On Thursday 25 August 2016 09:43:53 Dave Cole wrote: > On 8/25/2016 5:56 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 25 August 2016 at 10:30, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> It is, from a Yamaha R1 in fact. > >> > >> Well that will last forever! > > > > Indeed, the one in my bike has done 100,000 miles running a lot > > faster and at far higher load than it will see in the lathe. > > You have a bike with 100K miles?? I didn't know that was possible! > > Dave > Not impossible at all. While the Gold Wing is not the crotch rocket Andy's R1 is, I know where there is one with nearly 300,000 on it, probably over by now, and its never had anything done but oil changes, one set of plugs & wires and the yappets set at the books recommended intervals. He bought it new about a year after they came to the states, and has used it for a chair car all these years.
Sorta like the Eveready drum playing bunny. But I learned a lesson about Honda's myself, Honda has zero spare parts for anything they sold after the last one of that model has rolled off the production line, they set a clock, and when 5 years has passed, it all goes to the re-cyclers. So when the alternator coil failed in my '73 350F, I had to find one in a junk yard in 1979. Since I was using it for a chair car because my other rig was a 28' Pace Arrow that got about 3mpg, I loaded it up with 2 more of those H3 driving lights in addition to a sick bird 140 watt high beam in an 8" headlight hiding in a wannabe windjammer fairing. I bought that bike with 23k miles on it, drove it 14 months & traded for a GS550 Suzi. It was when I was making out the title stuff for the next owner that I realized I had put another 34k miles on it it that 14 months. A couple sets of chains & sprockets and that alternator coil plus a brake rebuild, I'd put some makeup in the cylinders marked Dot-3 with some rotgut I got at the local parts house, labeled Dot-3-4, and it ate all the rubber stuff in about 24 hours. Biggest problem, leaky headgasket in the timing chain swell between the center cylinders, kept your pant cuffs well soaked in oil. I was told it was generic to that engine. Red line was 11k, and it was still pulling strong, I probably ticked it to 13k several times. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
