brake master cylinder.

I had bled it the best part of 20 times and couldn't get the brakes to work.

Thinking of all sorts of crazy things  I lost sight of what I was trying to achieve with the bleeding and the golden rule..... Air bubbles rise in liquid!

The eventual epiphany lead me to Bleed the brakes with the rear calipers pivoted on the top bolt, turned up in the air with a block of wood where the discs and pads should be to prevent the piston from coming out.... Why    Because the bloody bleed nipples were on the bottom of the calipers 



Hope all goes well    Waiting on the "stunt" videos 







Ralph.

[Stilldrillin]

Because the bloody bleed nipples were on the bottom of the calipers 

Ralph.

Ralph,

That`s a reminder of a late night/ early morning session on a Reliant, sidevalve van.

Perrishin` cold snow outside, (& inside!)...... Me underneath..... Herself working the pedal.......


We were getting married next day! 


And we`re still married.... To each other! 

David D

[Brass_Machine]

AFAIK all the air bubbles are gone

 

Reminds me of a little, slightly embarrassing memory......
 

A long time ago... (well, over 10 years)  I once spent damn near a whole day trying to figure out why I couldn't get "a pedal" on a Peugeot 405 after replacing the brake master cylinder.

I had bled it the best part of 20 times and couldn't get the brakes to work.

Thinking of all sorts of crazy things  I lost sight of what I was trying to achieve with the bleeding and the golden rule..... Air bubbles rise in liquid!

The eventual epiphany lead me to Bleed the brakes with the rear calipers pivoted on the top bolt, turned up in the air with a block of wood where the discs and pads should be to prevent the piston from coming out.... Why    Because the bloody bleed nipples were on the bottom of the calipers 



Hope all goes well    Waiting on the "stunt" videos 







Ralph.

Ralph... for almost that reason, I bought a power bleeder. The brakes on my 944 were a bear...



makes for a one man easy bleed job.

Eric

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  well at least I'm not the only one!!   



A Reliant David!!!  Brave man!    Glad to know it all worked out 


Eric, there were 3 of us!!! All stumped    The power bleeders are good for most app's but this way just a mad design thing..... It created a huge pocket of air in the top of the calipers??? Peugeot always have been a nightmare to work on! 



Sorry for the slightly sidetrack Andrew..... Is it working yet?






Ralph.

[jones]

It sure is! I just got back from a mate's property in Mudgee where I had a good drive (until the chain eventually fell off because I hadn't loctited the bolts holding the sprocket on)

Here is a video before I left for Mudgee. The buggy was only running on one cylinder and was pretty gutless, but I fixed that and at Mudgee it was an absolute WEAPON. So quick! Will put up the short video I took in a bit.

Cheeers,
Andrew

[Bernd]

Looks like and sounds like some guys are having a great time.

Can't wait to see a vid from Mudgee.

Bernd

[Stilldrillin]

And that was using only 1 cylinder? !  

David D

[NickG]

Cool!  Can't wait to see it on two!

[jones]

VIDEO!

[Stilldrillin]

Great work/ vid/ fun, Andrew! 

Blummin well done! 

David D

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Now that looks like fun!! 



You and your mates will have a right laugh with that little buggy. 





Nice work.





Ralph.

[Warrenm]

I live in Gulgong,which is 30km from Mudgee. What part of the Mudgee area is your place at?

[ieezitin]

Great job Andrew. I need one here for the farm to feed the horses, I would pull a trailer around in no time to feed the B****stds.  BTW nice red pick up in the last vid, I would not mind restoring that for a giggle.

All the best.        Anthony.

[jones]

Thanks for the comments everyone, hopefully I'll be taking the buggy to another property in Gloucester shortly and will take another longer video.

That place at Mudgee isn't mine, it belongs to a mate. They bought this property and a bulldozer and just made all these bike/car tracks through the bush. It is absolutely nuts, but the hard front suspension on the buggy and single rear swingarm made it extremely bumpy.
The place is on hill end road, about 10 minutes past Hargraves.

Cheers,
Andrew

[NickG]

Wow, love it, it looks amazing fun and sounds the part - after all that opposite lock you'll have arms like popeye in no time!