Day spent in with an undercurrent of panic as parts were thought lost forever but were later found in a some very organized drawer or plastic bag. wouldn't like to/be able to do this for a living. yet.

per the advice of you experts on here (ericandchi)....it's all about the flow...decided to get rid of these rough edges instead of removing all of the odd shaped material because Turn 1 reminded us that "A two stroke engine breathes by compressing the fuel/air mixture in the crankcase and then transferring it to the combustion chamber. Those odd lumps are there to make the case volume the same in both sides so equal amounts of fuel/air mixture gets to both cylinders."


which took a few seconds....hard to tell but, yes, smoother...


cleaned up the stud threads...


and...very carefully and slowly...ran the threads in the cases with a bit of tap oil...and blew them out


and they got the bath I had promised (as prescribed by ericandchi)


made sure all the oil ways were clean..


paid particular attention to clutch actuator and shifter bearings...they did indeed feel a little gritty...later some aersol electronic clearer and compressed air had them spinning gaily...


first install was the oil screen....cleaned bolts and threads...applied a liitle Loctite and that was that.


took a closer look at the shifter rod which when dismantled had this going on...


looked up to see if I could get a new 24610-KV3-000....ha-ha. no chance...that being the case it doesn't look so bad. so carefull filing should get those straight to mate with the lever.


only other thing I did was install the kickstart piece...



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