Hi All,
This is my first post and would really welcome some help advise Hopefully this is in the correct area
Ok summing up the issue Im having:
Bought the bike 59 Golden Flash, barrels and rocker covers were in pretty scruffy shape. Removed and vapor blasted and painted up, barrels just had paint removed, cleaned and painted. Reassembled with all new gaskets, fuel taps, fuel lines, plugs, tappet clearance set to 008, 010. hold that thought.. Bike started second kick but was blowing some black smoke (rich) maybe. Started to tune the carb and found some washers were leaking. New gaskets and tuned some more, dropping he needle 1 notches. Took it for a spin and noticed loss of power at 3rd and 4th.. Dropped the needle another notch and much better.. Took it for a longer spin, driving OK but loss of power on hills and pretty bad oil leak of the rocker covers. More gaskets and sealer oil leak fixed but still had a loss of power in higher revs and on hills. On further reading I noticed the tappet clearance should have been .010 .016 so I set this and took off on the bike.. Seem like it had more power but then... disaster. Blowing a lot of white smoke and oil coming out of the breather pipe. Plugs were heavy fouled and some oil was coming from the pipes. I stripped it down and a lot of oil was in the cylinders and the head gasket looked blown.. oil on it and the outside of it. while I was there I checked for wear on the piston rings +60. and with a calipers noticed some difference is the thickness and the gap was .030. OK time for a new set I thought. New head gasket and rings installed. Started up the bike and its running very lumpy. Tappets set back to 008 0010 (good for easy running so Im told) No white smoke or oil coming out of the pipes but plugs are sooty, (rich condition)? OK so major problem solved I think but I have not drove it so cant be 100% but this is still my issue. Its still blowing oil out of the breather pipe. So my next play was to check and replace the cork breather washer.. I took off the timing case half pound of grease fell out. removed the 4 inner screws but now Im stuck.. Do I need to remove the chain? or the 2 nuts holding the chain. if i tun the nuts the whole thing turns.. and when I do remove it when does the washer go.. PIC attached.. Thanks again for any advise or help.. Next stop is a mechanic but think I would feel defeated in not solving this.