Recent IVA Experience

Keyz

Keyz

Member
Hi all,

Has anyone had any recent experience putting a Freestyle through the IVA?
If you have, any general advice would be great but I'm specifically interested in the location of your fuel tank.

I'm just coming back to an old project I started about 15 years ago. Needless to say it's in a bit of a state so will need to be sripped down and basically rebuilt. The fuel tank is behind the seats and despite it being covered over I'm concerned it will be failed on this.

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks,
Rick
 
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250buggys

250buggys

Well-known member
Hi Rick mine and Justins Freestyle passed IVA with behind the seats tank with cover no problems at all and Alistair's too.

Have a read here

Got a Freestyle Buggy at last!

My grinder started to loose power so I stripped it down, it came with a spare set of brushes so I thought I would fit them. When I got it apart I could see that the plastic cooling fan had gone brittle and three of the blades had disintegrated, one was lodged in the casing but the other bits...
www.muddybuggies.com

Welcome to the forum, be keen to see some pics of your build project 😃 Chris
 
Keyz

Keyz

Member
Hi Chris,

Perfect, thanks for this, much appreciated.

Looks like a smart machine!

I've attached a couple of photos of mine but unfortunately it's in a pretty bad way at the moment. Currently assessing whether I have the time to strip it down and rebuild it.

Thanks again,
Rick
 

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250buggys

250buggys

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Great project, well worth rebuilding 😃
If it helps at all I can provide you with my tank and tank cover also the engine cover and the side pannels I made which will help you get through the IVA process.

Get in touch as these parts are all in my shed looking for a new home/buggy 😃
 
Keyz

Keyz

Member
250buggys said:
Great project, well worth rebuilding 😃
If it helps at all I can provide you with my tank and tank cover also the engine cover and the side pannels I made which will help you get through the IVA process.

Get in touch as these parts are all in my shed looking for a new home/buggy 😃
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Thanks, but I have the tank and engine covers, I had started to take it apart already.

Thanks again for the info.

Rick
 
Keyz

Keyz

Member
Hi Chris,

Any chance you could upload a couple of photos of the engine side panels you mentioned?
The ones I made aren't the best so will be looking for something better.

Thanks again,
Rick
 
Keyz

Keyz

Member
Thanks, great shout, I hadn't considered this.

If you are looking to get rid of the ones you have I might be interested in buying these off you. I just need to make sure they will fit next to the fuel filler.

Thanks,
Rick
 
Keyz

Keyz

Member
That's fair.

Good call on the composite stuff, hadn't thought of that - better than the sheet alu I used before.

Thanks,
Rick
 
Phaeton

Phaeton

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Staff member
Rick,

It doesn't have to be solid, this is how I made mine, but if you go this route use round tube nt square like I did as he got me on sharp edges.

DSC00086.jpg

So when I took it for the retest it looked like

SVA22.jpg
 
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