Ixion
1st July 2006, 20:33
Bloody two strokes. Worse than women!
Spent the whole morning unblocking a drain. Nassssty ! Mrs Ixion blocked it AGAIN, pouring kitchen shit down it.
So I thought I deserved a nice run in the afternoon (mind you, I reckon that anything is enough for me to deserve a run on a bike on a nice Saturday afternoon.)
Kit up, wheel Phoebe out, usual drill. Free the clutch (half the members will be too young to know what that means!), ignition on (or, off , technically,since it's a magneto. They won't understand that, either. To make a magneto bike start you have to turn the ignition switch off).And prepare for the good old "long swinging kick". But I always give a gentle little exploratory prod first.
And this time the prod didn't prod. Kickstart lever was solid as a solid thing.
Uh, what the hell! try a little bit of weight on the lever, not too much, don't want to do any damage. Nope. Locked solid
WTF. WTBF. That's a F***d as an F****D thing. Went fine last weekend, came home, last bit gentle suburban running, rode into gargre, praked up, switched off, all normal, all good. How the double dipped hell could it seize up sitting for a week in the gargre.And it was definately smoking good . Check oil tank anyway, but it's near full.
Hydolock maybe? No smell of fuel, but could be.Pull the plugs, look OK, maybe just the weeniest bit lean. Still crankshaft, him no move.
Onto centre stand. Try rocking the wheel in fifth gear. Back and forward . Won't move forward. Won't move back. Doesn't sound like hydrolock, that should free if turned in reverse. Check the drain plugs. Oh damn double damn and may the Suzuki engineering department all roast forever in the bottom of the lowest pit in hell, with Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley taking turns to poke red hot pokers up their (the cheapskate, penny pinching bloody engineers) bottoms. One "little " (and undocumented) change from the T500 to the GT500 was leaving out the crankcase drainplugs . What blithering idiot would do such a thing.
Bugger and double bugger. Pull of the mag cover. Socket on the mag nut on the end of the crankshaft. Try both ways. Nope, solid. Hm. Maybe a millimetre of movement. Slack in the keyway?
Socket on the nut, give the bar a gentle thump with the heel of my palm. Not too hard , don't want to damage stuff. Thump the other way. thumpity thump. Rinse lather repeat. About 2mm now. Not promising. What the hell is going on anyway.
Groan. I SO do NOT want to have to pull the barrells off. Drop the left header and peer up the port. Looks OK, I can see the piston, about midstroke. Do the thumpy thing while watching the piston. Hm, that piston's moving. Well, that's something. Pull the right header. Repeat thumpity . WTF, that one's moving too.
Thump back and forth a few more times. And suddenly - we're moving! Freely. No noises .
Peer up the ports some more. No sign of any witness marks. Piston skirts are clean and lightly oiled. Cylinder walls look good. Peer down the spark pug holes. Also looks good.
Squirt some two stroke oil liberally into the bores and onto the piston skirts, with my dinky little oil can with the flexible spout. Good little thing that is.
Reassemble. Kick over. seems good. Ignition on (or, off, see above). Starts second kick. Sounds OK. No noises (well, no more than two smokers usually make). No rattles. Got a wee leak from the silencer joint now, bugger it.
Round the block. Seems OK. Power's OK, revs right out, smokes nicely, no rattles, no new vibes. Round the big block. OK. Down the motorway. OK
Buggered if I know. I've heard of cold seizure, but this is rediculous.
I guess that's two smokers for you. Strange and incomprehensible, just like women. All part of life's rich tapestry I suppose.
I remember this thread, too. http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=30074. Sounds exactly the same thing. Anyone else encountered this. I never have before. Proves you can always learn something new.
I'll take it for a run tomorrow and see what happens.
Spent the whole morning unblocking a drain. Nassssty ! Mrs Ixion blocked it AGAIN, pouring kitchen shit down it.
So I thought I deserved a nice run in the afternoon (mind you, I reckon that anything is enough for me to deserve a run on a bike on a nice Saturday afternoon.)
Kit up, wheel Phoebe out, usual drill. Free the clutch (half the members will be too young to know what that means!), ignition on (or, off , technically,since it's a magneto. They won't understand that, either. To make a magneto bike start you have to turn the ignition switch off).And prepare for the good old "long swinging kick". But I always give a gentle little exploratory prod first.
And this time the prod didn't prod. Kickstart lever was solid as a solid thing.
Uh, what the hell! try a little bit of weight on the lever, not too much, don't want to do any damage. Nope. Locked solid
WTF. WTBF. That's a F***d as an F****D thing. Went fine last weekend, came home, last bit gentle suburban running, rode into gargre, praked up, switched off, all normal, all good. How the double dipped hell could it seize up sitting for a week in the gargre.And it was definately smoking good . Check oil tank anyway, but it's near full.
Hydolock maybe? No smell of fuel, but could be.Pull the plugs, look OK, maybe just the weeniest bit lean. Still crankshaft, him no move.
Onto centre stand. Try rocking the wheel in fifth gear. Back and forward . Won't move forward. Won't move back. Doesn't sound like hydrolock, that should free if turned in reverse. Check the drain plugs. Oh damn double damn and may the Suzuki engineering department all roast forever in the bottom of the lowest pit in hell, with Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley taking turns to poke red hot pokers up their (the cheapskate, penny pinching bloody engineers) bottoms. One "little " (and undocumented) change from the T500 to the GT500 was leaving out the crankcase drainplugs . What blithering idiot would do such a thing.
Bugger and double bugger. Pull of the mag cover. Socket on the mag nut on the end of the crankshaft. Try both ways. Nope, solid. Hm. Maybe a millimetre of movement. Slack in the keyway?
Socket on the nut, give the bar a gentle thump with the heel of my palm. Not too hard , don't want to damage stuff. Thump the other way. thumpity thump. Rinse lather repeat. About 2mm now. Not promising. What the hell is going on anyway.
Groan. I SO do NOT want to have to pull the barrells off. Drop the left header and peer up the port. Looks OK, I can see the piston, about midstroke. Do the thumpy thing while watching the piston. Hm, that piston's moving. Well, that's something. Pull the right header. Repeat thumpity . WTF, that one's moving too.
Thump back and forth a few more times. And suddenly - we're moving! Freely. No noises .
Peer up the ports some more. No sign of any witness marks. Piston skirts are clean and lightly oiled. Cylinder walls look good. Peer down the spark pug holes. Also looks good.
Squirt some two stroke oil liberally into the bores and onto the piston skirts, with my dinky little oil can with the flexible spout. Good little thing that is.
Reassemble. Kick over. seems good. Ignition on (or, off, see above). Starts second kick. Sounds OK. No noises (well, no more than two smokers usually make). No rattles. Got a wee leak from the silencer joint now, bugger it.
Round the block. Seems OK. Power's OK, revs right out, smokes nicely, no rattles, no new vibes. Round the big block. OK. Down the motorway. OK
Buggered if I know. I've heard of cold seizure, but this is rediculous.
I guess that's two smokers for you. Strange and incomprehensible, just like women. All part of life's rich tapestry I suppose.
I remember this thread, too. http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=30074. Sounds exactly the same thing. Anyone else encountered this. I never have before. Proves you can always learn something new.
I'll take it for a run tomorrow and see what happens.