Had an afternoon to work on the bike today, decided I wanted to get the head and barrels off so I can take it to my new house a bit easier (going to have to work on it in the spare room!).
Took a little while as I'm having to learn as I go, also my Haynes manual is for both K and F models so can be misleading at times.
Got the rocker cover off fairly swiftly after having to carry the lump out the garage and giving it a quick clean off.
Didn't really understand how the manual wanted me to align the timing marks as it appeared to show the person turning the sprocket with their fingers..? I just took the stator cover off and cranked the engine around until I had access to both bolts that hold the camshaft sprocket onto the cam. Getting the cover back on was an absolute pain in the arse!
Some numbers I found on one of the cam shaft bases above cylinder 2, any ideas??
After finding the correct pattern for tightening and loosening the cylinder head bolts I got the old boy off relatively pain free. I also dropped the chain down the tower for fun
Top of the pistons look very coked up.
Underside of the head, not sure what I'm looking at here, will do some reading up.
I bought a feeler guage for measuring piston gap, couldn't get the smaller feeler (.038mm) down the side of any of the pistons. Maybe I need to clean all the crud off first and check again. Anyone know what the max gap should be?
Eventually wrestled the barrels off and only damaged one cooling fin when I resorted to hammering wedges of wood. Not too fussed about this.
Wear on pistons, again I'm unsure what's acceptable so more research required.
Barrels look smooth as glass, no obvious signs of wear to my untrained eyes.
Glad to be getting back into it, looking forward to getting the lump back to my new home so I can work on it home now so I can work on it in the evenings and spill dirty oil all over my beige carpets