Burritos and foul weather and Mikey's pissed-offed-ness and Gary's "special relationship" with baggies have all conjoined to (hopefully) do me a solid. Oh yeah, and if UPS does their thing.
Chose not to mess with (or re-mess with) the nikasil coated cylinders. Whatever Gary did in there puckered things up in ways I did not want to contemplate. The mind boggles when it comes to FireDood Induced Puckering (FIP). So a nice (hopefully) S&S kit with cylinders, pistons, rings, o-ringy bits and special mushrooms was ordered. Shipping notice received last night that package had shipped (stupid Covid bullsh*t makes everything take longer). Nominal arrival date to me on Friday. But the weather sucks. So maybe not.
But the weather sucks! So work is closed today and probably tomorrow and probably Friday. All the rest of the required bits are already here. Will pull the bitch apart while playing tunes-o-music while bored-off-my-ass home from school these days.
Had planned to do the work over the academic spring break in a few weeks. Instead will break it down now and hope the box arrives on Friday. Have it all done over the weekend? Woo-freaking-hoo and that would be awesome! But, you know, the weather (and FIP). So who knows......
Even if the box gets Dood'd in delivery the bike will be ready for parts arrival next week. Maybe put it back together next weekend and, tally ho (hoe?), it's all done way before spring break.
The new up and down thingies and their cylindrical encompassers will raise compression by just a tiny bit (.2-ish). Not enough to need compression releases but enough to, I'm sure, make me sure every acceleration will now feel it is supported by JATO. This will be good.
I want to once again thank Gary and the members of the Academy for allowing me the opportunity to work on the bike. It can be hard on a guy when his bike is SO WELL LAID OUT there just isn't any reason to do anything to it. Because of the support shared with me here I'll now get to enjoy farting around in the garage working on the motorcycle while ice, sleet, kiwi fruit, and snow land on the ground outside.