516,, 2013 flood victim

[XSIIE]

You might need new pots

[steptoe]

thanks mate, will have a look first,,  running 72mm pots

[XSIIE]

I got some pistons/rings/pins and circlips which jonesy has not yet trophyized.

will send them up in a post pack if you need them

Eddy

[excess.11]

From what you have described.....the truth will be revealed in the stripdown.....another possibility may be an errant circlip has come adrift from a piston gudgeon pin.
Nails down a chalkboard suggest.......a scraping action up and down the bore rather than a continuous circular action of a stuffed bearing.

[steptoe]

it is with a heavy heart and a tear in an eye that I type this,
after last w/ends try and start, with the fuel everywhere and the not running, this w/ends goal was to get her running.
friday morn first thing went out and turned the batt charge on {to be sure to be sure} back inside for a while, came out after the girls where off  pulled the choke, hit the button, and instantly ran, even rough idled with the choke in, no fuel leaks, no popping and farting.
so I let it warm up a bit and put the vacc gauges on, straight off the bench #4 needed adjust the rest were pretty close,

thats great I hear you say, and your dead right it was, I even rang Xtian so he could listen,

30 seconds after that ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE, the noise that came out of her was like someone dragging both hands fingernails down a chalk board,

we talk about the way these bikes hold you on a high, then drop you in a valley of what the hell, thats where I am ATM

I,m thinking spun main bearing straight up, chewed out casting = dead motor

a couple of quick calls to the racing guru Mal,  unlikely a main, maybe somehow piston ring out of place.{remembering the bore would have had to burn off all the oil I,d put in there} after the oil was burnt off it then started making noise,  dry cam caps, spinning stator rotor, checking any/everything simple first, to no avail, spent friday doing all that, noise still there,, motor may have to come out again

rang Ev to let him know the bad news, he suggested start with clutch in and in gear, might seperate motor from gearbox, clutch in certainly did quiten the noise but it still remained,

rang Jonesy for an industrial point of view, with my brief description seems to think more like roller bearing which makes me feel a heap better,

so at the end of play when the bloody thing should have been rolling down the street it is sitting in my shed waiting for next w/end when  the motor will come out and be pulled down again,

I,ve missed something, hopefully only a bearing somewhere or an idler gear on a shaft that I didn,t oil during re-assembly

thanks dearly to the phone call recipients, the advice was needed and acted on,,

 the saga continues

[steptoe]

will re-visit ta

[Jonesy :-)]

Good to hear you and Ev finally got 516 started. With a project like this, the dream is to have it start and purr straight from the first press of the button, but it dont yousually happen like that ay.
leaky Tee's and reluctant to start reminded me of trying to get 581 started after putting it back together from boxes of bits.
for some ideas on your issues have a look at topic "winter project No: 581", page 6 reply 83 and page 7 reply 93
topic can be found on the 7th page of "workshop" topics

[steptoe]

I would like to say it went smoothly, but it didn,t,
Ev did come over, auxilury fuel tank used, hooked up and fuel went everywhere, seriously leaking tees, pulled carbs out and apart, soaked in fuel for an hour to swell with a bit of thread tape for good measure and some new fuel line,{to be sure to be sure}

initial start up took some winding, with some spitting and farting, it finally started and ran for a bit then we ran it out of fuel, from then it hasn,t run, looks like needle seat issues,

there wasn,t the smoke I expected either, sorry to dissapoint

will leave soak for the week to see if rubbers will swell and take up, if not carbs out again

but it does run, that we know

[steptoe]

saturday coming LOU,, the thirty oneth , not 24th

[beemeerr11]

Saturday has passed, Give us an update I want to know how much smoke there was? If it was more than Bob Marley with an old fashioned phone (NOW THAT IS SMOKE) , I want to see it

BTW had a second thought "hope it started"

Lou

[steptoe]

I,ve done it,, I pulled a spare screw out of a spare set here and jagged it, it had only cross threaded the screw not the body so all good again,

Evs' coming over on saturday ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,  fire the old girl  into life,

she,s a gonna blow some smoke though, for whilst the engine has been rebuilt for some time I,ve been oiling the bore when turning it over to prevent rust
all to do now is headlight fit, put carbs in, brand new back tyre, to be done friday, then wait for Ev and hit the button

2 yrs zachery,  starting to feel a bit nervous, been so long I,m hoping I don,t have a major bolt spare 

[steptoe]

ha ha, you pair are funny 

[beemeerr11]

Hey Paul,

Saw that same flash your talking about, nasty one it was, as I was doing the stator and points on my Little 1979 KH125 and thought, Gee Jeff is pissed off  and letting us know (LOL)

Lou

[Jonesy :-)]

maaaate,I thought I saw a flash of blue in the sky this arvo, must've been coming from the language in a shed somewhere in Bundy i reckon. So close yet so far.

[steptoe]

that horrible moment at the end of the job, you have only 1 air fuel mixture screw to place and you cross thread the bloody thing,
it,s surprisingly easy to kick yourself in the arse if you try hard enough, o well atrip down the road to buy a tap and matching die for the tool box