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Oh dear, it's gonna be expensive - checked the water pump, removed it, cleaned it all up and reconnected it to the hoses to test its leak-tightness, refilled the coolant system with water.... and watched it dribbling out of the sump drain hole into the tray that I'd put beneath it just in case... >:(
The good news is that the water pump is fine.... the bad news is that I'll spend tomorrow dropping the engine out of it instead of going off-roading >:( >:( >:( :'( :'( :'(
Oh bugger!! Thats not good news at all :(
**** sauce, dude.
Yep, the **** blizzard is blowing.... :'(
Star and I got busy yesterday morning, stripping the bike down and removing the engine - it was quite a learning curve for Star and she did brilliantly..
I wish it was always as easy to move around as when it's this light...
http://i760.photobucket.com/albums/x...tripdown13.jpg
Engine on the ramp, ready to be put into the cradle stand and be worked on...
http://i760.photobucket.com/albums/x...tripdown10.jpg
I got to work, removing cam cover, camchain tensioner and the camshafts, had a look down the camchain tunnel and spotted the cause of the problems, a sodding great crack in the wall between the coolant chamber and the camchain tunnel in the cylinder head... ::)
http://i760.photobucket.com/albums/x...-annotated.jpg
Oh well, nothing to do but be philosophical and get to work sorting it out. In eleven years of owning trackbikes, I've never had any issues with storing them over winter with just water in the coolant systems, but this winter we were treated to the coldest December in decades and this is the result. **** happens I guess...
I wish I was mechanically minded enough to be able to do stuff like that
Damn, thats pretty unlucky mate. You going to stick some anti-freeze in this time round I guess?
I'll put anti-freeze in it over the winter in future, but stick to water during the season when it's in use - you shouldn't use anti-freeze on-track as in the event of a spillage or leak, it stays slippery and doesn't dry off like neat water does - those are the race regs anyway, but given the numbers of road bikes used for trackdays it's unrealistic to expect normal trackday riders to be swapping their coolant every time they come on track...
Unlucky Scotty :(
if the engine casings are split apart is it not a job our very own Toph could have a look at ?
dam, second guess of "cracked block behind number one" that i text you was pretty close then... ;-)
ffffffffffffff.....(sucks breath in kind of sound).... thats gonna cost ya....
how about draining it over winter instead of leaving it with coolant in????....