nice job... pat youself on the back for taking the job on ...i like not being affraid of jumping into it and get' it done ...i have done 4 engines so far and still will do it again berlin bob
Taking on this job wasn't really an option. I bought that bike the last day of July 2000. When you type Excelsior Henderson into Google, that bike is the one that shows up. In the photos, I didn't even have the license plate on it yet. Vibration destroyed that camera on the way home from those photos being taken. They were the only photos I had of the bike running.
I banged out 5,000 miles in three months. I rode that thing EVERYWHERE! I had three or four other street bikes at the time and the X got ridden constantly. Just after 5K, it cracked the front cylinder head and let me know in a quite spectacular fashion.
I disassembled it, then started the wait for parts. People on the Resource Board reassured me many times that there were numerous new cylinder heads at the factory and it was just a matter of time before I'd get one.
And time it was. In the ensuing years, I moved. The cardboard boxes were damaged, then redamaged, then reboxed. The extremely small number of fasteners that were lost astounded me. Fifteen years in boxes and I was able to identify everything. Then it was just a matter of accepting that the transmission needed to be done and that I was not going to get away with not replacing the cylinder bolts with studs. Maybe I'll do a thread about her resurrection. I've got photos of the whole thing, including making the bearings for the transmission and drilling for the cylinder head studs.
How's she run Greg? She ought to be sweeeeet!
Honestly? 333 is the best sorted of the three I have. Now that I've ridden a remapped bike, I really understand how badly the other two need the ECUs reflashed. I was going to ride 1525 today but, I could hear pinging yesterday and don't want to push my luck. I really hate having to take out the ECUs and mail them across the country but, it is what it is.
