Engine change?

[Sgt Bilco]

Id of thought it'd be a great idea, Leave a blazing smoke trail, No one can winge that that they couldn't see where you went,

One or two still would mate.....

 

[Shunt]

True, I probably would be one of them. Too busy Thinking of that advent calendar

 

[socket086]

the smoke might be there due to a stuck reedvalve , read it somewhere something to do with vapourised oil on back of pistons.

 

[DrFarkoff]

Silly Question for you Bilco

Do you ride the bike until at working temp and then park up on sidestand for say 10 mins and then lift onto main stand to check the oil level

I've come across a few bikes that don't seem to drain down the oil cooler unless hot and When I do my thing when I am servicing I have pulled "nearly" 5 litres out of 3 bikes ....

Oil level possibly too high??

 

[Sgt Bilco]

Silly Question for you Bilco

Do you ride the bike until at working temp and then park up on sidestand for say 10 mins and then lift onto main stand to check the oil level

I've come across a few bikes that don't seem to drain down the oil cooler unless hot and When I do my thing when I am servicing I have pulled "nearly" 5 litres out of 3 bikes ....

Oil level possibly too high??

No mate. I always check my oil when cold (i.e look in the window and as long as some is there it's good to go) and have done so since new. It's never uses a drop and it's definitely not overfull.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Silly Question for you Bilco

Do you ride the bike until at working temp and then park up on sidestand for say 10 mins and then lift onto main stand to check the oil level

I've come across a few bikes that don't seem to drain down the oil cooler unless hot and When I do my thing when I am servicing I have pulled "nearly" 5 litres out of 3 bikes ....

Oil level possibly too high??

Bingo

I have one that does and one that doesn't

I have to adopt a different oil check strategy for both

Strangely, both the same breed and built within 3 weeks of each other

I thought it was me, thanks for confirming I wasn't going mad

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

Might as well bite the bullet.

That's your actual answer.
Get your hand down the back of the sofa & dig out some of the loose change that's slipped out of your pockets you fecking skinflint.

I'm sure I overheard you saying your accountant had told you to get rid of some of your disposable income before the end of the financial year.

 

[BlueBird]

Im gutted

200.000k on yr original motor,thats proper

I can't tell you how disapointed I am in killing my engine in a moment of madness at 98.5 k.

I put an engine with im told 20k on it,feels like a different bike, it feels tight almost like somethings wrong,also slightly uses more fuel,dispite a remap,
but its perfect,just used to the engine with the miles on it

Just run in at 100k I reckon

 

[BlueBird]

FYI,
I did the compressions on 3 healthy bikes and 2 of them showed a 20psi lower on the left 175 psi R-155 psi L

Compression test is OK? If this is the case maybe the problem isn't too severe. If the heads are off it might be worth a new set of rings, but where do you stop?

 

[Lord Snooty]

I can't tell you how disapointed I am in killing my engine in a moment of madness at 98.5 k.:

Do tell

 

[BlueBird]

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/381763-Submarine-GS

Do tell

 

[er-minio]

I can't tell you how disapointed I am in killing my engine in a moment of madness at 98.5 k.

I've done something similar at around 22k miles

Costed me a bit... but the bike runs awesome now (still same engine).

 

[Pukmeister]

At 100k plus, do these engines suffer from cam chain wear/stretch or worn cam chain guides ??

 

[Bendy toy]

200.000k on yr original motor,thats proper
I put an engine with im told 20k on it,feels like a different bike, it feels tight almost like somethings wrong,also slightly uses more fuel,dispite a remap,
but its perfect,just used to the engine with the miles on it

My brother's GSA was low miles but totally mollycoddled. It even had highway pegs. Its taken at least 10,000 miles of proper use for the engine to free up. HE was beginning to think the bores and glazed prematurely and would need honing but at 20K it has started to bed in. So the tight feeling 20K engine could be just that. Use it properly and it will free off (eventually).

 

[mikeyboy]

here ya go chris,all stripped

 

[mikeyboy]

some of the parts are a bit pricy
exhaust valves £72 each

 

[mikeyboy]

be cheaper to drop one of these in it.
cant seem to load the photo i want,but its a twin cam

 

[Bendy toy]

I put a set of new exhaust valves into a Fiat/Alfa 1746cc HGT 1.8 engine. £20 each for exhausts was bad enough and I needed all eight. Thankfully there was no other damage to cylinder head. The oil pressure stayed up after the top end rebuild, so I got away lightly with the big end shells.

 

[Greenman14]

be cheaper to drop one of these in it.
cant seem to load the photo i want,but its a twin cam

Might be cheaper, but to get that lump looking tidy would take some time and much elbow grease, was it dredged out of the North Sea, or do they all do that, Sir?

 

[Sgt Bilco]

Might be cheaper, but to get that lump looking tidy would take some time and much elbow grease, was it dredged out of the North Sea, or do they all do that, Sir?

It's lived a life......Riding the Dalton Highway Alaska 5 times doesn't help with aesthetics!!!