Hey Singe....didn't realise you knew I had purchased that little gem from evilBay. Oddly enough, I had nearly followed your suggested restoration method to the letter and 2 weeks later....the result !
What really bugs me (and others) more than anything else is the rider that rushes around all week, gets to the start of the section, rides in the first few yards, takes a five and pulls out and is then off over the hillside onto the next section or moorland/road stretch to the end of the day. That is NOT doing the Scottish; doing the Scottish is queuing, walking the section, getting delay, attempting the whole section and each sub section, then moving on having made a genuine attempt at each of the day's 30 sections.
Now, now Vinnie! You're only going to give yourself a headache with all that carrying on!
What platform are you using? And is anyone else having problems? Drop us a note on ssdtoffice@ssdt.org if you are and let us know what your set up is. Can't do a thing myself, being completely computer illiterate, but I can get the info to the man who knows!
The flat on kickstart shaft that takes normal cotter pin needs to be groung back carefully with a hand grinder so the flat now comes right to the end of the shaft, now ream out the steel swivel of the Gas Gas kickstart so its a nice fit on shaft then from a piece of round bar cut a d shaped piece that fits the d shapes space that remains when you have fitted the kick start swivel on to the now reground kickstart shaft, make sure you have it positioned in the right place and then weld this new d shaped piece in place in the kickstart swivel.
Now a bit of pub, we make half hard ali kickstarts for cubs along with our new
wide ali forged footrest/ali mounting brakets that take ali brake lever and ali chain tensioner.....
PS, What is best is to use a dummy kickstart shaft in a vice, to be sure you've got it all set up/dimensionaly correct and it can then be checked at itervals so your not making a cock up.....Gas Gas kickstarts are not cheap and all this work while not complicated needs to be done well/acurately.......
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Vinnie