[Kevin 1G Drummer]

So it's been forever since I've changed anything with this, but it looks like soon I'll be changing stuff inside the engine. At the least, crank and rod bearings.

As some of you have seen in the cruise thread, the oil drain plug somehow loosened up and fell out on my way to work Monday morning, dumping out all the oil just north of the lowery tunnel. I didn't notice it till I started into the corner exiting the tunnel and the rear tire started sliding out, almost causing me to lowside.

At first I had no idea what happened. It was kinda cold, so I thought maybe I hit a slick spot or my tire deflated, or I ran over someone else's oil. Shortly after I got onto 35w southbound I started to hear a slight ticking, so I pulled off onto the 36th st. exit. By the time I slowed down enough to hear (wind noise) it was knocking pretty loud so I shut it off immediately. At first I thought the gasket blew out of the oil filter since I was just reading a magazine article about that happening, but upon closer inspection there was no drain plug in it. I threw it in the back of my brother's truck when he came to pick me up and brought it home, then went to work.

When I got off work I stopped and picked up a new drain plug and some oil for it, got home and threw it in, started it in neutral and everything sounded ok. No knocks or unusual noises, so I thought I got lucky and made it out without any damage. Wrong. Yesterday I was cleaning all the oil off of everything and decided that while it was on the stand with the tire off the ground, I'd throw it in gear to make sure there was no noises while in gear and that's when it knocked a little bit. I bumped it up to 5th gear and let the clutch out, and it started knocking like crazy so I pulled the clutch in and shut it down.

I ordered the factory service manual for it today, and I'm gonna start tearing it apart on Friday night or Saturday. Carnage pics to follow.