Christof13T

I already had a 97mm Wiseco piston in the engine, it just sat for a bit too long and when I did start it the rust that developed around the rings caused the piston to be yanked sideways and that started the damage...but it still ran.  The cylinder had some aluminum stuck to it; REALLY HARD; but I was able to scrap it off and the honed the cylinder again.  So I got a new piston and ZOOM ZOOM !

Your cylinder reminded me of what mine looked like, except that the mark on the wall looked like a groove, while actually mine was a slight hump caused by an aluminum deposit from when the piston was yanked sideways.  I carefully scrapped it off and honed it again and it was good to go.

Christof13T wrote on 09/25/17 at 15:24:26:


I like your thought process ! 😎🏍😁🚁😎

ohiomoto wrote on 09/26/17 at 06:28:10:


Tripping over crap prompted me to organize a bit.
There was an 07 hyundai tiburon taking up my long bay at the time I took the pictures...

I just got rid of a bunch of crap I was never gonna use to make more room lol. Still need to get rid of a Mercedes R170 supercharged 4 banger sitting under the plastic in the left of the picture, a 7.3 powerstroke on a pallet right in front of that... the darn jukebox and arcade machine that I will never touch lol. Junk! Junk Everywhere!

The little 110cc chicom quad in front of the bikes is a kid's from down the road... He ran it without an air filter until it wouldn't run anymore lol. So it too is in need of a new jug and piston...
I don't understand the kids of this new age...
He only needs to come up with like 60$ and he will have a new jug, piston, and carb on it rocking and rolling... It's been in my garage for 2 months now and the little sucker just spent all his birthday money on one of those stupid hoverboard deathtrap things you see on all the youtube fail videos lol. Dood could have had one heck of a china quad for that 250$ or so lol.

It gets to be very challenging to keep organized with all I have going on. I regularly have to change setups between mechanical/engine work... to machine work... to carpentry when its time to build hives and whatnot. So between tooling and materials storage I run out of space quickly. Thinning down is helping. I mean... who the hell needs 6 weed eaters lol?!

LANCER wrote on 09/26/17 at 16:25:30:


Before the hurricane we were up to 150+ hives spread across 5 bee yards.

We are still finding bits and pieces of hives scattered deep into the brush, but currently estimate we lost 50-60 hives between wind and flooding.

We have 10 or so Langstroth hives... They are just kind of playtoy hives for us. We focus primarily on top bar style hives. I work in a partnership with my beekeeping mentor doing live bee colony removals and relocations. We specialize in very aggressive colonies and structure extractions, and subsequent domestication of feral bees. Every one of our colonies was either from a live removal, or split from a colony that we removed. I am babysitting 1 Langstroth for a buddy that has a commercial BeeWeaver colony in it AND I HATE THEM! lol I'll take my bulletproof, hearty, mean as Hell - South Texas Africanized mutts any day of the week over a commercial colony. The beekeeping community has done a serious disservice to the honeybee by coddling the species over the last 75-100 years.

LANCER wrote on 09/27/17 at 03:25:39:


A mess of little flying dollar signs lol.
The mess really comes around when it's time for honey harvesting.
(Which will happen here in the next few weeks if the weather cooperates)

We are estimating that even with the damage from the storm, we should pull 100+ gallons of honey this season.

The following link is to my apiary's Facebook page if anybody has an interest:

http://www.facebook.com/awesomebees

So I'm ready to order a gasket set to get this ball rolling as soon as the jug and piston come back from boretech. I'm having difficulty finding a gasket set for 2006 year model engines. Does it matter? Will a set listed to fit up to 2004 fit the 2006?

Jug and piston are getting sent off tomorrow!