I think I found a new favorite dish at one of the local sushi places called Tokyo Express. The dish is just called the Big Bowl. It starts out with rice with sesame seeds on about half of the width and shredded lettuce on the other side. This is topped with seaweed salad, avocado, pickled daikon, an assortment of sashimi and topped with fish roe. It was served with a container of chili sauce and you just added it to taste.
The Ural hasn't been abandoned. I cleaned off the front timing cover and installed it as well as the pieces of the PowerArc system. I can't really adjust it until I have the engine back into the frame and the wiring reconnected. I also installed the oil pump with the extension from Terry Crawford. This can be seen in the lower photo. I had originally thought that it would be a machined block that would actually lower the oil pump deeper into the pan but that wasn't how he chose to do it.
Above is a shot of the deep sump oil pan sold by Ural. The cooling fins on the bottom are a lot longer and there is supposed to be an additional quart of oil capacity. The drain plug threads on the original pan were kind of "worn" I think from someone over tightened the drain plug in an attempt to stop an oil leak. All it does is mess up the pan. I'm hoping that I can still get the engine into the bike frame with the deep sump pan installed. It may be kind of a pain to install the oil pump extension with the engine installed. I wanted to clean off the frame before installing the engine, There is a lot of dirt and caked on dirt. After all, it does have about 30k miles.
After installation into the frame, all that's left are all of the accessories such as the alternator, carbs, starter, wiring, etc.
Looks like it just extends the reach of the pump? I guess it facilitates suction of the oil up to the pump?
ReplyDeletePossibly, but there is no seal around the top of the extension. Just a sloppy metal to metal connection. No "O" ring or gasket.
DeleteThat dish look interesting. I like the idea of making a bowl with rice and seaweed salad with the pickled veggies (sans fish of course)
ReplyDeleteIt would be a great dish without the fish. (Though I really like the sashimi!)
DeleteI'm with Brandy on this. Although I still get cravings for fish.
DeleteI've never gotten tired of sashimi. We had it often while growing up and it always felt like a real treat.
DeleteRichard, doesn't Ural make an extension for the oil pump? If they make the deeper pan I would think it would be a necessary item. No seal on the extension sounds kind of odd to me also. What kind of oil pressure does a Ural run?
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, Ural does not make an extension for the oil pump. The oil pressure is very low. Something like 5-15 psi, maybe. There is no oil pressure light. No pressurized oil fed to any bearings just flow to the main bearings, excess from the main bearings are fed to the rod bearings. Everything else is lubricated via splash.
DeleteMmm, that Big Bowl does sound like a delish dish, like Japan’s answer to Korea’s Bibimbap—different components, but similar concept.
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of what I was thinking. I love bibimbap but only with the really hot stone bowl so the rice gets crusty.
Delete(sigh) It's lunchtime, and bibimbap with crusty rice sounds sooo good. But I must be strong, must resist, must discipline myself to be content with something from the fridge.
DeleteMaybe it's time to stock the fridge with some other ingredients...
DeleteHa-haa! Yeah. I have grand fantasies of being able to prepare my favorite Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, you-name-it dishes, but I simply haven't the patience or interest.
DeleteLunch was far from bad, though: It included slices of chicken breast that I smoked up last weekend.