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Old 20-08-18, 04:22 PM   #28
yorkie_chris
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Default Re: Noisy Cam chain?

Don't just go start putting random formulations (a lot of which are snake oils) in your oil before actually fixing the fault.

Running your oil low did not wear your cam chain out, no bloody way. The chains are lubed from general splash from the valve gear IIRC. If this oil flow had been reduced, at all, it meant your oil pump was sucking air. This would have destroyed the big ends way before the cam chains.

IMO the cam chain fault is a rare manufacturing defect.

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Originally Posted by SV650rules View Post
many years ago my next door neighbour was a lubrication engineer, they used to sell dry film molybdenum lube to power stations for use on the chains of conveyors that fed pulverised coal into the boiler furnaces, it was the only thing that was effective, I blagged a few cans off him and used it on my motorbike and pushbike chains
Main reason being as a dry film, it isn't sticky.
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