Did you get that Ultima running yet?

We had to go into a dealership for a sprocket shaft nut and we were told
that these motors "blow-up a lot".

When I asked how and why, what was failing, he couldn't give me an answer
other than top ring lands collapsing...

Which is usually ignition or carburetion issues, or people not knowing how
to break in a motor.

On 2008-07-25 07:13:46 -0700, "Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> said:

> Did you get that Ultima running yet?
>
> We had to go into a dealership for a sprocket shaft nut and we were told
> that these motors "blow-up a lot".
>
> When I asked how and why, what was failing, he couldn't give me an answer
> other than top ring lands collapsing...
>
> Which is usually ignition or carburetion issues, or people not knowing how
> to break in a motor.

They musta had to pay for one.......
--
Ryder Rick
<burnouts & wheelies, boobs & nice butts some things just go together so nice>

Scott wrote:
> Did you get that Ultima running yet?
>
> We had to go into a dealership for a sprocket shaft nut and we were told
> that these motors "blow-up a lot".
>
> When I asked how and why, what was failing, he couldn't give me an answer
> other than top ring lands collapsing...
>
> Which is usually ignition or carburetion issues, or people not knowing how
> to break in a motor.

Nope, not yet. It's a ways away yet. Still got lots of mockup, fuckup,
redo, fuckup again, and redo to do before firing it up.

But I tend to be, oh let's say, a little distrustful of 'set at the
factory' settings, so I'm going to go over timing and all that sort of
thing before lighting it off.

I'll for sure let y'all know when it runs. If it doesn't blow up you'll
see my grin lighting up the skies over Baja Georgia. I do love the
sound of a brandy-gnu beeg motah clearing it's throat for the first
time. The square-wave sound of clean gnu valves opening and closing on
virgin valve seats, the crisp sound of gnu electrodes spitting ions on
the plugs, that hot/flat smell of cutting fluid and cleaners boiling out
of microscopic pores in head and cylinder and case castings, the stink
of gnu header paint frying off the last of the solvents, the
eemm-kyughkyugh of the starter working against all that gnu compression,
the poTAYtopoTAYtopoTAYto idle of a tall cam....excuse me. I need to
go and change my pants.
--
spunky hoosayn gottastiffy tuna

"spunky hussein tuna" <spunkyhusseintuna@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:PpSdnYQYWa7NZRTVnZ2dnUVZ_qvinZ2d@earthlink.co m...

> Nope, not yet. It's a ways away yet. Still got lots of mockup, fuckup,
> redo, fuckup again, and redo to do before firing it up.

Yeah, we used to build them all up with no paint anywhere, ride it for 20
miles, fix the boogers, then take it apart and have all the paint and chrome
done (which is an art in and of itself, not so much the chrome, but knowing
how much is going to be deposited and what will be left after polish).

> But I tend to be, oh let's say, a little distrustful of 'set at the
> factory' settings, so I'm going to go over timing and all that sort of
> thing before lighting it off.

Of course. Kinda like S&S and a few others put green locktite on shaft
tapers (headbanginly stoopit). This one already has about 2k miles on it,
and it is solid. BTW, the compression releases are junk, you can get
stainless ones at your local chainsaw shop.

> I'll for sure let y'all know when it runs. If it doesn't blow up you'll
> see my grin lighting up the skies over Baja Georgia. I do love the
> sound of a brandy-gnu beeg motah clearing it's throat for the first
> time. The square-wave sound of clean gnu valves opening and closing on
> virgin valve seats, the crisp sound of gnu electrodes spitting ions on
> the plugs, that hot/flat smell of cutting fluid and cleaners boiling out
> of microscopic pores in head and cylinder and case castings, the stink
> of gnu header paint frying off the last of the solvents, the
> eemm-kyughkyugh of the starter working against all that gnu compression,
> the poTAYtopoTAYtopoTAYto idle of a tall cam....excuse me. I need to
> go and change my pants.

Better than hearing a baby cry.

> spunky hoosayn gottastiffy tuna

Sportin' a woody.

My fave was the 88" knuck on a cone motor, STD cases (Lou drilled the lifter
block patterns for me so the knuck lifter blocks would slap right in), and
Jim Lieneweber builds the damned finest knuck cam (and the rest of his cams
are the schizznickel), and ground me one on a cone motor blank.

pottatttah-pottatttah-pottatttah BLACHSCHNNAH
pottatttah-pottatttah-pottatttah

Nothing sounds as cool as a proper knuck.