Belated birthday greetings Glid. I'm traveling over your way at the beginning of oct so if your fancy a belated birthday beer let me know
Thanks to everyone once again. The virtual cake was especially tasty. PM me with details of your trip Troy. Bound to be able to fit in a beer, maybe even a ride!
Stripped the engine out the frame and fitted the new piston rings in the SS motor ...... it's needed doing for ages, but being a lazy sod I couldn't be ar5ed (wasn't burning that much oil).......
Q: did you deglaze the bore as such? Baines told me not to before fitting my hi-comps, is now a few thousand miles after running in & is still using a little oil? :frown:
No de-glaze as wasn't needed - long story but after an escapade with a wayward cam pulley nut, I had to rebuild the engine using the same piston (was salvagable), a spare (but good) barrel and an old set of rings, which worked ok but the ring gaps were over 40 thou (I'm old, so like working on 4 thou per inch of bore) .....there was a slight leak-down on compression and oil use was higher than previously - probably more due to increased 'blow-by' pressuring the crankcase and shoving it out the rear breather pipe rather than oil burning in the cylinder ....... most of the 2V motors I've come across use some oil!
I guess its just a part of 2v ownership then, lol! I have a 500ml coke bottle 3/4 full of 15w50 under the seat for longer trip top-ups :biggrin:
Could be anything causing the oil usage - and they're fairly agricultural so will run for ages with wear issues. Worn valve guides/hardened stem seals are quite common. It is possible (although awkward on the vert. cylinder) to change valve stem seals without taking the engine out. Get a compression test done ..... don't get hung up on what the numbers are, more on whether they are equal, and do the readings change if you put a few drops of oil in the bore (indicating worn rings) ...... at least you'll know what the problem is, even if (like me!) you carry on riding and topping it up for months before fixing it !
Had new stem seals when I put the hi-comps in? May be worn valve guides... :frown: Was looking to pull the heads and gasflow them as well when this got done :biggrin:
My first ride on the bike since breaking my ribs a few weeks ago, Bit sore now but a top days riding and then finished off with a trip to the bike meet at Hatton. 12 hours out and about in total
Got into work at 6am to have the usual morning brief - a decidedly uncomfortable-looking Supervisor & Manager gave 15 of us a "Sorry Boys, we cannot afford to keep you on due to the current economic climate" chat. Back Home... :frown: Not much in the way of jobs around at the mo. Im fucked.
Oo er. I'm sorry about that 470four, really. This is where "flexibility" is your friend. Would relocation anywhere change things? What is your field?
So far today I've taken Nicky for an x-ray, checked out a bike friendly cafe in Cromer, been and seen a guy about getting the ST seat recovered and just back from a biker mates funeral.
Bad juju :frown: Everywhere is having a bad time at the moment. And I apologise cos I helped to vote this bunch of quarter (not even half) wits in Won't be doing that again in a hurry.
Wont feel like it's much help right now but you're not alone; it's slightly better when you realise the saying should be 'WE'RE' fehucked, and it's easier to scrape along in company ..... I got similar news 3 years back (for the second time in 5 years!) so I'm living proof that not only can you survive on next to nowt, you can even thrive .... you just somehow find ways to do things that don't involve spending!
Ummm mostly warehouse/Goods-in/Export/Yardsperson/forklift work? Have five forklift licences, ironically my reach truck licence expired in June, that is the one which could get me more jobs? The retest is like £250-odd quid, which is money I dont have? Car's MOT is on Saturday... :frown: We have moved twice in a year. Not in a hurry to move again TBH? The first time when our next door neighbour got in the papers for what turned out to be his second paedophile offence?? The quiet old couple next door, a Civil Servant and his wife turned out to be a pair of kiddy-fiddlers. He had a MASSIVE amount of child-porn on his hard-drive & likened it in Court to be like "stamp-collecting". It was now apparent why he saw fit to show such an interest in painting his upstairs window frames when the neighbours on his other side had the paddling pool out for thier daughters? We unfortunately shared a semi-detached house, they were on the left, us on the right. The dividing wall felt "dirty" and we moved the bed to the other side of the room. He had disappeared for days now, and we were convinced he was being held until his sentancing up in Swindon Crown Court? (They could not sentance him in the local court due to the length of sentance needed) One Saturday I awake to brilliant sunshine. A GREAT biking day! I opened the curtains just as a car pulled up? He emerged with his Wife & Solicitor. This Royally fkd me off & ruined my weekend. I was'nt happy & proceeded to tell him out of the window exactly what I thought of him, his ever-loyal Wife(still with him!), his lifestyle and why he wasnt behind bars?? I got dressed and took things outside. The Police arrived. :wink: After the second of these escapades with the Police we elected to move, weren't getting any sleep and would feel better if we were a Long Way Away. We moved to a house owned by my partners Dad's boss - a fell-into-money Pikey who had his Mum's old house up for rent? It was in a shite state, he promised us he would get all works done after Xmas, this being November? We spent money redecorating & fixing a few jobs and settled in. The place had a big garden and a double-length garage, PERFECT for my Winter rebuild. Spring came and we set about chasing essential works, some of which were downright dangerous, wiring issues etc? No reply. Nothing to either phone or email? We went out to see him. He was suprised to see us as we entered the yard and didnt know what to do with himself? Her Dad turned up at the same time and we had a quick catchup while our "Landlord" dissapeared. No sign of him. One of his daughters turned up and we asked her to call him and find out where he was? "He's in a meeting, but has asked me not to tell you where" Further breakdowns in basic manners & communication meant we gave up trying to reach the unreachable and decided to move... This was in May. We moved over two days in blistering 28deg heat & were pretty much pissed off and worn down by the end of the second day, the last load took us up to 11:35pm, the keys had to be back at the estate agents by midnight and we still had to get diesel in the van, get the van back to the rentals & pick my car up. We had toyed with leaving prawns or milk etc as a "surprise" under the floorboards to express our discontent, but in all the faff never got down to it? Oh well... I drove the luton down to Tesco's at 11:50PM with my mate as co-pilot to ensure I stayed awake. On the way there I spotted an incredibly large badger on the verge, a frickin MAHOOOSIVE beast!, legs in the air, intact but clearly Not Well?? "Oh my God! They explode in the sun!" Go BANG!" my mate commented! We laughed about this and then looked at each other, deadpan. We filled the van up, booted it back the way we had come, stopped the van , dropped the tail-lift, opened the door & I picked up a very heavy, sloshy badger with carrier bags over my hands and bundled it into the back of the van. **Stealth mode** I turned off the headlights & engine & coasted the 3.5ton white van as ghostly as I could down the road to where the house was? Jumped out, chucked my mate the keys and opened the back up. I grabbed the stinky omnivore again and - we could hear voices... My fatigued brain failed to come up with any excuses for anyone we might meet waddling up the road carrying a fkn huge badger at this time of night?? We got inside and laid said creature in the middle of the kitchen, itself a perfect suntrap - shut the kitchen door and ran back to the van. Laughing ourselves nearly into a coma-state we dropped the van off, got the car and headed home... I had tears running down my face and struggled to manintain control of my bladder, such was the humour in what we had just done. :biggrin: We heard nothing - from either the landlord, or the estate agents? Still haven't? MY partner met our old neighbour downtown a few months back. She explained that after a WEEK the STENCH had got sooooo bad she had called Environmental Health out. They had called the Landlord to open the place up, they had just got back from holiday & drove round to see what all the fuss was about? Upon opening the front door the BIBLICAL stench caused the Landlords wife to throw up over the back of his shirt. Revenge is a dish best served Badger.
