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Once upon a time, I was riding my '79 Special down the freeway and the right intake valve blew a hole in the piston. So I pulled it apart, marking my points, bored the cylinders, installed the 1.0 oversized pistons and put everything back the way I found it. It starts up but it won't idle...

I've put th engine back together after replacing the pistons but the gear won't stay in neutral. As soon as I find neutral, I'll move the wheel forward and it slips either into first or into second. In the rebuild I didn't mess with the crank case so I'm not sure what I could have done. I...

Hey everyone, I have a 79 special that needs a new engine because the right piston has an ugly hole in it caused by the spark plug. (Sad day since I'm poor and love my bike!) Anyway, I am looking at two engines. One is a 78 with unknown mileage and the other is an 80 with 10k miles...