Pinned Look what the postman brought today !

In these current times, that was very quick delivery.

 

Yes but Indian bubble wrap comes with no associated demands that if India infects the world with a deadly virus, consequently puts half of it out of work and destroys the world economy, it will refuse to trade bubble wrap with us for wine, education, barley etc if we ask them what the#$%^ happened Much preferable bubble wrap methinks in the big picture

 

Nice. What is it going on?

 

It’s going on a 1975 moto guzzi 850 t with a 1977 lemans motor complete with 960 wisico pistons. Building it into a 1974 750 s replica.. the bike is mainly all the parts that were replaced as I built my guzzi race bike over the years.

 

To say I was excited when I got home today was an understatement

I now have a clear title model A frame and I can properly start my build

 

Very tidy Honda CBX 250 in Wollongong for $1250. Comes with a pile of spares

https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/wol...rce=com.apple.uikit.activity.copytopasteboard

 

Are you in Auckland?

 

Cheap little bore scope that uses my iPhone

$25 off eBay

 

Yeah I have one too, resolution is crap on mine did some research, and anything with decent camera costs a heap more, wot the heck, ya get what ya pay for

 

That’s all I got it for to check the bores among other things before I run it, did a comp check and didn’t have much at all, squirted oil down and it come right up, so I’d suggest the rings are stuffed and it’s been sitting a long while.

will take some pictures with it and post here to see what you guys think of this model, I mean for $25 I can’t complain

 

So here are a few picks

unfortunately the mirror attachment don’t fit inside the plug hole so seeing the bore ain’t an option at this point

but straight down shots work

although findings aren’t ideal, for research purposes and price the resolution seems pretty good to me

pics are of my suspect cylinder

and also inside the tank I bought, checking the weld line for rust

 

Strange thing is I checked the camera in the other cylinders and they were dry, but this one as you can see was quite wet

I only used like 3 little pumps of my oil squirt bottle, didn’t think to be to much maybe it was

still learning as I go

motor will come out regardless, and I’ll post some more in depth pics at a later date

but for the excercise and passing on results on here for anyone interested in one of these and their current resolution will hopefully answer a few questions for some

It’s def not a snap on scope, but happy with it all the same

 

Too keen for me, I'd try running the motor in the hope that the heat would release the rings if they're stuck on the piston. Maybe a bit of penetrene in each chamber, too.