Before throwing anything away, I always look for things I can reuse elsewhere. In this case, an LED from a broken computer power supply. Perfect for adding a neutral light indicator on my 50 and it was green too. =) If you do this mod, don’t forget to add a resistor, otherwise you will burn out the LED.
If you want headlights on your 50, besides the obvious pars list e.g. headlight, regulator, yada yada yada, you need a way to create electricity. You can of course buy a pre-wound stator for around $75 or you can diy for a fraction of the cost.
Now before you pop off the stator cover and flywheel, you will need to buy some magnet wire. I got mine on ebay from magnet*wire*usa. And, from what I have read online, 18awg and 65 turns seem to be the magic numbers, so that’s what I used. It cost a little over $20 for 200 feet which I hear is enough to wrap 2 stators.
Here are some pics of the baja completed. The motor needs a little tuning and I need to shorten up some cables, but for now it’s pretty much done. =)
For this build, I went with 8 inch Jincheng 2.5 rim halves that I had left over from my monkey project and Honda 71 Z50AK2 hubs which I found on ebay. In order to align the rear wheel with the CRF swingarm, I machined a 10.5-11mm spacer for the sprocket side and mounted the offset rim halves so that the wider side (valve stem side) was facing the drum brake.
I spent some time this week installing the Kitaco Rearsets on the CRF50. It took quite a bit of tweaking to fit these pieces due to the tight clearances between the kick start lever and swingarm. I think this is due to the kit originally being designed for the monkey, but in the end… it was worth it. =)
This past weekend I decided to get some work done on the CRF50. Here’s the intial mock up with a Baja Monkey front end and a +2 G-craft swing arm.
This was my first Honda 50. This is how it all started.
