Dun a `king stupid thing

[bmwrich58]

ever filled the engine with oil without putting the drain plug back

I seem to have those kinds of problems when ever alcohol is whithin arms reach,while working on the bike:cockeye

 

[Dave Hall]

ever filled the engine with oil without putting the drain plug back

I seem to have those kinds of problems when ever alcohol is whithin arms reach,while working on the bike:cockeye

I dont need alcohol..........

 

[goggstrotter]

yes we are all clumsy twats when we don't know what we are doing....

i once lost a spanner in the engine of a BAC lightning ( fast military jet ), never retrieved it and the thing fell out of the sky, luckily for me the pilot survived and i was never found out. shit happens once in a while !

name with held for obvious reasons

 

[Darth_1100s]

Goggstrotter....You're joking right????


Dave

 

[Daithi]

ever filled the engine with oil without putting the drain plug back

I seem to have those kinds of problems when ever alcohol is whithin arms reach,while working on the bike:cockeye

No.... I dont need the alcohol.

 

[Shep]

Once while fiddling with the cam timing on a GS (suzuki) i dropped a socket down the camchain tunnel , I couldnt retrieve it with magnets wire etc. So overnight, I stripped the engine (i was racing it next day) When the engine was stripped I couldn't find the socket anywhere much scratching of heads, eventually found the socket in the oil drip tray (the socket had missed the tunnel straight down the front of the engine into the tray)

Thats when I realised i was a true tosser

Shep

 

[Welshman]

O.K. also on a Suzuki GS750B they had a "jockey" tensioner between the cams held with 4 bolts, dropped one down the cam chain tunnel. Retrieved it by turning the whole bike over etc!

Same bike, running way into the red line then backing off suddenly, Bike had this horrible "stuffed valves" type noises, but still running, nursed it home and stripped the motor found nothing wrong! Two weeks later read an article where "Cycle World" were prepping one for the Daytona 24 hour or whatever "modification to the automatic cam chain tensioner to make it manual, as if you run to the red line then back off suddenly the auto tensioner backs off! Screams of frustration!

Yes I have filled cars and bikes without a drain plug in.

But I have never lost that grommet into the timing hole of the Pig, cos I use a wire to hold it.

 

[Shep]

O.K. also on a Suzuki GS750B they had a "jockey" tensioner between the cams held with 4 bolts, dropped one down the cam chain tunnel. Retrieved it by turning the whole bike over etc!

Same bike, running way into the red line then backing off suddenly, Bike had this horrible "stuffed valves" type noises, but still running, nursed it home and stripped the motor found nothing wrong! Two weeks later read an article where "Cycle World" were prepping one for the Daytona 24 hour or whatever "modification to the automatic cam chain tensioner to make it manual, as if you run to the red line then back off suddenly the auto tensioner backs off! Screams of frustration!

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That all sounds familiar I modded the tensioner, i drilled and tapped a hole to jam the tensioner in place, worked brilliantly Before that at the end of the run i, I would shut off and bend a few valves (all oversize and running huge cams, i cant remember the valve/piston clearances i was runnng, but they were very close at times and needed plasticguaging(?) on all builds due to headgasket differences (couldnt afford a good O ring set up at the time )

Great engines though

Shep

 

[Welshman]

Yep, great motor, all roller bearing crank etc as it was there first foray outside the 2 stroke market so unburstable. I ran 33mm smoothbores, piper exhaust, Moriwaki cams and 820 kit. bloody thing was very silly, but big grin factor. I lasted under 6 months after I sold it new owner wrote it off.

Welsh

 

[Shep]

Yep, great motor, all roller bearing crank etc as it was there first foray outside the 2 stroke market so unburstable. I ran 33mm smoothbores, piper exhaust, Moriwaki cams and 820 kit. bloody thing was very silly, but big grin factor. I lasted under 6 months after I sold it new owner wrote it off.

Welsh

I fitted gs850 barrels, pistons were yoshimura, cams were a special grind by elmer trett in the states, a heavily modified (variable length headers) laser exhaust at a time when they only made race exhausts, it had twin choke pumper delorto's, with a variable inlet tract system (very crude) home made bellmouths (also variable in length) lots of other home garage style mods, best time was a 10.5 on street tyres, but it would run 10.7's all day, I even rode it down the pub in the evenings

Shep

 

[Welshman]

I fitted gs850 barrels, pistons were yoshimura, cams were a special grind by elmer trett in the states, a heavily modified (variable length headers) laser exhaust at a time when they only made race exhausts, it had twin choke pumper delorto's, with a variable inlet tract system (very crude) home made bellmouths (also variable in length) lots of other home garage style mods, best time was a 10.5 on street tyres, but it would run 10.7's all day, I even rode it down the pub in the evenings

Shep

I remember when the Dixon Racing bikes were winning at the TT, they did not use the 1000, they had bored and sleeved 750,s opened out to 1100 or so, that motor was the mutt,s nut,s and I believe that the jockey tensioner was part of the whole reason why they preferred it.

Welsh

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

i once lost a spanner in the engine of a BAC lightning ( fast military jet ), never retrieved it and the thing fell out of the sky, luckily for me the pilot survived and i was never found out.

Farking hell - thats one big 'fess up !!

puts lost nuts in m/c engines in its place - jeez.

 

[Richard Stallard]

Suzuki RM250C

Screwed my engine in my 1st Motocross bike, air filter was held in place by this big clip, either the clip came of or more likley I forgot to put it back on and due to the Suzuki's having the reed valves just below the cylinder intake it went straight through and mangled the piston, bike still ran but with very little power and when I checked it it had a hole about 2" long down the side of the piston. oops....

also left a pair of pliers inside the airbox once, was looking for them everywhere, didn't find them until going to clean the air filter.

and lastly a friend of mine got up with a hang over one morning for work as you do, and for somereason decided his Daihatsu jeep needed some engine oil adding, so he proceded to put about 1 liter of white paint in the crank case filler!!!!! luckly it was oil paint and he just carried on as if nothing happened!!!!
well we was Welsh!!

Lickardo. I was going to warn my brother not to do the same with my bikes rubber cap, but now I think I'll just wait and see if he drops it too..

 

[Shep]

Fixed a puncture once on my trials bike, and left a tyre lever in the tyre

Not to bad at the ultra low pressures we were using at the time, but when i pumped it up to go on the road, I realised what i had done

Shep

 

[Micky]

removed small gromet on the flywheel inspection hole to check tappets.
Whilst replacing said gromet ..managed to push it into the hole where it now resides.

I've done this Dave... no probs. The first time you do it, it's a mistake, the second time stupid I've done it several times over the years

Fitted a (the new)Touratech hugger to the 1200GS-A t'other day, and turned a five minute job into half a day

Already had had the wheel out to put a new tyre on. Exhaust off to remove the lower mounting bolt for the rear suspension unit, took the unit out to remove its plastic guard, but didn't need to remove the said suspension unit!

The new hugger has a mounting that goes round the rear suspension swing arm, but it has two small self tappers directly underneath the rear torque arm that you can't get to with the torque arm in place. Took off the rear wheel cover guard, rear caliper and torque arm rear mounting bolt to swing up and out of the way so that I could get to the two self tappers on the hugger.

Fastened the two self tappers for the hugger, only to find the rear drive unit, no torque arm fitted, had dropped down and the drive splines had come out. Rubber bellows peeled back and after much fiddlin, swearin'n cursing by me, and two minutes deft finger work by Leigh (Rainbow) it was back in place. For the lower hugger mounting I had to take the rear wheel out again!

All's well that ends well? Well not quite.... On my way home realised that the speedo wasn't working. Close inspection once home revealed that I'd not tucked the speedo sensor wire out of the way properly, and the rear disc had 'bacon sliced' a couple of inches of wire .

Rear wheel out again, soldering iron, spare wire, shrink wrap and insulation tape, plus a or three, and then all's well that ends well

www.adventure.gs

 

[Welshman]

i once lost a spanner in the engine of a BAC lightning ( fast military jet ), never retrieved it and the thing fell out of the sky, luckily for me the pilot survived and i was never found out.

Farking hell - thats one big 'fess up !!

puts lost nuts in m/c engines in its place - jeez.

Cape Town, South Africa, May 2006, fitter completing a major overhaul on 1,000,000 kW Generator at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant, leaves a bolt behind! Generator starts up, generator farked, 6 months to repair, borrow one from France, ship it in by borrowing a Naval Destoyer to carry it, much too heavy to fly. Bottom 1/3 of the country suffers power cuts for 3 months.

No it was not me.

 

[Welshman]

Fixed a puncture once on my trials bike, and left a tyre lever in the tyre

Not to bad at the ultra low pressures we were using at the time, but when i pumped it up to go on the road, I realised what i had done

Shep

Strange, also done that one.

Best one was a 250 Montesa Cappra, rushing to put it together left the nut off the bolt holting the torque arm to front drum. Test ride it, wheelie, put it down torque arm comes off, front brake rotates locks solid. Took a big chunk out my kneecap.

Welsh

 

[DaveS]

Being a kack handed mechanical moron an all:

removed small gromet on the flywheel inspection hole to check tappets.
Whilst replacing said gromet ..managed to push it into the hole where it now resides.

Does the panel think that it will just gravitate to the bottom and sit harmlessly or will I need to strip engine down to its component parts to extract said gromet.

please tell me I`m not the only stupid cnut to do this thing

Glad I found this thread. Just been servicing the GS for the first time and guess what I dropped the plug in to the hole! Arrrggghh. Had visions of removing the gearbox. Feck!
This thread has put my mind at rest. The power of search!