80,000 miles on the same bottom end. That speaks volumes on your ability to keep the old tart running. Great trap tool you've made John. A couple taps and shes free. Love that ingenuity. Keep on walking the walk, and talking the talk brother... regardless of negative comments by neigh-sayers on a certain brit-bike forum.
Thanks again.I just cleaned mine out using the tent peg method and used a 3/8" extension to remove the plug in which i heated and hammered one end flatand ground to fit.
@MrGatohead Cheers Gato :-) The tube came out a treat, it's not just me though, the bike has always been a "good" one!! in all the time I've had her she's always got me home...well apart from twice, that I can remember, both electrical. I'll soon be "Riding the Ride" as well! :-) Pah! water off a duck back, " There's them that know, there's them that don't know! and there's them that don't know they don't know!" Triumph rat for me!!
The impurities would pass as normal leaving at the big end. The sludge trap is an attempt to capture them before they damage the crank (increase wear rate)
@triumpht120rv Ecstatic! the biggest elation was when that plug came out! 70-80 thou in 18yrs give or take, if this build lasts as long as the last one, it will be a long time before I'm in there again :-D
2:34 "Press down towards the floor rather than lift it out the vise." I have tried to teach this to some people I have worked with. They just don't get it.
@lunmad Hi Lunmad, I would love to do a video, of another bike ride. 'Fraid if I do a working-on-me-bike video it would look more like a Laurel and Hardy film. Oops dropped that bolt inside the crankcase! I should have done one of my searching for the electrical problem I had two weeks ago. Days on end checking this and that until I found the problem in the engine kill switch! Five minutes with a bit of emery cloth and it was fixed :).
Hi kskater :-) it is some of the simpler rules that are so hard to sink in. I wonder why that is. In the same vein it is the same reason I do most of my hammering on the floor.
@srcheney Hi srcheney :-) "Almost" I see you point, no one looks forward to an engine rebuild especially on a runner as it means no riding :-( Only after being in there though, can you say "I know that motor!" and that is satisfying! Will you do a video? yeah! yeah! go on, go on,go on!....:-D
Yer get nowt like this in Haynes - he must be spinning in his own sludge I would like to have seen something in conrod bolt removal though. People just say 'remove' and the best or only film is a bloke whacking a Chevy engine about. And most engineering literature seems to be freaked out about the use of abrasives. Still, if none's watching and you clean up afterwards...
Let me try this.... The sludge is impurities in the oil that make it into the crank but do not have the ability to pass through during lubrication so they wind up in the sludge trap?
80,000 miles on the same bottom end. That speaks volumes on your ability to keep the old tart running. Great trap tool you've made John. A couple taps and shes free. Love that ingenuity. Keep on walking the walk, and talking the talk brother... regardless of negative comments by neigh-sayers on a certain brit-bike forum.
I really like this series of videos. Thanks for taking the time to make them.
Great set of videos!! Extremely helpful. Thank you. You show a good way of doing things and the tips that count.
Thanks again.I just cleaned mine out using the tent peg method and used a 3/8" extension to remove the plug in which i heated and hammered one end flatand ground to fit.
Great. After watching this I'm almost looking forward to doing this myself
@MrGatohead
Cheers Gato :-)
The tube came out a treat, it's not just me though, the bike has always been a "good" one!!
in all the time I've had her she's always got me home...well apart from twice, that I can remember,
both electrical.
I'll soon be "Riding the Ride" as well! :-)
Pah! water off a duck back,
" There's them that know, there's them that don't know! and there's them that don't know they don't know!"
Triumph rat for me!!
great series of vids,and well produced, Thanks very much, :-)
The impurities would pass as normal leaving at the big end. The sludge trap is an attempt to capture them before they damage the crank (increase wear rate)
Wow! That must of felt great cleaning the sludge out. Great series. How many miles was that build-up? Thanks for documenting.
@triumpht120rv
Ecstatic! the biggest elation was when that plug came out!
70-80 thou in 18yrs give or take, if this build lasts as long as the last one,
it will be a long time before I'm in there again :-D
2:34 "Press down towards the floor rather than lift it out the vise."
I have tried to teach this to some people I have worked with. They just don't get it.
@lunmad
Hi Lunmad, I would love to do a video, of another bike ride. 'Fraid if I do a working-on-me-bike video it would look more like a Laurel and Hardy film. Oops dropped that bolt inside the crankcase! I should have done one of my searching for the electrical problem I had two weeks ago. Days on end checking this and that until I found the problem in the engine kill switch! Five minutes with a bit of emery cloth and it was fixed :).
Thanks The650twin :-)
glad you enjoyed em!
It's mainly a carbon build up from burned/singed oil and other stuff.
Oh yeah,and i found a few small potatoes.
Hi kskater :-)
it is some of the simpler rules that are so hard to sink in. I wonder why that is.
In the same vein it is the same reason I do most of my hammering on the floor.
sorry for the very late reply, I have since fitted an external filter and oil cooler.
a long time late with this one blue
I have since fitted an external oil filter on the return side. :-)
@srcheney
Hi srcheney :-)
"Almost" I see you point, no one looks forward to an engine rebuild especially on a runner
as it means no riding :-(
Only after being in there though, can you say "I know that motor!" and that is satisfying!
Will you do a video? yeah! yeah! go on, go on,go on!....:-D
Yer get nowt like this in Haynes - he must be spinning in his own sludge
I would like to have seen something in conrod bolt removal though. People just say 'remove' and the best or only film is a bloke whacking a Chevy engine about. And most engineering literature seems to be freaked out about the use of abrasives. Still, if none's watching and you clean up afterwards...
@atwin1962
Thanks atwin :-)
an all me own work too! fun, fun, fun! playing in me shed!
@markybyeah
Cheers marky :-)
at least another dozen in this I reckon!
Let me try this....
The sludge is impurities in the oil that make it into the crank but do not have the ability to pass through during lubrication so they wind up in the sludge trap?
Where is the sludge coming from?