It's past time to start XS2 Resurrection

Nice work Greg! The evolution of the old girl continues. It’s nice to hear that your big bore kit payed off! 🙂 Sorry to hear about your gasket squeezing out on you. I hope you can put off pulling the motor until the riding season is over. 👍
 
When I bought the kit I also bought a extra head and base gasket. When I fix it I will not use the base gasket. I think I'll just use #4.
 
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This is the first problem I've had with any base gaskets moving. My spare engine has close to 10k miles on it. Green Athena gasket with red grease. Not sure why this one moved.
To be clear this gasket is green, it did not come from a Athena gasket kit. It came with the big block kit.
 
This is the first problem I've had with any base gaskets moving. My spare engine has close to 10k miles on it. Green Athena gasket with red grease. Not sure why this one moved.
To be clear this gasket is green, it did not come from a Athena gasket kit. It came with the big block kit.


Definitely looks like yours kinda crumbles and squirt out the bottom.

As much as it sucks, might just be a bum one.
 
Thanks I'll start the search
How did you get the inside nut attached ?
I just started to google bulkhead fittings but from what I've seen so far you need access to the inside
Iirc, I taped the fitting to a piece of wire.... coat hanger maybe and just took my time working it down into place. Taped a piece of metal to a box end wrench to hold it while I tightened it. Just imagine yourself building a "ship in a bottle"... seems to help somehow. :wink2:
 
Rode up to the SOIR the other day. Bike ran great. Still have not replaced the cylinder base gasket the patch I put on it is still holding. Anyway I noticed before I headed north the rear tire was pretty used up. It made the trip with no problem but lacked tread in the middle. I had put Conti Twins on it a couple of years ago. Used them on my BMWs and was happy with them. Not so happy with this one. Done at about 5k smiles. Front tire in great shape would probable last for 3 more rears. I really like the K70s I put on my other XS2. Didn't really feel like buying 2 new tires. I had a used rear Duro I took off my buddies XS2 when he picked up a screw in it. He wanted a new tire, who was I to argue with him. It only has around 2k smiles on it. Tread pattern very close to a Twin. Hmm what the hay., I'll use it. Removed the screw from it, it looked ok. In keeping with the Ozarks rally I changed it myself. @desmoman900 would be proud of me did it all by myself. But then this is not the first time I've changed a tire. Note the same tire iron used in the Ozarks.

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That’s too funny, when I first looked at that top photo, that tire looks so flat across the tread I thought you were going to the dark side and running a skinny car tire on the back! 😄
I tend to run too much air pressure plus in Illinois we don't have many corners. Mostly intersections so the sides don't get used much.
 
Is that a Duro HF308? I’m eyeballing those for my xs2. Much cheaper than the K70’s.
I think that's what it is. All I can see on this tire is 64H. This is what I got to replace it. I put 1k smiles on a set of them on the bike I took this off of and I thought they were fine.
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