Case Work on Viragos

Have It Done Right

This one makes me a little nervous as it involves the back-and-forth shipping of empty cases: bulky and fragile. Be sure to empty all fittings and just send in the basre aluminum with the cast-in iron parts. Bolt them securely together. Lay multiple layers of bubble wrap around them. Fill with styrofoam "peanuts" or expanding foam. Anything that must be removed or scraped off on our end will incur more costs to you -- if you expect to get them back.

What we'll do:

Chemical dip (unless you ask us to skip it) to strip all grease and dirt. Blasting with several grades of beads, ending with walnut shells. All oil passages will be blocked at this stage. Optionally, we'll powder-coat black or silver inside; your choice outside. Your main bearing bores will be hard chromed down to 90mm ID and the 6308 bearings of your choice will be seated. Bearings that have oiling channels and oil holes could have passages bored into the transmission feed lines in order to make sure that there is no starvation problems as stock these bearings are fed by splash. Case spigots bored to appropriate girth for your application. We'll look into a maximum bore cut with snug-fit aluminum rings for smaller sizes included. All potential obstacles to long stroke cranks will be fly cut off; all iffy protrusions. New dowels for oil passages and a plugged tap hole for those that want to run an oil cooler from near the pressure release, rather than off the filter cover.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment. No prices set. Reckon on $65 each way on shipping. I must get quotes on plating and powder coating and prices on various bearings. All of these procedures take place elsewhere. Before you ask, do NOT ship complete engines for us to build. This location is not zoned for it. And we can't afford to farm it out. Shipping and transportation add up and no matter how good of friends we are with third parties, they won't work for free.

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A short list of parts that we want and/or need. Some are for inventory. Others for modification and testing. A few of you have parts bikes. Some install kits and have take-off stock parts. Most everyone with a chain-drive wants to turn it into a café racer. Some of you bend up custom pipes. Ultimately, essentially everyone ends up with spare parts or even spare bikes. Keep in mind that business is very slow and we don't have much fluidity. I also have a limited amount of space; you might have a smokin' hot deal for me and I can't take it. Pictures will be asked for. A short list follows:

Engine parts from 700 and larger XV series bikes

There are many folks 'unrestoring' 920R chain-drives. I can use some of the take-off parts. Some will be preserved as-is. Some will be modified or have light-weight facsimiles made with them as models. Some of this stuff will go into inventory as there actually are a few characters trying to restore these bikes to showroom condition. We want:

Chain-drive parts.

These lists will grow as I think of things needed. Items will drop off. Remember that I am often broke, so don't high-ball me on parts. A lot of this stuff has little or no commercial value, so keep that in mind. In some cases I will accept some parts as partial payment on stuff in inventory or special order parts. Keep in mind that I don't get big bore kits, cams, or carb setups for free. And I work on a skinny margin.

Other models must be explored for any build. Maybe I'll becomne a clearance house for up-dated running gear. For such running gear I should like to stick to stock, or modified, or replica Yamaha pieces as much as possible. Look up replacement parts in the same place. I haven't closed the door on any model's parts yet, so I'll list a few. Also find engine parts for Yamaha bikes and other makes.

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