. Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 Fried a ring on my last day of riding down at the Hatfield McCoy trails in WV on the 3rd or 4th day of September. Pulled the jugs off, took them to the machinist, got the bore size to go with.....and ordered pistons from RECREATION UNLIMITED for $140 shipped to my door. Good price maybe......if you dont mind not being able to get a hold of them by phone or email for a good 3 weeks. Then get an email that they must be lost in the mail and that they are putting a tracer out on the package, and tell your postmaster so he can deal with it from my side. Another 2 weeks go by of trying to get a tracking # or reference # to give to my postmaster.....and no replies. Finally I get a email saying that it was lost, that they are going to file it with their insurance company, and they'll send me out another kit. I told them not to bother, because I went somewhere else. I get the kit a week later, missing a piston, wrist pin, rings, and wrist pin bearing,....and to top it all off, the kit came in a bag. Not a box or anything, just banging around in a bag. So thanks to Meat_Head I've gotten cylinders, pistons, wrist pins, and rings sent to me that I threw on Sunday. Stole the wristpin bearing and gasket kit out of the kit that Rec Unlimited sent me, and finally got it back together. Went through its 2 heat cycles, then took it around the one flat track varying the rpm up and down and blipping it up to about 1/4 throttle. Took it back and let it cool down, had a few beers, in celebration of actually being able to ride on the thing. Second ride, same thing going to about 1/2 throttle. I was getting into the powerband with this one a little bit and it wanted to go there so I let it. A little over half throttle when it started getting into the thick of the powerband you could feel it didnt want to go there yet. Played around bringing it up to that point....and every few times you brought it up there, you could give it a little more. Took it back and let it cool down. Then I actually got to ride the frickin thing. Riding it through the woods, hitting the one little hillclimb, took it out on some road riding, giving the engine a little stress, but not to much to hurt it. I could only take it to about 3/4 throttle and it didnt want to go any farther really. I rode it for about half an hour and then took it back for the night. Overall I can feel that the wiseco's are a lighter piston than the stock pistons and the engine wants to rev out faster. Its not fully broken in yet so I cant really tell to much, but it feels so good to just be able to ride it again. I'll get some pictures of it after I give it a real good cleaning. I got a chrome stock front bumper and crossover tube from nyuk (old crossover tube had rub marks in it from tubes/wires) that with the bumper on when you look at it from the front with the chrome a-arms it looks pretty sweet. I'll have that ebay grille soon as well. So thanks to Meat_Head, Nyuk, and all the others that have steered me in the right way of stuff I needed to know, and things I've needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
. Posted November 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 yeah yeah....I know....my posts are always long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYUK Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 now come get your title before i sell it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat_Head Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 Good to hear that your Shee is up and running once again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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