I can as a last resort but will give it a try with the heat gun first
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I can as a last resort but will give it a try with the heat gun first
The crank is out, ended up putting the case in the oven for 15 mins... 20 mins... 25 mins.... ping! one crank ready to serve!
Will get it sent off to PJME and will hopefully have a working bike this time next week! :D
Geo
just changed all the crank seals and I'm now obsessively polishing my crank case until i get the crank back from PJME ^^ thanks allot for all the help people especially Jaydee and Jon, your stick it in the oven advice has been especially helpful :p wouldn't have got the crank or the seals out without it ^^
Geo
Nice one!!! 8-)
Sent the crank off today with next day guarantee, hoping to get it back by the end of the week so i can get it fixed over the weekend, being quite hopeful i think though! when i get it back should be an hour or so to get the engine back together and then a day to get the rest of the bike back together (mainly due to the Italian awkwardness of 99% off the nuts/bolts/screws/mounts).
Geo
Just got a call from pjme my crank is rebuilt to within a tenth of a thou centre to centre! Very highly reccomend them for all 2 stroke needs, the rebuild was £106 with a new con rod and trued up! Should get it back tomorrow and the engine back together by Thursday night, and then will get in back into the frame Friday night Saturday morning and then it should all be up and running! I've replaced/rebuilt pretty much everything on the bike, new cdi, topend, conrod, RAVE control unit, main bearings, all the crank seals/O-Rings and a few other things and had the crank rebuilt. I also stripped the gears and gave them all a good clean and general check over... there isn't really that much more I can replace short of buying all the parts and building a whole new bike! XD so fingers crossed... along with every other crossable part of my body, its going to be running like new... now I'm just praying for good weather this weekend!
Geo
Good luck with it! Let us know how you get on.
The engine in back together went fairly smoothly only a couple of awkward bits, will get it back in the frame tomorrow and hopefuly wired up etc too. Should then have it running on Sunday! *prays*
Geo
Finaly after many many long hours and lots and lots of money, it is alive and running well can't hear anything nasty as of yet so I think it is finaly sorted!
Just got to run the engine in now and on that note...
One of the main things I have learnt from this whole experience is... haynes is crap! When I started doing things my own way everything went sooooo much smoother, for example, when I followed haynes` way of getting the engine back in the frame it was a huge hassle and took me 2 days to do... when I ignored haynes and did it my own way it took... about and hour... anyways rant over I was actualy going to ask what I should do about running the engine in, haynes says 500 miles keeping it under 6k rpm and keep the revs changing don't sit at one spot for long then another 500 miles not going over 9k rmp, keep the revs changing... then you can go nuts.
I'm perfectly happy to do it if it needs to be done that way I clocked up about 100 miles today and started about the same time I get off work... so I can probably clock up the 1000 miles in a week if I spend all day sat/Sunday out aswell as after work but pbv I don't want to be pootleing about that low in the rev range if I don't have to!
Second thing does anyone know how to set the RAVE valve up properly? I could probably muddle through on my own with it but if anybody has experience setting them up your help would be much apreciated!
Now please excuse me while I do my happy dance!
Geo
;D