Well today was the day, OMM came over and we pulled the motor out
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I taped up the frame and put some rags in place after I had removed the carbs, and disconnected all the wiring, starter motor and chain sprocket ready for OMM to arrive.
Once he came over we made short work of removing the motor, unfortunately it because of how much practice we have had.
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We put the motor into the stand that I had cobbled together from the first time the motor was out
or was it the second, or third, fourth, fifth ? I lose count now.
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Anyway with the motor out we got the cylinder head off without too much trouble, to my surprise the gasket looked like it was in really good condition, we then removed the gasket which came off without too much trouble.
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I inspected the top of the cylinders on the side where the leak was, and other than finding all the Honda bond I had put there in an attempt to fix it there was nothing I could see that would have made it leak, even the underside of the gasket was in good nick.
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Next I cleaned the surface with grease remover and cleaned them up before sliding the head back on.
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You can see where we made a dummy cam to hold the shims in place, I think I would have had a break down if I had to do that all over again.
I torqued the head bolts down in sequence first to half torque then 30ft lbs one over but Rex said that’s ok, the proof will be in the pudding
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Reconnected the oil delivery line and got the last two crankcase bolts in that are on top of the oil filter
I still have these two bolts left from my kit and I can’t for the life of me work out where they go. Maybe Jimbo can help me out here ??
Next we turned the motor to TDC 1.4 and lined the cams up, first attempt both were out by one tooth but we got it spot on.
We were in the home straight we put all the cam journals on and were just torquing them down I started to torque up the first bolt, and it spun, and spun, and spun
no fu€king way
Yep it’s halicoil time... unfortunately it was too late in the day to go get one so that’s where today’s instalment ends.
Tomorrow I’ll get a halicoil kit x 3 just encase and I’ll get this all buttoned up and maybe even get it back in and for a leak free ride, fingers crossed
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