One step closer
Spent all yesterday pretty much in the garage with Eric helping me in the morning with getting the cooling system to run and then dorking around by myself at night trying to get the oil system in working order.
The water system was a bear. Lets just say that I had more fricking air bubbles in the system than I could have ever imagined and they were harder than I ever could have imagined to get out. We started working on the cooling system about 8 and by 11 had things running and the little Davies Craig electric water pump spinning away. The main bear was just getting the coolant to pump up into the motor. The bikes have a intake to the water jackets at almost the bottom of the engine under the headers. Getting water to flow uphill as we all know is a royal pain in the ass! Then the radiator had a really goofy issue with the main inlets being about 3/4 the way up the radiator so as you can imagine this creates a lot of issues with getting all the air out of the system. I had to pull a plug on the top of the radiator to get her to push all the air out but it wasn’t easy.
I still honestly am not comfortable that the setup is correct as it just does not seem that I am able to flow enough water through the system but then again the switch to Evan’s coolant and a little bit of advice from a Yamaha tech have me thinking it might not be too bad. Right now my plan is just heat cycle and try to bleed again later.
Hopefully today I can get her to fire for the first time.