Recent content by huck_finn

Got everything back together. I am getting 208 psi in my left cylinder and 210 psi in my right. I have taken it on some short rides and everything is sounding and feeling great (a little sluggish around 6K rpm though). I didn't re-jet the carbs yet - I wanted to get it moving again. Been over a...

I ordered one through bike bandit about 4 weeks ago...COVID causing loooong shipping delays. I ended up canceling the order finding one via eBay (somebody was selling a set of washers, springs, and clips for the whole spindle).

Thanks for the info - I actually have a 360 transmission sitting under my work bench, so I will pull it apart and see what I can't find. I found it listed on cmsnl, but paying $20 in shipping just feels wrong for a washer. Partzilla has it listed on their site as well, but says it will take...

Anybody know what the thickness is of the 12mm thrust washer (part 29)? I am having a tough time finding one, and might just get a local shop to make me one. Not 100% on what type of material I need to get it made in either. If anybody has one laying around...I would gladly take it off your hands.

Pulled the engine and split the cases over the weekend - incredibly lucky that I didn't put it in gear while running. The clip on the internal end of the kickstart spindle had come off. It was so fatigued that I could put it on and flick it off by hand. I have a new one ordered and on the way...

It was the copper gasket causing the noise! I was able to find a NOS tensionor retainer on ebay and used a time-sert kit to repair a stripped bolt holding it down. I buttoned everything up, set the valves, did a rough timing and it started up on the first kick. Then... I went to do some fine...

I am open to all suggestions. I didn't notice anything with the head gasket when I was reassembling. But it is worth taking another look at it.

The tensioner retainer on my bike looks like the first (top) one in your photo. It has a thin side and a thick side - I installed with the thin side towards the center of the engine. Is that the updated version? Head gasket is new: 69mm x 0.042'

Got back in the garage this past weekend and set the tensioner in place. Got everything back together, and still got a very similar noise. There is a little whine in the video, but I think it just might be the intake boot gasket not being set quite right. Any ideas on what I am hearing?

Here are a few shots I took of my pistons last night

I found the tensioner update supplement over on Honda Twins. I must have never seated the tensioner slipper properly, because it was definitely too high and was likely caught behind the lower damper. I didn't see anything on the piston skirts that wasn't already there when I installed them. And...

Here a couple of shots I took of the cylinders. None of the scoring could be felt when I ran my finger nail down the cylinder wall.

I used the .042 from Copper Gaskets Unlimited.

Yep - 850 pistons. I found a set of four on ebay (used) and dropped them off with my cylinders when I had them bored to 69. My machinist used the best two from the set. I put new Suzuki rings on them...but like a moron, I didn't measure the gaps. What should the piston ring gap be? I just...

I got everything buttoned up a couple of nights ago...was too nervous to try and kick it over late in the evening. If something went wrong, I knew I would be so mad that I wouldn't sleep. Went straight to the house after work on Monday...filled it up with oil (doing my best to squirt some into...