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Adam
PostPosted: 01 Apr 2015 15:49 
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My rod broke just below the small end eye.

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PostPosted: 01 Apr 2015 16:20 
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Cos Erik decided it was a good idea to put an air cooled engine inside a petrol tank. So with an engine design that hides the rear pot directly behind the front one, guess which one gets the hottest :idea:
Then in order to control the valves which are operated by fairly aggressive cams, it was decided to ditch duplex springs in favour of a single beehive :?
Never been able to carry out a proper autopsy on XB engines that've ditched the rear piston because all the debris is compressed into unrecogniseable lumps of metal rammed between the flywheels :headbang:

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PostPosted: 01 Apr 2015 16:27 
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Here's what happens, this from an XB9SX!
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From another angle, the rest of the piston!
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Do you or anyone you know have access to an endoscope to put down the sparkplug hole, so you can see if you have got a piston left or it looks like new engine time
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:o :shock: :yup: Thanks.


As the saying goes, "Should've stuck with Tubers". :rotfl:

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PostPosted: 02 Apr 2015 06:27 
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DaveH wrote:
Do you or anyone you know have access to an endoscope to put down the sparkplug hole, so you can see if you have got a piston left or it looks like new engine time

I bought an endoscope from Aldi a while back for £69.99 they still had some left last time I popped into Grimsby branch.

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PostPosted: 02 Apr 2015 14:41 
Got a usb type off ebay for about 12 quid, works ok for what I wanted it for
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PostPosted: 02 Apr 2015 19:51 
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Well i dropped my bike and now it has two cranks :?

It's going worse by the week with these XB's :sad1:

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I've been telling you guys for years how shit XB's are but everyone thinks I'm talking bollox :sad1:

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PostPosted: 02 Apr 2015 20:30 
They could now be Blast cranks :ill:
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