Started to strip the cx to turn it into a Cafe Bike. After a day and a half, this remained in the garage.
Found out where the coolant was coming from: the water pump is on top of the transmission, and the seal had failed. The good news is, they were cheap -- around 5 bucks for new ones. I picked up new ones online, and got a couple of spares. While stuff is going to go back on the bike, I think I shed at least 100lbs. I did begin to note, however, the presence of a lot of blue silicon. Like synthetic snot, it was tough to get rid of and sticks to everything. A "repair" was attempted on the water pump. Instead of doing it right and buying a 5 dollar seal, the silocone was used.
I moved to the front of the bike, and noted some evidence of hamfisted maintenance. One of the clutch cover-case bolts was obviously over-torqued, or the wrong one put in, as evidenced by a crack in the case and.... MORE BLUE SILOCONE SNOT!!!
I've slept on it for a couple of days, and I think I can affect a locktite red/jb weld repair (when it warms up). I'll turn the male bolt into a stud with a spacer and nut on the end. The whole shebang only requires at most 10lbs of torque, so some idiot either put in a too-long bolt, or over-tightened things. Sigh.
Other things I noted was cylinder heads pretty loaded with carbon. That might be a project as well, to remove the heads, clean them, and check valves and etc. The other plans at this point is to make my own seat, rather than buy something online. I think it will be fibreglass with reinforced areas, and then get it covered. That might change if something else comes available.
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