1978 Honda CX500 Cafe Build

Well I am on vacation this week so I am getting bike work done while spreading Christmas cheer. If you look closely you will notice this is the 81 but I thought I would post here also.
 
Pretty much trashes the whole engine.

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Bearings are VERY unhappy with all those metal grindings floating around. Oil filters are not nearly as effective at protecting our engines as we would like to think they are. Most of the time, there is some of the oil that is bypassing the filter, so it takes multiple passes for the particles to get filtered out.

The engine that the above parts came out of was an Evo Harley. Evos filter the oil on the way back to the oil tank. The oil tank had a shitload of ground up metal in it. The top end and bottom end was trashed by this failure. That is on a roller bearing engine. A plain bearing engine like the CX500 is almost certain to have devastating bearing and crank damage.
 
Unfortunately by the time the shavings make their way to the plug they've gone all the way through the engine.
 
good thing the metal shavings come with a calibrated audio alert warning system

starts as a faint tap and gets louder as the metal shaving get thru more of the engine

very handy for diagnosis by the time it gets to a loud knock you know what is going on
 
Now I know what to do with all the open space I gained by relocating the battery and trashing the air box..
 
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