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No sir. Took the présure plate and springs out. But didn't mess with the basket nut at all. Just eased the friction/steels out one by one.

I didnt see anything in the oil at the time I drained it again to open the side of the case back up. I should have thought of that and paid closer attention to that. I have an 86 GSXR1100 that has some cracks in the frame. I was saving it until I learned to rig weld to repair it. For now, would that engine swap into the 96 bandit 600 frame? The engine in the GSXR1100 has no cylinder bore number but is a u703 engine case number.

No thumps. I can get her to start and run if I hold the throttle open a bit, but she makes a labored grindy sort of noise from the crank area. Listened while I had the side open and was just turning it over with the starter. Plugs were out. No thumps or pops.

I did so. Drained the oil, pulled the cover back off, and looked. It looked fine! As clean as when I put her together the first time. Got a flashlight and looked at all the gears around it I could see. Ran the starter for a couple of seconds with the plugs out to make sure nothing was grinding. Everything looked okay to me.

The bike is a 96 bandit 600 The engine, I'm told is an 88 katana 1100. The numbers on the engine are 1127cc, and v706 on the engine case. I replaced the clutch disks with new ones. Buttoned it all back up and put in fresh oil. The friction disks soaked for several hours. And I cleaned up the steels. Then I started her and let her warm up for a couple of minutes and suddenly she died. Was running fine before. Restarted her, but she sounded really bad and died at idle. Pulled the spark plugs. They looked good. Did a compression test. Got 150psi on all cylinders. A couple of days ago, I had a cylinder fill with fuel because the float levels were off. Fixed that and replaced the oil then too. Could the fuel in the oil have killed a bearing that quickly?