This morning, I started the bike. To say I was nervous was a fucking understatement! I was expecting nothing...I know what I'm like and normally the climax is nowhere near as great as the chase. But, a cup of tea and a strong cigarette, 2ltrs of oil and a freshly charged battery gave me this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfwJ9YZ1fAE
Woohoo!!
Although, my joy was rather short-lived as you can see in most of the video I notice the oil pissing out of the camshaft case. Nice. But, kinda expected... the previous owner had mangled the 4 bolts that screw it down so I could only really exert a half-sensible pressure on them for fear of rounding them out. In fairness - I kinda expected that to leak but was trying my luck. I'm gonna go out and get some new ones... ones with bolt heads rather than bloody crosses. Seriously, why, Honda? Why use such breakable fixings, especially when they are torque-sensitive?!?!?
That aside, at least I now know that:
a) the engine runs!
b) the oil is pumping around (lol)
c) the drive sprocket is spinning so at least power is getting to the end of the whole thing!
So, so far, I'd say that's a success! Few niggling things to get done now but should be okay - I hope!!
