650sx pre-daytona clean up

[550klunker]

started cleaning up my 650 last night. got the motor pulled and the flywheel cover off(gotta replace the bendix). pardon the hideous paint work. bought it like this. gonna spray bomb it after i get the motor work done.

 

[550klunker]

well..after about an hour of wrestling with the flywheel and puller, it took one smack with a mallet to get it off. gotta say this wasnt the easiest flywheel removal i have done! once i got that off, pulled the bendix out and its trash like i thought. after that i took a bunch of carb and brake cleaner and proceeded to clean out the flywheel compartment. pic may look like its still dirty but thats as clean as it would come. it was solid black before! gross. anyway, i am gonna get the flywheel cleaned up tomorrow and start reassembly.

 

[ATS_Aaron]

Cool. I thought it was missing the trigger coil. But the Kawi parts fiche shows there are only 2 on the stator.

Aaron

 

[550klunker]

hmm. dont really know much about the motor yet. well, not as good as i want. but its coming along. dont think i am going to do too much work to this. maybe pipe, head, prop, carb. that prolly all the moddin this will get till i get an sj. but for now it needs cleaning and paint. i want to take of the intake mani and clean it up to. just do a thorough cleaning. but i dunno if i wanna take the time yet

 

[PLD]

Did you pick up this ski from a guy in Jax, fl?

 

[550klunker]

sure did. why? you know him?

 

[PLD]

No but I owned it before he did and had it all cleaned up... Looks like he put it through its paces though

 

[550klunker]

lol wow. what a small world! and yeah it looks super good there. i will hopefully have it looking that clean after i get done with it! i take it you are the last one that had it registered?

 

[PLD]

If the initials match my screename than yea lol, he actually bought another ski from me just recently I wonder who he'll pass it too next he was a real nice guy.

 

[550klunker]

lol so you are patrick? ha yeah he was a super nice guy. when i bought it i had to rebuild it. what all did you do to it when you had it?

 

[PLD]

Si. That is the first ski I ever owned. I forget everything I did, but a bunch of little bolt on stuff nothing major. The biggest "mod" was boring out the exhaust manifold, drying out the pipe, and extending it. Which from what I remember really gave it a little more grunt.

 

[550klunker]

sweet. ive been wanting to do some exhaust mods but now i dont need to lol.

 

[550klunker]

well, couldnt do much to the motor tonight. still waiting on parts. so i decided to sand and paint my hood. turned our great except i can still see the icon stuff. razor blades are hell on fiberglass...gonna wet sand it sunday after it cures and put a couple more coats on it. should turn out great

 

[Captain PegLeg]

Looks good skank!

 

[550klunker]

Looks good skank!

ha thanks poon!

should be painting the pole/gas filler piece today and pulling the gas tank so i can flip the ski and sand/paint the bottom

 

[WAB]

Might as well advance the timing some while you have the flywheel off.
Gonna add some lifters or anything for your feet to get under?

 

[550klunker]

yup. got some footstraps on the way from wfo. and as far as timing goes, i dont really know how to mess with that so im probably gonna just leave it as is for now. now if only i can find a 44mm intake for cheap

 

[550klunker]

Well..didn't get anything painted tonight, but my bendix came in today, so I put everything back together and dropped in the motor. Finally got it fired up!!! More work tomorrow

 

[WAB]

Well I see you already put it back together now. But it's easy, you loosen the 2 phillips head screws that hold the stator on and turn the stator plate COUNTER CLOCKWISE about 3-4mm. It really wakes it up.

 

[550klunker]

hmm. i will have to do that next time i pull the motor. which will probably be when i put it in my 550.