daze
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A long long time ago (a week-ish) in a garage far far away (or attached to my house either way)
A epic struggle between an evil empire....I mean motorcycle.....and rebel forces (mostly me really) took place.
This is the story of their struggle.....
I got the bike from my grandfather and brought it home (https://www.classicgoldwings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7023), and have begun the tear down process.
I pulled the fairing, luggage rack, seat, and on and on and now I have about about a thousand little nuts and bolts floating around my garage.
I have drained the oil, and put new in, just for kicks. (I suspect it's all going to have to come out again.) I drained the radiator, and no rust in there, not much fluid, and poured about another gallon of water through the radiator just to see what came out, and it looked good (after some debate I decided I wouldn't drink it
)
Pulled the radiator, and timing belt cover, timing belts (of course I didn't mark anything), pulled the plugs. Got the big wrench put it on the center pulley doodad (yes that's the technical name) and
nothing. Wouldn't budge.
I sprayed a bit of PB blaster in the plug holes and waited....
for about 30 seconds, and still no wiggle.
Waited until today and pulled the generator bolt cap, put a 12mm socket on the bolt inside there and
IT TURNED!!!!
:yahoo: :rocks: :thank_you: :yes: :music:
So the engine is not frozen!!!!!! No noises, no grinding, no clanking just nice easy movement. I am happy about this. WAAAAY Happier than I should be probably, but that was my make/break line. If the engine was really stuck I was not planning on restoring the bike.
So next I will pull the carbs and the tank.
The tank has some kind of fluid in it(I assume it was originally gas), and rust. SOOOOOO MUCH RUST!!! It's going to get pulled and cleaned, of course the carbs need to be cleaned.
The question of the day is........Do I pull the heads or let it ride??
Pics are forthcoming, as soon as I find the camera....
A epic struggle between an evil empire....I mean motorcycle.....and rebel forces (mostly me really) took place.
This is the story of their struggle.....
I got the bike from my grandfather and brought it home (https://www.classicgoldwings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7023), and have begun the tear down process.
I pulled the fairing, luggage rack, seat, and on and on and now I have about about a thousand little nuts and bolts floating around my garage.
I have drained the oil, and put new in, just for kicks. (I suspect it's all going to have to come out again.) I drained the radiator, and no rust in there, not much fluid, and poured about another gallon of water through the radiator just to see what came out, and it looked good (after some debate I decided I wouldn't drink it
) Pulled the radiator, and timing belt cover, timing belts (of course I didn't mark anything), pulled the plugs. Got the big wrench put it on the center pulley doodad (yes that's the technical name) and
nothing. Wouldn't budge.
I sprayed a bit of PB blaster in the plug holes and waited....
for about 30 seconds, and still no wiggle.
Waited until today and pulled the generator bolt cap, put a 12mm socket on the bolt inside there and
IT TURNED!!!!
:yahoo: :rocks: :thank_you: :yes: :music:
So the engine is not frozen!!!!!! No noises, no grinding, no clanking just nice easy movement. I am happy about this. WAAAAY Happier than I should be probably, but that was my make/break line. If the engine was really stuck I was not planning on restoring the bike.
So next I will pull the carbs and the tank.
The tank has some kind of fluid in it(I assume it was originally gas), and rust. SOOOOOO MUCH RUST!!! It's going to get pulled and cleaned, of course the carbs need to be cleaned.
The question of the day is........Do I pull the heads or let it ride??
Pics are forthcoming, as soon as I find the camera....
