Bike did a wee

Thursday afternoon? I'm away the following week.

Was there a slightly more accurate description of the symptoms other than
"done a wee"?

 

That must be Universal Salvage, from what they say on the page. They're
ok to deal with.

 

Bad form, and all that, but I've had a close look and it's not US. Other
direction.

 

I'm off until Wednesday, back to work on Thursday. I will contact my
new manager on Tuesday to ask if I can swap my day off but otherwise,
if the offer is still open, I'll need to arrange an alternative date
with you if possible.

If Mr. Courier or prawn would like to contribute to this I'd
appreciate it. I'm not sure if a diagnosis was made but the bike is
working now and survived a 12 or 14 mile round-trip to Halfauds and
back, but I did keep the revs quite low and very little oil was blown
out of the exhaust. I think rings were mentioned.

 

I'm away in Scarborough the following week; I can do 12th or 13th June
easy enough when I get back (pref. 12th as I have to be in London suited
and booted for the evening of the 13th).

My money's on head gasket if it's over pressuring the crankcase forcing
emulsified oil into the airbox. Rings on average mileage Jap bikes don't
really wear out.

Before coming over here or doing any appreciable mileage check that the
oil and coolant are not mixing. Is there excessive mayonnaise in the
engine or oil in the coolant.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, sweller belched forth and ejected the following:

It wasn't, there was only petrol in the airbox - the result of an air
filter dripping in the stuff.

I reckon the thing just stalled and he panicked or the air filter thing.
The engine wouldn't turn over at all to begin with so we took one of the
plugs out and gave the back wheel a turn with it in 6th gear. A load of
petrol shot out of the spark plug hole (Prawn videoed, then promptly
lost the video of this event) and it then turned over with the key.
Spark plug back in, tank reconnected and Bob's your cross-dressing
Auntie.

They're not mixing but if you fancy servinibg the thing then rather you
than me, chum. I mean, have you actually seen what you need to do to get
cylinder 2's plug out? Not only have you got to remove a lot of the
plumbing but where Nick went DS, there's a bit of gravel stuck between
the hex bit of the plug and the head. There's no quick way of getting
that plug out, mate.

Muhahaha!

 

There was a **** load of coolant in the air box too mixed with petrol

That must have been one hell of a stall that I couldn't undo and two
blokes from the port authority couldn't figure out and the bloke from
Carole Nash couldn't fix. It wouldn't even bump start. The soaked
air filter can't have been doing much good either and would explain
the loss of power just before I got to the port and the unwillingness
to start at the petrol station en route.

And then followed dinner which I thought was a nice touch. Mother
hasn't commented but I think she likes you. I normally bring around
really odd people which she doesn't converse with but she certainly
got a natter on with you.

What's "DS?"

Thanks so much for your help today. As you said, even if it was going
to be flogged on ebay, it's now a runner in need of attention instead
of a non-runner which is probably worth a couple of hundred squid
more.

 

It did go ditch surfing on that side. But... I've been charged for
two sets of new spark plugs since then at the ultra reliable Cheriton
Motorcycles... if a stone is still stuck in one of them could that be
indicative that very little work had actually been carried out in
these services, and if that's true, would not having a proper service
in 15,000 miles cause something similar to what I experienced on
Friday on the ferry?

Similar to the DS#7 in my sig.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, BGN belched forth and ejected the following:

No there wasn't. It just stank of petrol.

<Deep gravelly voice>

OH!

Indeed, completely unexpected and a nice surprise. You never told me you
Mum was a darlin'

Yes, she did rather.

Ditch surfing.

And to quote prawn, it's now worth three hundred pounds and a penny )

 

Yes, blue petrol...

Minus £5.99 for the oil. Oh, and in all the excitement of surviving
the journey to Halfauds I bought "Motorcycle Gear Oil" instead of oil
oil so I'll get that exchanged today.

 

I've searched for 'head gasket' on ebay in the motorcycle section with
no hits, but looking at the car section the head gasket appears to be
nothing more than a few slithers of cork, card board and perhaps some
plastic.

I'll do a 40 mile bimble today, if it's not pissing with rain and see
if anything mayonnaise-like appears in the sight glass. It hasn't in
the past and I can't see it there now. Even after Friday's
unfortunate events the sight glass still shows black oil.

<http://www.bitzforbikes.co.uk/myproducts.php?BikeID=181&year=6656&ProdTypeID=5>

Should I purchase one of these (Complete Gasket Kit £62.95) or is it
easier and cheaper to source the parts locally? Also, after seeing
the LHS spark plug yesterday it was smothered in oil, probably from
last week, so that probably needs replacing and the oil's due for
replacement with the filter and the coolant is now just water, yada
yada yada yada...

<sigh> Are you sure you want to do this?

 

You're supposed to use that for waterproofing your leathers, you muppet.

 

On Mon, 29 May 2006 10:35:53 +0100,

During prawn and MC's visit yesterday I think the general theme of
clothes waterproofing was to get as much petrol flung out of the
engine into the air as possible.

 

Large cornflake box, using the old gasket as a template. YKIMS. It did
to me, anyway, and the TZR managed about 2000 miles before blowing up
again.

 

I wonder why no one pointed it out yet, so I will do it:
Please be very careful riding the bike with the gasket ready to blow.

Should water enter the combustion chamber, you will learn pretty quickly
that liquids are nice to adjust to any shape, but cannot be compressed at
all, which the upwards moving piston will try to do anyway... the engine and
back wheel will seize quite fast.

So be prepared to grab the clutch at any time... Although I doubt anyone
*could* grab the clutch in the time needed to not fall off. After having
water break into it, major damage to the rest of the engine is almost
certain - so please, consider if you really want to drive before having it
sorted out.

 

Ralf Mayer wrote

NAHAY?

 

I did browse a couple of acronym dictionaries and did a google on this one,
with no results... You will have to use a more understandable way to make
me look stupid.

(But I still feel proud to have managed to figure out TIUTA without asking!)

 

Ralf Mayer wrote

No need mate, no need, you are doing all the work yourself.

and do you?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ralf Mayer belched forth and ejected the
following:

That actually sounds very like the symptoms he had on the ferry.

Hey, Nick, it could be a HG after all.

 

Yes, but it's looking like in a week or two.