Cheers Don, Now you mention it I hadn't really thought about the belt walking from side to side it always on the left side whenever I see it so I figured I'd work on centering it up.
As for winter roads we have wet conditions day after day this time of year frost at night wet and overcast during the day.
So yup I'm nitpicking things to work on on top of it we're in Covid lock down.
So it was good fortune you asked rather than just start down the slippery slope. I have epically failed avoiding that slippery slope with parts orders made just this morning.
My old FXR had a rocker box gasket leaking. It's an Evo. Their rocker box gaskets leak. It's what they do. It gives all indications of being an engine that's never been touched. And it's been ridden almost as much in the two years I've had it as it's been in its almost 20 years before that. So of course it was going to start leaking. Few bucks worth of gaskets and we're good? Right....
Yeah, right....
Noooo, I had to "think about it."
Well, I says to myself, "since you're going to be in there...." Gawd, that's a statement that's always expensive. Maybe not as bad as "hi there, would you like to go out" but it's an expensive statement. We know it is. If only we could help ourselves.
So rocker box gaskets on an approximately 30,000 Evo engine turns in to, "well Don, if the top is off the pushrods come out, so you might as well do the lifters and cam bearing." So then we're done? Right?
Oh hell no......
Once that far then it's, "well Don, if it's off in you're hand anyway might as well stick an EV27 in it and the steel breather gear, and the cam seal too, right?"
Then you'd think there's nothing left to do right? Gotta be done? What's left?
"Well Don, you remember the only things you didn't refresh when you resurrected the old bike are those other seals. Remember? Uh, we should do those too? Right?"
So primary seal, starter shaft seal, shift shaft seal, left side crank seal, tranny mainshaft seal, the little 5th gear seal, primary adjuster shoe, it's all coming. Gawd I'm a dumass.