Crank case repair!

Laying down on the job

Bella the super mechanical puppy!

After a frankly shitful day yesterday it was nice to get to Mikes tonight. After a quick look at the bike he was pretty optimistic that we could fix it up.  The first pic below was from the welding up job. It took longer to blank off all the holes in the engine than to grind back and weld it up. As Mike likes to say give it enough electric putty and you can fix just about anything!

Freshly welded up engine cases.

This is the finished job a day later! When I came over on the 9th April, Mike had finished hand filling he cases back. .02 of a MM is a bloody good job by hand!  Already for a clean up before we bolt it all together and take it back to the dyno!