But mom, it followed me home! And I'm gonna build it right here!

Started scraping gaskets today and boy are they stuck. Prolly Monday take the cases into work and continue scraping with the help of gel paint stripper. Ordered Yamaha cam bearings this morning. I'm gonna figure out a riveter for the cam chain this week. And, the journey is the adventure but without the destination, there is no journey.
john
 
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Now you're getting it! You'll get there. Stay the course, otherwise, you're just somebody else on FB marketplace, selling bins of a failed project.....
 
Cold wet weather, family and the holidays have really put a damper on progress (not complaining, these are all blessings). I should be diving back into this project soon. Just finished reading Mailman's most excellent XS2 build thread, between that and what I got from gggGary's legacy thread, add to that which I have picked up over the years. I'm REALLY praying for a mostly trouble limited build. I will be posting.
john
 
Happy New Year! And today I Metal Prepped the upper crankcase for paint and of course the other shoe dropped, while drying the clean case, I noticed an epoxy oil way plug jiggle. Many years ago I had some kind of powder and catalyst stuff for repairing this kind of thing. Now I think I'll be using J B Weld tomorrow. The really good thing here is_ this case is clean enough to do the fix in the house. All the plugs get re-epoxied now.
john
 

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Last night I plucked out the rest of the loose plugs and replaced them with JBWeld, while doing this I shoved the exacto through the rubber plug between the case halves. I promptly said "Aw Sh!t" and went to partzilla to check availability, no luck but copied the p/n to ebay, found NOS and ordered. pix tonite.
john

P.S. SWMBO said "No supper till that thing is off the dining room table" and I, in rare unstupid move, didn't comment on who typically cooks and simply moved it to a folding tea table in front of my lazyboy with my mouth shut. I then cooked up a pizza ;)
 
and simply moved it to a folding tea table in front of my lazyboy with my mouth shut. I then cooked up a pizza
Those were two of the best things you could've possibly done! :thumbsup: Ensuring the domestic peace is the best way to be able to get out and do something monumentally stupid later! (Like buy another motorcycle! :laughing: )
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, what do you call it when you do things differently every time and get the same result? (disaster) :umm:
 
Wow John, you’re allowed to work on your motor in the living room? You’re wife is so cool! My wife banished me to the garage when she came home and the house was smoked up from me cooking cylinders in the oven and I had my carbs torn apart on the kitchen counter! :D Hey, we’re guys right?

Your cases look great!
While you’ve got your epoxy out , some other spots to check, are this plug next to your clutch push rod ( mine was loose and drooling oil.
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Also there are several plugged oil passageways inside the rocker boxes, they were all loose in my motor.
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I’m enjoying your build. :thumbsup:
Bob
 
Okay mailman, last evening I pondered just how cool SWMBO really is, so here's a side story. In the 1970's she passengered on the XS1 and all was good, then life and family seized priority and the motorcycle went away. In the mid 1980's a 28' Chris Craft was my escape until "You love your boat more than you love me" followed by stage3 Melanoma, bye-bye boat. No joy for a while, fast forward to 2007; rental Road King and it's on. Took the Mrs to the H-D dealer and she was pissed! Bought the King(she refused to even mount the bike in the showroom). 2008 nephew getting married in Galveston "OK we can rent a bike in TX". Planning and arranging airlines and the like, I say's "WTF! I have a bike and 6 weeks saved vacation, I'm riding" to which she replies "Pick me up at the Houston airport and fly me home from Las Vegas". I win! We have Autotrained with the King to FL and she flew home from Atlanta. In 2013 I rode to Seattle arrived at SeaTac airport at noon her flight arrived 1pm (darned good timing for a cross country ride)she flew home from Denver. Then the XS1 came back and was resurrected. I simply got pissed off and put the Queen up for sale. Well the week after gggGary took delivery, SWMBO say's "get another XS" so here we are! Gotta love this woman!
john
 
Today, I attempted crank case painting. It seems that I may have misplaced some of my "artistic" abilities over the years. That being said, the engine paint job is rather "grainy" and in need of rectification. Maybe, when it warms up a bit, I'll try again and since the airbrush may have been the wrong tool for the job I'll use an old siphon feed gun. The ultimate goal is a painted upper case to load the engine guts into. I do projects like this one step at a time and engine work is in the house work, I also know, experientially, that SWMBO will not allow the whole bike in the living room("man needs to know his limitations" and learn new as needed). No pix today, too f-ugly!
john
 
I just can't seem to locate the old siphon feed gun I remember using it on a Datsun pickup not that long ago. Or maybe it was that long ago, that's the 2 into one truck that my 9 year old son helped weld together right before he lit me on fire, the boy's 38 now. I'm thinking the basement gnomes took it. I guess the painting may require a new application device and I'm on a quest.
john
 
Well, today it's not raining and it's over 60 so to the garage I go. The rat's nest is unplugged, the bucket is on the shelf and the top triple camp is in the car(for a Monday cleanup and paint). I ordered new tubes, seals and stock repro bars for the front end. I'm hoping for a little more nice weather over the winter.
john
 

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