Things Which I Have Come To Expect To Find

There are things which I have come to expect to find in the
sump of a motorcycle: mostly oil, but traces of water,
traces of fuel, tiny shavings of metal are not entirely
unheard of.

Not whole ball bearings though.

With the luxury of a workshop full of shiny things, I remove the
clutch which defeated me in the sands of Wintersun.

And find this:
<http://zoic.org/sharkey/tmp/fubar.jpg>

-----sharks

 

...and you made it home?!!?

 

i'm sorry, just what the hell part of the engine is that?
*blink* it's well and truely knackered

Mike.S

 

Against incredible odds, it actually runs like that.
The dry-sump engine kept the ball-bearings out of the works,
and the cases didn't quite wear through.

On the other hand, it went about 600km like that, and the
oil pump ain't feeling too flash. I suspect it's fucked.

ALL TOGETHER NOW:

YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SPLIT THE CASES!

-----sharks (how much was the XJ again?)

 

Output shaft from the gearbox. This is a pic of the innards
through the clutch cover, with the clutch removed.

<http://zoic.org/sharkey/tmp/fubar2.jpg>

In the middle is the gearbox input shaft (the thing running
up the middle is the clutch push-rod), the gear on
the right is on the crankshaft, the gear at the bottom drives
the oil pump. The bearingless shaft is on the left.

At the very top right you can see the coils of my BRAND NEW
SHOCK ABSORBER! I'm NOT ANGRY, REALLY!

-----sharks

 

Looks ok to me. That'll be $200 please.

 

your machine is broken dude.

 

I'll trailer the z13 down weekend after next!

Hammo

 

I still cant see the Leprechaun!

Hammo

PS Bugger! Was it BT?

 

Seriously not happy Jan ...

Cheers
Goaty

 

More than I did!

Cheers
Goaty

 

cheers for the explenation there, i get how it goes together now.

Did you remove the outer race? or did it just implode along with the race and the
bearings?[1]

[1] I noticed some *lovely* destruction of the inner bearing race there, all sortsa heat related
surface fuxoring going on .

Mike.S

 

What is it about oil pumps this year?

Cheers
Goaty

 

So what's the plan now - are you going to resuscitate your CX, or try
to hunt down one of the 3 remaining XLV750 engines in Australia?


BTH
(I still reckon you could fit a Transalp motor in there!)

 

Its a tricky one, I'm not sure yet. I stuck a postie in the
boot of the car this morning though, just to see if it'd
fit ...

Maybe I'll buy a fucking BMW.

-----sharks

 

(top left, BTW. The red bits)

Nope, didn't remove anything yet. The outer race is the steel
collar you can see in the black aluminium casing. The round,
brown, torn up thing is a big flat washer. The inner race does
not look good at all! The bearing was quite a chunky little
bugger, only 7 balls. I wonder what happened to it?

Sadly, the cases really do need to come apart to get to that
bearing and to remove all the aluminium that that torn washer
machined off the inside of the case ...

-----sharks

 

X-No-archive: yes

Just the Postie or his bike too?
Clem
(I reckon I could fit three Postman-Pats in my boot!)

 

Little red bike, big yellow pants, the whole lot.

I already had a couple in there to stop the cargo
sliding about. And if you break down in the middle of
the night, you can use their legs as reflective
warning devices.

-----shrarks without a bicycle

 

Your feet stink.

Postman Pat