Search results

Yeah looking at all of that with the engine apart, it’s probably better I replace mostly everything

Wow good eye, I have it right in front of me and I didn’t even see that

Out of the exhaust

Unfortunately no, wipers weren’t wiping. Rings are frozen to the pistons.

Here’s a better pic of the valves. I marked the bad side with chalk, I don’t see any signs of damage

No marks that I can see, I’m getting a quote from a machine shop today to see what he’ll charge for a resurface, on one side I poured water in the combustion chamber with the spark plug in and it leaked everything out immediately, hence the zero compression, the other side leaked while giving it...

Here we are as of today, it looks pretty bad, I undid the cam chain and didn’t pay attention to any timing marks. Got too excited oops

thank you I will rebuild

Agreed

Good call I’ll try this tmrw

Thanks for the insight. I definitely think I’m gonna keep it now that I heard all these positive responses. I’ll bring it back home and break it down. I’ll probably end up buying a repair manual first and once that comes in I’ll dig in and send some pics

Hey, ya never know!

100%! But their big argument is that I can buy a running bike for the cost of all the parts

Odometer reads 9,955. I definitely am aware a $300 bike would have problems. My friends don’t seem to understand that, and we’re all mechanics, go figure. We do this for a living. I will try and blow some air in tomorrow, the engine is at my work

I did throw a boroscope down there, everything looked fine. Little carbon buildup but nothing crazy

I sprayed a load of penetrating oil down there. Unchanged

hey everyone, A while back I had posted that I bought a 1977 xs sight unseen. I did not know if it ran or not, I just bought it. It was beat up. I ripped the engine out and started buying carbs, intakes, etc. I popped the right side spark plug out and stuck my thumb in the hole while I cranked...

Before I took it all apart I did that and they were both getting stuck and were having a hard time returning. Not sure if it was just bc it was filthy. Once I get the gaskets and put it all back together I’ll try it again.

Thank you all for the replies, between yesterday and today I knocked the carbs off and brought them to work to see what I’m working with. From what I’m gathering they’re bs38’s. I have an ultrasonic cleaner at my job so I let them cook in there for a while and they cleaned up pretty nicely...

Thanks for this. I will poke around 👍🏼👍🏼