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Hole in bottom crankcase

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Laverda Dave:
This is how my 400 engine rebuild journey started!  When I was 17 I traded in my CB200 for a s/h 400/4 from D&H Motorcycles in Acton.
It was a great bike, a red F model. It was previously owned by an older gent who had fitted a huge barn door fairing, massive top box and suitcase sized panniers complete with front and rear crashbars. I removed all of it within a couple of days including the front crashbar.
I replaced the bolt and went for a ride, when I arrived home the engine was smothered in oil.  The crashbar mounting bolt had replaced the original lower engine mounting bolt and was slightly longer to take into account the 3mm crashbar mounting lug. it was too long and split the lower engine case when I replaced it although I didn't notice at the time.
I tried the epoxy glue, liquid metal, chewing gum, body filler method and nothing worked.  I ended up buying a s/h engine from Frank in Ealing when he used to break bikes in a garden shed!
6 months and many miles later I took the engine apart to replace the cam chain on the dinning room table (the tin of linklife chain lube was boiling up on the gas stove and the cylinder head replaced the leg of lamb in the oven at the same time).

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