hydrolocked engine grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[farquare]

Aye

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Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Farquare, ignore everyone else on this thread except YC whilst he takes you through a process of elimination, and don't think about scrapping your bike just yet!.

Quoted for more Kudos!


Me? Smug barsteward? Never!

[farquare]

Well, i've cleaned the bike up, fitted new brake and clutch levers and glued the clocks back together using some awesome 2 part epoxy resin for plastick that I got in maplin.

This job was exceptionally tedious, but it seemed a shame not to try to get something out of the siituation seeing as both clocks still worked fine. Here are some pics of just how many bits the clocks were in:



Oil smells fine as mentioned before, not too petroly....i also re-taxed on friday and i've found a home for it out of the elements

Today i'm going to hit the road and see if the engine goes pop, if it doesnt i'll be servicing oil, plugs, fitters just as a reward.
Wish me luck....
Also going to try to jimmy the tank out from inside, does anyone know if this will work if I can find a suitable instrument?

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[farquare]

done about 20 miles before lunch, bike sounded, felt and pulled fine.
was a bit smokey for the first few miles but i assume that would be all the oil burning off from the inlet and exhaust.
went to try to get some forté as i've had good results with that in the past but halfords didn't have any so a bottle of redex was added to a full tank to try to clean the bike through a bit.
all of the functions on the clocks appear to be working except the rev counter only works to 5.5k then doesnt go round any more. I don't know if there is something physically stopping it going round or if there is a wiring issue but one things for sure, i'll never get the clocks apart without breaking them even more because of the amount of glue i used so i think i can live with that....

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by farquare

done about 20 miles before lunch, bike sounded, felt and pulled fine.
was a bit smokey for the first few miles but i assume that would be all the oil burning off from the inlet and exhaust.
went to try to get some forté as i've had good results with that in the past but halfords didn't have any so a bottle of redex was added to a full tank to try to clean the bike through a bit.
all of the functions on the clocks appear to be working except the rev counter only works to 5.5k then doesnt go round any more. I don't know if there is something physically stopping it going round or if there is a wiring issue but one things for sure, i'll never get the clocks apart without breaking them even more because of the amount of glue i used so i think i can live with that....

Possibly answered by yourself?

[farquare]

There would have been no glue near the rev counter until it was dry. May have taken a knock in the fall....

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[farquare]

Well, I totally forgot how much fun biking was. 150 miles today and other than the afor mentioned rev counter maxing out at 5k and a leaking fork seal the bike is no worse for wear. Its got expensive though, £19 to fill the tank......

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Originally Posted by farquare

Well, I totally forgot how much fun biking was. 150 miles today and other than the afor mentioned rev counter maxing out at 5k and a leaking fork seal the bike is no worse for wear. Its got expensive though, £19 to fill the tank......

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Should cost less now if you dented the tank.

[farquare]

If I could get something into the tank could I poke the dent out or are they double skinned?

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[garynortheast]

I may well be wrong on this but I have a vague recollection that they are indeed double skinned. Happy to be corrected though....