Another Murray Track 2

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Doing another Murray mini bike build, picked up off the book of faces, and realized that it wasn’t in the best of shape till after the fact of looking at it more closely in the light.

My idea on this one is going to be a solid black with some chrome accents and a headlight ran off the motor.

Upon disassembly I found that some of the bolts and nut had been drilled out , most likely from them being broke or stuck, this was done by previous owner.
First thing where the seat bolts up to the frame had a large washer and different bolt was used , after taking it apart, it was drilled CROOKED to about 5/8 on one side then 7/8 or so on the other, and drilled the entire bolt tube out so I knew I hade to make another one. 2nd the front tire was not the original, a hand truck tire was used in place, 3rd the chain guard/kickstand mount was cut off.

 

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So I chose to use a big off-road light with a lower wattage bulb (35 watt) to use in place of the 100w bulb. Saw a picture on Google with one and liked the idea. Here is a pic of what I got so far.

 

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This build is guna be sand blasted and powder coated semi gloss black and the frame will be paint, the oven I use isn’t large enough to hold the frame,

 

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I didnt think to take a before pic with the large hole and where the guard was cut off, but this is where I’m at so far with the frame, not my best work , but it’ll work

 

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I’m currently working on cleaning the frame up with a wire wheel in a angle grinder then sandblasting it, seems like extra work but the paint on the frame is THICK, aside getting hit with small wires at 10k rpm’s is worth the extra time to have it cleaner for blasting.

 

[Denny]

Just don’t eat those parts! It’d be way too much iron in your diet, you might rust.

 

[BrownStainRacing]

I’m currently working on cleaning the frame up with a wire wheel in a angle grinder then sandblasting it, seems like extra work but the paint on the frame is THICK, aside getting hit with small wires at 10k rpm’s is worth the extra time to have it cleaner for blasting.

Those lil bikes are fun to play with, but man they are some wheelie popping fools.

There's a couple younger teens around here that's got em with the small 79-99cc engines, and they still on the back tire all the time.

 

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Just don’t eat those parts! It’d be way too much iron in your diet, you might rust.

Definitely!!! I’m wearing a dust mask and face shield, I didn’t in my younger days wear a mask because I “was a man”. Then understood reality as I grew up that a very stupid choice to make.

 

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Those lil bikes are fun to play with, but man they are some wheelie popping fools.

There's a couple younger teens around here that's got em with the small 79-99cc engines, and they still on the back tire all the time.

Indeed, they are hard to keep the front end on the ground when you take off, especially when running a hopped up motor

 

[Denny]

I started painting cars and bodywork at the age of 10. Only wore a respirator when painting. Now I can’t run 100 feet without a drag from my puffer.

 

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I started painting cars and bodywork at the age of 10. Only wore a respirator when painting. Now I can’t run 100 feet without a drag from my puffer.

I say drink a Red Bull!!! IT’ll GIVE YA WINGS 🪽. unfortunately the things we wish we had done when we were young, hindsight 20/20

 

[Denny]

Red Bull don’t really work. But I can feel where my stent is.

 

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Was able to work on the frame this evening, I have to appreciate the fact that this Chinese made frame was a very well made bike. Tig welded frame and brazed on a couple pieces (in pics), kinda made me grin because of the fact that they took time and thought out how to make a quality frame.
I spent a little over on hour with a cup wire wheel on my angle grinder and got a fairly good amount done, most of whats left are the tight spots that ill hit with the sandblaster. Although I really REALLY like the bare metal frame. Just appeals to me!!

 

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Frame primed and painted
going to let it dry over the weekend and will start putting it back together.

 

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Starting to look like a mini bike now, had to do the old Frankenstein stitch for the fenders, these a pretty much impossible to find unless your able to find a parts bike, it does give it character though

 

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ALSO HEADSET BEARINGS FOR MURRAY TRACK 2 MINI RACER
I searched far and wide and deep for these, some may know some may not. They are metric bicycle bearings The brand I bought was Sunlite as pictured with specs on the box.

if anyone needed this info…..

 

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More progress tonight, made a riser mount for the engine. Mounted tires and wheels, installed new bearings and 54 tooth sprocket.

 

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Did a few things over the week before I ran out of parts . Brake lever was broke enough where I couldn’t fix it and have it properly work, so I have some new parts coming in as well as new foot pegs, adding the light is giving it a cool look. Adding a “mad max” theme license plate again.

 

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Almost at the finish line. The air box did not fit in between the frame so I’m going to have to get the air filter kit, the guy that had previously painted the seat pan painted over the stickers and when I sanded the paint off the adhesive stayed “IN” the plastic. I’ve used WD40, laquer thinner, mineral spirits, goof off, and goo gone AND re-sanded several more times, I cannot for the life of me get it off. So at this time I won’t have the seat done till I get that straight. I did get the motor and torque converter partially mounted as well.

 

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Got it almost done, the exhaust pipe even being wrapped with a fiberglass wrap is melting the seat pan, need to tweak that and install other parts when they come in.
I did get the headlight, and switches hooked up last night and the headlight shines way up in the trees so I’ll need to make a wedge of some sort to mitigate that and bring it back to earth.