tanuki wrote: Weirdly I'm not raging...I'm almost serene...

Bigger man than I - karma to you!

Ah mate that sucks, its always when your nearing the end the problems start popping up.

Ballache man. Though you get out what you put in - and so this bike will give a lot to you.

So it comes to light that the leaky oil thing is my own fault....

You can't mix crank cases.....who knew?

Anyway engine is apart and we aim to have the bottom end rebuilt tomorrow.

Oh and thanks for the karma :)

Shit... since it was your fault I am going to take it back!!

Getting there...should be built tomorrow as long as I do t go snapping any cams....

Shit news especially when you put so much time and effort into it but as you said you never know until you try it, or you could let someone else try it in future though

The engine is virtually rebuilt.....and where would we be with that attitude eh?

So here we are avian, the clutch will be finished tomorrow followed by the head.....then the cams again....gulp!!



Other stuff done today, chain is on and everything is ready to receive the engine.



And the front end is now all done and torqued down, powdercoated didn't do a bad job.