So, just curious. For all of us who actually tear down these 3 wheelers and try to rebuild them.....What's the saddest thing you've seen thus far?
Aside form my big pet peeve, no one cleaning the oil centrifuge I seen something pretty sad today. Tearing down a 200E engine, the centrifugal clutch drum is almost completely blue. The engine has the most acrid stench of burnt oil I have ever smelled in over 4 decades of being around internal combustion engines. I've seen hot spots in clutches before, we all have but this thing is almost entirely blue.
This is un-f'ing-called for. You KNOW that thing had to have been slipping for quite some time. The pads on the clutch shoes are nonexistent. Lazy, common simpletons. Some people shouldn't be allowed to touch anything more complicated than a crayon.
God only knows what else I will find. No way I can trust a single bearing in the this thing. Not that I was going to.