Parts Bike
Early in the winter season I placed a Craigslist ad looking to buy a VFR project. Here's what ended up in the truck. It's an '86 700 with parts missing, like the bodywork and fork assembly. What it notably does have is a decent set of original mufflers, for which I offered $50. The buyer agreed, but only if I took the whole mess. Deal.
The bike had had the front cylinder head removed ("I was gonna part it out") and left outside for "about a year," so the engine was full of a murky mixture of water, dirt, sludge and something resembling oil. After draining 1.5 gallons of dirty water from the sump, out came the sludge. Believe it or not this engine still turned over by hand.
No title, bad engine, so I decided to just tear it down to the crankshaft to salvage what I could and scrap the rest. In any case, I've now got many more small parts to add to the stash.
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