Oh dear!

yeah was holding it upright

Just been told may be a spun rod bearing, is that repairable or new engine?

[yorkie_chris]

Not good my friend, a new engine is probably the answer, a crank kit will probably run to more than a secondhand lump.
It must have been bloody low on oil to be knocking from the front so badly (as per your first video), might be worth enquiring with whoever you bought the bike off and ask why it was so f###ing funny to sell a bike with no oil in it.

Somebody with more knowledge of internals on the SV should know whether its worth repair?
(I'd be interested too, I have a spare engine which is rumbling from the big end or maybe mains)

[northwind]

Only if you've got a cheap crank- it could be rebuilt, but financially it makes no sense. But, don't lose hope just yet, "may be" isn't enough to write off the engine, especially not with the other stuff going on which isn't explained by a big end failure (clutch feeling strange frinstance)

heres hoping

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by northwind

(clutch feeling strange frinstance)

May be a daft question, but surely a wet clutch will feel different with no oil.
Can you regrind the SV crank and fit bigger bearings?

Had a bit of a chat, from the sounds of things theres less than a liter of oil in the engine.

One of the mods on svrider thinks the knocking in the previous video was bearing related.

This sounds to me like its destroyed the bearings due to lack of oil, any other thoughts?

Also does anybody know how much it will cost me for the garage to look for me, only a little place but what can i expect?

[northwind]

Never heard of anyone regrinding an SV crank, though I don't know much about the process. TBH I'm not paying much attention to the vid, since the sound quality's so low and ljharmitt reckons it sounded different in the flesh anyway. But aye, the low oil makes the big end a likely suspect

If a garage suspects the bearings, the first thing they'll do is drain the oil and look for, well, bits. Dead fast. Second would probably be to pop off the heads and give the pistons a waggle, crude but it works. I could do both of those in a couple of hours, on the one hand I'm no pro so I'll be slower than someone who does it for a living, but on the other I've done it before on SVs so I know what to do so that'd speed things up.

it can be welded and regrind but I would personally never do it.new crank is expensive.used motor is better option.
it is easy to check if bearing is gone,I already posted how.
sometime you will not find pieces in oil,you have to take alan bolt off.all particles collect right on top of it.

From experience taking engines to bits is time consuming and messy if you are going to do it yourself, you need to be pretty competent IMO. I'm not and gave up after struggling with the rotor and snapping a bolt in the engine, I could have done it but basically got bored. New engine is a better bet, it will proably cost you more to get them to strip/ rebuilt the old engine without parts than a new (SH) engine will cost. Its also quite an easy job to switch engines, if you have a helper its useful but not essential.