Up for your consideration today ladies and gentlemen is a 2001 pastel blue Suzuki Savage LS650 with 32090.xx (thirty two thousand and ninety miles), purchased at 5000 miles for 1.1k USD
Who'll bid me......
The bike has a clone cam chain tensioner mod, leaky plug mod, raptor petcock mod with aux' fuel vacuum switch mod in line, s40 seat and the rear signals moved back to the license plate holder. Oil changed every 1000 miles.
Anyways...
Commuting to work one morning at 70 mph and I hear clunk them a loooong grinding noise and of course the engine cuts out.
My first suspicion was the cam chain had extended over way over to the other side and maybe interfering with the opposing side.
Nope! With the clutch cover removed it's a long ways for that to happen.
So then I inspect the exhaust port and discover the a valve head missing from the left side exhaust valve.
So... I do wrench when it is absolutely necessary and so my questions are these. based upon your collective invaluable experience do we think it is economically viable to rebuild with used ee bay parts (Cheap head assembly on the auction site, piston and blah blah), do we think the engine is flushable of the aluminum shavings without splitting the cases or do we think scrap the bike for parts and move on to greener pastures like a new zero percent financed bike.
Fyi I see used engines being sold for more than I paid for the bike.
Has anyone brought a dead bike with a diagnosis like this back from the dead? How much chanting did it take?
And hey guys, what's the deal! I read posts all over that claim this bike is bullet proof, wtf?
Oh.... and any clutch plates puzzle assembly Grand Masters on the forum? I get the pin thing.
Thanks for your constructive input
Bob.
87 Honda ch250 elite.
07 Vento Phantom R4i.
700c Roadmaster