Today was another wisdom day—wisdom is what you get when you don't get what you want. :/
I started out with the exhaust issue. I though well maybe that's causing the vibrations. It most certainly was making a mess and loud volume!
The Copper sealer I had totally dried out so I had to get a replacement. I bought a can version this time. I think I like this style way better, and the prices was about half too.
Here are the suspects. There is suppose to be a Viton O-ring used with this manifold. When I bought the pipe from Treats they lost it somewhere between the time they took the web photo, and me buying the pipe. I've never been able to find the proper O-ring for this pipe, and as you can see the wrong ones don't last.
The plan was to slather up these parts with copper sealer, and that's just what I did. This seems to be working quite well, so that's good for now. I really really really want to get the Voca pipe on this bike. It's depressing not being able to Voca!
Here's how the oil plug makes unhappy with the PWK. I modified it today, but you'll have to wait for a photo of that mod as I forgot to take one today!
And it would seem that I might still have a drain plug leak. Have to keep an eye on this one—probably have to source a new crush washer.
This one surprised me a little bit. I'm bottoming out the suspension! The rear wheel is making contact with the subframe. I tightened up the pre a bit on the spring. This is a stiffer spring than comes with these shocks since I'm a lot heavier than the little ruggers that employ this shock on the Cobras. Even still I don't think it's going to be enough so I may yet have to source another spring. <sigh>
The big discovery today was this little issue. Seems that I didn't get enough torque on the crank shaft sprocket. This is held on with a taper fit, and I believe this was the source of the vibrations. I reset it, but I'm thinking that I got the balancer off. So now I've got to go back in there again. <sigh>