Not Good!!!!
Chain hanging out....
Don’t beleive ‘em when they tell you, ” It was running when I got it!”, unless you see it yourself! I went to take off the valve cover to replace the gasket and found a broken exhaust cam chain which happens to drive both cams. looking down into the crankcase, I also noticed that the primary shaft Hy-Vo chain is off track with the end of the exhaust chain jammed in it. This repair will require splitting the crakcase and I’m not really looking forward to doing that as that requires the removal of all exterior assemblies from the crankcase…. it’s going to be a loooong winter!
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Engine may be salvagable… found a mech. who claims he can fix…since engine has less than 15k on it gonna check it out…been depressed since finding problem and crappy weather but planning to get out o shed and get back to frame restoration… also, quit smoking so that puts the suck-o-meter way up there… gotta do something to keep busy… let U All know what happens next…L8R…Scully…
I’ve been giving it a lot of thought… I may dive into a rebuild of the 750 engine. At least I’ll know everything is right with it when I’m done. If I buy another engine I won’t know what I’m getting….again!
You’re prob. right… I was just checking out prices just for parts. The chain, alone, is $150 not to mention gasket kits and the primary chain which says, “Call for price.”…no tell’n what that costs!
I guess I’ll put the engine up for sale as parts engine as it would be good for that. It has15k miles on it, (not to bad), and is really pretty clean inside, lots of good parts there. Have to save up for another engine now, get everything else right on the frame while I’m saving..there’s plenty of stuff to do on it untill then..
May be easier and cheaper to get a full replacement…there’s always someone selling a complete engine on ebay or craigslist.