grandpaul
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I was over at a friend's house last week to pick up some FREE Cerwin-Vega PD-9 speakers (surround sound beasts)...
As good a deal as that was, THAT wasn't the good deal.
I noticed he had a cool looking DOHC thumper engine sat on a box in the midst of a pile of parts all over the place, and we got to talking. He had been riding his old '98 KLR 650 and 4 blocks from home, it made a "clunk-rattle-rattle-rattle..." sound the rest of the way home, with a trail of oil dribbles. So, he took the engine out of the chassis (which involves taking a lot of other stuff off), then decided to tear it completely apart and try to sell it off in parts. He got zero bites and $250 for the whole lot!
So, I told him I'd take it.
24 shop hours later, IT RUNS!
(nice tank, huh?)
Turns out it was only a misplaced hardened washer that got caught by the balancer weight, causing a small crack below the left side case...
Patched with JB Weld and it works just fine, not even a weep.
Still needs a new petcock (already ordered on ebay), and a few other odds and ends, but I'll be all in for under $500 with clean title!
![What a deal! What a deal!](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fpic20.picturetrail.com%2FVOL1461%2F6266009%2F24706945%2F413009248.jpg&hash=cc2d512338ff7cc1f6e423f8536cfc4a)
As good a deal as that was, THAT wasn't the good deal.
I noticed he had a cool looking DOHC thumper engine sat on a box in the midst of a pile of parts all over the place, and we got to talking. He had been riding his old '98 KLR 650 and 4 blocks from home, it made a "clunk-rattle-rattle-rattle..." sound the rest of the way home, with a trail of oil dribbles. So, he took the engine out of the chassis (which involves taking a lot of other stuff off), then decided to tear it completely apart and try to sell it off in parts. He got zero bites and $250 for the whole lot!
So, I told him I'd take it.
![What a deal! What a deal!](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fpic20.picturetrail.com%2FVOL1461%2F6266009%2F24750341%2F413004362.jpg&hash=04867b349baa33444ed9b48815397c78)
24 shop hours later, IT RUNS!
![What a deal! What a deal!](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fpic20.picturetrail.com%2FVOL1461%2F6266009%2F24750341%2F413027758.jpg&hash=65e8a2df686db83b3e6b28df9d5909fe)
(nice tank, huh?)
Turns out it was only a misplaced hardened washer that got caught by the balancer weight, causing a small crack below the left side case...
![What a deal! What a deal!](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fpic20.picturetrail.com%2FVOL1461%2F6266009%2F24750341%2F413003664.jpg&hash=22d86743ce63ff8f780c0b270cf6d6a5)
Patched with JB Weld and it works just fine, not even a weep.
![What a deal! What a deal!](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fpic20.picturetrail.com%2FVOL1461%2F6266009%2F24750341%2F413009216.jpg&hash=debfdbe9cf04da877319f219f9730ae2)
![What a deal! What a deal!](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fpic20.picturetrail.com%2FVOL1461%2F6266009%2F24750341%2F413009217.jpg&hash=2624ea3a021423e411ca7c27cdefbe01)
Still needs a new petcock (already ordered on ebay), and a few other odds and ends, but I'll be all in for under $500 with clean title!