Ouch. An expensive noise

[FruitLooPs]

Hi Jantar

54000PM...did not include camchain and tensioner check or adjust by any chance?

That'd be a good point, i'd take a look over that if I were you.

Makes me wonder about my poor gixxers tensioner, has a nice new cam chain in it when I lunched a rod - but mebbe I should go manual tensioner for the insurance.

hmmm.

[JATZ]

Happened to be in @ murray Thorns today, handing out flyers for the street races, saw a nice new V-Strom in there, nice colour and very shiney. I was going to sit on it but I had my scrooty old work overalls on

[scumdog]

I was very lucky there. It happened with both valves closed, so the engine just kept ticking over nicely on one cyclinder, no lockup and no mechanical noise. Even gave a nice result when the mechanic gave it a compression test.

I will go with the trade in if they can find and supply a new VStrom in 24 hours.

FYI: A extremely tidy black one for sale on the forecourt of the gas station in Reefton, an '09 model from memory, looked in 'as-new' condition..

[Jantar]

Happened to be in @ murray Thorns today, handing out flyers for the street races, saw a nice new V-Strom in there, nice colour and very shiney. I was going to sit on it but I had my scrooty old work overalls on

It does look nice. I must have been in right behind you and I see they have already swapped over the screen mount, radar detector mount, luggage rack etc. Should be ready to ride out of there mid morning tomorrow.

[jrandom]

I bet Hitcher's glad he hasn't ever lunched the cam chain on his Shiver!

Odd thing to happen, really.

[idleidolidyll]

This begs a question:

Why buy a Japper?

One of the answers used to be parts supply/parts cost.

Whooosh!!! There goes that argument out the window.

Is the V Strom motor that much different from the other Suzuki V Twins that you can't use the same components or are there no parts for any of them?

[xwhatsit]

4 valve V-twins are hard on their valve drive mechanisms. Having all the lobes in one head encounter resistance at the same time then nothing... isn't the kind of thing that likes to spin freely. The SV engine uses a scissor gear on one of the cams to soak up some of the shock.

What's the difference between that and a 4-valve single?

[Blackbird]

Sorry to hear of your woes Malcolm but pleased you were close to help and not out in the wops with the faint strain of banjos in the background

Good luck with the swap-over, you clearly love 'em!

Best wishes to you and Paulette over the festive season.

Geoff

[LBD]

Sorry to hear of your woes Malcolm but pleased you were close to help and not out in the wops with the faint strain of banjos in the background

You only hear the dueling banjos when you are broken down in Central Otago.....

[Blackbird]

You only hear the dueling banjos when you are broken down in Central Otago.....

The alternator failed on my Blackbird in Twizel in '07. I had a very careful look at the locals

[vifferman]

Odd thing to happen, really.

Not that odd for v-twins. Like dipshit said, the camchains have a tendency to flap around a bit (or try to), which gives the springs in the tensioners a hard time. Once one of those go, it's easy to get a small loop of chain (like a caterpillar) arch itself up and skip a tooth or five.
On FahrtSturms it's pretty common, and suspected to be linked to the front CCT not getting enough oil.

[jrandom]

Not that odd for v-twins.

Interesting.

And finally some concrete evidence to bolster my vague dislike of V-twins.

It's always seemed to me like a slightly pointless and inefficient way to design an engine.

[NordieBoy]

Interesting.

And finally some concrete evidence to bolster my vague dislike of V-twins.

It's always seemed to me like a slightly pointless and inefficient way to design an engine.

Yeah. Too many cylinders for a start...

[Mikkel]

You only hear the dueling banjos when you are broken down in Central Otago.....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNlqXHVyoM[/youtube]

[doc]

Over the past few days we have been at Kopara, around Golden bay through the Able Tasman, up to Collingwood, and even up the Cobb Valley. All those out of the way places and the bike lunches itself within 100 meters of a Suzuki shop.

Lucky you werent doing the Ball Hut ride.

We must have just missed you riding around after Kopara we did similiar riding around that area. Found that the goat track to Harwards Hole is not really a road bike ride.