| Author | Message | ||
     Rick_a |
I found some funky stuff disassembling my motor. All wrist pin keepers were facing exactly the wrong way. The openings were to the sides instead of facing directly up. The compression and secondary rings on both cylinders had the gaps right on top of each other. Now I know why I was starting to get blowby. The piston and cylinder head of both front and rear had the carbon blown off 'em where the gap was facing. Troubling. There was enough carbon build up in the head and on the piston that I think routing breathers to the atmosphere instead of through the intake is a waste of time. | ||
| Fullpower |
ooohhhh, lined up ring gaps. what are the chances of that happening? and BOTH cylinders too.sounds like you have either Gnomes or Gremlins. check the cam gear end play if its excessive than you have a Gnome problem, they chew on the bronze bushings. Gremlins are more likely to attack oil pump drive gears. either one is bad news, recommend complete submergance of cranckcase assembley in clean stoddard solvent for 12 hours minimum that should take care of the little bastards. | ||
| Rick_a |
Uh, sure. Every time something happens to this bike, the techs at the dealership tell me, "I've never heard of that happening before." That's never good. | ||
| Buellistic |
Rick_a: QUOTE: Every time something happens to this bike, the techs at the dealership tell me, "I've never heard of that happening before". That is because they are Harley-Davidson "BUELLschitte technicians" !!! In BUELLing LaFayette | ||
| Rick_a |
Another thing I found: I had the oil bag grommets off so I could re-glue them (were starting to seep slightly), and what did I find sittin' in there?...a big coil of plastic from where they drilled the holes in it! | ||
| Road_thing |
Rick: How'd that re-gluing thing work for you? Mine used to seep, but they quit when I switched to Mobil 1. rt | ||
| Rick_a |
For the first time ever I no longer have wet spots around those grommets. I used a good cyanoacrylate glue (super glue) from a local hobby shop. It is far superior and much more chemical resistant than the regular store bought junk. | ||
| Fullpower |
that little plastic coil is a Gremlin skeleton. seen them before. | ||
| Ccemn1 |
Face it! We're dealing with 40's vintage farm equipment Tech with these bikes. On top of that, we have american Union workers putting them together. These are guys getting $38. an hour & pride themselves in how little they actually work in an 8 hour day. Now you want a real kick in the teeth? Do a side by side comparison of a Buell & a Suzuki, or ANY Jap bike! | ||
| Blake |
Forty's vintage farm equipment had EFI, electronic ignition, revved to 6,800 rpm and produced over 1HP/CI? I've compared Buells to just about every bike out there. I prefer the Buell by such a huge margin, it ain't even a contenst. Why did you purchase a Buell? | ||
| Rocketman |
Well today you can buy a $2 wrist watch, put together in China by a Chinese lady who doesn't earn $2 a month, and that same watch has more computing power than Apollo 11. Whilst always able to tell you the time, such a timepiece will never get you to the moon, but some idiot somewhere will still buy one. Rocket | ||
| Blake |
My phone/datebook/calculator has a clock on it. Haven't worn a watch in at least ten years.  | ||
| Blake |
Rick, As I understand it, the rings often rotate after installation. Bad luck that the gaps ended up coincident. Could the same be true for the wrist pin keepers? | ||
| Spike |
Dude, you dragged up a 6 month old thread to bash on Buell technology and build quality?? Way to go. | ||
| Buellistic |
Just more: "BUELLschitte" !!! | ||
| Blake |
Don't be dissing American workers. And please do capitalize the name of our country if you please. How about them Dutch speed skaters?! And the fans! Great stuff. | ||
| Rocketman |
My mobile phone has a lot of schitz on it too! Rocket | ||
| Buellistic |
My "QUESTION" is the UNITED STATES of AMERICA going to be a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY in the NEW WORLD ORDER ??? AND will this happen just after the next DEPRESSION ??? | ||
| Mikej |
 I think I'll make one of these up for the Buell keys, change "fishin" to "riding" even though it doesn't rhyme, and change the fish cutout to a bike cutout. (Just trying to stay on topic, uh, the topic is trolling, isn't it?) | ||
| Blake |
"If the keys are hidin', I've gone ridin'"? ![: ]](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/proud.gif) LaFayette, No. I don't know of any example in history where a dominant world power ended up a third world country. You been watching a lot of Mad Max movies?  Warning, topic drift, KV alert! |
