Post mortem. My diagnostics suck. I shouldn't have ignored the clanking when I turned it back and forth? It should have taken me 10 minutes max to find that, not days.
Not wasting any time on it bottom half is toast.
I do have another engine, looks pretty good. I'll be getting it ready after I finish my lights on fatbike (adding fuse links, horn, new led inserts for headlamp).
I'm swapping the head for my angle fire bigger head. Reading posts on prep.
Meanwhile, if I gotta build before brap? I got the first engine for this bike I was building b4 I got my trike years ago, wouldn't fit. Only tested it on upright, figured I'd modify frame to cram it in.
Didn't think I'd ever ride upright again over 10 miles cause that scar that used to be a prostate. 1000 miles later, two bikes, streets, fields, forest, guess I'm over that!
Anyways, I still liked my lounge chair. Bet it'd fit a pit bike motor good.