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Hit a snag today, got the bike completely back together and no joy. Something is amiss in the transmission. Art Diaz had a mechanical starter in his paddock and since I was havine some trouble getting the bike running, I used his mechanical starter at Summit, had the rear wheel spinning pretty quickly, tried to drop it into 2nd and heard a CLUNK.
Now I cannot connect with any gears...
When I opened the top end of the motor, I discovered why the bike was hard to start, half of the inner head o-ring was missing and the motor was taking in and burning coolant. Sadly, the things that happened afterwards caused me more problems this week.
I opened up the motor to find the bent connecting rod, but now I know that the rod was a secondary issue. Something in the transmission popped and caused the connecting rod to twist.
I have to drop the transmission soon and see what broke.
I tried to get a jump start and this has cost me dearly....expensive lesson learned.
More pics to follow.