Coolhands
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Trade two or three of your old ones for a new one. More riding, less maintenance!Yep I have 5 old bikes on the road
I try to rotate them as much as possible to avoid wet sumping and jets clogging up etc
Trade two or three of your old ones for a new one. More riding, less maintenance!Yep I have 5 old bikes on the road
I try to rotate them as much as possible to avoid wet sumping and jets clogging up etc
What maintenance?Trade two or three of your old ones for a new one. More riding, less maintenance!
Routine maintenance. The magic number of bikes for me is two or three. If I have more I always favor one and the others sit too much.What maintenance?
Do you mean riding a bike to stop it wet sumping?
I use my bikes for commuting as well as leisure
I bought a modern bike a 1993 Indian Enfield but it's not quite up to what I need despite slightly tuning it and raising the gearingRoutine maintenance. The magic number of bikes for me is two or three. If I have more I always favor one and the others sit too much.
Too dry.Damn, that’s a beautiful primary.
On a Norton the cylinders and everything else is moving up/down/forwards/backwards.Pistons move up and down. If the cylinders were moving up and down all kinds of hell would break loose. Just giving you some BS.
Has the main bearing collapsed on the timing side?Update. Timing cover came off today. Still don’t know the extent of the damage but I know the cause!
Oil pump drive shaft has broken.
Engine turns all the way through with a wrench on the crankshaft. Hangs up at one point on each revolution of the crank.
Seized piston do to oil starvation? We will see.
Update. Timing cover came off today. Still don’t know the extent of the damage but I know the cause!
Oil pump drive shaft has broken.
Engine turns all the way through with a wrench on the crankshaft. Hangs up at one point on each revolution of the crank.
Seized piston do to oil starvation? We will see.
There're getting a little hard to find. Have you measured? May only need a bore. Piston sets don't cost very much (unless you go fancy). They are available in +0.020, +0.040, +0.060, and +0.080 but I don't think I would go over +-.060 - the skirt would be too thin for me. Sleeves are also available, but I have no idea who installs them. Of course, you need to be sure the rods and crank are OK before you start spending money IMHO.If anyone has a spare barrel laying around…
I'll leave the to sleeve or not to sleeve opinions to others - I can get them if you decide you want to. I do have a 750 engine from the barrels down - have no plan to use the barrels or pistons - the top right front fin is missing. I believe that the pistons are +0.40 and what I can see of the bores are OK - it's very hard to get to right now and it's very dirty. Don't really have a plan for the of it other than to take it to a swap meet and sell it.Unfortunately I don’t think it’s getting the micrometer over from my dads shop. It’s pretty deep.
Was looking at sleeves but it looks like it’s not recommended on the 750. Thoughts?