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    Advice from the Masters

    I have all my parts together to reassemble the top end of my 79 XS1100SF. Could not afford the bore but current pistons are in limits. New rings, Valve seals, all valves are true, platau hone on cylinders, head and cylinder maiting areas resurfaced, valves lapped, ports polished.
    First time I have put one of these back together, Any suggestions, tips, watch out fors, better methods, or I learned the hard way.
    There is a ocean of knowledge out there. anybody want to give up a cup.

    By the way, I have a set of front signal blinkers that are free to a good home. Not a bribe, just in the spirit of a great site.
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    If you've got any buddies, it would be money ahead to get 3 of them over to help with getting the cylinders down over the pistons. Get the gaps positioned right, then get one guy to squeeze the rings in and guide each piston. I've used different ring compressors, but this is the best method I've found. The rings are very brittle and will snap easily from an up or down movement if they come out of the piston groove.

    If you don't have 3 friends, hopefully you know 3 people that will work for beer?


    Tod
    Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

    You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

    Current bikes:
    '06 Suzuki DR650
    *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
    '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
    '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
    '81 XS1100 Special
    '81 YZ250
    '80 XS850 Special
    '80 XR100
    *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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    • #3
      Also, there was a very good thread posted about hot to break in a new engine/rings. Maybe someone has it bookmarked and will post it. Not your regular thoughts of how to do so.


      Tod
      Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

      You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

      Current bikes:
      '06 Suzuki DR650
      *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
      '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
      '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
      '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
      '81 XS1100 Special
      '81 YZ250
      '80 XS850 Special
      '80 XR100
      *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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      • #4
        http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread...ngine+break-in
        '79 XS11 F
        Stock except K&N

        '79 XS11 SF
        Stock, no title.

        '84 Chevy K-10 "Big Blue"
        GM 350, Muncie SM465, NP208, GM 10 Bolt with 3.42gears turnin 31x10.5 Baja Claws

        "What they do have is an implacable, unrelenting presence and movement that bespeaks massive power lurking behind paint and chrome. They don't wail like a screeching ninja, the don't rumble like a harley. They just growl like a spactic, stressed out badger waiting to rip your face off and eat your soul." Trainzz~RIP~

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