Ride it a week or so and periodically goose it a bit..get those rings seated in real good then retest. Be sure to hold the throttle wide open when cranking the engine. UNPLUG all the plugs too when cranking.
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Thanks Chuck. Will do.
You can remove all the plugs when checking compression too. This will allow engine to spin easier and faster with way less stress on the starter motor.
And so after a minor hiccup with a loose nut (yes, the one between the seat and the handlebars, the bike seems to be running well. I'm not ready to say the original problem that drove us to this spot is fixed but I'll should have a better feeling of how well it's going to stay running by the end of the week. I did my best to break in the rings correctly in the first few miles but it's still smoking slightly. I'll keep an eye on it for a bit though.
So 50 miles in on the bike so far and the original problem seems to have faded away. I'll keep checking on it for a bit longer but sadly the bike will be leaving my garage soon and moving away to a shed near Columbus OH as Charmayne is moving.
The only concern I have now is still some blue smoke on acceleration. I'm hoping it will stop soon but we'll see. Rings were brand new but we did have to re-use the oil separators
The only concern I have now is still some blue smoke on acceleration. I'm hoping it will stop soon but we'll see. Rings were brand new but we did have to re-use the oil separators
Found today that I have burned through a quart of oil in less than 200 miles since the rebuild. We'll take the top end back off and put a full new set of stock rings in
I would think a quart of oil in just two hundred miles would produce clouds of blue smoke.
Was it that bad?
Was it that bad?
In a word with enough to make ten letters - yes.
I was just hoping I was wrong
I was just hoping I was wrong
did you put the first and second rings in the correct grooves? Round edged ring is top and the diagonal cut edged is second ring. See page 49 of tge service manual. AND there are little letters at one end of the rings...these go facing up.
Yes we did Chuck. I’m thinking the older oil separators that we had to reuse are the culprit since the new ones from Cruzinimage wouldn’t seat properly to lower the cylinders
Yup, the ones from cruzin are tight. Gotta squeeze them in a bit but they do go in. Be certain the ends of the wavyring do not overlap. Must be endbto end.
Even after Steve and I tried to force them to be end to end, we could not get them to seat properly so we could slide the cylinders down. We then removed the Cruzinimage oil separators and reused the old ones, again making sure they did not overlap. Unfortunately we now have this issue. It will be a couple of months before I can go at it again. In the meantime, she will make a trip out to my place in the next few weeks to ride it as is here to get some parking lot work in. We'll watch the oil consumption and start back in on it later this winter
You do know you can dremel the ends a little to get a good fit...easy does it though. Set them in the cylinder and get about 12/1000 gap at the ends and youre in.
So with some sadness but also wisdom behind it, Charmayne chose to sell her bike today to a guy near where she lives now. With two kids and just life in general, it has sat in her garage since I took it out to her a few years ago. She said she'll look at something else way off in the future, maybe even a Spyder, who knows.
I told the guy about this forum although he was more interested in the Facebook pages instead
I told the guy about this forum although he was more interested in the Facebook pages instead
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