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MarkCR750:
Easy mistake though Bryan, it really does sound like someone tapping an anvil with a toffee hammer 🙂

Greebo:

--- Quote from: yozzer74 on May 14, 2018, 07:57:17 PM ---Not yet it's my mates bike and he's away at minute

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Hi Yozz....has your mate been back to see Steve yet about this rattling noise ?

yozzer74:
He's taking it over next week Steve told him not to start it again till he's over there with

yozzer74:
What's people's thoughts on this .the tapping noise turned out to be one of the oil feed head barrel bolts being loose .So not getting oil to top end. It's my mates bike he had the top end built by rother classics .he charged him 300 pounds originally for the work .he said it wasn't his fault he only built the engine .surely he should have checked this before rebuilding it. So my mate let him sort that problem. Out at a cost of 700 pounds for him to take engine out and strip the top end again and fix the problem. He didn't get the bike running for that price. Just put engine back in and carbs back on .So when my mate got it all back together. Guess what oil leak from inside the head .So took bike back over to rother classics .to only be told it's nothing he's done .he says it's leaking from one of the cam tower studs .So he's a thousand pounds in and bike still no good .were should he go from here .

K2-K6:
If he's got the required skills to work on these engines he seems intent on not revealing them to his customer!

A business doesn't really work like that, you'd expect a reasonable appraisal before work of the projected outcome and if it requires additional steps/costs to complete a competent repair, then that discussion should indicate the full picture prior to taking on the work.

If he encountered difficulty during the work,  then he should have gone back to client indicating a revision was needed to succeed.

He doesn't seem to be taking into account that (besides wanting the job done correctly)  these bikes have the consideration of not being able to work on the top end in situ.  Makes it even more important to get it right as further work involves the labour of dismantling the bike. 

The original problem,  if the engine builder says it's not his fault then I don't see that as a good basis for preceeding if you can't even guarantee that you've torqued all the head studs correctly.  That's if I've understood it correctly.

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