The motors that run the motion of the cycle are internally set, calculated and precise. To tear one down requires patience and planning.
So’sa I’ve done a few. The latest, the lil GSX Snowbird is awaiting guides. Punched four out on the wrong side, so I must wait for the full rasher of another 4 before I bake and punch the other side out.
Then its to press and peen each one into its heated sleeve. Down toe the ring. Slide on and lap the valves, then reassemble the top. This is where real patience and planning have and affect on the effects of assembly. Slip the cans over the pistons and gingerly coax the rings up into the tapers. Once inside they will slide to the bottom and the next layers are readied.
Another gasket, a few chain guides, the chain, the cams all get assembled together and in concert. Setting timing and counting links on this head is where the time is consumed. The valve springs have push, so to oil in the shafts while keeping the marks attended to is tedium ad nauseum.
When the guides show up it will be an all-out onslaught of assembly for a day, don’t bother me then.
Slip a slosh of that southern Java on me Sebastian.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, from The Dark Side. Not am Main nor ab der Elba, but down the Donau, and with Turkish Chai.
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