Punch list

Status
Not open for further replies.
swooshdave

swooshdave

Joined
Apr 15, 2009
Messages
11,520
Country flag
Punch list


What else am I forgetting?
 
Prime the oil lines and the rocker boxes.
Add fuel.
Kick the bike over. Not 100 times like in that one video...
 
NORTSTER1974 said:
Check with your Physician to see if it is "Normal" to have to write down the obvious. This could be the early onset of dementia.
Click to expand...

The advantage of writing down the obvious is the sense of joy you get from checking something off. :D
 
gortnipper said:
Prime the oil lines and the rocker boxes.
Add fuel.
Kick the bike over. Not 100 times like in that one video...
Click to expand...

I’m kicking it over until I’ve got oil coming back to the tank. I spare you the video on that unless you beg. :eek:
 
By the time you kick it till oil get back to your oil tank your rings will have bedded in lol, I just kick it till oil comes out of he top rocker oil line then put the oil line on and fire it up, if things are set right should fire on first kick, once started I just look in the oil tank filler to watch for the oil to return, if things are good it don't take long for the oil to return to the tank.
Once you have primed the oil pump and the crank is full of oil it don't take long to kick it to get the oil up the rocker oil lines.

Ashley
 
There's nothing on your list concerning beer consumption!!!???
 
baz said:
There's nothing on your list concerning beer consumption!!!???
Click to expand...

No thats after its fired up for the first time and extra beer if it fires up on the first kick, no beers before that or untill you have finished for the days work.

Ashley
 
Ref kicking it over until oil returns to tank. Most times I've started a rebuilt engine it's 30 seconds to a minute before the oil appears back at the tank. That's at a high idling speed, probably 2k to 3k revs. You really planning to kick it over a thousand or maybe two thousand times?

I presume you squirted some oil into the crank before you put timing cover on and used some assembly lube? Pour some oil into the exhaust valve rocker area to lube camshaft and just start it. Keep the engine spinning for the first few minutes. You will be fine.

Ian
 
Yup, as I see it kicking it over until the oil returns is a huge and utterly pointless task. Especially huge if you’ve a filter in the return line!
Personally, I believe that even priming the oil lines is pointless, just fill the oil tank a few days early and gravity will do it for you.
If you wish to check anything, slacken a head feed union and kick until oil weeps from there.
 
I've overhauled 87 multi-cylinder 4-stroke engines, and a handful of 2-stroke singles & twins, and have had ONE engine failure, (a Triumph that I failed to seat the sludge tube fully into the crank; just one spun rod bearing which was easily fixed, no crank damage).

Use good cam assembly lube, oil all the whirly bits as they go together, and just start the darn thing already...
 
"Use good cam assembly lube,oil all the whirly bits as theygo together, and just start thedarn thing already..."

Yep give it some revs and don't let it idle
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top