Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The brown santa

yup, the brown santa (UPS) came by with the rest of the good stuff!  Set the timing, dealt with the ORDEAL of setting the valves up with the proper shims, started to torque the top of the cam girdle on and SNAP!  Yup snapped a cam girdle bolt.  At that point I just had to step back and drop everything for the night otherwise parts would have been flying out the garage door.  Did I mention I'm not the biggest fan of 4 stroke yet?  A 2 dollar bolt brought me to a stand still.  But other than that everything is perfect with the rebuild.  Should be breaking it in, in a day or 2.  I also got a day off from work this sunday, so I am praying nothing else goes wrong til than and I can take it out and see what its got.