• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Toasted Top End Avoided

ray_ray said:
There is a drop of oil showing in the pic above inside the valve cover... The top side starves first I think? Don't get excited but there is still some slim hope for the bottom end ...
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It has been on another ride since the first problem, hence the oil.....
 
ray_ray said:
Really? Maybe it will buff out :)

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I'm just a 250cc rider ... We have a hard time keeping up with the 4fitty guys even in the garage :)
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It may still be ok but as a mechanic, from a photo, it doesn't look great. :(



250 guys are fine! Most of the places I ride a 250 is as fast, just gotta work more for it. Only slower on the open trails & roads.

Makes you look better too when you do keep up :)

If something like the current YZF250 had lights & rego when I bought my TE449, I might have looked at it......:D
 
Thanks guys. Going through depression right now. But glimmer of hope taken. Maybe the crank mod spoken of is a good thing. This may all work out just fine.
 
TomGlander said:
Thanks guys. Going through depression right now. But glimmer of hope taken. Maybe the crank mod spoken of is a good thing. This may all work out just fine.
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Good attitude man. Really sorry to see / hear this. Hope you get it back and going with not to much pain. Good luck.
 
It's NOT ok. Clearly, it seized from the original "incident" as I suspected from your original running (dieing) description. That part and the head are toast. A competent machinist could fix it by taking the mating surfaces down several thousanths, then line-boring it again to spec, custom spec if the cam journals are ground instead of a new cam(s). But new parts may just be cheaper, when you consider in new valve guides and seats and such. But, with the plug fouling and all, I'm sure the cylinder looks very similar to that, and the rod big-end is the most stressed item of the "oiled" bunch. Sorry but get ready for the worst. Just the facts. For the record, I have seen Quadtarders opt to run stuff like that, and worse. Doesn't make it right, though!! Tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, ............
 
You'll get to open it on Wednesday, or whenever you get around to it. I'll have the bike there on Wednesday before noon. It's in pieces. I'm pretty sure MotoMarc36 is right, it'll be a relief to know how much damage was done.

Tinken, there was probably a quarter of the case with oil in it after the initial blowout. Then it burned out on the ride up the mountain. About a quarter of the case of oil left after that ride. I pretty much destroyed the motor, I'm guessing. Dang. In hindsight it's pretty sickening to do something like that to a friend. Well, better to investigate than to speculate. So far, all I know is what I've seen, and I haven't seen the piston yet, nor the internals.
 
Final post on this matter. The top end is shot. Need a piston, cylinder, head. Big scores on the cylinder and piston. Head is shot, can't be repaired. Ok, bring on the money. Gonna cost me plenty. Damage is catastrophic, indeed.
 
MotoMarc36 said:
It's NOT ok. Clearly, it seized from the original "incident" as I suspected from your original running (dieing) description. That part and the head are toast. A competent machinist could fix it by taking the mating surfaces down several thousanths, then line-boring it again to spec, custom spec if the cam journals are ground instead of a new cam(s). But new parts may just be cheaper, when you consider in new valve guides and seats and such. But, with the plug fouling and all, I'm sure the cylinder looks very similar to that, and the rod big-end is the most stressed item of the "oiled" bunch. Sorry but get ready for the worst. Just the facts. For the record, I have seen Quadtarders opt to run stuff like that, and worse. Doesn't make it right, though!! Tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, ............
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Yes indeed. Toast. Shot. New parts. New top end. Sucks. :banghead::banghead:
 
Motosportz said:
Shit.
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That's putting it mildly. The thing is, if I had never done this mod in the first place, this wouldn't have happened. It's because I did this mod to save my bike in the long run, and then let the hose kink, that this happened. They need to create a better solution, or include some warning message or something.... Don't kink your hose! :busted: I'm laughing now, but it's taken a month to get to this point. Can't say it's anyone's fault but my own, and all because I wanted to add a device to monitor RPMs. Had I not done that, I wouldn't have messed with the hoses.... and they wouldn't have gotten kinked.

Attention to detail is a good thing, and I was not paying attention at all that evening. Lesson learned. Hope anyone else might learn from this as well. If you put on the ZipTy oil breather, don't bend your tubing too much or it'll kink on ya for certain and you'll fry your top end from lack of oil after it's all pushed into the airbox.
 
Yes, all mods away from standard carry an element of risk.
I thought long and hard before pulling out my butterfly on my engine. Months actually, but decided if it killed the bike, that would stop the faulty system killing me.
I feel your pain mate, it's a tough lesson learnt for the rest of us to take note of.
 
Sorry man. Don't be too hard on yourself, that is an easy oversight that could happen to anyone. You should see some of the stuff I see people go out of their way to do to ruin their stuff, then they want to blame someone else, proving their stupidity and poor character. You are owning up and taking it like a man, proving an honest mistake and very good character.:thumbsup:
 
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