engine piston check
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In my experience with blown head gaskets. The coolant doesn’t rust the bearings or the crank. As long as it hasn’t been too long since it ran and it’s all well lubricated with 2T in the crankcase , it should be fine.
Just keep it lubed and buttoned up till you send off the barrel for reboring.If I’d had a piston disintegrate I’d at least want to flush out the bottom end with clean fuel and oil. Turn it upside down, ect…
I get the impression that you don’t want to remove the engine from the frame tho?…
I understand that we don’t all look at a situation in the same way. Not everyone wants to remove the lump and split the casings.
As long as you clean up the gasket mating surfaces, ect, there’s a good chance that you can just put a new top end on and be fine. It’s mostly about preparation and not re-using head gaskets!
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Just a quick dumb question: when you order pistons they have a size listed such as ø56.5 mm.
Is that the diameter of the piston, or the cylinder hole it is supposed to go in?
If it is the diameter of the piston as I suspect, how much larger should the cylinder diameter be?
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@Hark_Ptooie yeah its the diameter of the piston, the standard is 56.00mm if you get a bigger one you need to rebore the cylinder so that piston can fit
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Most people recommend Yamabond. It’s a silicon RTV type sealant I believe. I have used Hermatite red without any leaks or problems. I prefer it just because it doesn’t shed ‘worms’ of sealant into the gearbox. Not so important on a 2/ but can be death to a 4/ if it clogs an oilway…
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@erion1 said in engine piston check:
@Hark_Ptooie yeah its the diameter of the piston, the standard is 56.00mm if you get a bigger one you need to rebore the cylinder so that piston can fit
OK, thanks - and what would the appropriate size of the bore be? +0.1 mm? +0.5 mm? +50 µm?
I may need to swap piston in the not too distant future, and motorcycle workshops are few and far between where I live. So it may be that I will need to turn to some car shop and tell them how it should be, because they are not used to this type of engine.
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I don’t have my Haynes manual at hand, but the max recommended clearance is in there…
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Okies, thanks!
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Found it! 45-50 µm on the diameter. Wear limit 100 µm
25 µm per side is hella tight.
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Kinda pisses you off when your recently ‘rebored’ piston used to rattle back and forwards in the barrel, doesn’t it?! I had the same experience buying a REBORED barrel & piston.
I’m very particular about who does my rebores now…
