Subject: RE: motor weirdness
Author: Ray Hale
Date: Dec 26, 2003, 2:37 PM
Post ID: 1715596865
Hey all,
Thanks so much for responding and putting your holiday drenched heads to
my little problem. The emergency is over and I do NOT have an answer.
Very frustrasting and obviously some version of operator error because
this morning as is well. Unless a gremlin with good intentions entered
my shop while I slept and fixed it all, there was no problem to begin
with. I just do not get it.
I swear that yesterday I could not turn the motor over a full 360 and I
put all of my ass into it, too. This morning it spun like a top, smooth
and clean. I adjusted the valves, went for a nice long ride on my brand
x bike, came back and checked it again. All is well. My friend Tom says
forget it and move on like it never happened. I am still paranoid but
will check it every day for a while and then forget it.
I am totally embarrassed to have dragged you guys in with me for no
apparent reason and hope it won't feel like crying wolf. All of your
ideas were good ones and yes, I checked all those things before
buttoning it up a while ago.
Redfaced Ray
sam heath wrote:
| this may seem like a strange thing to check,but it happened to me when i pulled the pistons and connecting rods out of my ambo motor.did you put the con-rod back on the same way they came off? i put one on backwards and it bound up and the motor would not turn. just giving you something elseto check because you never know sam 70 ambo 02stone Ray Hale <ray.-@sfcc.edu> wrote: Charlie, Thanks for responding. No bolts rubbing. I removed the pulley and tried again, no difference. Removed the rockers thinking maybe something there was binding, same thing. Pushrods (and lifters) moving normally. Everything inside is spinning, tightly, but I expected that from new bearings, pistons, cylinders. But if I tighten that nut on the end of the crank where the pulley mounts, it all locks up. Only thing I can think of is a crank free-play issue but there is absolutely nothing about this in any of the lit (that I can find) and when I posted the list about this, all the responses I got were the same, including from experienced Guzzi motor builders - don't worry about it. This motor was torn down completely. The rebuild didn;t seem complicated at all and no spare parts were left. I'll teasr into it this morning and let you know if I find anything. Ray Charlie Mullendore wrote:
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