Joined May 2010
592 Posts | 247+
San Francisco, California
So, after waiting over a year for my rebuild to come back, I finally received my bike. Happy? Well, in a way I became very happy. But I sure didn't start out that way.
It started with a serious oil leak spraying out of the back of the left case cover. Immediately shut her down to investigate (I had a pic somewhere, but I can't find it). A quick check and I discovered 2 case cover bolts missing and it appeared as though the gasket was folded over at the front of the case (no gasket around the rear).
I opened her up to put in a new gasket and after removing sludge (and I have no idea how a new motor ends up with sludge at the bottom of the case), I discovered this:
Yep, that's a cam chain master link. Oh no! So, off with the head to rotate the motor and triple check the cam chain:
All the links are there, may as well install Taffy's decomp spring. However, while rotating the engine, I discovered this was only HAND-TIGHT!
So, I'm a bit upset. I have to go through this whole motor. Nope, can't trust anything this guy did at this point. I LOVED IT! Despite throwing away good money on a slack job, I was basically forced to do something that I really enjoyed doing!
Had to fix bodged up kick starter
Mmmmm, new goodies:
may as well do a crankcase breather (Thanks Bushie!):
more to follow . . .
It started with a serious oil leak spraying out of the back of the left case cover. Immediately shut her down to investigate (I had a pic somewhere, but I can't find it). A quick check and I discovered 2 case cover bolts missing and it appeared as though the gasket was folded over at the front of the case (no gasket around the rear).
I opened her up to put in a new gasket and after removing sludge (and I have no idea how a new motor ends up with sludge at the bottom of the case), I discovered this:
Yep, that's a cam chain master link. Oh no! So, off with the head to rotate the motor and triple check the cam chain:
All the links are there, may as well install Taffy's decomp spring. However, while rotating the engine, I discovered this was only HAND-TIGHT!
So, I'm a bit upset. I have to go through this whole motor. Nope, can't trust anything this guy did at this point. I LOVED IT! Despite throwing away good money on a slack job, I was basically forced to do something that I really enjoyed doing!
Had to fix bodged up kick starter
Mmmmm, new goodies:
may as well do a crankcase breather (Thanks Bushie!):
more to follow . . .
