pretty much gunna have to do it peice by piece. You can get a pretty good gasket set from bikebandit and the rest you will have to find, it wont be hard, its not a big bike.  

pretty much everything new but the piston unless the make a high compression piston for my motor. i don't really want to bore it out keep it pretty much stock. i plan on doing a port and polish and a valve job. new spring tensioner (extended one) and a few other things.

what would you recommend getting to rebuild my motor. i know rings and gaskets for the head. but should i go ahead and put new bearings in the lower part? this will be my first motorcycle motor rebuild. everything that i  found on bikebandit is about 550 does that sound about right?

from what i can tell the petcock went bad and flooded the oil with gas. its not locked up completely but not far from it

Stormy, when a vac petcock does  a dumper into your sump the ball bearings all around the inside of the engine are generally unaffected.  Ball bearings can use the thinner film of the gas/oil mixture jest fine, they do it at 50:1 gas to oil ratios in two stroke engines all the time.

(admittedly the gas/oil mist under back stroke compression is helped out by the post combustion residues from previous strokes, but it ain't a bath of solid oil by anybody's guesstimation)


Stormy, drain your oil and replace it and see if you can get your engine to run again.   Likely it will be a little stiff at first, but it may even up and you might not have to do a full teardown just yet -- the piston might be slightly scuffed right up in the ring area but there apparently are a lot of them are running around that way for 20-30,000 more miles.  They just use a little bit of oil every month now that they didn't before.  

We call it "sudden onset oil consumption" and we have apparently lived with it for years now and it is a common enough ailment here on the list.


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Verslagen,  I find I should have kept a written list of the names of the vac petcock sump dumpers -- I think I see one new one and one old one here, plus the one who is currently enjoying the pirate talk.

Let's go with conservative on the count then, 5+2 additional = seven vac petcock sump events.


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Drifter, when did your bike first start using oil?   Do you remember, can you sorta pinpoint the time for us?

Read all of this tech thread, you still have to fix your petcock issue as well as getting your engine run in again.


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