Have any of you guys realized how expensive kits are becoming? I still remember when gasbike was selling flying horse engines for $120, (Which are now $150) Do you guys have any idea why this is happening?
And while it is all apart would be the perfect time to check things over, de-bur, do the porting. Yes, why not an engine kit with options on the cylinder head, carb, bearings, intake manifold, exhaust pipe? Buy just the stuff you are actually going to use instead of the way we do it now. Is this a way around the EPA nonsense? I hate to see the little two strokes go, but if the prices keep climbing and don't go back down again as they have in the past, then you're right... time to stick in the fork and move on to four strokes.$20,000 for "certification".
It may be time to stick a fork in the two stroke in frame unless someone wises up and sells them as kits....I mean engine kits, not the whole engine in a kit.
How hard is it to assemble 12 parts?
I've seen the videos, all you need is a hammer and a bigger hammer, easy.How hard is it to assemble 12 parts?
Some say it is propaganda against PK engines. I take it for what it is, hammering parts together.I've seen the videos, all you need is a hammer and a bigger hammer, easy.
I have too, but I love my press. Oh the things I wouldn't have ruined if I had it when I was a kid.....There is a time and a place for everything as a mechanic I have used a hammer in place of a press many a time. On seal and bearing races with a driver.
Got a bunch of those in that drawer too.I can't count how many times I used old bearing races and a hammer to get new bearings put in. Very common practice.