The odyssey begins !

[cr0ft]

The extended warranty is more like third party insurance, right? Because I haven't heard of Triumph having that available. Triumph wants to have happy customers so they may go above and beyond, but third party insurance wants their customers to pay and never claim anything, so any third party insurance will try actively to refuse to pay... just how insurance works.

 

[TRIIICK]

Holy Shyt Fred.. I bring my own molly 60 grease with me every time i get new tires, you don't even want to know what some stealers are using.. For some of us this would be a financial nightmare. Good luck putting Humpty back together again... at least with this forum your with all the kings horses and all the kings men.

 

[vanguard138]

Hey Fred, is that what they call a "naked" bike?

 

[Cartuner]

Just had mine done at nearby shop .They flat rated the job at 9.5 hrs so It cost me just over $1400.00 Cdn including parts .I had a squeal and now it's gone -the piece of mind is priceless .

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Just had mine done at nearby shop .They flat rated the job at 9.5 hrs so It cost me just over $1400.00 Cdn including parts .I had a squeal and now it's gone -the piece of mind is priceless .

Sounds like like you got a bargain ! My guess is they lost their arse on the deal.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Fred if you have a scope you can look up on top of the windage tray. If there is any metal up there you can pull the 8 main ladder bearing bolts and take the ladder and windage tray down to clean more. with them down you will see all the rods and up into the cylinders. You can re-use the ladder bolts and no gaskets are required for this. It also can be done once you get the motor mounted back in in or at least wait until it is to torque the ladder back up.
I have plenty of pictures in my albums on the Tech site if you need a look see!!

I haven't completely removed the engine, it's still hanging by the front mount. Can I remove the mains ladder without the crank trying to fall out ? I would like to have a look in there.

 

[warp9.9]

I haven't completely removed the engine, it's still hanging by the front mount. Can I remove the mains ladder without the crank trying to fall out ? I would like to have a look in there.

yes you can the main ladder only exposes the rods and the inside of the engine you have to split the case to remove the main bearings. below is a picture with the main bearing ladder and windage tray removed you can do this whilt the engien is in the bike I did it the first time I blew mine up just the clean out the inside. You can also change the rods this way or pull them to change the pistons verses pulling the piston liners. It is much easier. Although if you pull the rods you should use new rod bolts going back unless you have crower rods.

 

[IMFASTTOO]

For those of you who weren't at the RAA event in Colorado, my rocket pooped it's dress on the last ride of the last day. Fortunately it happened about 50 miles from the hotel. Rick (Vanguard 138) gave me a ride back to get my trailer and didn't even make me sit backwards ! Almost left the car keys in the saddlebag. Thank god Rockethead asked me if I had the keys ! The problem started a couple days before (I just didn't know it). Every so often I would hear a click. It sounded like a piece of plastic getting caught by the wind and slapping something metal. Very subtle, most people probably wouldn't have even noticed it. Looked at the bike a couple of times and didn't see anything loose. Didn't sound at all like a mechanical problem. On the fateful ride we had passed some cars and had some fairly straight rode so I goosed her up a bit. All at one it started making a really loud slapping sound and felt like the rear tire was trying to lock up. Got it off the rode thankfully. Was pretty sure it was the output shaft bearing and so far that appears to be the case.

Here is the victim;

Beginning to remove pieces;

and more pieces;

Got her supported now;

More pieces;

And more pieces. It takes a lot of bits to make one of these !

Got the pan off, definitely bearing race material. Looking up into the motor it's coming from the back of the output shaft.

Finally got a good look at my drive shaft. Not good. Splines are worn about half way. Bike only had 16,000 miles when I got it. I've always greased the splines at every tire change. Bike has 53,000 now. Not real good life expectancy.

Tomorrow I'll figure out how to either let the back of the engine down with the front motor mount bolt still in, as I'm told you can, or I'll take it completely out. What a horrendous amount of horse$hit to go through and I haven't even got the engine out yet !

The splines look they where run dry at some time with obvious metal to metal contact wear

 

[cootertwo]

Ahhh, engine **** at it's best!

 

[Rocket Scientist]

The splines look they where run dry at some time with obvious metal to metal contact wear

Could be. The first time I took the rear wheel out they looked dry. They could have been damaged then and I just didn't notice it. I think they will make to end of this tire then I'll look into getting a good drive shaft and final drive.