Bent valves.

Yorkie boy · Post by **Yorkie boy** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:59 pm

Cheers Carl. It's not too bad but I might give it a bit of a tickle - good to know that I won't need rubber gloves and breathing apparatus

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 9:55 pm

A brass wire wheel in a drill makes the job an easy one. Do it with the valves dropped in to avoid damaging the seats.
That's for the heads, the pistons can be scraped and wire brushed with the rotary brush as well, it sort of polishes the surface, less stuff can stick thereafter.

Yorkie boy · Post by **Yorkie boy** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:11 pm

Well, here she is (if the photo's loaded ok) - stripped down and cleaned up, waiting on new exhaust valves. Fingers crossed, this is as bad as it gets

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:23 pm

That's not bad....this is bad.

(:-})

Yorkie boy · Post by **Yorkie boy** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:12 pm

Nah, that's not bad ....... this is BAD !!!

Half a camshaft-holder bolt, no prizes for guessing where the other half ended up! Managed to extract the bolt and now waiting on a replacement, but well worth the wait

Yorkie boy · Post by **Yorkie boy** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:00 pm

Replace bolt finally arrived. Bolt in, valve cover on. Oil-cooler fastened, radiator on and coolant filled.
Then, holding my breath, I fired her up. Brilliant, no death-rattles, just a beautiful v-twin thump.
A huge thanks to everyone who helped keep me sane and the guidance that kept the confusion at bay - Carl, you played a blinder

For someone who had only ever changed the oil it's been emotional - fingers crossed the weather will hold.
The smile has returned.

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:16 pm

That's fantastic news. Now you can get out and ride.

(:-})

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:06 pm

Bugger, I won't be able to buy the wreckage for £200.
Delivered.

Good jarb!

Now pull it all apart again and get tuning, now you know how easy it all is....

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:16 pm

If you are still in Bolton I may ask for your help!!!!

May be buying a storm and at a minimum cct s will need doing

Get in touch if you can

Briancrook at blueyonder.co.uk

Storms over Lancs !!'m

Post by **sirch345** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:22 am

Brian I've just changed your email address and put "at" instead of "@" for your security. Anybody wanting to send an email to you should realise they need to put the correct "@" in themselves without any spaces in between,

Chris.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:52 pm

Ta Chris

Brian

VTR1000.ORG

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