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. 


Red grease. Has worked great on all the other motors.What sealer (any?) was on the gasket?
I have a green gasket in mine. I installed it dry. I hope that makes a difference. I'm still dry after 2,000 miles.Red grease. Has worked great on all the other motors.
I have a green gasket in mine. I installed it dry. I hope that makes a difference. I'm still dry after 2,000 miles.
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.
How did you attach that fitting to the side of the can
I drilled a hole in the can and used a bulkhead (pass through) fitting.How did you attach that fitting to the side of the can
I like the simple setup
I drilled a hole in the can and used a bulkhead (pass through) fitting.
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.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
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.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 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.Is that a Duro HF308? I’m eyeballing those for my xs2. Much cheaper than the K70’s.