Project KZ1300

[dcarver]

Ray, this bike has been in the 'project bike' category for over 10 years...

Me don't care if it takes all winter... :lol:

 

[beemerdons]

Ray, this bike has been in the 'project bike' category for over 10 years...

Me don't care if it takes all winter...

Ignore dcarver Ray, as old as I am and with my bad heart I won't make 10 more years. GET TO WORK! Papa just loves the six banger motorcycle engines!

 

[FJRay]

Ray, this bike has been in the 'project bike' category for over 10 years...

Me don't care if it takes all winter...

Are you talking this winter or next winter???????

 

[dcarver]

I just sent Don about 30 pictures from today so he can post what he wants. Motor looks pretty good inside. Three of the six cylinders are pretty oily and you can feel a pretty good ridge in the top of the bore. Got to do some reading before I pull the cylinders cause there are a **** load of chains in this thing along with some shafts and bevel gears that live in the cylinder block.

I think if I get the right amount of Tannerite in the right place I can launch the whole thing at once.

Ray, no email..

 

[dcarver]

Don, if 6 is good, is 12 better?

 

[FJRay]

I just sent Don about 30 pictures from today so he can post what he wants. Motor looks pretty good inside. Three of the six cylinders are pretty oily and you can feel a pretty good ridge in the top of the bore. Got to do some reading before I pull the cylinders cause there are a **** load of chains in this thing along with some shafts and bevel gears that live in the cylinder block.

I think if I get the right amount of Tannerite in the right place I can launch the whole thing at once.

Ray, no email..

My machine says they went out yesterday to your calpoly addy. I just tried sending them again. Do I need a different addy???

 

[dcarver]

Got 'em Ray! Thanks

Ray is tearing her down!

Ray built this cool engine stand.

I wonder what we'll find inside...

Slight corrosion on aluminum.

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One of many chains in this engine...

This nylon gear is notorious for failing... I think I have a new one already.

Ignition pickup coils.

Looks like a slight water leak down here...

Two tensioners in KZ1300 engine. Cam and timing chain.

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Water pump impeller.

Getting close to getting some head.

Interior engine color looks good.. Then again, with the amount of oil that's gone through this motor, it *should* look clean...

I like the way Ray bags n' tags all the parts.

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Oh my... no wonder theose sparking plugs were getting oil fouled..

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The bores look ok, although Ray mentioned they are lipped at the top. The new pistons are 1 over, so this block gets the boring bar anyway.

This engine has NEVER been apart.. Ray has himself a virgin!

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[wfooshee]

Posted useless email T/S question while Carver was posting the pictures he never got.

Disregard.

 

[yamafitter]

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Pay attention you *******...Howie is 8. That makes you 9.

I'm a 10...as usual!

It was a metric 8 OK.

. That ******* Howie bushwhacked me while I was typing.

 

[Fairlaner]

Looking good Ray but you forgot the tie wraps around the cam chain!!!!!!!!

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[FJRay]

Looking good Ray but you forgot the tie wraps around the cam chain!!!!!!!!

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Don't need the tie wraps if you don't screw it up the first time, or was that the second time.

This motor has so many chains I need more wraps.

 

[Fairlaner]

hehe.....ok you got me...

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[escapefjrtist]

Thanks for the pics Ray & Don.

Be fun to follow along as Ray gets his 6-cylinder snowblower running!!

--G

 

[dcarver]

2012-12-10 BlockOff

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This, my friends, is true ***-cylinder ****...​

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This KZ has two alternators.. one each stator on each end of crankshaft. It was available from Kawi for a limited time, I scooped one up in 1980 and another just a couple of months ago from a dis-mantler by the name of Dave Morgan and PsychoCycle. Great guy. It's interesting to note that this stator cover has none of the honey glow covering of engine oil as does the rest of the engine internals. IIRC, the RHS was the orginal stator installation. The LHS was the rare and optional stator. ​

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Crankcase cover, left-hand side. This is the optional stator assembly from the factory and required a new cover and what not. ​

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This side, the optional stator side, has troubles. See the wear marks on the rivets? IIRC, these marks contacted the junction point connecting all 3 phases to the RR. On the stator, the wear point is shiny and obvious. ​

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Starter motor drive gear mechanism. ​

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One very worn (timing) gear? Check out the hooked teeth in that baby. I'm hoping somebody is making a gear out of better material than OEM these days.. ​

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Screw the Kawi, anyone else spot the nice Transalp in the background? ​

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I have now clue what this is... . ​

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Count 'em' baby. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6... Ooooh! ​

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I am not smart enough to know where the 1 quart every 200+ miles was going.. but looking at piston 2 from left... ​

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Frankly, I'm suprised at the <lack> of oil carbon buildup on the piston tops. This bike was an oil-eater from day one. ​

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Ray - what is the view here.. bottom to top? and what's at the top? Gouging at TDC? ​

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My favorite pix of this entire sequence. The DEVIL needs be unleashed from gates of hell! ​

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I love the patina of these internals parts. Castrol 20w50, for better or worse, was this engines diet. Of course, I had to run that heavy viscosity due to oil consumption. ​

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Looking at the rotor magnet cracks, I wonder if they need be replaced or will they grenade later, taking a newly refreshed engine with it? ​

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When all else fails, get a bigger air impact wrench... ​

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How cool is this?! For me, this is way cool! I've wanted to have this enigne run right since I was making payments on it back in 79. ​

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Looks like Ray is getting parts ready for shipment to the machine shop... ​

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Yep, and now the secret is out! ​

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Off the clutch side of things... ​

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Uueww, gucky. ​

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I never 'hot-rodded' the kz, as too techs told me it was a 'fragile' engine as compared to the kz1000 or Suzooks that were dominating the drag strips at the time. This is not the clutch though.. I think it's a harmonic dampner. Ray? Help me out bud.. ​

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HOLY CRAP, Batman, I'm glad Ray is working this, not me! ​

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Got to love Ray's attention to detail... ​

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The clutch on the Kz never gave any trouble at all. Then again, I was sedate. ​

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I have no clue, clutch inner-hub? A Dampening mechanism to reduce drive line shock? ​

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I'll say one thing, if Ray can ever get this engine back together, I'm fullly impressed.... ​

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[juniorfjr]

cool puzzle ya got there.

 

[beemerdons]

cool puzzle ya got there.

Great photographs Don, much better than the ones you took of Bustanut joker's genital warts!

 

[FJRay]

cool puzzle ya got there.

Great photographs Don, much better than the ones you took of Bustanut joker's genital warts!

At least one thing is constant here in our world. The mentality of the southwest members. And the only one who has intimate knowledge of Bust's genitals.

 

[Bustanut joker]

2012-12-10 BlockOff

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Well the first one is a gear and chain ya dofus... #2 here is phallic in a strange way....Not at all surprised you posted it ghey boi.

Too much work and thinking for this guy. Nice job Ray

 

[FJRay]

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Well the first one is a gear and chain ya dofus... #2 here is phallic in a strange way....Not at all surprised you posted it ghey boi.

Too much work and thinking for this guy. Nice job Ray

That is the timing chain drive from the crankshaft. It drives a seperate shaft in the block for the ignition timing and a goofy plastic bevel drive for the water pump. When I get the cases split you will see at least two or three more chains in the bottom end. The othe strange looking device is the oil pump also chain driven from inside.

 

[Bustanut joker]

Huh huh... he said shaft