Originally Posted by 98hotrodfatboy

Thanx for the support. Yea a little cold. I had a 1500w electric under the work bench. Saturday was the worst. 38* and 12 hours our there.

Most importantly the maiden 15 mile slow Cruz rectified all of that and the some.....

Originally Posted by byronk

Glad to see you up and running and good job on the video's!

Originally Posted by glidein wide

Yeah, I wish I could post a video from my phone !!!!

Originally Posted by 98hotrodfatboy

Resumed assembling the motor Saturday morning and worked most of the day. Did some stupid things like Put the front jug and piston on as an assembly (it's the way I prefer) but forgot the base gasket. so apart again.....
Then later in the build once I had the head, rocker assembly and pushrods in and adjusted, I was spinning the motor over by hand (socket on the crank) and before I could get a full revolution it became hard to spin and then heard a snap... Oh ****..... so I backed it up a little and gently tried forward again. No way, thought I snapped a valve or something. It happened so fast that I really couldn't locate where the sound came from. So back apart the top end came. I only removed rockers and pushrods.... Spinning by hand again still had difficulty forward then it hit. HEY STUPID..... DID YOU REMOVE THE ROTOR LOCK ON THE REAR WHEEL??????
Ok so, well, I'm not that old yet but whatever. Getting real good at adjusting the preload though....LOL...
One thing I did do was though to ease the adjusting procedure was to mark the crank @tdc for the rear cylinder with a punch. Just three small pits. Takes the guessing out. Everything else went pretty good though. The S&S intake that was opened up to 1.800 fit so good. I couldn't believe how perfect the ports matched up.
I made a tool to open up the ports at the head and am very pleased with the fit. If I can find a pic of the tool I'll post it. Don't laugh it works very well.
So I got back to it this morning to finish it out. I decided to seat the rings as per Wiseco's advice based on the way my old ring wore out and used S&S's procedure. I'll try to post the vid links.
Primed the motor when I had the fuel tanks off. thought it would be the best time to do it.
First start was for about 1 minute. It was hard to keep the idle steady. 1 1/2 turns on the mixture just wasn't enough. If you look closely you can see a flame pop up out of the carb. Had to blow it out. no harm done...
So for the second start for 4 minutes at a steady Idle I turned the mixture screw out another full turn. Much better...
I got the Wego III installed and my mixture is a little rich but I think I'll leave it that way for a while..(better than lean)
So after I got it adjusted pretty good , idle and accelerator pump, D2ki on curve 3 I took it out for about 15 miles. Ran very well. I don't remember it running this good (very smooth and a lot less vibration) I know they all Vibrate.... Didn't really test anything just rode casually. The one thing I did notice though was without the VOES I no longer get a chug chug starting of from a dead start.. Extremely smooth. If any one wants to know the VOES is in the garbage......I really don't care for them and I believe they create more problems then help....
So all in all it was a great day and I'm

On the Road Again.......

I know it's a long one and no, no Dyno for at least 500 miles. Gonna baby her...

Oil priming rebuilt engine - YouTube

Seating new rings S&S's procedure step 1 - YouTube

Seating new rings step 2 - YouTube

Originally Posted by Hillsidecycle.com

Good job, Bob!!
Sounds snotty!
Scott

Originally Posted by Tony_N

Sounds really good Bob!