Robin, I'm pulling up a chair right alongside Mailman. Will be tuning in with much interest.
OK, DB, Thanks, Wish you guys were going first on this one.....lol.
5twins, tools, gaskets, seals ordered. Thank you again for all that info. Looks like a week to 10 days for everything to get here.
Will order the cam chain and exhaust pipe gaskets from a local Yamaha dealer tomorrow. Will pick up a valve lapper, compound and some spray on Copper Gasket Sealer at Canadian Tire. Also after reading aldo5468's suggestion in Hyde's 'Mikes Valve Tappets' thread I thought I might add these to my Yamaha order. What do you think?
Hope you don't get too far ahead of me gggGary., I would really like to be able to work the timing out on this to be tracking alongside what your doing. Well see how it goes I guess. This week is busy for me but I will have the engine out by the time all my goodies arrive. Will have a little more flexibility then. Maybe I can get a few more rides in too....lol. Although I'm afraid to push my luck with the timing being as erratic as it is.
Today's good news. Put in BPR6ES plugs as gggGary suggested yesterday and got out and rode today for about 2 1/2 hours.......Nice getting some bugs in me teeth again! Put over 70 highway miles on. First time the old girl has been up to 110 in 10 years. KPH that is.
At anything above idle she runs great but still a little wonky at idle sometimes. I can almost feel my advance assembly hanging sometimes and then dropping the idle down. Pamco and E-advance will be nice.
Here is a pic of my leaking gaskets after today's ride. Both gaskets are leaking all the way around. I have not done head bolt re torque as I wanted to see if and where it would leak. Guess we answered that one. Gonna get re torqued soon.
Also a pic of the plugs after today's run.
So I'm getting organized for major surgery here. Had an awesome ride today, and pushed it a little further than I intended, but felt like she was telling me I could trust her. It will be nice to have this next step over and know without any nagging doubts she's good.
Oh, and those original stock grips gotta go!