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Offline 69cb750

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Minor engine repair
« on: July 16, 2019, 04:28:20 PM »
Bike was sluggish, thought I had carbon on the valves, I found crap in the cylinders.
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Offline ekpent

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Re: Minor engine repair
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2019, 04:47:47 PM »
 Ha ha - I bet it was sluggish. Were the pistons even moving ? I replaced a oil starved cam and holders on an engine a couple of years back that had been sitting around and pulled the head to lap the valves and found some seeds hiding in a bore  ;D
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Offline scottly

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Re: Minor engine repair
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2019, 10:09:05 PM »
Quote from: 69cb750 on July 16, 2019, 04:28:20 PM
Bike was sluggish, thought I had carbon on the valves, I found crap in the cylinders.
Yeah, right, you just had it running yesterday. ::)
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Re: Minor engine repair
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2019, 11:50:40 PM »
Is that a biblical yesterday?
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Re: Minor engine repair
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2019, 11:08:38 AM »
Quote from: ekpent on July 16, 2019, 04:47:47 PM
Ha ha - I bet it was sluggish. Were the pistons even moving ? I replaced a oil starved cam and holders on an engine a couple of years back that had been sitting around and pulled the head to lap the valves and found some seeds hiding in a bore  ;D

You’d be like Johnny Appleseed, riding down the road with seeds flying out the tail pipe, haha.
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Re: Minor engine repair
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2019, 11:16:19 AM »
Quote from: DaveBarbier on July 18, 2019, 11:08:38 AM
Quote from: ekpent on July 16, 2019, 04:47:47 PM
Ha ha - I bet it was sluggish. Were the pistons even moving ? I replaced a oil starved cam and holders on an engine a couple of years back that had been sitting around and pulled the head to lap the valves and found some seeds hiding in a bore  ;D

You’d be like Johnny Appleseed, riding down the road with seeds flying out the tail pipe, haha.
  I thought at first those seeds were "Wacky Tobacky" by their looks. Used to find them in furniture all the time when myself and a partner had a furniture resto and upholstery business. All kinds of cool things hiding in sofa's and chairs.   ;D
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Offline TimV5

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Re: Minor engine repair
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2019, 01:06:53 PM »
Quote from: 69cb750 on July 16, 2019, 04:28:20 PM
Bike was sluggish, thought I had carbon on the valves, I found crap in the cylinders.

I trust you got it to turn over to get the head off it.. What did you use? I just posted a thread.. because my engine's locked up solid and I can't get it to budge (yet).. I'm very much open to suggestions...!

I'm guessing i'll find something similar inside.. a lot of rust..
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