Okay youz guyz, I know a lot of you got to ride cause you don't live in the tundra like us Nor Easters, but I spent the entire weekend caressing my baby. I ripped her all down and got the jugs all set to ship out first thing tomorrow morning to Wiseco to complete the big bore job.
It took me about 6 hours of actual work, about 12 hours of time spent though. A lot of beer breaks and waiting for the garage to reheat ocassionally. It all went very smoothly and I took zillions of pictures. So I will be updating my site when I get it all written up and ready to go back together.
It takes Wiseco about 7-10 days to get the machine work done so I should be all set within a couple weeks. My girlfriend was laughing at me doing the work cause she said she has never seen me get so oily and greasy. It is a pretty messy job, oil goes everywhere as you tear it down. Draining the oil first does absolutely no good since the oil is in all the hoses/cables/head and everywhere you can imagine. I did find a few quirks that i will point out in the writeup as far as things to look for that are ptoential problems. An example is that I found a couple large pieces of what appeared to be gasket material in the main oil line going from the cooler to the head. This was stuck in one of the banjo fittings and I can see where it could be a serious problem had it plugged the line completely. Someone at the factory must have been sleeping that day, who knows.
Anyway, here's a picture of all the stuff I had to take off.
The jugs are already packed up so they're not in the picture. Beer break.....
