08/09/06, 01:59 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: WA
Posts: 459
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Building a Trike for Mom Q's
Hi all, for years my mother has been gathering all the parts ect. needed for her trike, she has a complete running rebuilt VW engine sitting in the garage on blocks and a trike frame under cover out back (has 3 wheels, handle bars, place for seat and diamond plate running boards)---here's the rub, no one I know can put it together nor can we afford to pay to have it put together. The people I have met with the knowledge either have a high pricetag with them or say if they put the time into it they'd keep it. Sooooo I was thinking, I'm fairly handy with a wrench, I work on all the cars here, technically I could gain the knowledge to do this. We have a garage, I could rig a cherry picker to lift the engine, but what I need is step by step installation specifically for trikes. Sort of a Chilton book for building. Any suggestions? She's got all the parts and after 5 years of collecting it's time to assemble. I know this is a huge project, and I certainly don't expect this to be a quick one. But really if all that's in my way is a little knowledge, then doesn't that fall into the homesteaders motto? Learn it, Create it, Use it---maybe someday I could even add Teach it to that.
Any help is greatly appreciated and welcomed.
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