GS1150 ES Makeover Project

[TeamDar]

I'm going with that. Clutch looks great now. I assumming the old clutch exploded and took out the old cylinder liners where they protrude into the crank. All have been replaced now. Just can't understand that they would not have split the cases and cleaned it all out after spending all that cash on new clutch, liners, pistons and so on.

Greetings

Probably was a 1230 motor due to the lack of thickness on the liners. After the clutch grenade the PO found a used stock block, pistons and clutch. I doubt if he put much $$ into it if he didn't drop the pan and split the cases to clean it out.

[londonboards]

I'm going with that. Clutch looks great now. I assumming the old clutch exploded and took out the old cylinder liners where they protrude into the crank. All have been replaced now. Just can't understand that they would not have split the cases and cleaned it all out after spending all that cash on new clutch, liners, pistons and so on.

Greetings

[Fjbj40]

One of those pieces looks like clutch basket. The picture of your clutch basket looks as if it is new, so maybe it has been replaced?

[posplayr]

some of those steel bits look like the bottom of your liners.

Ouch, yea

[tatu]

some of those steel bits look like the bottom of your liners.

[londonboards]

Serious Metal Chunks Found in Sump

With the damage I have already seen to the top end of this motor, it was suggested that I remove the sump / oil pan and see what what is there. Shocking. But with a caveat. I have checked the clutch and pistons and they are all peachy (good). In fact the pistons are hardly scored at all.

I am thinking (praying) that this might be the residue of a previous engine failure. OR where else could these chunks have come from? We are talking serious bits of metal here:

(for the whole picture set see my blog here: GS1150 Metal Chunks)





The bigger pieces (aluminium):





Smaller pieces are steel:



All of the smaller pieces have this grooving on them:





Clutch and pistons are good:





Help!!!

Greetings

[GS1150Pilot]

Nasty ...

[londonboards]

Exhaust Cam Condition

This is what the exhaust cam and bearings look like:









And the followers have some scoring:







This motor has been breathed on at some stage; Ape parts and high lift cams:





Greetings

[Rob S.]

Sound like a good excuse to sit with a couple of bottles of beer and a flat head screwdriver; straighten them out. Or Not, but the beer is still good idea.

Looks like there is some white glue or caulking in there as well. Beer is good but in this case, a whiskey might be called for.

cg

151 proof rum.

[Charlie G]

Sound like a good excuse to sit with a couple of bottles of beer and a flat head screwdriver; straighten them out. Or Not, but the beer is still good idea.

Looks like there is some white glue or caulking in there as well. Beer is good but in this case, a whiskey might be called for.

cg

[posplayr]

that oil cooler is about as useful as pockets in underwear
coolers reply on air flowing through them, the fins on that one have been flatted most likely by a high preasure washer


ozman

Sound like a good excuse to sit with a couple of bottles of beer and a flat head screwdriver; straighten them out. Or Not, but the beer is still good idea.

[Grimly]

That clanking at 2:24 sounds more like normal clankshaft clanking when the carbs aren't dialled in right. Honestly, a bag of spanners sounds more melodious than any roller-bearing crank if it's out of tune.
From what I see, it's been a long time since the centre stand was on that (did it ever have one?) and it's quite possible that's a contributory factor - revving it up on the sidestand, at drunken off-base parties out in the boonies. Who knows what's been done to it...

[tatu]

You've got LCP right across the road from you, right next to the merc garage, take it in there and see what they say.

that oil cooler is about as useful as pockets in underwear
coolers reply on air flowing through them, the fins on that one have been flatted most likely by a high preasure washer


ozman

[hampshirehog]

You could give a company called Cylinder Head Engineering in Fareham a ring. They do / did this sort of stuff but I haven't been down there for a few years now so don't know if they're still going. They used to have a website but that's now gone (which makes me think they may not still be there) but if you google the name the company details still pop up.