So here are the pics as promised to bring you up-to-date on where I am... Engine halfs just put back together: [IMG] this is how you can...
Okay, more pics are coming...I've been taking them as I have been reassembling but haven't made the time to download, then upload, and then paste...
Yep...being oiling and applying mono disulfide whatever grease to all points indicated in the good book...which sadly i nearly have memorized
Okay, the halves are now together (picks pending)...I had a panic though...as I was tightening all crankcase bolts to specs, I thought I broke one...
Quick update...still waiting on the bearing set ring apparently on the slow boat from Japan....but I really think these delays are sometimes a...
Pics aren't the greatest tonight..but here's what i got...the new an old cylinder gaskets side by side (new one on the bottom): [IMG] and then...
Yeah back from vacation and I find my replacement head gasket in the mail and it look great!...can't believe how closely it resembles the original...
Brief update before I head out of town...crankcases are spanking clean thanks to scotchbrite sanding papers and lots of seafoam. Tranny just...
Nope...don't know David...but perhaps I should?...cuz I'm almost ready to order this ebay thing but would wait if a better source becomes...
I described the make up of the old gasket and they said they thought their's was similar and are measuring the thickness. Think I might make an...
Cool great info on the CB450!...i luv that bike...and may re-do the valve per your info. On my VF500, I found a local industrial bearing supply...
Will give it a try...I contacted a supplier called Ichiban and will look into some of the others you have listed. I would think about buying...
Thanks for the good wishes...and thanks keeping me steady invisible...well, my hissy fit is over so and here is my cases split: top engine...
And if u look at some of my early photos you can see that I did try to remove from the outside, but this countershaft seal has an inner lip which...
N both the FSM manual and clymers said to loosen the load on the rocker arms by loosening adjusters
Okay thanks for pissing on my cheerios but that is not what my new countershaft seal looks like. The oil was squirting out alot...which i could...
I have the site bookmarked at work but I found it here searching through threads...think its begins with a "c"...I called and said the could but...
Okay so...camshafts out, cam tension mechanisms out: [IMG] and the cylinder heads!...had a might fight with one of the hex head cap bolts that...
lol...well, I also found a semi live wasp underneath the alternator rotor...bad omen i think...did not sting me...so maybe its an okay omen.
Okay...still working...after talking things over with the only living person I know who has split the cases, along with the clymer's and the FSM,...
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