WoodTRD
03-08-2012, 08:28 PM
Got my cylinder and piston back from GT Thunder today and an getting ready to put my bike back together over the weekend. I'll be running a thin head gasket and hondabond for the base. I picked up hondabond 4 from the local dealer, should I use this or try to find some hondabond ht somewhere? I'm thinking the 4 will be ok since it's used to seal cases but just checking.
I'm also changing my timing chain to a crf450 one while I have it apart, I'm guessing it would it be better to change it before I get the cylinder on?
I also have a 42mm 450r carb ready to go on, but I'm not sure if I should swap it on yet or wait till after the break in, not sure if I want to be trying to break in a motor and tune a carb at the same time, but I'd like to go ahead and do it all at once. Any opinions? How hard are they usually to get to run decent? I run a 160 main and 42 pilot in my stock carb, I'm going to a 11:1 416, would bumping the main up to 170 be close? If I try the 450 carb I'm thinking of starting out with a 175 main/52 pilot with it, sound about right? I'm at sea level. Thanks for the input, hopefully I can get it back together over the weekend, gotta try to figure out how to straighten out my header flanges too, they were almost impossible to get off the exhaust studs due to being curved...guess I tightened the nuts a bit too much, yet another lesson learned.
I'm also changing my timing chain to a crf450 one while I have it apart, I'm guessing it would it be better to change it before I get the cylinder on?
I also have a 42mm 450r carb ready to go on, but I'm not sure if I should swap it on yet or wait till after the break in, not sure if I want to be trying to break in a motor and tune a carb at the same time, but I'd like to go ahead and do it all at once. Any opinions? How hard are they usually to get to run decent? I run a 160 main and 42 pilot in my stock carb, I'm going to a 11:1 416, would bumping the main up to 170 be close? If I try the 450 carb I'm thinking of starting out with a 175 main/52 pilot with it, sound about right? I'm at sea level. Thanks for the input, hopefully I can get it back together over the weekend, gotta try to figure out how to straighten out my header flanges too, they were almost impossible to get off the exhaust studs due to being curved...guess I tightened the nuts a bit too much, yet another lesson learned.