D&T Summative

Part 1:

The work Steffan and I did on the bike was strictly on the engine. What I did on the bike was started by taking the bike apart and started to find problems with it. We started by removing the engine from the bike which involved removing a whole bunch of bolts attaching the engine to the bike frame. Once removed from bike we had to start inspecting a way to get into the inside of the engine. We found the correct way to do that which was to start by removing the valve head. Once we removed that we then removed the cylinder head  and we could see the problem right away. The engine was ceased… this was something we did not want at all. So the next step was to get hammer and bang it till the piston came out. Once that was done we were able to remove the piston from the cylinder. I removed the piston from cylinder and saw that the cylinder looked really dirty and needed a cleaning. The piston rings were really worn out so I knew we had to get new parts for that. The cam chain looked good but the cam chain guide was really worn out. I then removed the oil cover from the side of the bike. Everything was in good shape other than the gaskets, we needed to replace all the gaskets on the bike because they were all in bad shape. So when I put the engine back together I put 2 fresh oil filters in it, put new rings on the piston, we took the engine to a machine shop and Deglazed the cylinder head of the engine, put new gaskets where needed, and put a new cam chain guide on. Once this was all done it was good enough to get the bike working and ready to function.

Part 2:

Parts List

Oil Filter - $5.95

Piston Rings - $64.46

Deglazed Engine - $110

Gaskets - $64.95

Oil Filter Screen - $13.95

Front Cam Chain Guide - $28.95

Part 3:

What I have learned in this course has been a lot about engines and how they work. It has helped me to understand how to rebuild and fix an engine. I think this will help me in the future because I will be able to figure out how to do little work like an oil change or even bigger work like rebuild an engine if I ever run into that problem. I found that its not just the hard work, it is work that you can do with friends and work that always feels great whenever you have finished what u have done. It is such an amazing accomplishment when achieving something like this and it is always a great time when it is accomplished right.