So the Wasp gets covered and stored in the garage until I can teach myself how to rebuild a 2-stroke.
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New Wasp Motor
The Wasp is dead; long live the Wasp!
Very bad news. The quote to fix the CR500 motor was $1000 in parts and $850 in labor.
So the Wasp gets covered and stored in the garage until I can teach myself how to rebuild a 2-stroke.
So the Wasp gets covered and stored in the garage until I can teach myself how to rebuild a 2-stroke.
Ken
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Re: New Wasp Motor
I rebuilt a Jeep engine and a Seadoo Engine with no more instruction than the internet. Should take no more than a weekend to rebuild, once you have the parts. We can do it the same weekend we lace the wheels.
Re: New Wasp Motor
wow - what a turn of events. Just when I thought the Wasp was a total loss, Brian Kohl calls and offers me a '92 CR500 that is freshly rebuilt. Brian had the Wasp in his possession when I bought it and he gave Bucho and I some instruction before we brought it home. Brian is a former national racer and former owner of Blackhawk Powersports in Ohio. He also passengered the winning sidecar in the 2006 PPIHC.
I think we need to rename the Wasp - Phoenix comes to mind as that baby has risen from the ashes more times than I can count!
donations gladly accepted
I think we need to rename the Wasp - Phoenix comes to mind as that baby has risen from the ashes more times than I can count!
donations gladly accepted
Ken
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Re: New Wasp Motor
Is the lower end ok?
I take it the cylinder & piston are trashed?
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Re: New Wasp Motor
I'm picking up the bike Friday - pics then (depending on how much has been put back together)jr-n-the mule wrote:
Is the lower end ok?
I take it the cylinder & piston are trashed?
yup - needs sleeved and a new piston plus ???
Ken
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
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Ken what are you doing with the rest of the bike?
2002 XR650R (plated)
1990 TransAlp
2000 XR650R (trophy)
2002 CR125R
2009 Big Red
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2008 CRF230L (wifeys)
2003 XR650R (crackbabys)
1999 CR80R (crackbabys)
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1990 TransAlp
2000 XR650R (trophy)
2002 CR125R
2009 Big Red
1977 CT90
2008 CRF230L (wifeys)
2003 XR650R (crackbabys)
1999 CR80R (crackbabys)
1972 XL250 (crackbabys)
Re: New Wasp Motor
right now the Wasp is on the trailer in the garage waiting word of its fate. I've found a '92 motor. I haven't decided if I want to try to fix this motor myself or sell the blown '85 and the worn out '85 motors and try to buy the '92 motor.B DIRT wrote:Ken what are you doing with the rest of the bike?
Ken
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Re: New Wasp Motor
one word... cash flow... okay, two words 
Ken
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
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NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!Kyler wrote:one word... cash flow... okay, two words
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