Just had a pop loss of power and a smell of oil on my 08 blade had to limp home at 40mph with a dull noise coming from the motor .anyone shine any light.
No smoke there was a smell of oil and loss of power it sounds poorly and the bike seemed louder the oil light was flashing when i limped home
Nightmare - an engine will be around £1,250 plus time / labour to swap out I may have parts if you go the rebuild / repair route. You (and I hate to write this) find it more financially viable to split and break the bike if you don't have 'mates rates' / skill to do the repair / engine swap. Wheels £500 V5 / log book and frame are £1,500 ecu and lockset £300 tank is worth a bit then lights , bodywork, clocks Another possible option might be to trade it with Yorkshire Gooner (Mark) for a cat D or C bike of and put your good bodywork / lights etc. on a crashed one - worth a chat with him , PM me if you need his email address / phone number
Doesn't it need reboring afterwards ? My old TS100 broke the pistons rings - made a mess of the piston with great big tramlines gauged into the side and it needed reboring afterwards. I suppose because it was a single cylinder it pretty much came to a stop by the side of the road, whereas a multi I suppose you can keep going if it is only one cylinder affected. I am not an expert mechanic, and I am not sure if it is always the case, but when my piston rings went on the little Suzi, it needed reboring.
If it is the rings that have broke it proberbly will need a rebore.i havent had chance to have a good look at whats wrong and it dont look like im going to do anything today due to the weather
Once ive got this stud out in after 1200. Would probs get more but i want rid. Its got r&g case covers on and smog plates too
Sorry to hear of the broken bike fella. Not a nice feeling I bet. But out of curiousity, what would cause such a catastrophic failure? Lack of oil??
