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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:09 am
by Kuma
Is that all off the same motor?
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:02 am
by Happyboy
Did you drop a valve? Don't tell me you broke a piston then found your crank bearing and cams were both bad after the teardown.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:36 am
by SlOoT
That is from a seized engine a customer brought.
The wristpin let go, that's why the engine stopped running, and when tearing the engine down I also noticed the cams were bad and the crankbearing was bad...
But I'll have the engine ready next weekend and then there will be another updated Cannondale riding around in Europe.
So far I have updated/rebuild 4 complete quads for customers, and a X440S. One of them allready has 50 hours (has an hour meter).
Oh, and it didn't drop a valve btw
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:07 pm
by cannondale27
Thats some nasty oil in there. Shame.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:54 am
by wistech
Ok so you say you dont need to use a torque wrench on the cam caps. Who cares if it mushrooms the cam cap holes and deforms the cap.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:56 am
by wistech
Big deal if it overloads the cam bearing and breaks the bearing cage.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:58 am
by wistech
And all the cage particles wipe out the cams and buckets. So what....
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:59 am
by wistech
No biggie if the chunks make their way down to the scavange pump and destroy the housing. I've got a metal oil pump gear and its not going to stop.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:00 am
by wistech
Heck it will just snap the drive pin off and tweak the shaft.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:02 am
by wistech
At least we put a new aluminum impellar on the rotten valve cover and kept on using green coolant.
