this engines got issues I am just as curious as you guys are to figure this
out however just to keep the suspense rolling I have got some parts to clean
up sorry I had to I'm gonna load up some of these parts into this bin drop him in
the cleaning tank and get scrubbing
since most of these parts are aluminum I'm gonna touch them up with the mag
wheel cleaner over here by the sink so I'm just gonna drop a few of them into
the bucket let them soak and then start scrubbing just pull the brake pedal out
of the bucket of mag wheel cleaner let's see how this thing cleans up
absolutely meant as always cleaning these parts I noticed the tip on the
shifter is a little bit loose and what you can do to fix that
is pinch the sides with the set of vise grips and it'll tighten it back up kind
of a temporary fix though so you can tell the tips pretty floppy right now go
ahead and pinch this down see if I can fix it so the tip is pretty tight now
let's see if it pivots
yeah that's pretty sticky gonna work that in a little bit
and I think adding some oil in there will help it out dang this shifters like
new again it's amazing what a little redneck fix will do
all right enough dicking around let's go check out this engine so as you can tell
there is nothing holding the cylinder or head on looks like he was just set on
here so this is gonna be an easy disassembly
oops no piston that would make sense though with everything just set on here
got a little rust on this crankshaft here both the rod bearing seems like
it's in pretty good shape no up-and-down movement so that's good I
don't see any detonation on this dome that's a great sign see how the cylinder
is the bore seems to be in decent shape there is somewhere here near the exhaust
port it looks like there's a little step in it I'm gonna have to check into that
there's a little bit of a ledge right here this is definitely gonna need some
work the exhaust bridge doesn't look like it's cracked at all and the rest of
the bore appears to be in pretty good shape so we'll have to get the cylinder
replated already sleeved or I might just sell it as a core and go buy a new one
I'll have to weigh out the cost on it with that taken care of it is back to
cleaning so these nastier parts such as the
triple clamp and brake calipers are getting pressure washed first and then
everything is getting dumped into the soak tank
these parts are definitely going to need some soak time and another pressure
washing
while those parts are soaking I've got some more scrubbing to do
just a little more pressure washing and I'll have these parts looking brand new
again in case you guys are wondering how I'm getting these higher up shots I'm
actually putting the camera on the tripod up on these tubs really sketchy
but got to work with what I got so I set it up just like this
so the parts came out pretty clean but there's still some corrosion left over
particularly on this linkage and the rear caliper mount so we're gonna see if
this mag wheel cleaner can strip that off or not and actually what I have in
this bucket is I bought like thirty bottles of the mag wheel cleaner dumped
it all in that way I can soak parts in it and reuse it
Wow just wow even I'm surprised I honestly
did not think that corrosion was gonna come off the linkage or the caliper
mount but I'm gonna take this stuff a step farther I'll show you in another
video during the cleaning process I happen to notice that the reeds are
chipped right here on the corner so I'll be adding that to the growing list of
parts that I need for this bike that's getting kind of long let's hope I don't
have to add linkage bearings to that list so I'm gonna pull these things
apart along with the kick starter and grease everything up at the same time
well this is pretty surprising I did not think there was gonna be grease inside
this linkage it's actually in fairly good shape so what I'm doing here is I'm
wrapping a screwdriver with a rag and then just running it in and out of the
bearing try not to spin the bearings at all and this cleans them up pretty well
you know what since I'm building this bike for myself
I'm gonna pop these seals out and just do a little more thorough cleaning
all right time to grease this thing up and put it back together lately I've
been using this mini grease gun a lot works awesome for smaller projects like
this once I have a good amount of grease into the bearing I'll use this little
acid brush to spread it around now what's on the grease up the pin
it's gonna pop this thing back in there hopefully all the bearings stay in place
should be buttery smooth now oh yeah that feels good
now let's hope these other two bearings are in good shape as well oh boy this
one's a little rusted not a good sign
yeah this one's pretty rusted I'm gonna have to pull it apart and hopefully it
cleans up you know I could just replace this bearing and be done with it but I'm
always trying to find ways to be a cheap bastard so I'm gonna pull this apart see
if I can clean it up
before I attempt to fix the other bearing I'm gonna pull apart this lower
shock bearing see what kind of shape this is in definitely a bit dry and it's
just falling apart with two junk bearings and a pile of rust I'm just
gonna replace all these bearings along with the bearings in this piece as well
so much for a greasing up this bearing just for the heck of it I'm gonna pull
apart this bearing and see what kind of condition it's in that one actually
looks like it was just released it's in really good shape
I'm guessing this Kickstarter pivots gonna be in a little better shape I'm
gonna pull it apart and we greased it and these screws are usually locked
itíd so I'm going to use an impact screwdriver to loosen it up
all right this thing is looking pretty grungy as well should clean up fine
though
man this pivot is incredibly smooth now as you saw I packed it pull them full of
grease if there's one thing I'm picky about on a bike it's the kick starter
I've got to have a smooth kicker well guys that is all I got for you today
hope you enjoyed it I really want to tear into this motor and figure out what
the issue is with the shifting if you remember right I was trying to get it
into gear and it just wouldn't shift I'll show you what's up with it so going
up is completely solid and pushing down just got a few inches of slop it's not
really doing much either so in the next video I'm gonna be tearing this motor
completely apart stay tuned thank you so much for watching guys happy holidays
and I'll see you in the next video