Hey guys, pleased to say my neighbor (we'll call him Dustin to protect honor) scored a free torn apart 1986 Savage from someone who was going to toss it. 33,000km, and everything organizingly dismantled.
However after 8 years of this bike sitting neatly in boxes, it ended up in the back of Dustins truck and later on his driveway where it collected sawdust from his garage. Long story short we were going to part it out but I decided to give it a go and see what I can do for my very first engine job.
Im only at the engine right now.
First thing I did was a mockup assembly, guessing where parts go, just to see if I might be missing something major. Seems to be all there.
I took it apart and cleaned out most of the sawdust and other junk. Bought some Ultra Black just to get a decent oil seal while I dump some oil in it, set the valves, and check for compression.
I basically finished it up, with a few leftover parts
Now I better ask some questions...
1) I used regular gasket paper + Ultra Black for the head gasket, was told it wont hold up, but for research purposes Im going to try it.
2) How can I crank the started directly off a batter/charger? Dont feel like mounting it into the bike or hand cranking with a socket anymore.
3) when setting the timing chain, I marked the white line on the flywheel at the 3 o'clock position through the cap checker thing for TDC. Then I lined up the cam markings with the block, lobes facing down, and mounted the chain, secured everything, dabs of grease and oil everywhere. Attempted to set the valves, everything seems to be functioning smoothly. Did I do this properly?
4) Can anyone Identify these extra parts