Stanley's water pump needed to come off, something (probably the oring in where
the impeller shaft goes into the engine) was causing leaking out of the weep hole.
We busted one of the bolts that holds the water pump on, flush with the case.
Then we broke off an ez-out in the stump. We tried hard to drill out the ez-out
with some nice drill bits I have, it seemed like it would take days.
He went home in my truck, is coming back in the morning. He may try to spot
weld a nut on the stub, but there's not much stub and we have advice that
the weld joint on the bit of hardened ez-out will be poor at best.
If that fails, we plan to try to drill at the edge of the bolt, case be damd, put
liquid wrench down in there and try to bump the stub loose with a punch,
and fix the damage with a helicoil.
If we mess up the case (its not looking good for us so far
) Mitch has
volunteered to let Stanley bring the bike to his house... that part of
the case is just a little cover. I don't want to take that cover off because
I'm sure engine parts would spill out, but Mitch can do it
...
I guess it would be a bad idea to run Stanley's bike with only one bolt
holding the water pump
...
-Mike
