Strafford_Guy wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:07: justin_o_guy asked:
Any clues before it "all literally went to pieces"?
Other then possible hearing the chain rattle what other signs should or could have made someone aware of this situation? I have a little over 10K on the bike, just adjusted the valves (intake was at 5 and exhust was set to 6) both now at 4. Plug looked great. Just wanted to know what I should watch for should the tensioner decide to go south. Hopefully it wont happen for a while. Bike was well taken care of from what I can tell. Thanks again.
Let me see if I can think of anything that would have been tell tale.
I was idling crappy, it would go up and down and almost die. Had to keep some throttle open to keep it idling. Was starting to make some noise in the crankcase, like the chain was loose and slapping around, chugging when I tried to accelerate almost as if I were running low on fuel. (had a full tank so I know I wasn't low on gas, and petc0ck and all lines are good).
When I shutdown the engine it was make a mechanical sounding pop, like to pieces of metal hitting each other. This also came from the right side of the crankcase where the camchain is located.
I guess with all of these clues I should have something was up, but like I said in an earlier post, I have also been fouling out plugs left and right so I thought my jetting was too rich. Now I'm not so sure, it could have been that the valves were opening wrong because of loose camchain and letting in more fuel at wrong times.
Thats pretty much all I can think of at the moment that if I were paying attention I should have known what was up. But live and learn from the experiance I reckon. Then pass on the knowledge so nobody else winds up in the same situation.