Eagerly awaiting the arrival of parts.
I am trying to lay everything out in an orderly fashion so it can all just go together once it's all here.
Spent all day cleaning components and scraping off old gasket material... That takes a longer time than I thought it would. Even with using lacquer thinner to soften things up.
Got the points housings cleaned up, with new seals, new o-rings, and new gaskets. The lacquer thinner really helped soften all the nasty yellowed clear coating. I was able to remove almost all of it with a scotchbrite sponge alone. I fine sanded some edges here and there and got them looking pretty nice. It's a shame they'll be mostly covered... Still, I feel that cleaner components go together easier, and make leaks/problems easier to spot.
I also cleaned up the cam chain tensioner, and a few pieces of hardware here and there. I'm to the point now where Im finally running out of parts to clean. I even took the starter apart and fine sanded the copper, and cleaned all the old dust out with degreaser, dielectric greased it all, and reassembled it. Now it really is just a matter of time...
As far as the points cam goes, I polished it by chucking up a tapered punch in my drill, and lightly tapped the cam onto the tapered end, then gave it a good spin with 1000 grit sandpaper til it shined nice. I notice some grooves still, not gonna go nuts on it. Just wondering if that'll cause any issues later on, and if it should be replaced with a new one.
I am trying to lay everything out in an orderly fashion so it can all just go together once it's all here.
Spent all day cleaning components and scraping off old gasket material... That takes a longer time than I thought it would. Even with using lacquer thinner to soften things up.
Got the points housings cleaned up, with new seals, new o-rings, and new gaskets. The lacquer thinner really helped soften all the nasty yellowed clear coating. I was able to remove almost all of it with a scotchbrite sponge alone. I fine sanded some edges here and there and got them looking pretty nice. It's a shame they'll be mostly covered... Still, I feel that cleaner components go together easier, and make leaks/problems easier to spot.
I also cleaned up the cam chain tensioner, and a few pieces of hardware here and there. I'm to the point now where Im finally running out of parts to clean. I even took the starter apart and fine sanded the copper, and cleaned all the old dust out with degreaser, dielectric greased it all, and reassembled it. Now it really is just a matter of time...
As far as the points cam goes, I polished it by chucking up a tapered punch in my drill, and lightly tapped the cam onto the tapered end, then gave it a good spin with 1000 grit sandpaper til it shined nice. I notice some grooves still, not gonna go nuts on it. Just wondering if that'll cause any issues later on, and if it should be replaced with a new one.
