A&R
28th August 2007, 00:06
At the WMCC event on saturday took the newly acquired RM80 along for the son to get to grips with. He had a ball on the green and yellow tracks- twice on each. Decided to attempt the red track. ( should have done it earlier) However he was tired ( only 10yrs old) and kept falling off eventually breaking clutch lever about the 10 km mark - lucky had one in the car but had to go back to get it.
On the way back did a short cut down a fire break he ran out of petrol luckily about 50m from home. However when we filled it up again it sounded awful like something metallic was rattling around in side. Is this what a blown piston sounds like? He was running flat out on the straight when he ran out of fuel. So thought he might have done the damage even before we fuelled up? If so do you usually replace big end ( needle roller brg?) piston rings and gudgeon pin all together. Any help appreciated as new to the modern 2 stroker. Yet to strip down and investigate.
On the way back did a short cut down a fire break he ran out of petrol luckily about 50m from home. However when we filled it up again it sounded awful like something metallic was rattling around in side. Is this what a blown piston sounds like? He was running flat out on the straight when he ran out of fuel. So thought he might have done the damage even before we fuelled up? If so do you usually replace big end ( needle roller brg?) piston rings and gudgeon pin all together. Any help appreciated as new to the modern 2 stroker. Yet to strip down and investigate.