Seraphina :- "fiery One" (hebrew) A 1991 900ss Restoration

Packed the cylinder heads up and sent them off to John Cellier today for him to cast an expert eye over, shims, valve guides etc. Set about removing the cush bushes from the rear wheel ready for powder coating ....... I knew this was going to be a B*****d of a job I had been warned. I have failed for now and retired to consider my options. Tried to remove with lots of heat and M10 rawlbolts, wind them out through a 34mm socket. sounded pretty straight forward .....er no. First one tore the rubber out and the next two stripped the rawlbolts Plan B is to buy a flat ended rotary file and cut them out. I'm going for a mug of lockdown tea.

 

Thanks!! hope it's that easy . Thats kinda what I tried in principle with the rawlbolt. I'll let you know.

 

I will thanks for your help

 

Fresh enthusiasm..... it won't last

 

Well that didn't go according to plan I managed to get one of the 6 out using a threaded bar and an oversized socket as in the youtube video. As for the other 5 not a chance I snapped 2 threaded aluminium bars trying to shift them before i gave up. In the end I drilled the rubber out and then used a tungsten rotary file to carefully cut a slot in the outer shell . In other news, brought my 899 out in the sunshine and turned the garage into a spray booth. The engine has been give a good wire brush and several coats of PJ1 satin black .

 

So today I had a conversation with John Cellier from Cellier BVT Workshops about my cylinder heads. Turns out the horizontal camshaft has seen better days. I hope I might be able to find a replacement. Any suggestions ? I know some folk have replaced the original cams with ST2 cams so maybe some one will have one they don't need and would part with. Does anyone know someone breaking a 900 engine ?

 

Thanks Gaz might have found one watch this space

 

It's been a while since I updated this thread, so time to catch up. I sourced a couple of cams online and had John collier look them over. They got the thumbs up so the heads were rebuilt and returned. Time to rebuild the engine. I had left the pistons in the bores when i dismantled the top end and decided to not to disturb them and rebuild, this was a mistake , more of that later. The top end went back together with no trouble. I had repaired various parts of the wiring and cleaned and polished every thing while the heads were away, so a couple of days saw the bike back together , looking beautiful.