The next order of business is to see what's in all the boxes and know what we've got. Organize a bit and put stuff into a dedicated storage rack for this project. So, I laid out the engine mostly....
Here is the box containing the oil pan and parts from splitting the cases... I wanna throw up, but looks to be all there. I just sprayed some fogging spray on it, closed up the box. Ugh... later.
I removed some rad hoses and misc. stuff from the clutch box... looks OK, close it up for later......
Soooo, just how did we get here.... the backstory. This is a friend's bike I had done maintenance on over the last several years. He had a problem starting it when hot, but this year I was so busy with projects and travelling, I could not look at this. He knew the owner of the local Yamaha dealer, so took it in. It so happens, they had a Yamaha Factory Certified Award-Winning mechanic who had won 3 Canadian and 1 world title for being the best Yamaha mechanic. Impressive indeed, one would think.. He did a compression test and found a couple of cylinders low, and proceeded to remove the engine and completely disassemble it, measure stuff up.... then presented the repair estimate that simply is way more than the bike is worth. I'm sure most of us would have figured that out LONG BEFORE the disassembly took place, but NO... Idjit made a fatal mistake, essentially because he's not a real mechanic, he's a textbook FSM reader who can pass any test Yamaha puts out at these contests..... His fatal mistake was in not doing the STOP, let's see what we have, and did not perform a leak-down test to narrow down the compression problem. Anyway, don't get me started, I'm pissed enough at this whole scenario. There is a further lesson here to benefit many of you, and I'll post up my forensic analysis separately (didn't take much, to be honest). Anyway, stay tuned for that.