Slowly reassembling the engine, money is super tight at the moment so it's taking its time.
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OEM genuine balancer shafts are damn expensive now at £140ish a pair. Theae pattern ones are made by a reputable company and feel good quality. OEM genuine oil pump cog though, even though the original was probably fine. A set of uprated springs to take the additional power, clutch plates are out of stock. PJME say OEM are the best...new circlips all round.
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Engine timed up to spec
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Circlips renewed
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Cylinder bolted on and fastened together.
Squish is way out on these engines, by default they are something like 1.4mms, here I measured 1.1mm and the guidance is aim between 0.7-1.0 but allegedly this requires machining to the engine to do this so...
Not going for all out power here so should be good enough, got to be better than stock power that's for sure.
Need to get the clutch cover vapor blasted, cleaned up. Then new clutch plates and then the engine can go on the shelf waiting for the bike respray...again.
But I have a spare Mito engine that I really want to get fixed before I do any more to the ETX.