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Due to some alinement issues I had to change my motor mount design, not a great deal but enough that I had to make a trip to buy more aluminum stock, so instead of the motor bolting to a 3/8" by 8" plate, it gets a 3/4" by 6" plate to bolt to, this will be much stiffer and the added thickness allows a bearing to be pressed directly in to the plate that is bolting to the face of the motor, reducing the number of machined parts and reducing the number of bolts needed to hold it all together, by tomorrow at the earliest or this weekend at the latest I should have the motor to a point where it can be bolted on, no splined shaft yet, but that is next on the list! once the motor is bolted on I can start on the battery rack design and figure out for sure how many batteries can fit in the frame, there is more space then I figured at fist and the engine weighed what seems like close to 200 pounds, enough that I needed help moving it so I feel pretty good about the bike being able to handle the weight of the batteries.
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