The base gasket is not an option on the head you took off. Unless you really like putting your bike together and taking it apart.
I figured that. I am going to pull the wrist pin and leave the piston in the cylinder so I don't have to hone or put new rings in and then change out the base gasket. Should I worry all the build up on top of the piston? If I try to clean will all that crud fall into the cylinder and hurt anything or should I just leave it be. It ran great before, that's my theory.
Roll the pistons up to the top of the jugs and clean the carbon of them use a little solvent after you have them as clean as you can get them, to break any oil residue in the groove above the rings and an air gun to blow any crumbies from the ring gap.
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