| Author | Message | ||
     Dtmcnamara |
Anyone see a problem? It is like this on both front and rear. Thats what you call a quart of oil every two days...DAMN  | ||
| Dtmcnamara |
Trying to figure out why this happened. This was out of a 6,000 mile x1 that was completely stock. Anyone??? THANKS | ||
| Guell |
holy crap, wonder if something was injested into the combustion chamber... | ||
| Numb_nutz |
Good luck. I had the same problem with my 1999 S3 when it was new. The dealer told me that the oil i was going thru was not out of line. i took my motor apart at 3000 miles and was the same thing. When i took it to my machine shop they told me the cylinders were so out of round that he couldn't see how it ran as good as it did. I bored mine 30 over no problem's in the last 20k. mine lost a part of the ring. (Message edited by numb_nutz on April 08, 2008) | ||
| Cyclonemduece |
are we looking at the score on the wall? if so i wat to see what the top of your pistons look like. please post em they must have been caked up with oil/carbon | ||
| Jramsey |
Broken/chipped ring. (Message edited by J.ramsey on April 08, 2008) | ||
| Dtmcnamara |
ya. i have literally 1 if not 2 pennies with thick of gunk. I will get pictures of them later this week. also the piston rings are fine, but the side of each piston rubbed pretty bad. like I said I will get more pictures as I can get them. oh and dont try to wire brush gunk off pistons. I tried for about 20 minutes and they dont look much better. o well thank god for the big bore kit...lol | ||
| Ratbuell |
Only time I've seen anything that nice was when the wrist pin backed out of a SBC race 350...machined a nice groove down the side of the bore. You sure you don't have a cracked ring? Or maybe a pair of bad wrist pin bushings (you did say front and rear, right)? Where is the groove in the cylinder - front, back, pushrod side or primary side? Can't tell from the way you're holding the jug... | ||
| Rich |
My year-old '77 Shovelhead did that, at Sturgis. Rode it home 900 miles that way. The piston pin keeper was never installed at the factory, so it slid out and machined a nice groove. Harley goodwilled me the parts to fix it, even though it was just out of warranty.  | ||
| Dtmcnamara |
i will check when I can get back up to the shop, but yes it is both jugs and I think it is on the left side, if you are sitting on the bike. also I know for a fact that all rings were still in tack and none looked wore down, cause this is what we thought first happened. I will try to get pictures of the pistons and everything else. |
