So I awoke this morning at a dark and quiet 5am(body is still trying to work the night watch) so I decided to get some work done on my bike while I was up. Crazy thing is, when you wake up that early, you can get a LOT done before noon! I started with getting my head cleaned up and ready for the new gasket and threebond. I did forget to replace the oil galley rubbers.. oh well, the old ones should be alright, hopefully haha! Put the head on, got it all torqued to spec and ready to get the cam in. Got the came in, lined it up with what I think was TDC, but didn't check the marking when the head was off.. Whoops. Got the cam chain tensioner, chain and sprocket all mounted up and looking orderly. I then started with the valve cover and putting the rocker arms and springs in. Come to find out I was missing a locking nut on one of the arms, so I ended up taking on off the ol' 350f I have laying in the garage. Thanks bud. Got that complete and torqued down with some new SS allen bolts that look so much nicer than the old ones, plus I saved time by not having to clean the old ones. I then cleaned up and painted the starter by taking it apart and checking the ohms for proper resistance and cleaned out the brushes and wiped the cap out. Painted it up and put it back together, then installed it in the engine. After that, I put the stator back on.. And initally thought I screwed up big time because I was using another socket wrench on the points side and ended up sheering the two little nubs on the bolt deal.. Then I remember that 350f engine I had lying there, so I stole the points unit out of that one haha! I don't think I'll be able to sell it as a whole by the time the 466 is finished at this rate! I ended up using a impact wrench to tighten down on the stator bolt, just bumped it a few times to tighten it up. Put that all together and cleaned up as well.
The only thing left on it is the breather cover and the left crankcase cover, which I'm doing something special on that I'll show later once the engine is done. These will be the last engine pics until its complete. I'll include pictures of today's things now for yall to look at. Enjoy.
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