2 Strokes Down Under

Cool,thanks for the info guys,sending mine to Mexico now....

A few weeks back I sent away 3 cranks (2 that felt fine and one that had an obvious blow up) to Link to see if anything was salvageable and after a chat last weekend about what i called 'the scrap' once he had checked what I had sent, I today received back one good crank built from the best bits of what I sent him. Price was minimal (sub $200 as no parts were needed) all up with post. Not bad at all considering I really just assumed that my old cranks are lumps of scrap that were taking up room in my spares boxes and yet there was gold lurking in the box. Cant argue with the value, and I will say a huge thanks to Link! If anyone is looking to use him, I would recommend giving him a call.

I'm in the process of jigging up to do this. I can pull them apart at the moment for inspection - all the ones I had suffer the notorious big end journal marking.
I've been talking with Lynn Garland and picking his brain for ideas to make a realignment jig that simplifies assembly without resorting to Thor, king of tapometers !

But, too many projects getting in the way - ADD of the bike world !

Actually, i'm beggining to think this may not be the most economic way forward.
Its handy to have the ability to strip and assemble crankshafts, but given what the cost of a Banshee crank is and the small amount of machining required to make them fit the LC's cases i am having a double take !

I siezed the Spondon LC on Saturday and will be checking the crank but if its out it will be the Banshee option - cheaper and stronger.

Out of interest has anyone got pics they can put up of the mods required to get a Banshee/RZ/YPVS crank into the LC cases?
From what I've seen there may be two approaches, and as said above, off the shelf cranks are the easiest option at the moment. I'd be very interested to see what the mods actually look like.

Probably needs its own thread as this is is getting OT for Links thread, tho he might be bale to do that work, who knows.

Jeff can you tidy this up a bit and start a new thread?

Hi Link, Thanks for rebuilding my RZ500 cranks, great job.
Cheers Ron