After the restoration: 12000-mile service [page 5]
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Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006
I picked up some primer for the air cleaner housing. After painting the
first coat of primer I checked the valves on the left hand side. Perfect.
No need to adjust. Time for the right hand side.
What's wrong with that picture? Give up? The center stud is missing.
I think this is the side that some previous owner had done an epoxy repair
on the stud. This is also the side that is showing the butterhead
tendencies. It's time to do something about that, even if only a short term
fix. BTW: the intake valve on this side was correct, the exhaust valve was
ever so loose.
I unhooked and moved the carburator out of the way, then took the head off.
It took a lot of force to remove the head screws
on the exhaust side of the head due to the butterhead tendency for the holes
in the head to close up. The head screws go into the cylinder quite easy;
they bind going through the head. They bind so much that I can't be sure
the heads are torqued correctly. I'm hoping Joe can ream them out. Even
if that only gets me another 10K or so, it's better than nothing.
The head is wrapped up in a plastic bag, ready to take to Joe's. I'll take
one of the head screws along to show how it binds on the exhaust side. I
first thought the head gasket came off so easy that I could re-use it.
Upon closer inspection I see where a bit of gasket stuck to the head.
I tried using a gasket like this once before: I learned my lesson that
time. Gaskets are cheap.
I can't paint. I can't even prime. I don't know what I did to get the
ridges and cracks seen on the picture. I sanded it down, but didn't do
much better the second time. I decided to just put on lots of thin coats
of primer, so there will still be primer left when I sand down all the
ridges. Sounds good in theory. Will see what happens in practice.
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