Yeah it always warms the heart to see so many bikes in Southern Europe.
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Anyway, here's another update on the S1 restoration project. Bad case of the flu (and an otherwise busy schedule) kept us from it for a while, but we've been at it again.
Two or three weekends ago, we cleaned the heads thoroughly. Here's a little before and after:
(before)
(during)
(after)
new valve seals too:
And yesterday, we started rebuilding the top-end, using the shiny new Hammer Performance hardware. Also replaced the oil pump drive gear with a new and improved version.
Old gear:
And the new one:
Draining some of the last oil out:
Turned out to be quite a lot:
On to the top end and the shiny new bits:
Torquing all that stuff down (60nm or 44 foot pounds of torque on these!):
Also got some of those fancy Hammer pushrodcover bases:
So that's the engine almost done, which means that, hopefully next week or something, we can get started on putting it back in the frame and back on its wheels. Still a lot of stuff left to do:
- properly rebuild the carb
- rebuild the front brake
- de-rust and maybe paint the exhaust headers
- paint a bunch of other brackets
- remove the bubbling logo from the tank to apply new decals
- and a thousand other things I'm forgetting, but we're slowly getting there.
