rebuild accomplished...whew
I just fired up the SN93 after all the little rebuilding issues I detailed in other posts. The old girl is dead silent and seems to be pumping out as much air at idle as ever. I can't really stand on it on the road, as the insurance is up and it's wintry rainy up here but, those are good signs, I think.
To all who helped, particularly Speedy and Dirk but, also others, thanks. It may be easy to rebuild one of these things but, everyone has to do something the first time once and it's nice to be able to ask silly questions w/o getting mocked or ignored.
I can't wait for spring. The sucker made 321 horse on the stock 5.0 with blown races in the ball drive, I took it down the track several times like that, as well as taking it on a 500 mile road trip and tootling it around town. The only damage was the damage to the races that was there when I bought the thing. I have no fears about ball drive reliability.
Cheers,
F=MA