Well, it's springtime in the ol' Pueblo and it's time to get the '80 roadworthy and install all the parts I've collected over the past year. Brass swingarm bushings, braided stainless steel brakline for the rear brakes and modify the rockers to take the elephant feet valve adjusters. Fix the broken clutch perch,cleanup the wiring, install blade fuse holder. I'm still on the fence about Mike's overdrive 5th gear. I installed a 32 rear sproket last year and happy with it except for the engine RPMs at hiway speed.
Tonight I get the Dremel out and did a bit of smoothing of the intakes and exhausts on an extra cylinderhead and matched valve cover. Just enough to smooth the casting flash. I'll do a valve lapping tomarrow and reassemble the head. I started grinding on some extra rockerarms for the elephant feet adjusters. The metal and tempering they used to make those rockerarms is super hard!
The other night I took off the swingarm and it had the factory plastic bushings. They practically fell out of the swingarm, they were so loose. Still solid and not cracked. I had the brass S/A bushings at hand and one side slid right in and the other side needed to be hammered in. Got the S/A reinstalled and had to stop for the night.
I still need to order the camchain(it's stretched to the max and why I stopped rideing the SG), gasket and oilseal kits.
More to come....Maybe some pics later too!
Tonight I get the Dremel out and did a bit of smoothing of the intakes and exhausts on an extra cylinderhead and matched valve cover. Just enough to smooth the casting flash. I'll do a valve lapping tomarrow and reassemble the head. I started grinding on some extra rockerarms for the elephant feet adjusters. The metal and tempering they used to make those rockerarms is super hard!
The other night I took off the swingarm and it had the factory plastic bushings. They practically fell out of the swingarm, they were so loose. Still solid and not cracked. I had the brass S/A bushings at hand and one side slid right in and the other side needed to be hammered in. Got the S/A reinstalled and had to stop for the night.
I still need to order the camchain(it's stretched to the max and why I stopped rideing the SG), gasket and oilseal kits.
More to come....Maybe some pics later too!