I swear, any time you start disassembling something, it's like the Christmas morning reaction was of you as a kid opening your presents. An engineer in his natural element.
Watching these videos is like mix of meditation and sorrow over never having done anything close to as cool, with very low tech tools and machines, that most of us actually could get access to.
I've always pulled my whole engine and reistalled it upon purchase of a different machine (I've only had two), if only to know that I could, and to get to some understanding of how everything works! Made mistakes and learned from them, had an old '82 cx5oo for over a hundred thousand kms, my Zephyr is being rebuilt at 161K , nothing like as gorgeous as that z1! One day hope to have the correct tools that I don't have and a good enough shed to set up a hobby shop. Thanks for your sensible commentary and including us in your lives. Long admired Mr Millyard's work and skillset. He makes ir look easy, and ordered, and definitely not a chore. Kinda liked the finish on that engine, but vapor blast and clear coat (where I can, unfortunately the clear cerakote fell through for my cases, should've sourced that too! Thanks again. Subscribing.
You're recording and editing skills are not lost on me. Absolutely outstanding. You're engineering skills are insane. Please never stop uploading. You sir, are exactly what the internet should be.
When the British manufacturers dismantled these early Japanese multies , they must have run screaming from the room when they saw the superior standard of engineering design.
Yes, I have run both types, you can see the agricultural early heritage of the British companies and engineering. On the Japanese engine the heritage is industrial, post WW11 and the engineering is made for heavy, mass production and more complex, yet a lot of thought was put in to their construction. I think I read somewhere, Honda put 15% of their profits, into R & D. Kawasaki, had a lot of resources to draw on too.
So glad to see you uploading on a regular basis once again. Your videos are something that I can share with my Father & despite being different generations, we both enjoy & appreciate your engineering excellence. Keep up the good work.
Thankyou Allen! Not only for the engineering insight but for giving me an escape from the world right now, watching someone do true engineering with no politics or bull really is a breath of fresh air!! Going to binge watch now!! Have a lovely day. Jamie
It's like watching a professional golfer or tennis player when watching Allen work on anything; He has this ability to make everything look easy, but until you have a go yourself, you can't truly appreciate Allen's workmanship. And I'm just talking about the wrenching like in this video. The Frankensteining of engines into something that looks and behaves like a mass-produced factory engine...is simply something else. Without doubt my favourite channel. Bravo Allen. P.s. the manual impact driver is one of my go to tools. I've come to the rescue so many times with it. Go and get one. About $60AUD.
If any of us were break it down we’d bag and tag each parts bolts individually. Mr Millyard tosses them all together in one parts bin 😂. He has a LOT of experience in this area. LOTS!!
I own a 1975 Kawasaki Z1900B Back in the day ,and I always wanted to tear down the motor and hop it up . After watching you Allen I'm glad I left it alone . You sure do make things look easy .
After a tough day out in the big wide world, there is nothing more relaxing than watching Mr Millyard, stripping and rebuilding an engine. As they say, very good for your mental health.
Great work Allen, I love your attention to detail but also your calm methodical manner and simple creative solutions to any problems that come up. Excellent!
Ditto. Threw our TVs out of the house, cancelling the wretched licence, in early summer 2020. No more lies. Me and Mrs GT380 chat & listen to music of an evening now!
Allen's back with his JIS screwdriver and camera, that's always a good day!! I'd forgotten all about this engine. Glad to have it see the light of day and a bit of TLC! Thanks for the video!
Shout out for getting proper JIS screwdrivers. Many’s the case and cover screw I knackered, using my foster dad’s Phillips drivers, in the 1970s & 80s. They are so nearby right that I didn’t realise until I was in my late 40s that there was a different standard! One of the Suzuki GSX or GT guys mentioned this so of course I had to buy a basic set covering most needs.
@@GT380man yeah, more or less the same with me! Always wondered why every old Japanese bike I bought had wallered out Phillips screws, ruined many a float bowl screw head myself before someone finally told me "hey, they're different.. dude!" Bought a really well-made set of Japanese-made JIS screwdrivers and Jap bike life has been so much better ever since 🤣
There is something very satisfying about using old tools. When you said it’s your “dad’s valve extractor.” I have my grandads tools and what ever job I do I always feel that he’s helping me. Looking forward too part 2 Allan.
I know exactly what you mean, I have my dads old Sidchrome socket set and spanners, before they moved production to Taiwan, Sidchrome was made in Australia and guaranteed for life. The socket set has 1/2" drive so don't use it too much on my bikes, but the metric ring spanners get used all the time, and the fit and feel is still as good as when they were new 50 yrs ago.
Milly - your videos are just utterly delightful to watch. I loved the grin when the engine ran with no exhaust and was spitting flames. Brilliant. Thank you.
Absolutely a pleasure watching you strip that engine, I look forward to every video you do, very informative and inspiring. Thankyou so much for sharing your experience
So very glad to see You on here once again Allen!!! LOVED watching this disassembly! Can't wait till the pieces make it back from the vapor-blaster! As always,I LOVE watching each and every video You do,showing how You ever so carefully,take things apart,and put them back together again! Thank You for your videos! As they are wonderful to watch! (especially loved how You and Tracy carefully encouraged the dove to go back outside! Lol.) Cheers Mate! : >)
I can’t believe with all of the well thought out designs on those motors that they decided to use Philips screws for the covers. Thank god for impact drivers!
Funnily enough, I remember having that thought in the 1970s, taking Yamaha YDS7 250 and Suzuki GT380 motors apart for exchange cranks and a rebore & fresh top end. I swapped them all out for chromed Allen headed bolts. I got a chuckle, swapping them back to a new, stainless screw set a couple of years ago. On the very same motor (the GT380B). In that regard, it’s a case of everything changes, but the bike still remains the only connection to a misspent youth.
Allen, moved to see you use your dad’s valve spring compression tool. He’d be chuffed to see it still in use and more importantly, his son carrying the torch of mechanical engineering down the generations. I use my wife’s grandfather’s bench vice very often. I give him a mental salute. I’ve got it because his son, my father-in-law, who had two daughters, was looking for someone who’d make good use of it. I’ve had it 40 years, about as long as I’ve had his daughter! I made some soft jaw covers from bright mild steel, like I was taught at school in 1971.
You make the whole process look so simple and easy, stripping a relatively complex engine with basic tools available to every one. The clever solutions to problems that would stump the less skilled (me) are an eye opener and the calm and steady approach to the task do you credit. Put simply you are a master.
Fantastic video again Alan, love your work. Brilliant to see you strip the engine using basic hand tools and not a battery electric impact wrench. As a retired mechanic/ engineer, I know how you can feel the bolts and screws yielding and undoing through the spanners and sockets. Totally missing if using an impact wrench. Nice mower in the background, love the 12 blade cylinder. Looking forward to the next instalment.
@@AllenMillyardI have a feeling it’s a recommendation in the manual, no? On the GT750 motors, I believe it’s one of the long engine mounting bolts you can use. IIRC, that’s one I made a special tool for. You screw in a piece of threaded rod, with the threads ground off at the business end, right in the centre of the rotor, until it bottoms onto a depression in the nose of the crank, using a straight blade screwdriver to pinch it tightly into place. The rod sticks out into free air. That end has a hacksaw cut deeply across it, for the screwdriver. When you screw in the engine mounting bolt, it goes tight against that end of the extractor tool. A sharp tap on the mounting bolt head with a light, metal hammer head, and off comes the rotor with a satisfying crack.
One of the simplest, best designed engines ever 👍 So easy to disassemble and rebuild. From boring the cylinders to installing oversized sleeves, head porting, valve jobs (including oversize valves) and flow testing, I built so many Z-1, KZ and GPZ engines that I was able to throw the cams in by eye and have them degreed within a couple of degrees of where I wanted them (with valve to valve and valve to piston clearances being the limiting factors)...
That’s how pretty much all the 4 cyl dohc Japanese engines work…point ing the lobes together at tdc gets you close (or the opposite depending on which side of the engine your reference is be it #1 or #4 cylinder it can be they will be pointing away from each other!)
Allen, you should do some basic maintenance videos and how tos etc. Maybe even some hints and tips for riding etc. You'd be fantastic at it I reckon. Plus you're opinion would mean more than some unheard of RUclipsr
Brilliant, legendary engine stripped by a legendary engine builder. On another note, I assume we’ve had to wait for this video because you’re messing around with that Cole fella !!!😅
Love the grin when it fired up without headers ! Had me grinning too ! I wish the internet had been round 50 years ago; these videos would have been excellent tutorials for working on my Kawasakis ! I am still getting good use from my impact driver I bought for getting engines apart all those years ago!
Some are good at what they do, others are masters and true artists, jaw dropping and if curing cancer was Allen Millyard's passion, we probably would have solved it already, and probably with a green plant he found in his backyard.... God bless and much love from Norway.
Ha Ha, The grin your face at the beginning of the vid, when you have that engine running...... Priceless. keep up the good work Sir Millyard you are indeed a master of the motorcycle engine.👍
Strip down with the Millyard, a place for everything & everything in its place. Love your attention to detail Allen, looks so much easier without Henry getting in your way 😂
Where the blazes have you been Alan? 😢 So missed the updated Haynes manual that you are but all for us to see working your magic as usual mesmerising is an understatement!!! 👌🏻👍🏻😁
You make it seem so easy, Allen 🙂 ... and with the right tools and some care and thought, it is. Your measuring of the diameter of the new valve guides at 24:30 brought back memories for me... was having my GS1000S cylinder head fitted with new valve guides years ago by a motorcycle mechanic, and he failed to make this check. Suzuki GS valve guides are, I believe, always made a few though oversize, and they need to be turned down to the correct diameter. What followed of course, was mushrooming metal as the mechanic tried to force in an unprepared guide. Thankfully he stopped and investigated, and there was still enough good material to locate the guide after he turned them down to the right diameter. The lesson is... check!
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I swear, any time you start disassembling something, it's like the Christmas morning reaction was of you as a kid opening your presents. An engineer in his natural element.
Lol I agree entirely matey
Watching these videos is like mix of meditation and sorrow over never having done anything close to as cool, with very low tech tools and machines, that most of us actually could get access to.
Sooo true!!
I've always pulled my whole engine and reistalled it upon purchase of a different machine (I've only had two), if only to know that I could, and to get to some understanding of how everything works! Made mistakes and learned from them, had an old '82 cx5oo for over a hundred thousand kms, my Zephyr is being rebuilt at 161K , nothing like as gorgeous as that z1! One day hope to have the correct tools that I don't have and a good enough shed to set up a hobby shop. Thanks for your sensible commentary and including us in your lives. Long admired Mr Millyard's work and skillset. He makes ir look easy, and ordered, and definitely not a chore. Kinda liked the finish on that engine, but vapor blast and clear coat (where I can, unfortunately the clear cerakote fell through for my cases, should've sourced that too! Thanks again. Subscribing.
As a mechanic that had to put stuff together someone had taken apart, I would not mind his ordering of parts disassembled.
The mad grin on your face when you were running it without the headers was priceless!
You're recording and editing skills are not lost on me. Absolutely outstanding. You're engineering skills are insane. Please never stop uploading. You sir, are exactly what the internet should be.
Thank you
You’re a pinhead with your pinhead comment @@supermotos
Good to see you back on here Allen 👍 You have been missed
I swear I just checked last night to see if he'd uploaded anything, figured he must be into something or other. Going to really enjoy this rebuild.
that fucker colesy keeping him bust :) ...... alen a true genius @@monkeybarmonkeyman
busy
Yes, glad to see you back as well.
No ? Surely not, it couldn't have been all the personal appearances he's been making or his TV program schedule could it ?..
When the British manufacturers dismantled these early Japanese multies , they must have run screaming from the room when they saw the superior standard of engineering design.
Very well said !
dont think they screamed at all
Yes, I have run both types, you can see the agricultural early heritage of the British companies and engineering. On the Japanese engine the heritage is industrial, post WW11 and the engineering is made for heavy, mass production and more complex, yet a lot of thought was put in to their construction. I think I read somewhere, Honda put 15% of their profits, into R & D. Kawasaki, had a lot of resources to draw on too.
So glad to see you uploading on a regular basis once again. Your videos are something that I can share with my Father & despite being different generations, we both enjoy & appreciate your engineering excellence. Keep up the good work.
Thankyou Allen 👍
It’s a joy to behold watching Allen the engine whisper doing his magic! This chap is a mechanical genius 🎉 Great vid
So therapeutic and calming to watch. Just what I needed before I go to kip. Thanks Allen!
I really appreciate you taking us along on these gentle journeys of superb motorcycle engineering :)
Those roasting trays are in better nick that the ones we use for our Sunday Roast!!
Thankyou Allen! Not only for the engineering insight but for giving me an escape from the world right now, watching someone do true engineering with no politics or bull really is a breath of fresh air!! Going to binge watch now!! Have a lovely day. Jamie
This man is an inter-national treasure! Long live The Rascal King!
6 legged hedgehog next
Brilliant, nice to see you again Allen, but no cakes !! 🧁🧁🧁😂
Allan is the Bob Ross of motorcycle engine building 👍🏻
Such an awesome engine, thanks for sharing. Love the additional bolt holes to "wedge" off the engine cases, awesome feature you don't see anymore.
Hey Man, Glad To Get The New Video Notice & Can't Wait For The Next Episode! Thank You.
It's like watching a professional golfer or tennis player when watching Allen work on anything; He has this ability to make everything look easy, but until you have a go yourself, you can't truly appreciate Allen's workmanship. And I'm just talking about the wrenching like in this video. The Frankensteining of engines into something that looks and behaves like a mass-produced factory engine...is simply something else.
Without doubt my favourite channel.
Bravo Allen.
P.s. the manual impact driver is one of my go to tools. I've come to the rescue so many times with it. Go and get one. About $60AUD.
I would mix the longer bolts with the shorter ones and get scared why in the universe they do not fit anymore!
OMG ! Someone on youtube that uses proper tools ! Thank You !
Top man Alan your a national treasure
If any of us were break it down we’d bag and tag each parts bolts individually. Mr Millyard tosses them all together in one parts bin 😂. He has a LOT of experience in this area. LOTS!!
This man is a pure genius
I own a 1975 Kawasaki Z1900B Back in the day ,and I always wanted to tear down the motor and hop it up . After watching you Allen I'm glad I left it alone . You sure do make things look easy .
After a tough day out in the big wide world, there is nothing more relaxing than watching Mr Millyard, stripping and rebuilding an engine. As they say, very good for your mental health.
1:31 😊 ...that really is a three mile smile......👍
Great work Allen, I love your attention to detail but also your calm methodical manner and simple creative solutions to any problems that come up. Excellent!
being a life long fan of Suzuki GS & GSX 4cyl engines i was pleasantly surprised to see how well thought out these early Kawasaki were
Marvellous undressing of an engine , clear description. And wildlife . Great video 👍🇬🇧
Nice to see you back, much prefer proper spannering to the TV stuff.
Ditto. Threw our TVs out of the house, cancelling the wretched licence, in early summer 2020. No more lies. Me and Mrs GT380 chat & listen to music of an evening now!
@GT380man I think we're at 16 years without a TV licence now. RUclips, netflix and amazon are far better value.
Allen's back with his JIS screwdriver and camera, that's always a good day!! I'd forgotten all about this engine. Glad to have it see the light of day and a bit of TLC! Thanks for the video!
Shout out for getting proper JIS screwdrivers. Many’s the case and cover screw I knackered, using my foster dad’s Phillips drivers, in the 1970s & 80s.
They are so nearby right that I didn’t realise until I was in my late 40s that there was a different standard! One of the Suzuki GSX or GT guys mentioned this so of course I had to buy a basic set covering most needs.
@@GT380man yeah, more or less the same with me! Always wondered why every old Japanese bike I bought had wallered out Phillips screws, ruined many a float bowl screw head myself before someone finally told me "hey, they're different.. dude!" Bought a really well-made set of Japanese-made JIS screwdrivers and Jap bike life has been so much better ever since 🤣
There is something very satisfying about using old tools. When you said it’s your “dad’s valve extractor.”
I have my grandads tools and what ever job I do I always feel that he’s helping me.
Looking forward too part 2 Allan.
I know exactly what you mean, I have my dads old Sidchrome socket set and spanners, before they moved production to Taiwan, Sidchrome was made in Australia and guaranteed for life. The socket set has 1/2" drive so don't use it too much on my bikes, but the metric ring spanners get used all the time, and the fit and feel is still as good as when they were new 50 yrs ago.
Milly - your videos are just utterly delightful to watch. I loved the grin when the engine ran with no exhaust and was spitting flames. Brilliant. Thank you.
Thanks Allen ! Love seeing you disassemble a Z-1, giving me hope to purchase another one myself now !
Great to have you back Allen can't wait for the next instalment! Cheers
Absolutely a pleasure watching you strip that engine, I look forward to every video you do, very informative and inspiring. Thankyou so much for sharing your experience
I’m sorry Alan but that tea has far too much milk in it. Everything else is spot on, thank you for taking the time to make this video.
I remember that grin when you fired it up without the headers! You looked so happy. Looking forward to this rebuild. 👍
So very glad to see You on here once again Allen!!! LOVED watching this disassembly! Can't wait till the pieces make it back from the vapor-blaster! As always,I LOVE watching each and every video You do,showing how You ever so carefully,take things apart,and put them back together again! Thank You for your videos! As they are wonderful to watch! (especially loved how You and Tracy carefully encouraged the dove to go back outside! Lol.) Cheers Mate! : >)
The pigeon wanted to see if you needed any help with the disassembly! Cracking video, can't wait to see how it progresses in the next one
Great to see you back Allen, I always enjoy your videos!
I can’t believe with all of the well thought out designs on those motors that they decided to use Philips screws for the covers. Thank god for impact drivers!
Funnily enough, I remember having that thought in the 1970s, taking Yamaha YDS7 250 and Suzuki GT380 motors apart for exchange cranks and a rebore & fresh top end. I swapped them all out for chromed Allen headed bolts. I got a chuckle, swapping them back to a new, stainless screw set a couple of years ago. On the very same motor (the GT380B). In that regard, it’s a case of everything changes, but the bike still remains the only connection to a misspent youth.
Mr. Millyard...you make engine disassembly a zen experience...
The gentle commentary and consummate skill make for compelling viewing. Please keep it coming.
Evening Allen, sitting watching you with a cuppa and biscuits.....What a good evening!
Allen, moved to see you use your dad’s valve spring compression tool. He’d be chuffed to see it still in use and more importantly, his son carrying the torch of mechanical engineering down the generations.
I use my wife’s grandfather’s bench vice very often. I give him a mental salute. I’ve got it because his son, my father-in-law, who had two daughters, was looking for someone who’d make good use of it. I’ve had it 40 years, about as long as I’ve had his daughter!
I made some soft jaw covers from bright mild steel, like I was taught at school in 1971.
That is just out of this world mechanic skills. Respect
Thank God you’re back! Can you please do two long videos every week now…..just to satisfy demand 😂
that would be a full time job
Thanks Allen, most enjoyable and therapeutic, looking forward to the next instalment 👍🙂
You make the whole process look so simple and easy, stripping a relatively complex engine with basic tools available to every one. The clever solutions to problems that would stump the less skilled (me) are an eye opener and the calm and steady approach to the task do you credit. Put simply you are a master.
The little nature breaks are quite enjoyable. That pigeon looked like he was ready to move right in. I really like the stand you made for the engine.
Thanks Allen! 👍💪✌
Enjoyable as ever Allen and very interesting. Thanks for the video.👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Allen, your videos are just so well put together its ridiculous ;)
thank you, its all done on my iPhone 11 Pro 🙂
Fantastic video again Alan, love your work. Brilliant to see you strip the engine using basic hand tools and not a battery electric impact wrench. As a retired mechanic/ engineer, I know how you can feel the bolts and screws yielding and undoing through the spanners and sockets. Totally missing if using an impact wrench. Nice mower in the background, love the 12 blade cylinder. Looking forward to the next instalment.
Great entertainment Allen as always, fantastic work.
Who’d have thought it, a rear axle spindle as a rotor removal tool? Alan at his finest 👍
its the swinging arm spindle
🤦must pay closer attention!
@@AllenMillyardI have a feeling it’s a recommendation in the manual, no? On the GT750 motors, I believe it’s one of the long engine mounting bolts you can use. IIRC, that’s one I made a special tool for. You screw in a piece of threaded rod, with the threads ground off at the business end, right in the centre of the rotor, until it bottoms onto a depression in the nose of the crank, using a straight blade screwdriver to pinch it tightly into place. The rod sticks out into free air. That end has a hacksaw cut deeply across it, for the screwdriver. When you screw in the engine mounting bolt, it goes tight against that end of the extractor tool. A sharp tap on the mounting bolt head with a light, metal hammer head, and off comes the rotor with a satisfying crack.
The authors of some Haynes manuals, back when they weren't utter shite
Another awesome video. Once I start watching I can’t stop. I find it fascinating.
One of the simplest, best designed engines ever 👍
So easy to disassemble and rebuild. From boring the cylinders to installing oversized sleeves, head porting, valve jobs (including oversize valves) and flow testing, I built so many Z-1, KZ and GPZ engines that I was able to throw the cams in by eye and have them degreed within a couple of degrees of where I wanted them (with valve to valve and valve to piston clearances being the limiting factors)...
Cam lobes facing each other at TDC slightly pointing downward, had a 1325 street motor back in the day.
That’s how pretty much all the 4 cyl dohc Japanese engines work…point ing the lobes together at tdc gets you close (or the opposite depending on which side of the engine your reference is be it #1 or #4 cylinder it can be they will be pointing away from each other!)
Stripping an engine out in the garden on a sunny day. Does not get more British than that 👍
My impact screwdriver is one of my favorite tools. I bought a set of 5/16 impact-rated JIS bits for it, and man is it great!
Allen, you should do some basic maintenance videos and how tos etc. Maybe even some hints and tips for riding etc. You'd be fantastic at it I reckon. Plus you're opinion would mean more than some unheard of RUclipsr
Brilliant, legendary engine stripped by a legendary engine builder.
On another note, I assume we’ve had to wait for this video because you’re messing around with that Cole fella !!!😅
🤔
Allen, your videos are "just perfect".
49 year old bike amazing allen its always a pleasure to see you at work
Just home from a funeral, so I needed this, thanks!
Needed two glasses of red wine too.
Red wine, evil stuff. I’ll have a glass on you 🍷
@@gdfggggg Nice of you to let me know, that I won't be drinking alone, thanks!
@@leifvejby8023 chin up, bro 👊🏻
You always make it look so easy- thx.
Superb, as per usual. Can’t wait for the follow ups.😊
With special guest Mr Henry Cole! Excellent video Allen -- thank you for sharing.
Excellent, Ive not ridden, or even though much about Z900's since about 1980, now I want an engine to play with 🤣
Its been too long alan, looking forward to seeing more soon 👍. addictive viewing👌😉
It so good to see you back
An armature engineer’s nightmare.
Well done, as usual Sir.
John
great video, looking forward to the next one.
Hallelujah, another series to look forward to. It has made my day.
Love the grin when it fired up without headers ! Had me grinning too ! I wish the internet had been round 50 years ago; these videos would have been excellent tutorials for working on my Kawasakis ! I am still getting good use from my impact driver I bought for getting engines apart all those years ago!
Great to see another video from Allen obi wan, you certainly know your way round engines, and probably any machinery.
Just having tea with hubby.. been waiting for this.. best sort of TV🤘.
Some are good at what they do, others are masters and true artists, jaw dropping and if curing cancer was Allen Millyard's passion, we probably would have solved it already, and probably with a green plant he found in his backyard....
God bless and much love from Norway.
Ha Ha, The grin your face at the beginning of the vid, when you have that engine running...... Priceless. keep up the good work Sir Millyard you are indeed a master of the motorcycle engine.👍
Strip down with the Millyard, a place for everything & everything in its place. Love your attention to detail Allen, looks so much easier without Henry getting in your way 😂
Yes it’s a lot easier without a film crew
Thank you, I owned several Z1s in my early years, now you've shown me inside.
Where the blazes have you been Alan? 😢 So missed the updated Haynes manual that you are but all for us to see working your magic as usual mesmerising is an understatement!!! 👌🏻👍🏻😁
Here we are again....
And what a Wonderful day it is...
Lovely to see Allen back cuppa on & watch the genius for 20 mins 🙌💯🔧🪛🔩⚙️
Wonderful video, so looking forward to the next.
About time you were the next Q!!
Another awsome video! Thanks, I always learn something from you.
No better way to start a Thursday than watching your videos
Amazing work Allen, up to your usual high standards.
Pure joy to watch Allen
You make it seem so easy, Allen 🙂 ... and with the right tools and some care and thought, it is. Your measuring of the diameter of the new valve guides at 24:30 brought back memories for me... was having my GS1000S cylinder head fitted with new valve guides years ago by a motorcycle mechanic, and he failed to make this check. Suzuki GS valve guides are, I believe, always made a few though oversize, and they need to be turned down to the correct diameter. What followed of course, was mushrooming metal as the mechanic tried to force in an unprepared guide. Thankfully he stopped and investigated, and there was still enough good material to locate the guide after he turned them down to the right diameter. The lesson is... check!
Great to see you back Allen. The Z1 engines are so well engineered.
Best wishes, Dean.
Thanks Allen I never realised how well designed those engines were.
Great show! thanks for all your hard work
Well done to you and Tracy getting that pigeon out without it getting into a panic and crapping all over the place.
Brings back memories, remember uncrating these back in the day. Did a few crankshaft rebuilds too.
Hi Allen! I had a 1977 KZ1000 in the 1980's. I LOVED that hunk of steel!
I have torn down several KZ1000 engines but never seen one that pristine. Very nice!
Man I absolutely love this engine and design! Brilliant video once again
Thanks Helen. We have all been waiting for you. I see. Charlie Weaver's twin brother has shown up, now. He doesn't have to drink alone 😋
Another masterclass, Great post Allen