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I'm back, now that winters over I can finally get into my garage to start working again. First up on the list is to get the broken stud pulled and a new one in place. After that I need to Fab up some tracker style bars and reweld the brake pedal.

Pat, Thanks for the wise words, lucky it came apart while I was retorquing the head. I got it tight, tighter, and then all of a sudden very loose and it popped off like when you twist a paper clip too many times.

10 days later. The bolt/tube/axle? thing holding the cylinder and head to the crackcase sheared off leaving me with 3 potentially damaged other ones. I really fucked it up again.

Well color me impressed! It worked. Do you know at what rpm i should be shifting?

No I didn't, is that something I should do? Do you think its not the carburators?

Yes, It was working fine yesterday. I just don't understand.

Well I'm lost :-\ bike was running great the other day, and I put an air filter on, and redid the fuel lines and now she doesnt start. If I open the throttle, hold down the choke and cover the intakes, itll start, rev up to 5k and idle there. WhenI let go of the choke it dies and no amount of...

Got everything haphazardly put together and it started up and idled. I noticed smoke coming out one side and not the other in which i noticed that the intake was not hooked up to the oil pump. Also the engine idles but the then will randomly jump up to 4k rpm and keep climbing, which scares me...

Thank you, I think I'm going to go with a hi-flow filter instead. I think it just looks nicer that way.

Cleaned the intakes and carbs today. Turns out since I diped them, the aluminum kinda fell apart. Spent hours scraping aluminum oxide out of every jet and orifice I could think of. All I need now is a battery and we will be set to go. Also does anyone have any advice regarding rear sets? I...

BIG DAY TODAY! With the head gasket coming monday I decided to spend the day working out the cosmetics. I wrapped the exhaust, polished the exhaust, cleaned the crank and surrounding areas, pulled the fenders temporarily, and fabricated up some new bars. Take a look. Only issue is that the...

After a week of waiting my gaskets finally came in. I wasted no time in throwing the cylinders back on and getting everything put back together. Before mounting the headers or intake I handpumped the kickstarter a few times and watched all the left over gasoline from the flush shoot out the...

More photos, I haven't figured out how to add them into a body of text so you can just browse through them or whatever floats your goat. In this group I pulled the front fender, painted the muffler covers, cleaned the exhaust, cleaned whatever I could and am working on getting clubmans setup.

Today I pulled the front fender for cleaning and it looks rad, I also was going to pull and cut the bars but theres some sort of dampener in the way of getting the bars off. I need to figure out how to pull that damn thing. Pics in an hour or so.

While doing the 3rd coat on the muffler covers I noticed that I used Hi-Temp base and a Automotive top gloss coat. So we will see what happens with that. Best case scenario is that it will not make a difference. Worst is that it cracks and explodes into my shins. Also does anyone have any good...

Noted. Something to act as a shield so that the motor doesnt get sandblasted. I could probably fab something up. As for the forks im not sure as to what diameter they are, again I could always buy a real stabilizer. I don't trust this machine :P . The PO did a pretty nice job of abusing the...

Holy shit thats beautiful! Diggin that intake filter setup!

While I'm waiting ever so patiently for my gaskets to come I've begun thinking about how I am going to change this. One of the first things is to strip the bike of any unnecessary weight. Since this is a trail bike, the fenders are massive. I'm thinking that pulling the rear would really change...

Thanks a ton man, I found a pdf online that I have for it, but when I get to something I don't understand I'll definetley take you up on that offer.

I'm thinking I'll probably keep the seat thats on there. Its got a nice brat look to it an I can fit a girl on the back. Also I noticed that the bracket that connects the footrest to the frame was held in place with a random assortment of washers. I don't know what or how its supposed to fit...