This is easy. Sgilbert, get your butt over to the 'For Sale' thread and offer $85 (or more!) via PayPal and build a spare set or just canabilize the parts you need -- except pilots. I think I'm convinced that previously plugged pilots are more prone to re-plugging. Not sure $40 from Gary is the best deal, but am sure that new pilots work very, very well.
get serious.
if you think he could do this rebuild, or you could for that matter (just judging by the way you suggest it..) you have a LOT of learning to do.
Fun if you have the time, and the patiance to attempt it, but frutile if you expect the outcome to be right first go.
I'm standing back and saying this because both Steve and I are good friends, and both have paid major "dues to sing the blues" when it comes to downright being able to rip them down, and put them together in a couple hours.... and slap them on a bike, look sidways at a customer, hit the start button..... and have the bike fire, and run.... and then, when we put the synch tubes on, and touch a screwdriver to the adjustments, say it was perfect without tweaking a thing, and call it done....I've done this in front of a crowd, and as they slowly drifted away over the hours it took to complete, the end result was the same... the owner stood and hit the button, and the bike ran..... perfectly.
I say this with all earnest, there is nobody out there that has this talent that I still today keep secret, other than Steve, and truthfully, he has much more patiance than I do.Today, I just work on my own $#!+, he is willing to take on the other ones, just be thankfull wayyyyy back when, when I ditched being the "COG Tech Dude" that he decided not to take the position, because he has scruples, and wouldn't do it knowing it would be controversial.
Thumbs up to you Steve, can't wait till we can sit and discuss the year at the ralley