Larry's Hovercraft & Trike Build

Building machines from scratch

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Trike › Chapter 6 of 10

Exhaust and Brakes

Squeezing a muffler into a tight spot, plus the handbrake and rear brakes needed for certification.

  1. Part 1

    Fitting the exhaust and muffler

    For the exhaust I don't have much room to play with and its right there in plain view so the trick is to fit a muffler...

    6 photos
  2. Part 2

    Handbrake calipers and rear brake master cylinder

    Basically all I've done is removed the original Honda caliper then tapped the original mounting holes and fitted two heli coils to make them the correct...

    6 photos
  3. Part 3

    Park brake cables

    The parking brake cables mounted in place and ready to have the front cable mounted. My plan is to have the "park brake" operated via the...

    2 photos
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