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So lets revive this thread.........
About a year ago I decided to change a leaking head gasket and pulled the heads to do so. Something told me to check the pistons and i found that there was detonation marks on them so I took them off. Its hard to see but those holes are a lot deeper than you think. So I said fuck it and tore it down completely and sat on the bench for almost a year as so many of us do. Yes you know who you are, well all of you.
As things started to snowball I began to check the cost of new pistons and DAMN they are expensive! but you can buy the big bore kit for much cheaper. I then decided to port and polish the heads and sent them to someone that does racing heads. They should be back soon. The bottom end is back together waiting on everything else. For those of you taking a cb550 apart for the first time be wary of these bearings.They aren't sealed and hard to replace.
When the heads get back....aherm! Junior!
I'll get the bore completed.
All in all she should be a real beast!
Yes Justin, I hope to be done by the Thaw.
I'm signed on. I haven't been on this forum in a minute, but I decided to get back on because my bike is finally going to be dug up from the grave (corner in my garage) that its been sitting in for almost 2 1/2 years now.
I'll being paying close attention since I will probably be ending up doing close to the same as yours.
So when I took the transmission out of the parts washer two of these little guys showed up. I have looked at every part of the fiche. They are obviously a dowel ring for something but not this bike.
Sucks when you get stumped because someone didn't get all their stuff out of the parts washer. FYI it's not the ring around the rods for the heads. I saved those upon tear down.
Trying to place these makes me more confident about splitting the cases all other parts accounted for.
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