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Pulled the motor today on my most recent jigsaw puzzle.
Most of the bike is in those boxes you see on the left. P.O. said it has the gear problem these 1100s have, so thought I'd split the cases and give everything a look. He had bought most of the stuff to make the bike fuel injected because he hated carbs, but he had the cheap Emgo filters on them and the vacuum advance was hooked up to the carb bell not the boot? I'm going to bring it back with carbs because I know absolutely squat about fuel injection.
Tearing into it a bit, I drained the middle drive and saw massive chunks and shavings of metal stuck to the magnetic drain plug, so assuming the middle drive is junk and made me wonder if it has gear problems or the middle drive was the culprit? We'll see when I get to the gears.
50k miles on the odometer and I see that someone else had split the cases before. Engine numbers match the frame at least. I'll probably try to contact P.O. and see if he knows why the cases were split. Gaps on all the shims were really tight and #1 had zero clearance, so I'm going to have to check to make sure the valve isn't burnt. Assuming it had never been shimmed since new. Several were at that point where the specs say .21-.25 gap and they were like a .16 or .17, so that one shim will put it back at the very bottom of the spec. so you aren't really sure to go slightly over spec or just put it back in at the bottom of the spec.
I will also be pulling the head to be able to mic the cylinders and to plug off the YICS tube, but I quit for the day to go eat with the family for my birthday. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions when it comes to that elctrical stuff I suck so bad at.. lol. Everything has been disconnected and taken off, so all the magic smoke is gone...
Most of the bike is in those boxes you see on the left. P.O. said it has the gear problem these 1100s have, so thought I'd split the cases and give everything a look. He had bought most of the stuff to make the bike fuel injected because he hated carbs, but he had the cheap Emgo filters on them and the vacuum advance was hooked up to the carb bell not the boot? I'm going to bring it back with carbs because I know absolutely squat about fuel injection.
Tearing into it a bit, I drained the middle drive and saw massive chunks and shavings of metal stuck to the magnetic drain plug, so assuming the middle drive is junk and made me wonder if it has gear problems or the middle drive was the culprit? We'll see when I get to the gears.
50k miles on the odometer and I see that someone else had split the cases before. Engine numbers match the frame at least. I'll probably try to contact P.O. and see if he knows why the cases were split. Gaps on all the shims were really tight and #1 had zero clearance, so I'm going to have to check to make sure the valve isn't burnt. Assuming it had never been shimmed since new. Several were at that point where the specs say .21-.25 gap and they were like a .16 or .17, so that one shim will put it back at the very bottom of the spec. so you aren't really sure to go slightly over spec or just put it back in at the bottom of the spec.
I will also be pulling the head to be able to mic the cylinders and to plug off the YICS tube, but I quit for the day to go eat with the family for my birthday. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions when it comes to that elctrical stuff I suck so bad at.. lol. Everything has been disconnected and taken off, so all the magic smoke is gone...
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