Thanks 5T, that's great to hear. I ended up snapping a ring when trying to remove them so reusing wasn't ultimately in the cards, but good to know that things are generally looking good.
That's me on my brandy-new '74 TX650A back in the day. I REALLY like that Cinnamon Brown color and AFAIK, the '74 is the only year it was available.
Thanks Bob! A couple months of killing myself on those basket case Honda's really inspired me to try to work smarter, not harder on my Yamaha.Super impressive results! It took me an eternity to get my motor that clean using nothing but elbow grease!
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Yup, thanks for the link Skull, those are them. Can concur with the general opinion so far that they feel a little more robust in fit/finish than the one from Mike's although I won't disparage since I might need it someday...
5T, yes, I figured as much. My filters were pretty gross as well. That was actually a big driver to open the cases, along with the aesthetics, was that I knew I had some pretty gnarly sludge down in there, and it just seemed a little silly to me to have that opportunity to clean it out and not do it, especially considering all the other work w/ the top end rebuild.Your "new" oil was probably so dirty simply because it was flushing out long term past gunk build-up.
Haha, no Bob, definitely not in real time, I really wish I had though. First broke things down in October, and I'd say this post is about at Christmas now. Seems fast when I just post it all, but for every step I probably did a ton of reading the shop manuals and combing through these forums, bookmarking, pulling excerpts, etc. I'm not joking when I say I feel like I know a lot you hahaha. The vapor blaster was also being built in real time and I'd only ever really find time here and there on the weekends so it just took a while, busy with work and the wife, etc. I'd always meant to open an account and document things in real time, but any free time I had felt better spent actually working on the thing and not just talking about working on the thing.You are doing a superb job here and moving so fast! I have to ask, are we seeing this done in real time?
My personal suggestion - replace the sump oil filter which seems to be a weak point.
Wow - you are doing a really nice job on all of this - but I must say, is it just me - or does Somerville have one pretty snazzy looking shop in which to work.....?