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James' 77 550f.
fastbroshi:
Understood. I can relate to the anticipation of getting it to run maybe making you forget some things.
luceja:
A few notes-
I think I've finally gotten the top end together with (cross my fingers) no oil seepage from the passageways. I swapped out the lower o ring that goes around the oil jet for a thicker o ring, and put an extremely conservative amount of hondabond on both sides of the gasket mating surfaces above and below the cylinder just around those oil passages... not enough to squeeze out and become a blockage or anything. Having split this case so many times in the last year, I've gotten a really good sense of how little hondabond you actually need. Every time I've done it, I've realized I needed even less than I thought. Anyway, looks like a little help from hondabond might be what was needed, since fresh gaskets and o-rings didn't do the trick.
luceja:
just some pics -
mocking up seat leather. the lady and I cut up an old chair - the leather is too brittle for long term use, but I'm enjoying making something temporary instead of being a perfectionist. Also running the shelby dowd front wheel temporarily while I work on the stock front.
Another rebuild shot.
Gratuitous parts shot.
Gratuitous garage shot. My buddy is working on his xs650 there.
fastbroshi:
Sweet barn, I'd kill to have my 650 sq ft garage back.
luceja:
--- Quote from: fastbroshi on May 14, 2012, 11:46:13 PM ---Sweet barn, I'd kill to have my 650 sq ft garage back.
--- End quote ---
Life would be much less enjoyable without that little one car garage... it holds those four motorcycles, 5 people's bicycles, and an offset printing press shop with two presses and a ancient paper cutter that could probably cut through a stack of cast iron pans. Basically you have to move the motorcycles out to do anything, but I'm grateful for the storage. At my previous house, I had a 3 car wide, story and a half ceiling, car and a half deep garage with a full loft over one of the car bays, and all I had to put in it was one car, one motorcycle, and some bicycles. If I had that now, it'd be a goddamn motorcycle factory in there.
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