Grande Teardown

October 25, 2015

I started going through the Grande I acquired recently. Overall its in pretty good shape, but it sat for a while the crank bearings didn’t sound the when i tried turning the engine over and the carb most certainly needed to be cleaned.

Subframe off

Subframe off

Cases Split

Cases Split

Bearings were indeed super crusty

Bearings were indeed super crusty

Boring out the intake, 13mm is about as big as you can go and that's very close to 1/2". I used a stepper bit to get it started

Boring out the intake, 13mm is about as big as you can go and that’s very close to 1/2″. I used a stepper bit to get it started

Finished off the boring with a 1/2" bit

Finished off the boring with a 1/2″ bit

Opening up the intake patch

Opening up the intake patch

Intake finished

Intake finished

Next up I'm going to be hacking up a puch proma to use on it

Next up I’m going to be hacking up a puch proma to use on it

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