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13 ?Bad race weekend.
This weekend was the last race in Assen for the Dutch classic championship.
We went full of confidence there after the gearbox troubles we had.
We would like to finish in the top ten of the championship, that was possible.
Practice 1:
Saterday : After 3/4 lap in the first practice Yrjo came into the pit , he told the engine made suddenly a lot of noise and wouldn't rev higher then 8000 rpm.
It seems the noice came out of the cylinderhead ,se we went to the paddock to examine it.
We removed the cylinderhead cover , but I still found nothing untill we removed the cam and then I found a broken camchain tensioner.
We had no spare , but our college classicracer and Honda dealer Frank Lemstra had a new one for us.
We put in the new one and started the engine again , but there was still a scraping noise.
Did we made a mistake putting in the new tensioner.
I decided to remove the cylinder head cover again to inspect it but found nothing wrong and removed also the cylinderhead to inspect the valves and pistons.
Everything looked well with the cylinderhead and pistons.
We had to take a closer look and therefore I removed the clutch , but eventhere was nothing wrong.
Finally I removed the oil and oilpan and found metal and copper particles in it.
I think it is a bigend bearing of one of the bronze pistonpin bushings.
So end of the last raceweekend for us , we packed our things and went home sundaymorning .
Our goal to finish in the top ten was over , now we are on 13th place in the overall ranking.
I put the bike in the garage and will take it apart after two weeks holliday in the south of Frence to recover from the mechanical stress
Our friend with the nr. 5 (first nr 46) bike finished 4th in the race and in the championship and that with the same kind of engine.
Also our friends from the UK , Colin Stockdale and David Martin were again in Holland and finished 10th and 14th.
Now we have more then six month till next year championship to overhaul the complete engine.