Now with video! Common internal failure? My friend is killing his second one!
I've got a good friend, who probably shouldn't own a motorcycle. I'll leave that at that, and of course we all know lack of attention will eventually cause anything to fail. Getting that said and out of the way, he has killed one XS400 engine, and now the XS360 that I swapped in for him seems to be on the way out. I generally think it's a lack of paying attention to the oil, but I'm wondering what specifically it might be the first parts to fail.. the 'weak links' so to speak. An engine is an engine, of course, but they all have their particular chinks in the armor.
The original engine locked up on him at highway speed, but acted like it was loosing power first. I don't know what locked up, I never torn it down, but we found that it would start again later on. It had a terrible piercing clacking to it, though. There was plenty of ferrous metal in the oil, too.
Well, he's ridden this one until the mufflers had broken to bits, and I finally got the moron to stop and let me look at it. The oil has metal in it again (what was left in there!) and it's making a terrible clacking, but not ALL the time. I can rev it, and then arbitrarily it will start, and then sort of taper off. This is after changing the oil, of course.
Just wondering if their is any insider knowledge particular to this engine. Thanks!
I've got a good friend, who probably shouldn't own a motorcycle. I'll leave that at that, and of course we all know lack of attention will eventually cause anything to fail. Getting that said and out of the way, he has killed one XS400 engine, and now the XS360 that I swapped in for him seems to be on the way out. I generally think it's a lack of paying attention to the oil, but I'm wondering what specifically it might be the first parts to fail.. the 'weak links' so to speak. An engine is an engine, of course, but they all have their particular chinks in the armor.
The original engine locked up on him at highway speed, but acted like it was loosing power first. I don't know what locked up, I never torn it down, but we found that it would start again later on. It had a terrible piercing clacking to it, though. There was plenty of ferrous metal in the oil, too.
Well, he's ridden this one until the mufflers had broken to bits, and I finally got the moron to stop and let me look at it. The oil has metal in it again (what was left in there!) and it's making a terrible clacking, but not ALL the time. I can rev it, and then arbitrarily it will start, and then sort of taper off. This is after changing the oil, of course.
Just wondering if their is any insider knowledge particular to this engine. Thanks!
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