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This was a challenge to say the least. Decided to take motor out and change a few gaskets to stop a pretty significant oil leak. Oil was coming out of the head gasket. Didn't split the engine, didn't want to open up another can of worms we didn't want. Bike spent a month or two sitting on the bike stand while waiting for it's insides to get back in. Wasn't in no big hurry to get job done, it was too cold to ride anyways... Had to take off kickstand in order to remove motor, so getting the bike to stay on the stand was an adventure in and of itself. Went downstairs one day to see the poor bike keeled over....
Get motor back in yesterday. Go to turn it over.....click,,,click....click...nothing. Ok, lets do the obvious and charge up the battery. Spent 10 hours on the charger, still not charged. Either its the charger or the battery. So, take battery to be tested, said there was a dead cell. Ok, new battery only fifty bucks, lets not get anymore headaches and buy new one. Still, click...click.....click. Ok. Let's backtrack a few steps and see if we missed something. Turns out the gear for the starter was set in too far so it was binding up. Bad part, we had to drain the nice new fresh oil out to fix the problem. Wahooooo......bike starts up. Ahhh.....dang it, it's leaking a bit of oil in a new spot. Oil was coming out of one of the top bolts. Bolt won't tighten down. Now, is the bolt stripped or is it stripped on the inside? Thankfully, it was just the bolt. New bolt, no leak. But what in gods name is that aweful noise that seems to be coming from the oil filter area? Everything in there is as it should be. Upon further investigation with my handy dandy trusty rusty screwdriver stethescope, noise is from the crank case where the gear for the starter was. I don't know how to explain the noise, but it goes away once the bike has been running for a while. Tommorows project, drain the oil again, take that cover off and lets see what part is screaming for help. It's like its a part that isn't getting oil soon enough...IDK, but this has certainly been an adventure to say the least....
Get motor back in yesterday. Go to turn it over.....click,,,click....click...nothing. Ok, lets do the obvious and charge up the battery. Spent 10 hours on the charger, still not charged. Either its the charger or the battery. So, take battery to be tested, said there was a dead cell. Ok, new battery only fifty bucks, lets not get anymore headaches and buy new one. Still, click...click.....click. Ok. Let's backtrack a few steps and see if we missed something. Turns out the gear for the starter was set in too far so it was binding up. Bad part, we had to drain the nice new fresh oil out to fix the problem. Wahooooo......bike starts up. Ahhh.....dang it, it's leaking a bit of oil in a new spot. Oil was coming out of one of the top bolts. Bolt won't tighten down. Now, is the bolt stripped or is it stripped on the inside? Thankfully, it was just the bolt. New bolt, no leak. But what in gods name is that aweful noise that seems to be coming from the oil filter area? Everything in there is as it should be. Upon further investigation with my handy dandy trusty rusty screwdriver stethescope, noise is from the crank case where the gear for the starter was. I don't know how to explain the noise, but it goes away once the bike has been running for a while. Tommorows project, drain the oil again, take that cover off and lets see what part is screaming for help. It's like its a part that isn't getting oil soon enough...IDK, but this has certainly been an adventure to say the least....