Subject: RE: major engine malfunction

Author: Ian Adkins

Date: Feb 25, 2003, 6:28 AM

Post ID: 1712028379

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Flanagan [mailto:FLAN-@edwardsbaking.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:19 AM
To: 'Loopfram-@topica.com'
Subject: RE: major engine malfunction


If I remember right, one jug has a notch cut out to allow the con rod ends
to have clearance to complete its cycle. The other does not. You may have
switched them by accident and blew out the other jug.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hopkins [SMTP:grvd-@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:55 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: major engine malfunction

Upon replacing the rod bearings on the right side cylinder on

my 850 LAPD

I cranked the bike and it ran well. But as it got warm, it started to
knock. I managed to get it cut off on about the fourth strong

knock. After

that the engine wouldn't make a complete revolution without locking.
Disassembly showed that the top(s) of the bolts of the piston

that had the

new rod bearings installed had hit the bottom of the barrel of the jug.
The stroke broke a small chunk of aluminium out of the bottom of the jug
that is stuck down in the block. I can't figure out what I did wrong. I
have done the same procedure in the past with no problem, so I was just
looking for ideas...Thanks in advance..Greg, '74 LAPD