Spares: Motor Reflection

Unboxed the new $40 top end from eBay and found a real gem in an excellent condition, standard size cylinder.  Sometimes lucky, sometimes unlucky with these spare parts.  Guess it all evens out.  The clutch cable I just bought for $13 had the right part number for the early 40" cable, but turned out to be the 44" version.  Go figure.

Didn't really do anything specific besides lay out all the spare engine parts to mull them over and soak it all in again.

The #1 crankshaft from the old "Complete Late Bottom" is distinguished by having a clutch guide that's frozen in place and neither bearing is all that great.

The #2 crankshaft has one excellent bearing and one that's pretty rough.  The flywheels also have holes in them, so that's an easy way to distinguish the Early crank.

Too bad the bearings are not easily replaced (easy to remove with a tool, but hard to get new ones in with a multi-ton press, or so Clymer says).

Con-rod to flywheel clearance was good on both, too.  Crank #1 = .279mm.  Crank #2 = .406mm.

Also unboxed the new hub, which was very clean and fresh.  Combined with new spokes it would make a good "model" wheel to practice truing.  Just need a really clean rim, which I don't currently have.

The top end also came with a head cover and points base plate in dirty but otherwise good condition.