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Cylinder head back on. Took me a long time , but I was being extra careful. Thank you Dan Filipi for the thorough YouTube video. Subscribed.

The most reasonable explanation is that the bike was underwater, but I haven’t seen evidence of submersion in other areas of the bike like the starter, final drive, points, etc. someone posited that it could have been a chemically induced corrosion from an alkaline cleaning solution or...

I looked over some more electrical. The fan works, the stator checks out (no connections to ground and 0.4 ohms a-b, b-c, c-b). Rectifier looks ok- the one on the battery box. Is there no black wire off the rectifier? I think I checked these things out as much as I can without running the motor...

The relay is bad. Ordered a new one. When I jumped the relay, the started turned weakly.

I’m waiting for gaskets and stem seals. No sign of bent valves. While waiting, I checked the electrical system on this bike. Once I reconnected the ground wire in the headlight, everything lit up. Horn works, high beam indicator (no lights on the bike now), oil light. No blown fuses or any...

Leak test came out good. You think I should definitely lap them while it’s out? What do I need to order if I do that.

The valves looked normal from what I could tell. No signs of impact. The bike sat for 8 years and there’s quite a bit of crud on the valves and the pistons. Some surface rust. Going to do a water/air leak test tomorrow.

Got the right side cylinder head off. See picture. Not indication of valve/piston collision. Leak testing valves tonight. This side looks better than the other. No surface rust here.

Looked with a bore scope but couldn’t tell much. It was dirty in there and some surface rust. Decided to take a closer look so I pulled the left side heads off. Here are pictures of both left side pistons.

I really regret using that kickstarter. I hadn’t done my homework. I wanted to know if the engine was locked up before I bought it. I only got the message to change belts first after I got it home.

If it only went through a cycle or 2 with the kickstarter, would the valves get bent? It’s not like it was running at 3000 rpm when they broke.

I really don’t think the motor was running when they broke. I think I broke them with the kickstarter. The belts are still on the pull-ups and in the teeth. It looks like each belt advanced 12 teach after breaking.

Everything looks great under left and right head covers. the idler wheels both spin. I definitely looks like the belts broke on the first kick. They both advanced around 12 teeth after breaking. Just staring at it now. I want to start cleaning it up and seeing what’s trashed, but I don’t want to...

I got his bike a few weeks ago. I haven’t tried to start it or use electric started. I DID use the kickstarter though. The first kick had some resistance and I felt a pop right when the motor turned. I kicked it 3 more times CD with no pop (or snap). I just got new belts and removed radiator and...

i'm going through Randakk's start up after long sit up guide. Just got gas tank clean of rust. That list doesnt have change the belts, but i've read that many places. Do you think thats a must do? There was so much rust/dried crud in the gas tank I was sure it would leak after cleaning. So far...

19K miles and appears to be all origininal and complete. Time to get to work.