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 How to do: LifeLike F40PH with flywheels...

 ...easy steps to modify a LL F40PH with a motor from a LL E7/8
 with big flywheels - the F40PH with the new motor runs smooth
 like an engine with a split-frame...


 
 the flywheel-less original crapy drive from a LL F40PH

 
 remove the trucks, and the motor

 
 drill holes and cut a square hole out on each side of the motor
 mounting for the flywheels

 

 
 view from the side and from the bottom, here you can see why we
 have to drill the two holes on each side, w/o the holes the motor
 will not turn because the flywheels touch the frame.

 

 
 with a stripe of styrene we make a support for the rear weight,
 we have to cut the weights and it will not hold w/o this mounting plate

 
 we place the trucks back to the frame

 
 I glue the wires on the frame so they cant touch the flywheels
 with a tape I isolate the motor and I solder a brass wire on each
 side to the motor and solder the two wires from the trucks to that
 brass wire, take care that everything is well flatt otherwise the
 shell will not fit on the frame...

 
 everything ready soldered, now we can made a first test to check
 the motor and the wires, place the engine on a testtrack...

 

 
 now we cut the silicon tubes and place them back from the flywheels
 to the drives - now we place the drive again on the testrack and
 if everything is ok, the drive will run...

 
 on this picture you can see how we have to cut the weights
 warning: the weights are made with lead, please wash your hands
 with soap after you touched the weights

 
 thats the drive ready with the weights in place.

 
 drive w/o weights on the testrack

 
 drive ready to place the shell on - ready ? not now, soon I show you
 here how we make working noselights, ditchlights and light on the
 rear side of the engine... stay tuned !


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 05.2003

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