ENGINE TEARDOWN CONTINUED
Here are a couple shots of the cam.
Next up, remove the pistons. They are pretty hard to read, but I believe they are both stamped 963 on top.
Everything has been going beautifully up to this point. Now let’s take a look at the bores. Hint, this is where things go sideways.
The right cylinder looks beautiful, clean and can still see faded cross hatching in there.
Now let’s look at the left. Water has been in here, somehow, someway. I don’t know if it was condensation, or the good buddy I bought the bike from who owned the wrecking yard and loved his steam cleaner, but have a look.
So here I am.
In my eagerness to get things started, I jumped the gun. I was so confident given the look of everything I had seen to date and the bikes very low mileage that I ASSUMED that I could get away with just honing the cylinders.
Let that be a lesson to you all. Don’t buy parts before you look!
All I needed to wait was one more day and I would’ve known the correct course of action, instead I now have standard size rings flying in from Japan as we speak and a flex hone that will likely not see any action. So my Cheap Bastard Rebuild is about to grow. I’m a little unsure what the next step is for me. Do I take my jugs to a machine shop to be looked at and measured? Do I order over size pistons and rings and then go to a machine shop?
This is new to me, I may be slow , but I’m learning. ( and still having fun)