Thanx Dart, yes I have most of everything tagged and bagged.the bolts and valves are all indexed, listed by sides. Im about ready to start resembling. Heads are unwarpped by the blown gasket, used a scotch-bright pad and the deck's look like new.

also reground the exhaust valves, and lapped both the intake and exhaust.


Half the hydraulic lash adjusters were frozen, soaked all of them in desiel, popped the caps, used a straight pick down the middle and pushed the ballvalve down and got all the old oil out. Wishing Id taken pics of that, my bad, was cool really cool actually.


Picked up a new motorcycle, an 02 shadow. getting rid of the Katana soon. Thats my Monty in the background.