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550 head gasket - slight oil leak
z1100r:
Yeah Ok Steve, I was just pointing out that its not the totally wrong thing to do.
I've advised folk to do the job 'properly' in the past only to find they go and break the piston rings refitting the barrel - one bloke even forced the piston up the barrel with a ring half in half out, making a right nasty groove, or they fit the cam chain guides incorrectly, or they snap studs, or fill the crankcase with sand and grit from those open barrel studs.
Narrgh if I just had an oil leak on an otherwise OK engine I would just fix the leak and not ask for all those other potential problems.
I've never had to use alot of force on any of my heads, even ones that hadn't been removed before from new..?? Find slot and appropiate lever, they just 'squeeze' up in my experience.
Bryanj:
When i used to work in the trade there were many jobs where we explained to the customer the right way and the "cheap" way and they would invariably take the cheap way then come back and complain about a problem we had warned about so I just stopped saying there was a "Cheap" way.
Plus by the time you have bought the necessary "O" rings and seperate head gasket from Honda you can have a full set from Dave Silver, I agree about the people not assembling correctly but if they don't read the manual about fitting the chain guide, chances are they won't read about the rocker arms and bend a valve then i get a cheap parts bike!! (Or is that a little too cynical at Christmas)
Tomb:
--- Quote from: Bryanj on December 21, 2011, 03:21:40 PM ---then i get a cheap parts bike!! (Or is that a little too cynical at Christmas)
--- End quote ---
:D :D :D
Yep I like folk like that, I was once given a GSX250 in big boxes by a bloke down our road, he'd stripped the engine to do a job, failed and passed it on to me for parts, that was Saturday afternoon, by Sunday night I was riding it up and down the road and MOT'd it on Monday, sold for
SteveD CB500K0:
Off topic (a bit), but...
I bought a non-runner CG125 for my son when he was 17.
"It's seized"
What was seized was the centre stand spindle which doubles as the rear brake spindle. Rocking the bike off the stand rammed the rear brake on...
I "unseized" it and Chris rode it around for a year or so until his CBT expired.
The he bought a car >:(
I sold it for
matthewmosse:
I'd leave it be or go whole hog on top end removal (getting old head gaskets off can ba a trying expirience as they can stick like **** to a blanket. On my 5004 outfit I did 100,000 miles on an engine with such a leak with no ill effects. Top end was exceptionally good when I finally stripped it down at 180,000 miles on the clock due to it jumping out of 1st gear
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