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Right, so is there any correlation between that and the connecting rod bearing that gave up... Other than dumb luck? I suppose everything in that engine was on its last breath. Compression was still 150 in each cylinder though when I checked it a few weeks prior to that. Bummer I didn't get more...

that makes sense. It was all caused by the lower connecting rod bearing. I was sort of leaning towards maybe the leaking base gasket was contaminating the bearing and drying it out. Here's what leads me to think that. The day I was riding it I left shore and it had great power. Pissers were...

Thanks, I'm really happy with it. I thought of that when I a rickter that had the backside of the hood turfed.

Here's the carnage from the connecting rod bearing coming apart. Here's some more details of the handlepole I built. Currently in the process of laying up the chin pad. Should have that done in a few days. Steering pivot machined from stainless I used my notcher that I made to do...

Well just figured I would post my 650. Picked up for $600 as you see here. Then I thrashed for two weeks to have it ready for Independence Day. I completely tore it down and cleaned everything, added a block off, painted, turfed, etc. Did a lot of the popular mods like a 44sbn carb, ride...

This is an awesome build hoping to get a SN by early spring. Ive been lurking on here and scrolling through @Parsonsjb88 's build just looking at the pictures. I never realized until this thread that you guys are from Thief. Pretty cool to see these awesome builds in the area. I graduated from...