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    Lesson hard learned

    Wellllllllllllllllll....

    Twas a fine friday morning, i had taken the day off work to recover from a cold. My brother in law came around to do some work in me shed but he couldnt really be bothered.

    We decided the day would be better spent out on a couple of bikes, as he had turned up on his zzr1100. But before the trip he wanted to fix the cam timing on my gb400tt. You see it has been retarted by about half a tooth for bloody ages, we decided to move it a tooth and see if it liked being advanced that half tooth insted.

    Turns out it didnt, so we whipped it back into the shed and in no time had it restored to its former position.

    Didnt get too far up the road when mt boot slipped off the peg during a right hander, i looked down. Oil everywhere, guess we forgot to nip up that oil feed. Back home... a good degreasing and fresh tank of oil and we were away again.

    As we were talking and laughing while working, we both somehow neglected to notice that we didnt locktight the two bolts that hold the sprocket to the cam.

    All back together we took off towards town to get gas and drop some bags of shit off to my little sister.

    30km from home and she made a bit of top end noise, i clutched it too late and knew it had lost all compression. Cue that sinking feeling.

    After what seemed like an endless trip home using the zzr to tow the gb we whipped the hat back off and the sight we saw wasnt pretty.

    One of the two bolts i mentioned earlier had come loose, jammed against the edge of the camchain tunnel and snapped the sprocket into 4 pieces. It also snapped the cam chain, sending little chain fragments down every oil well and crevice within the engine.

    After a full strip down... I need a cam chain, cam sprocket, cam chain tensioner, two exhaust valves and a full set of gaskets.

    If anyone knows where there any gb parts for sale, please sing out.

    Im going to have a cry and demolish that bottle of single malt.

    Happy riding, learn from my momentary lapse of reason, i know i have
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    Oh, bugger, bugger and double bugger. Those little bolts always scare me. I always thought they should have tab washers to lock them. Commiserations.
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    ouch..happy drinking


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    i am about to turn key on a project that saw me replace all the oil, water lines, new turbos and manifolds, new intercooler piping and engine bay plumbing annnd a new cambelt

    did it all at once. did it all myself

    and i am shitting myself for just this reason.

    i KNOW i have missed a bolt or too.

    i really feel for you mate. hope it comes back together for you fast and quick
    gone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazy7
    i am about to turn key on a project that saw me replace all the oil, water lines, new turbos and manifolds, new intercooler piping and engine bay plumbing annnd a new cambelt
    No wonder those Kwaka's are so heavy


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    ooooooo bugger bugger bugger bugger shit fak bugger bugger......id skull if i were you...............
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    Mmmmmm smooth scotch is taking off the edge. Im gonna do the worrying tomorow.

    Ahhhh piss, the cause and solution to most of my problems
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    PROST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that means cheers
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    One word.
    Locktite.
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    Arrow Bugger froggy.

    Make sure you ave half a cup of sand with the whiskey. The bugs will get that pissed that they will stone each other to death....
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    So Hows the head this morning?

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    Ouch...

    Pulling a sickie to go riding always seems to end in disaster
    ...

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    bugger man, if this had happened on mon i would have a whole bike for you. As it stands i sold it Tue, then picked up my FZ1 on Thur night.
    There was a guy selling an 80% on TM before for $300
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    Minties moment! Sorry to hear that froggy, hope you get some parts and get it up and running again soon
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    The heads fine this morning, possibly because i woke up and started drinking.
    For the record, i didnt pull a sickie to go riding, i was recovering from a cold and had gotten hardly any sleep the night before.

    Will try to post some pics of the carnage lattrer, but that will depend if i can bring myself to go look at it again.

    Aaaaaaaaaaargh. I need parts!
    There is no dark side of the moon, really, as a matter of fact. Its all dark...

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