On the Kawasaki project:

I omitted that little detail on my previous post but no doubt you all figured it out. Today was an incredibly nice day for late October so I took advantage of it and did some outside sandblasting in the slide rails, which are too big for my cabinet. Still a long way to go but it’s a start.
Also pulled the spare motor out and doused it with brake cleaner to remove some of the gunk. Really think I’ll end up using this motor. Haven’t checked compression but it feels good and there is a nice thump coming out of the pipe when I roll it over.