82 750 head replacement.

So all of you wonderful XJ owners out there in Minneapolis. I have a bike requiring a new head and no good place to work on it. Come this spring I am hoping to replace this head. So if anybody has time and a garage to assist me with this task I would be very appreciative. Oh do you like beer? I am a professinal brewer and work currently at Surly brewing.

 

Dang! Free beer to work on a motorcycle! That's like heaven right there! If I lived in 'Sota I would open my garage up and we could start before Xmas, sadly I am way too far away. I'll bet that's good beer too eh? I am really bored with the big breweries stuff, if your going to drink beer it might as well be quality and tasty.

 

Sorry Brewer, I left Minnesota while the gittin' was good, now reside in warm and sunny Las Vegas Nevada. I lived in MPLS for 6 years, bought my bike in the little hamlet of Stacey, found a freeze crack in the frame, now I've stripped the frame so I can get it welded. Minnesota's nice place to visit, but I don't want to live there any more. So what's wrong with the head? there are some good replacement heads on Ebay.

 

I broke off an exhaust stud and destroyed the head while trying to remove it. So I am replacing it now because I didn't want to take it off to remove the stud. Huh, impatient yes. Have a head just a good place to work on it. I have access to a garage with no light, rather not do it in a driveway like my old Kawasaki head replacement (read above but it was an intake side).

 

Those little studs and bolts can be a royal pain, I find that if I soak 'em down with a good penetrating oil I don't have much trouble.

 

The "Times" are right for you to be able to BARTER getting help repairing that bike.

a) Classified ad:

Experienced Master Brewer will consult and assist Home Brewers. Make your Holiday home brewing experience a delight this season in exchange for help getting my Motorbike repaired.

b) Tech High School assist:

Prepare a presentation showing the Automotive Technologies Dept Head at a Regional Technical High School your dilemma and appeal for assistance.
Show them that you are prepared; having everything needed to complete the project.
FACTORY SERVICE MANUAL
Everything needed to do the job.
No deadline.
Your willingness to contribute a "Donation" to the Auto Shop's "Expendable Supplies Fund."

c) Moonlighter Christmas Dough

In the same manner as the Presentation the Tech School needs, ... prepare a
1-Sheet appeal for help and space.
Make 20 copies.
Ask the Mobile Canteen Drivers, who visit all the Dealerships and Garage Mechanics on their routes, ... to give-out a sheet to the guys that grab coffee and lunch when he makes a stop.