07Rubicons4Life 2 Posted 14 hours ago It’s alive! I moved the cam back to where the line on the sprocket was parallel to the case, then installed an after market tensioner. The chain has significantly stretched which I find remarkable on a machine with only 1,300 miles. The aftermarket tensioner doesn’t have a spring and is able to push the guide in further, I’ve read a lot of people who race dirt bikes use them. The gasket set didn’t come with o-rings for the water pump and I tried to reuse the original ones and the pump is leaking really bad, I’ll pull that off tomorrow and replace the o-rings. Anyone know the size for that? Sucks I just dumped $40 in Honda coolant in it. I jacked up the rear tires and it cycles through all the gears and shifts great so fingers crossed on that. Only bad part of the progress today was that now that it’s running holy smokes does it smoke. Smells like burning oil. I’m going to do an oil change tomorrow and coolant flush and just let it run for a while. I didn’t a compression test and it is holding steady at 100 PSI now so really hope it’s just a bunch of junk that needs to burn off. IMG_7551.mov Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
