Foreign, so we're beginning to work in a new garage. We kind of have the idea of just kind of resurrecting the things that were really cool and i've just had a lot of time to sit and get a little rusty and stuff. So that brings us to our rotary shifter here kind of our pride and joy. So this thing needs a lot of stuff uh.

The trailer fell on it and it's not to see that's easy money, we'll just put a go power, support seat back on it. We also are going to re-gear the rear end, because even in our top speed video, we found out that it was limited by the gearing not because it was too tall, but because it wasn't allowing the rotary to get into the power band in sixth gear. So we're gon na change that out and then also we have the clutch has given us. So many problems, i'm sure if you all have followed this thing, we'll remember, but we're going to try to replace the old mechanical style with the lever that always got stripped out with basically a hydraulic slave cylinder master cylinder.

So that's going to be a lot of custom work, we're probably going to say that till the end, though, because i have not been looking forward to it. So, let's just start with the re-gear and the seat, because that stuff, i know we can come out on top of this - is our old sprocket. We just got it off and here's what our new sprocket's going to be so we'll definitely be burning a lot more rubber and it should get us in our power band at high speeds. So yeah we just need to build this thing up.

It looks like we are good here, not too bad, just a quick job joe we got joe helped us get the seat on, and then we put this sprocket on so now, let's just go over and finally get started on, checking out our rotary clutch. Well, i guess our welding table needed oil - oh um, so this nut is supposed to be on here and it's not. It was in the bottom of this, but it doesn't look like it caused any major damage. Wait what this nut! That goes right here.

That's pretty bad, that's not good! No, but it doesn't look um like terrifically broken yeah, although this this is like really. This is really the metallic metal oil see that yeah. Oh, it's crusty, something's crusty, it's probably just the welded part. No, it's outside the world.

Oh! It's just oh, it's the welded ball. Bearing let's see the end, looks, i think, that's a lot of the metal. We see dude, no, the ball bearings were in there and it's welded. Like look.

I bet i couldn't even break it. Okay, maybe there's the ball bearing right there. So if we could just like weld that shaft, i don't know well, we got good news and bad news, and the good news is mostly that we can work with what's bad. So the problem is, this: clutch is designed to spin and because this rod is spinning really really fast and this rod was stationary, which used to just go to a solid mount lever.

What happens is this is spinning and it goes against our bearing balls and it just completely melts and it gets friction welded together and that's why i had to snap it apart. So now we have two bearing balls that are welded together um and it's just kind of a train wreck, but the good news is: what can happen with this setup. Is that this rod can spin inside of this? This is like a 20 harley part. I got off of ebay because it's it fits a six millimeter rod like this one.

So if we wreck this thing at least it's not a proprietary like rotary part that doesn't exist anymore, so we got this mounted up. It didn't take too much fab. All i did was weld two quarter, twenty bolts, one to the existing bolt and then one to that plate. You all saw me make up so yeah we're crossing our fingers.

This should work, something i'm worried about. Is it kind of pivoting left or right and then getting off center, but i think it should work. I don't know, hopefully all right moment of truth. Let's see we go hey is that out? Let's see, oh, that actually might let's see it doesn't move.

So it's loose and then off. I think we got a working clutch dude. I never thought this would work. It really doesn't move much at all, i'm glad so yeah and it it doesn't take that much force either.

So like this isn't moving at all yeah. You know just kind of there push with my hands there. We go. That's so clean with our gearing done, as well as the clutch we're trying our very best to get this behemoth in okay, i'm going to bolt it for now we got the engine mounted.

So now the next step is to route our brake line from this brake master cylinder to our clutch. So on the ninja, this thing is pushed in. So we have to mount this kind of up front from the pedal, but it actually should look pretty clean and we can just mount our um. You know reservoir kind of in the middle up front.

It should be pretty nice so like that, so, okay, whatever that's crazy, hey guys. I hope you liked all of the footage of the hydraulic line install it looks really good so now the moment of truth is it looks pretty, but is it going to work? Is that moving it's moving dude? It feels really good on your foot. Yeah like it's. It's like get a front shot joe wow.

It doesn't have to move much. That's pretty bottoms up nicely on the cylinder. Does it feel like an actual clutch yeah? It really does like it gets a little bit harder at the end and stuff. No there's no feel oh, but it feels soft okay.

Well, that's nice! It's like the mx sure! Well now it works on that account uh. So now, what we'll do is, i guess, put it in first and see if i can push you, okay, that is first, okay, clutch in all right, just see if it is ice, it's engaged as engaged clutch in that's just a chain yeah, but that's not bad. Yeah, that's the chain on our roll that we made um but yeah. Okay.

I say we finish her up. It's been a really long time since this thing's even run so yeah. Let's just see, oh, oh, that seems good dude, almost not a big old flame dude. Ah, so um, so this thing is visceral.

The re-gear really kind of changes characteristics like y'all could see when we did the launches it just burned rubber and then even on the turns there there i was going kind of fast. I wasn't expecting it, but it was. You know, spinning the tires: it's it's crazy, yeah, absolute ripper, the clutch works yeah. We did it like, there's no, it works.

I mean we did a hydraulic clutch conversion on a you know close to 40 year old motor. It's pretty sweet, but with that being said, this thing is an absolute animal. I forgot we kind of built such a monster and it kind of is outgrowing these. You know this area we can ride in.

We need we kind of need a solution. So that's where we come to you guys we're asking: if anyone has access to somewhere pretty flat and paved, we would greatly appreciate it where we could really rip it. We definitely could take this thing to a drag strip. We also have a track membership.

So we'll see things out there but yeah. Let's, let's try to make some more awesome. Videos of this thing so stay tuned, the rotaries unless by like y'all's popular demand or whatever, is going to be kind of just like something we keep and is just going to pop up whenever we feel like we want to have you know, kind of a pick-me-up Vid, because this thing is so cool, but with that being said, thank you guys for watching. Thank you.

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