your piston my be slapping against the walls of the cylinder if bore is out
Its not, took measurements on it all today.
Crank bearings are toast though. Doing new crank bearings, output shaft seal, base gasket, clutch gasket, connecting rod & pin/bearings. Piston and bore are not out of round and are useable as per my mechanic. It was a brand new piston and rings when the motor was rebuilt and it only had about half an hour on it before it was put in storage. It was only run for 15 minutes or so by me. Pretty much all he does is build race motors and he has been doing it for about 30 years, so I trust his judgement. He built my pit bike motor and I have run it HARD for close to 3 years now. Still starts first or second kick even when it has sat for months.
Next year I am going to do a new top end. I will take some pictures of the cylinder now that we have cleaned it up.
I plan to continue being an active member on here so as I rack up on the hours on it, we will see if his judgement about being able to use the piston & bore was correct or not lol...
If I know my bike is going to sit for awhile. I will take some fogging oil and open the slide on the carb and spray through the throat of the carb to the reed cage and take the plug out and spray in the cyl with it at tdc and bdc than kick it over a few times to get everything coated. Works very very well for alky applications. Do not see why it would not for gas.
Agreed. i always properly "summerize" my snowmobile and "winterize" all my warm weather vehicles.
While the guy I bought it from had pretty good taste in updgrades and parts, he was not very mechanically inclined. He paid 900 bucks for what we now know was a crap motor build, and then didnt correctly prep it for long term storage and didnt ride it for over a year...
But I paid $3000 for it so after the motor is done right, it will still have been a hell of a good buy in my opinion.
So I just picked up a pair of these. Anybody else have a set of these metal zilla heel guards? I have only seen them online once or twice in all the years I have searched for zilla parts...
