Jdub goes there 1981 650e rebuild

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Final photo montage

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Scrapped the video because the idle setting causes a stall after warm up and the hanging throttle has come back. Arggghhh.

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My analysis of the running issue is that the attempt at salvaging the head after the machinist blunders did not last. Shaving down the cam journals and bearings is a viable repair with precision tooling, I obviously did not meet that standard as the journals had some high spots and a couple of bearings had some scoring marks.
One of the valve clearances had a very large increase from the previous measurement.

Finally getting around to prepping my spare head for installation. Riding season is here so I need to speed it up a bit.

On a side note, I purchased an NOS head gasket from Canada and got hit with a 50% tariff and $25 broker fee. Ouch!