THE PLAN
The plan was to pull the spark plugs, drain the fluids, spray some mystery oil in the cylinders, and fire it up on Wednesday.
THE REALITY
There was some debris around the the spark plugs, so I blew it out with my air compressor. When I looked at the tops of the spark plugs, I realized that what I had blown out was the hex heads on the plugs, which had long since turned to dust. That's right, the plugs are still in the holes and we have no way of getting them out.
We decided to pull the cylinder head. Unfortunately to do this we had to pull the carbs, which meant pulling the airbox. But the head cover would still not come off, so we pulled the magnetos, the fan, the radiator...and it became apparent that the head cover would not come off with the engine in the bike. We drained the fluids. We pulled the studs that keep the engine in place. After three hours, we called it a night.
THE FLUIDS
The brake fluid is greenish-white. The coolant was brown with LOTS of rust in it. The oil was thin and watery, and the color of milk chocolate. This bike has hit the trifecta of the worst brake fluid, coolant, and oil I have ever seen.
THE PICTURES
