top end is finished, except for a run test, i think it's gonna work, cleaning the carbon out of the ring grooves freed up the rings. i didn't take the rings out to do it, i chases the carbon out with a broken ring and plenty of wd-40, carefully. they're still within the later edges of specs. but this was a experiment to get practice.
things overlooked might have some impact, i forgot 2 large dowels in the front side of the cylinder/head joint. i did get 2 large dowels w/orings and the 2 small dowels in.
for some reason i tried installing the cylinders over the slippers. don't ask why, i have no idea. but this one gonna be a clincher if it works, the tensioner missed and i didn't know it and got the pistons in before i realized it was sticking out the back. my ring compressors worked but were a pain, 2 inch schedule 40 the width of the rings, 2 were 1 piece with a slice through them i got them off with a soldering iron. both slippers are worn out.
following the advise to get the ignition dialed in before going on, i'll look into some new parts after the initial test run.
the carbs i have are in pretty good shape, 2 sets, i decided to put new fuel bowl level jets assembly that were 100 bucks, the old ones i had a tough time taking those out, tried wd-40 and soapy water and the orings were still not budging, the ones in it worked pretty good i think, but a little heat, and i mean a little worked ok, it could of been just a form of ego that did the trick with the heat, 1 by 1 it took another 4 days to get that done, but i gotta go over the mains again (didn't look at the numbers but only the conditions,) there might be floating lost 70 somewhere. i gotta open up another rack, the last one ran to see if i didn't put the best ones on that.
activated a yuasa micron battery, it's on it's last leg already i think, by it's over 2 yrs old ,in the box the vent tube was disconnected. so it was about 110 degrees out and i poured in the acid the battery got pretty hot 130 or 140 degrees. i let it soak for 25 mins and charged it with the yuasa trickle charger maintainer, and it worked only it doesn't rest on 12.7 or 8 it rest on 12.5.
that's the skinny on that. hope to get it running within a week.
i found a small m/c shop in a industrial center that says they can bore at 85 a hole. i asked the guy how many he's done. he said too many to guess at. i asked him on such a project a honda 400f how much clearance would he shoot for seeing how he's done some bores, he said .006. the other machine shop in town can do it, but they'd have to set up the small boring bar because they never do that small. i might have to send them someplace. 1 is going to be a first over, another one if the first doesn't go over that will be the 466 kit size. the third hopefully will be another 1st over. the head for it has an outside exhaust stud that bent and then broke and then ended up with a big hole all around except for the last 2 threads. i'm hoping someone can fill it with a weld job to hold the stud. weld around the stud? or fill it and then drill it. probably wont work.
