b1g-fuLLa
17th January 2011, 19:48
So I bought a new bike a few weeks back (well not new, but yeah) a Kwaka zxr250a. Picked it up for cheap. Too cheap. Sure enough within three weeks the motor shat itself. Picked up a replacement motor for next to nothing ($250), had a damaged ingnition side and a hole in the sump from a drop, but after swapping the bits off my f**ked motor it was good to go.
I had only a few hours, start to finish to get the motor in. Got it in, filled it with $65 worth of brand new oil :crybaby: , and started her up. Bit smoky at first, (motor had been sitting for ages) but settled down, and ran just fine.
Now as an apprentice mechanic its been drilled into me, countless times, to check the sump plug. Never need an excuse to check the sump plugs tight!! But on this occasion, whether it was the rush i was in or whatever, i forgot.
Now im sure a few of you think you know where this is going, you're probably wrong.
Rode to Whangamata from Te Aroha just fine, bike was running like a dream with more power than the old motor ever had. Checked the oil level twice on the ride over, it didnt budge, nor did I see any drips or leaks.
Arrive in whangamata at my mates batch, and decide to go check out a nice twisty road he was telling me about. Entering an easy bend at about 90k, and suddenly the back wheel loses all traction, and the arse end slides into the oncoming lane, right into the path of a fairly large truck!! just about shat myself, managed to flick it the other way and miss the truck, only to have it step out again. Managed to straighten up, and immediately pulled off the road onto a gravel burm and turned the bike off, just in time to see the last 2L of oil drain out where the sump plug used to be.
My rear tyre was DRENCHED in oil.
I sat down, shaking like a leaf, and had a smoke before hitching back to my mates batch in town. Went to the local mechanic, picked up a few different bolts and aluminium washers to try, payed another $60 for oil, and grabbed a rag to clean the back tyre off.
Found a bolt that fit, filled the oil, and started her up. She ran like nothing had ever happened, and still running beautifully.
PHEW
I had only a few hours, start to finish to get the motor in. Got it in, filled it with $65 worth of brand new oil :crybaby: , and started her up. Bit smoky at first, (motor had been sitting for ages) but settled down, and ran just fine.
Now as an apprentice mechanic its been drilled into me, countless times, to check the sump plug. Never need an excuse to check the sump plugs tight!! But on this occasion, whether it was the rush i was in or whatever, i forgot.
Now im sure a few of you think you know where this is going, you're probably wrong.
Rode to Whangamata from Te Aroha just fine, bike was running like a dream with more power than the old motor ever had. Checked the oil level twice on the ride over, it didnt budge, nor did I see any drips or leaks.
Arrive in whangamata at my mates batch, and decide to go check out a nice twisty road he was telling me about. Entering an easy bend at about 90k, and suddenly the back wheel loses all traction, and the arse end slides into the oncoming lane, right into the path of a fairly large truck!! just about shat myself, managed to flick it the other way and miss the truck, only to have it step out again. Managed to straighten up, and immediately pulled off the road onto a gravel burm and turned the bike off, just in time to see the last 2L of oil drain out where the sump plug used to be.
My rear tyre was DRENCHED in oil.
I sat down, shaking like a leaf, and had a smoke before hitching back to my mates batch in town. Went to the local mechanic, picked up a few different bolts and aluminium washers to try, payed another $60 for oil, and grabbed a rag to clean the back tyre off.
Found a bolt that fit, filled the oil, and started her up. She ran like nothing had ever happened, and still running beautifully.
PHEW