BIKE ENGINE SWAPPED RELIANT FIRST START!!!!!! - Motorbike Engine Swap (PT.9)
Summary
TLDRThis video documents the adventurous journey of restoring a unique ReliOn Rialto, transformed by integrating a Kawasaki Zex 6r motorcycle engine. The host describes the initial challenge of the engine not starting due to the starter motor not engaging with the flywheel. After consulting with the community and experts, they investigate various potential issues, from electrical connections to mechanical alignments. Through troubleshooting that involves adjusting the starter gear, checking fuel delivery, and ensuring proper wiring, the team finally succeeds in getting the engine to run. The excitement is palpable as they navigate through technical difficulties to a triumphant start, setting the stage for future modifications to get the vehicle driving.
Takeaways
- 👨🔧 He is fixing up a Kawasaki Ninja motorbike engine he bought
- 🚧 Had issues getting the engine started - starter motor not engaging flywheel
- 🔧 Took apart starter assembly to inspect - found starter drive gear misaligned
- ✅ Fixed misalignment and got engine cranking with starter
- ⛽ Had fuel delivery issues - fixed with new fuse and repositioning sensors
- ✅ Got engine started and idling smoothly
- 😀 Very happy to have solved multiple issues and gotten bike running
- 🚘 Still much work ahead - making prop shaft, brake lines, etc. to get driving
- ⏩ Will continue work in future videos to get bike fully operational
- 🤞🏍 Hopes to get bike doing wheelies but not fully street legal
Q & A
What kind of vehicle is the narrator working on?
-The narrator is working on a ReliOn Rialto motorbike that they bought without knowing much about it.
What was the main issue they were trying to fix in the video?
-The main issue was that the motorbike would not start when they tried to turn the key. The starter motor was just spinning but not engaging the flywheel.
How did they diagnose the root cause of why it wasn't starting?
-By removing the starter cover, they found that a hose was blocking the starter gear from properly engaging. Once they moved the hose, the starter gear was able to reach and turn the flywheel.
How did they get the motorbike to start initially?
-They bypassed some of the safety mechanisms by bridging two wires together to send power directly to the starter.
What other issues did they have to fix before it would run properly?
-They had to fix a faulty fuse, reconnect a coil pack, and ensure the fuel pump was working by sending 12 volts directly to it.
Why was the narrator worried even after getting it running?
-Because there is still a lot of work left to make it fully drivable, and they were concerned the clutches may not have been installed correctly.
What is the next major task they need to undertake?
-The next major task is to get the motorbike actually driving, which will require fabricating a prop shaft, installing brake lines, and more.
Will the motorbike likely ever be road legal?
-No, the narrator acknowledges it is unlikely to ever pass inspection and be made road legal.
Who helped diagnose the issues over the phone?
-MK Sports Cars and a person named Ad who also owns the same type of motorbike helped diagnose the issues over the phone and social media.
What accessory does the narrator show toward the end of the video?
-Towards the end, they show a custom sequential shifter that someone made for the motorbike.
Outlines
😀 An introduction to the video about fixing a motorcycle engine in a car
The first paragraph introduces the video, which is about installing a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R motorcycle engine into an old Pontiac Fiero. It talks about fixing up the engine over the past few months and getting it running after some troubleshooting in the previous episode.
😕 Troubleshooting issues with the starter motor
The second paragraph explains the issues with the starter motor not engaging the flywheel and spinning freely. After some research and advice, the cause was found to be a tight silicon hose preventing the starter gear from properly engaging.
😀 Successfully starting the engine after resolving issues
The third paragraph describes resolving the starter issue by repositioning the hose, fixing a fuse, and ensuring the sensors were positioned correctly. After some attempts, the engine successfully started up.
🙂 Enjoying the accomplishment but anticipating future work
The fourth paragraph expresses excitement about getting the engine running but mentions there is still much work to be done. The next steps will be getting the engine fully driving and roadworthy.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡motorcycle
💡starter motor
💡flywheel
💡clutch
💡fuel pump
💡sensors
💡crank
💡idle
💡drive
💡sequence
Highlights
The bike wouldn't start initially due to issues with the starter motor not engaging the flywheel properly.
The starter gear was misaligned and not making contact with the flywheel due to a tight silicon hose pushing it out of place.
After realigning the starter gear, the bike successfully cranked but still wouldn't start due to fuel delivery issues.
The fuel pump fuse and a coil pack had come loose, preventing proper fuel flow and spark.
After fixing those issues the bike started and ran roughly at first, but smoothed out over time.
Additional work is still needed to get the bike fully roadworthy including fabrication of a prop shaft and brake lines.
A sequential gear shifter has been custom made for the bike by someone to replace the original shifter.
There are still concerns about whether the clutches were installed correctly, which could cause issues when trying to get the bike moving.
The next steps will involve getting the drivetrain fully functioning to make the bike mobile beyond just running the engine.
Additional challenges are expected in the process of making the bike fully operational compared to just starting the engine.
The bike hit around 4000 RPM briefly during one of the test runs.
The bike is not likely to ever be fully street legal due to all the modifications.
The bike started successfully using the electric start button as the final resolution.
An enjoyable milestone was reached in getting the engine running, but much work lies ahead.
Performing wheelies with the bike is a future goal once fully operational.
Transcripts
hello everybody here is my Robin ReliOn
or actually this is a ReliOn Rialto
basically the same thing I bought this
with not really any intention of not
knowing what to do and this is probably
one of like the most iconic cars ever
there it
is what are we doing quickly we started
putting a m bag H in there b a [ __ ] M
wait what we bought a motor bike so I
actually got a Zex 6r from a kawazaki in
there at the minute and the last couple
months we've been fixing up the engine
and the last episodes we've been trying
to get it running now in the last
episode it was the first time that we
ever turned the key and we're going to
start it are you ready
guys are you
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ready obviously nothing happened it did
not start now we dive down some issues
of why it wasn't starting and the
starter motor wasn't actually engaging
the flywheel it was just spinning and
spinning and spinning now when something
happens like this I can't sleep I can't
think I can't even do anything else but
just figure out the problem so all last
night I was messaging everybody I put it
on my Instagram story I was reading
every single forum and we might have
some solutions now huge thank you to
everybody who contacted me regarding
this I just want to say thank you to
three main people race car Wings MK
sports cars and AD off Instagram who's
also got one of these bites who's got a
lot of these bites now they've actually
given me a lot of doorways to go down to
figure out why this isn't starting but
MK and AD are pretty sure they know the
reason exactly why it's not now from my
first bit of research from the forums I
initially thought that I had something
wrong with the voltage or something
wrong with the polarity and instead of
sending the flywheel forwards it was
reversing the flywheel thus just
spinning absolutely nothing in just
spinning the free wheel but after a bit
of research I found that that isn't
really the case and that can't really
happen not on a 12 Vol battery like this
now I got a phone call from MK sports
cars this morning thank you MK sports
car for helping us and they pointed me
in a direction Something In Here
regarding one of the clutches now ad
messaged me on Instagram and he said the
exact same thing so what we've got to do
is we've got to take off this stat stat
cover I don't know a bike thing and
hopefully the issue is staring it all
right in the face before I did that I
wanted to just see if now what always
said I spoke to some of the guys this
morning I said it's stuck in gear I
can't get it out of gear and they said
these engines and these gear boxes are
quite clunky and fiddly and he said
sometimes you got to rock the bike
forward and back as you're going back
into neutral and I've just been doing
that a little bit with a bar on a socket
just by pulling it and I've got
underneath and I've just kicked it and
it's hopped out gear so I think I was
just being a bit of a buzzer so if I go
underneath now and do it like this I've
got all gear so
see we're inning out of gear now so that
means we've got neutral now in this
little cover here you we should have the
starter gear and another clutch gear now
how that works is the starter will come
through here like this I've just got out
of the minute and then it should engage
a little driver gear and the driver gear
spins the ring gear which in turn spins
the flywheel on the other side
apparently that's how it works
apparently what can happen is is that
this little the little starter gear the
little gear apparently that can get Mis
lodged or it can get misaligned or it
can get moved when you're putting the
starter in and it's not going to spin
this main gear so what we're going is
we're going to take these bolts off and
we're going to take this cover off and
just see what the hell's going on right
now the starter isn't in there we can
have a quick look without the starter
and then we can actually put the starter
in and we can actually try to start the
starter without this cover on we can see
exactly what's going on now I'm not
going to drain the oil it took about 45
minutes to fill the oil I'm just going
to put a container underneath here and
hope that nothing does come out all the
bolts are off I believe I'm might need
to give it a little bit of a w I think
they're all
off so let's just give it a little bit
of a tap with
something there we go right I hope
there's no h that comes
out
right okay so there the Alterna magnet
thing it's it's just it just it's just
floating like that so the
odds I need to check which way the
starter turns because if the starter is
turning the wrong way but this literally
just floats but the guys think that I
might have knocked it putting the
starter in and then it's just been like
this but I need to check which way cuz I
think the starter turns clockwise and if
that's the case it's just going to spin
it like like that and never never
engage so let me just hook the starter
up to some power again and see which way
it turns so I'm just going to test the
starter
here so the starter as we're looking at
it is going anticlockwise right so the
starter motor as we're looking at there
it goes anticlockwise right which means
it's going to push down on this gear and
it's going to turn that clockwise which
is the right way the right way
so the only thing what I'm going to do
I'm going to I'm going to pop the
starter in with this off so look where
the starter motor goes it's hitting the
as you said it's nowhere near
it I can't move it
over cuz that's where the hole goes look
mind you there is room for it to go up
though oh yeah yeah yeah yeah right
let's let's try and wiggle it around a
little bit so I've got to pull it up
yeah say hose is it yeah right so that's
probably so I reckon that hose has been
put on super tight with the Old ST motor
and then once they pulled the St motor
off the hose is just yeah gone back into
place and then now you can't get there
we
go yeah it was just behind the gear
basically right well that's so easy to
do well that's the thing if you don't
take the back off then never going to
see that cuz that's quite hard to get on
even with the back off isn't it yeah so
that yes that silicon hose is so tight
yeah oh my God it's going to start
running okay so from my research last
night I found a way to um bypass all of
the St or all of the safety mechanisms
and we're just going to bridge these two
together now what that's going to do
it's just going to send power straight
to the start if we do that it's going to
maybe potentially blow this fuse and
potentially just spark but that's what's
going to happen so first of all give it
power
we in neutral so we got green we're in
neutral we're good to go so there's no
fuel in there at the minute so it's
probably not going to start actually
might be a little bit but it's not going
to start so we're on
run this is just to see if it's going to
crank
okay yes it's cranking it's
cranking
oh
w
give me some [ __ ] petrol we've made
shift a fuel tank on the fuel tank
Ronnie is the fuel T right that's not in
gear is it no we're in
neutral we're in neutral we got
power kill switch does it start on the
thing oh my God it starts on the
button it's
working oh my God he ready Ron's nervous
looking I mean I don't know what the
idol is like should we just
go right we're not getting neither fuel
or I can see fuel going in you can yeah
right choke is now
open
oh more fuel more we got enough fuel we
got enough right we're ready
there's a fewu pump pulled
in yeah might be worth seeing it's
getting power there right if this don't
start yeah it's worth having a check
after because I know that one of the
grounds that I've used here is for the
fuel
pump I want to check if the fuel pump's
working yeah hold on switch ignition
on that is actually don't feel I feel
should I pull the other side of the fuel
line off and see if it's
squirting no it's coming out but it's
not pumping puming right one of the coil
packs um one of the coil packs wasn't
plugged in properly so they're just like
spaking it and one of them has pulled
off so that be two cylinders down
straight away so uh we're getting power
to the fuel pump and it's grounded fine
it's getting continuity so we're just
put the fuel pump back in put that Co P
back on we've got fuel we're going to go
again he [ __ ]
himself that's saw a big flame it was a
big flame we have
f
it's weird is it it's almost like when
we're sitting waiting it'sing the yeah
it's drawing it through it's got to be
the fuel pump right so we're going to
send 12 Vols to the pump and just see if
the the pump is actually working it was
working
yeah y that's
working didn't feel like that did it
feel like that when it was cranking
no no so there's something on the wiring
that's not
yeah well that's good at least this is
working now this is Steve and Steve's
always had motorbikes and he says
usually on the wiring loom there's a
sensor if that sensor isn't straight
upwards it thinks the bike has been in a
crash and it's on its side therefore
that will cut fuel so all the censors on
the wiing loom and all the little boxes
I just put them neatly poting upwards so
one of these fuses was dodgy there was
the main accessory fuse this fuse can
you
see how it just keeps I can just
literally push it in and push it out see
that now that was the main accessory
fuse a better fuse to go in the bottom
one not even going to lie I just test I
just tested the fuel pump literally just
sat the fuel pump here just to see if it
was actually you know vibrating and it
started obviously it was like iding like
super rough because it got no fuel but
it's going to run it's going to run I'm
going to put this fuel we're going to
put the fuel in um I'm going to keep
everything exactly where it is the fuel
pump relay set up like that I'm going to
put everything where it is I'm going to
grab one of the guys again and it's
going to start it's going to start are
you
ready it ran what the hell whoops forgot
to plug the fuel pump back in sorry
guys woohoo
what did we what did you do then I went
to give you some ribs
oh well I just had the choke on then
okay so if I just leave the choke on
yeah go leave the choke
on sound [ __ ] without
exhaust are we
ready
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w
oils coming out of the
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uh Lally I was looking what rev you were
then what what revs you think you were
very man it revs to it revs to 14,000
what think you was out there 4,000
three
woohoo someone sponsoring some TOS cuz
I'm getting fed up right finding my TOs
C around
it hey look hey cor wrong when I came
here you said who free to use my tools
if you put them back I have put them
back I'm still working so am I happy yes
I'm so happy I can't believe when it
started I thought it' just be having to
start it with the bridge and then
finally sorted that issue all these
three issues that we had last night
which were one it wasn't starting on the
bottom two it wasn't stand at all and
three couldn't get out of gear they've
all just it's all just come together
today and it's all working it's all
great so it's started on the button
which is perfect it's not sucking gear
um and it's starting which is amazing
now although I'm happy I'm also a little
bit worried because going forward we've
still got a lot to do um and I'm still
worried about if the clutches have been
put in correctly because I still don't
really know and I've still not watched
uh well I've not I've only just uploaded
the last video so at this time of um at
this time of recording this I haven't
seen any comments so if I see any
comments that like you've done the
clutches wrong you the clutches wrong
I'm going to be fuming I did speak to MK
sports cars and they said I should have
offset the final clutch um but they're
like look mate it is what it is like you
know what I mean you're not going to be
driving it much um and it doesn't really
make a massive difference it just that's
what the manufacturer would do so what
we got to do now is I've let the car
kind of idle and settle so hopefully
we're not losing any oil from this case
and we're going to take this off and we
just going to put a little bit sealant
uh oil does get in there but it's not
like full oil pressure so it was just
dripping out so we're going to put layer
of this and that's going to be totally
fine now sometimes it's better to just
quit when you're ahead and enjoy the
moment I'm going to enjoy this moment
I'm not going to carry on doing anything
else cuz we've got a lot left to do on
this Rel I'm not going to lie although
now we've got it running the next task
is to get it driving which is arguably a
bit more of a difficult task than
actually getting it running but we're
got to do it going to enjoy this moment
and uh we got it running let's just
enjoy this moment in the next video
we're going to start getting it driving
so we got to make a prop shaft we got to
do all the bra line we've got to put our
shifter one oh you might like this one
look at this sequential shifter that
someone's made for me so yeah thanks for
watching everyone love you all and we'll
see with the next one this will be doing
wheelies in the car par very
shortly not sure if it's ever going to
see the road though I'm not going to lie
how is this going to get an MLT it's not
let's be honest it's
not
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