Small end bearing blow up!!

As you all know about a month a go I had a little trouble with my engine, when after fitting a
yasuni city 16 pipe i blew a hole through my piston crown :?

well im afraid more bad luck has struck the engine today....

I started hearing a slight rattle coming from the engine, which only occured during tick over,
then after a few days it occured during tick over and light throttle :?

then eventually it did it all the time, and by now had got quite loud....

As a precaution i went into work on the bus on friday, as i was sure something was a miss, I suspected either main bearing damage or possibly small end bearing damage :?

So to day i stripped the engine down and found this







Obviously there must of been some debris left in the engine from when i had the hole
in my piston drama, the debris has damaged the small end bearing which in turn has damaged the
piston and head...

Im not messing around anymore, the engines getting a full rebuild, new crank, bearings, lightly flowed cases and as my piston and head on the rep are damaged im using that as an excuse
to buy a more powerful 70 kit

The only down side is my Runner will be off the road for several weeks....

oh well such is life....never mind

ive gotta get changed and washed up now, im meeting the boys down the pub

 

happens to the best of us.

a new engine for a new year.

now slap on the old spice and have this to walk down to the pub with :beer:

 

wats the barrel look like ? n is it mhr rep i cnt member ? bad look m8 but ull be back on the old horse in no time lol. n good excuse for rebuild like u say lol

 

yep it happens....

just got to make sure the next engines quicker

turn a - into a +

right i really gotta go now :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

 

oh bad luck dave but as you say good excuse for new kit and a beer :beer:

 

init, more tuning opportunities, more power,more grunt,more speed.
Any excuse ay? :rofl:
And a bloody good excuse to give the old woman so you can go down the pub for a "quick one" :beer:

 

Be looking forward to seeing the build up Dave. I bet as you did it you wasn't like oh fuck, it was like, right what do I need, bearings bla bla better 70 kit, ooh whilst it's split, new crank bit of flowing bla bla :blah:

 

think he had a carb ligned up for it aswell

 

Ouch, wish I could buy him a beer....bad luck....
Maybe I will stick to my Laser Pro-X

 

Basically when i fitted the c16, because it was cold and miserable all the time
I kept putting off doing a plug chop...."Ah its running really well it'll be ok" I thought....

it was running lean and holed the piston, so its all my own making really :rtfm:

And when it holed the piston and there was bits of metal everywhere, the correct thing to do would of been split the cases and make sure every scrap of metal was out, But no i tried to flush it out with petrol...

oh well, i would say you live and learn, but i knew i was cutting corners when i did it, but people get lazy especially working on bikes in the winter

no point moaning on, theres parts to collect for my next engine

It wont be an evo though, im going for something power wise in between a rep and an evo....about 15-16hp

 

we live and learn dave unk:

 

daves got his eye on a stage 6 racing i assume

 

how much bhp could he get out of the kit if he imprved it .wiv flowed cases and his setup

 

y do i get the feelin ull go for the evo map lol.