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Harrymail
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Re: Earwig

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Good progress Alan. Baz will have it sorted. You should be on the road before the summer is out.

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Hmmm. Hopefully that'll be THIS summer.
I can't do more than one without a 550. :roll:
Not that one anyway....... 8-)
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I really take my hat off to you guys with multiple bikes :roll: I don't know how you manage to ride them let alone maintain them as well? I only have two and struggle to keep them both happy :lol:
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Re: Earwig

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Well, onwards and unfortunately downwards.
Definitely a 'Oh BUGGER' when I took the head off and looked down the right side pot.
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Wonder whatever could have caused that?
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Shouldn't there be summat else in there? Like a clip?

Looks like a scrounge in the spares boxes. I'm sure I have a good Nikasil piston and ringset, but the barrel's another matter.
Mebbe, just mebbe........ :roll:

Failing that, has anyone got a good Nikasil right cylinder they want rid of? :cry:
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Re: Earwig

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Ouch,bloody big ouch!!,
It'll go eventually.
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Re: Earwig

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Baz may have one. When he did my engine rebuild he had a few spare nikasil barrels. I had a NOS RH barrel which Baz used on my engine, so he will more than likely have my old one.

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Re: Earwig

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I have just spoken to a very nice man who lives near Canterbury, and he has one. So I have just ordered a set of scales for cocaine laboratory work so that I can match weigh the pistons and gudgeon pins. :roll:
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That’s wot you get fer running it on re-cycled chip fat you tight bugger :lol:
They're rubbish them Jap bikes lad they won't last five minutes! you want to get yourself a nice Royal Enfield!
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Re: Earwig

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The saga continues!!

Ready with the patented lifter outer harness attached!
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And off to Baz's today for the next stage, which was - split cases and empty the bits out!
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Empty!
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And crankshaft.
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As I thought, the right end seal was u/s, but so was the bearing - and all the other crank bearings 'just' :? - and the 4 main gearbox bearings too, possibly due to the mileage when I got the bike -
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plus another (about 3000 mainly high revving)
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pic taken after a fair run from Creg ny Barr at 104.6mph, 18410 rpm :shock: and nearly 5 to 6 (time) - although the tacho may be slightly ambitious!!
So the next episode will be after the crank is repaired and a spare gearbox is fitted with good bearings.
Nowt straightforward is there? :cry:
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Re: Earwig

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Had to 'nip' down to Baz's with Keith to pick up his happier 550 and drop off another 550 engine/gearbox to the (yet to be made happy' ) A engine.
Keith gorrit hooam and he nearly wazzed hessen about the difference but was happy about the end result. Was worth the £64.53 pence it cost him ....ish....I can't understand it was so cheap. :roll:
Whistle see about the A update as summat happens......
The wallet moths are trying to recover........ :cry:
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