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Hello everybody. After spending my whole life riding Ninjas I finally bought my dream machine. She ("PoCoHontas") is one owner, garage kept 1984 Aspencade with 29k original miles and if the 300 or so ive rode her I will say shes everything I dreamt she would be.
With that said, here's my problem. A few weeks ago one of the timing belt tensioner bolts backed out, she jumped time, piston hit valve, valve broke and trashed the right rear cylinder. Although I grew up twisting wrenches and have rebuilt dozens of engines, I am a newbie with Wings.
A friend of mine owns a used bike repair and parts shop sold me a 1986 Aspy that was seized from water sitting the left rear cylinder. After using Evapo Rust and honing the cylinder it still has some mild to moderate pitting. Its a shame because the engine only has 52k original and is otherwise in excellent condition. As such I bought another disassembled lower end that will be arriving today.
One of my many questions that are surely to come is can my original 1984 engine be resleeved/relined? If so does anyone know if and where I can buy the sleeve/liner? In a perfect world I would like to repair and keep her original engine.
My next question is if thats not an option can I replace the 1984 engine block halve with one of the 1986's I bought. Ive read alot of threads on this site and have gotten lotsa mixed answers. Actually they are more like opinions. Has anyone actually done this?
And I know alot of people are going to say look for a used engine instead of rebuilding. And while thats fine, I intend on owning this bike for life and though it sucks to have to rebuild it, I love restoration projects, am utterly fascinated with the GL1200 engine and look forward to rebuilding my original engine from top to bottom.
Any and all advice, help and guidance is very appreciated. Oh, and I am so addicted to my new Wing that I went out and bought 1989 1500 Aspecade to kill the Jonezes. And though its a nice bike it doesnt feel near as comfortable as my 84
With that said, here's my problem. A few weeks ago one of the timing belt tensioner bolts backed out, she jumped time, piston hit valve, valve broke and trashed the right rear cylinder. Although I grew up twisting wrenches and have rebuilt dozens of engines, I am a newbie with Wings.
A friend of mine owns a used bike repair and parts shop sold me a 1986 Aspy that was seized from water sitting the left rear cylinder. After using Evapo Rust and honing the cylinder it still has some mild to moderate pitting. Its a shame because the engine only has 52k original and is otherwise in excellent condition. As such I bought another disassembled lower end that will be arriving today.
One of my many questions that are surely to come is can my original 1984 engine be resleeved/relined? If so does anyone know if and where I can buy the sleeve/liner? In a perfect world I would like to repair and keep her original engine.
My next question is if thats not an option can I replace the 1984 engine block halve with one of the 1986's I bought. Ive read alot of threads on this site and have gotten lotsa mixed answers. Actually they are more like opinions. Has anyone actually done this?
And I know alot of people are going to say look for a used engine instead of rebuilding. And while thats fine, I intend on owning this bike for life and though it sucks to have to rebuild it, I love restoration projects, am utterly fascinated with the GL1200 engine and look forward to rebuilding my original engine from top to bottom.
Any and all advice, help and guidance is very appreciated. Oh, and I am so addicted to my new Wing that I went out and bought 1989 1500 Aspecade to kill the Jonezes. And though its a nice bike it doesnt feel near as comfortable as my 84