sburns
Well-known member
Hey all,
Yup happened again, actually back end of May, my last day trip. The one to Ottawa. I broke down in Kingston. Nothing unusal was going on with the bike for the entire ride. But something happened. Was waiting at the red at a intersection when it just died. Tired to start it, came on for a sec and died. Sounded weird as well, something very mechanical. Walked it off the road, and called CAA.
So yeah last year I had a bunch of other troubles, I actually thought I was ahead this year as I did a bunch of maintenance early on to resolved some stuff.
- finally got the clutch in good order.
- rear wheel squeak was gone
- pinging I think was fixed, was waiting for warmer temps to test, but hasn't happened.
(I think this was due to bad oil, and my oxy sensors positions were swapped, oops! re-set exhuast)
- I still had some shuttering, which I thought was the fuel system, replaced the fuel pump and tube inside fuel tank. Helped a bit but something was still going on. We'll come back to this.
Finally had some time to rip into this and try and find the problem, because I thought this was mechanical. I might be wrong.
I did check the codes in the dash, only the warnings about oxy sensor were there. I can probably clear them out.
Ripped apart the cam chest. The orange plate you see, and the the chain tensioner is were the stuck bolt I was asking about in the garage thread. I tried everything, nothing worked. I found another solution and got it out.
Ta da, jugs removed
So at this point I'm a bit stuck. I didn't see a popped bearing and when I turn the crankshaft it turns just fine. The piston rods also seem stiff.
Piston heads and jugs I'm not sure if they are in great shape though.
Top of pistons. Rings I think are ok.
I still have the rest of the primary to take off. Where under here I'm looking to see if the other camshaft bearing is ok or not. Or if a bearing in the clutch hub assembly is toast. But I don't think so.
When I pull off the primary and I don't find anything I believe this problem traces back to the shuttering.
I believe the cause of the shuttering/weird idle could be from the charging system. Either the stator or the voltage regulator.
I don't think it is the stator, my meter on the bike is always at the same reading.
Moving on well based on my previous thread from last year:
www.gtamotorcycle.com
Seems like the decision to take the bike off the road has been decided. All great advice from that thread. I went back and read it all again.
Thanks all!
Eventually I plan to put this bike back together and fix a host of other problems I found while ripping this apart. I'll probably have more questions about that. But I can see why people like these bikes, they are pretty dam simple to work on. I mean this is the first time I've even done this and it didn't seem to complex.
There is a longer term solution in the works already while this bike is out of commission.
Stay tuned!
Yup happened again, actually back end of May, my last day trip. The one to Ottawa. I broke down in Kingston. Nothing unusal was going on with the bike for the entire ride. But something happened. Was waiting at the red at a intersection when it just died. Tired to start it, came on for a sec and died. Sounded weird as well, something very mechanical. Walked it off the road, and called CAA.
So yeah last year I had a bunch of other troubles, I actually thought I was ahead this year as I did a bunch of maintenance early on to resolved some stuff.
- finally got the clutch in good order.
- rear wheel squeak was gone
- pinging I think was fixed, was waiting for warmer temps to test, but hasn't happened.
(I think this was due to bad oil, and my oxy sensors positions were swapped, oops! re-set exhuast)
- I still had some shuttering, which I thought was the fuel system, replaced the fuel pump and tube inside fuel tank. Helped a bit but something was still going on. We'll come back to this.
Finally had some time to rip into this and try and find the problem, because I thought this was mechanical. I might be wrong.
I did check the codes in the dash, only the warnings about oxy sensor were there. I can probably clear them out.
Ripped apart the cam chest. The orange plate you see, and the the chain tensioner is were the stuck bolt I was asking about in the garage thread. I tried everything, nothing worked. I found another solution and got it out.
Ta da, jugs removed
So at this point I'm a bit stuck. I didn't see a popped bearing and when I turn the crankshaft it turns just fine. The piston rods also seem stiff.
Piston heads and jugs I'm not sure if they are in great shape though.
Top of pistons. Rings I think are ok.
I still have the rest of the primary to take off. Where under here I'm looking to see if the other camshaft bearing is ok or not. Or if a bearing in the clutch hub assembly is toast. But I don't think so.
When I pull off the primary and I don't find anything I believe this problem traces back to the shuttering.
I believe the cause of the shuttering/weird idle could be from the charging system. Either the stator or the voltage regulator.
I don't think it is the stator, my meter on the bike is always at the same reading.
Moving on well based on my previous thread from last year:
When is it time to get another bike?
I know I know, no easy answer on this, and yes it's a Harley so there is that. This year my riding has suffered from mechanical issues. Various different things, some fixed, some still in progress, like the pinging. Today I set out to do a longer ride. I got as far as Coboconk. Up until that...
www.gtamotorcycle.com
Seems like the decision to take the bike off the road has been decided. All great advice from that thread. I went back and read it all again.
Thanks all!
Eventually I plan to put this bike back together and fix a host of other problems I found while ripping this apart. I'll probably have more questions about that. But I can see why people like these bikes, they are pretty dam simple to work on. I mean this is the first time I've even done this and it didn't seem to complex.
There is a longer term solution in the works already while this bike is out of commission.
Stay tuned!
