Found my diamond in the rough in Florence SC.
After a brief conversation with the owner about it blowing oil into the carbs I obtained the info that I was after, was it "all" there and would it turn over. Answer was yes, all systems go, brought her home January 1, 2010. I bought my BB site unseen and she is quite a beauty. Pictures will be forthcoming.
Pulled the carbs. Everything looked clean except there was oil in bowls, cleaned it all up. I also had to tinker and a friend asked me to pick up for him best s2000 exhaust...
Started looking at the cooling system. Pulled one off the hoses-rusty water came out... proceeded to pull off all the peripheral cooling system items. Next will be the radiator. There was some caked on goo taking up about 30% of one of the water ports that I removed from the block. The radiator cap would not come off it was cemented on the inside with something that looked literally like cement, kind of grayish but not completely dry. My brother said it could have been pepper. Was it something to seal a radiator leak or something more sinister?
When I pulled the waterpump off the real revelation came. Oil mixed with a lot of gas came rushing out. Luckily my home water heater flame didn't ignite because I filled the entire garage with quite a mixture of gas fumes and oil, also my garage is quite drafty.
Shirlock Holmes now:
1. The bike has no center stand.
2. There was oil in the carbs
3. The carbs looked spotless except for the very clean oil in there.
4. Very significant amount of fuel mixed with the crankcase oil.
Could it be that the fuel petcock on the gastank malfunctioned and dumped the gas into the crankcase and raised the oil level sufficiently enough for it to blow into the carbs ?
Questions:
Where do I buy parts for my 98 BB ?
I need an airbox
Can I still get Honda Parts ?
Should I replace the Waterpump ? I cleaned it up the bearing seems good
How should I clean the inside of the engine water jackets ? How to flush ?
Thanks,
Jatt
