FinnHammer
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I do not ride a lot, but have now covered 500 miles since the rebuild, changed oil once and tried to feel at ease with the clonking sound from the engine. To recap: engine sounds fine when I accellerate, and during decelleration. But above 3.5K rpm, if I ease off the throttle the engine emits a clonking sound, which I assume to origin from a too large clearance between piston and cylinder. If I ease the throttle off completely, so that engine braking occours, then the clonking stops. I am on the brink of tearing the engine apart to see if something serious is going on inside, with the cylinder, but hesitate due to other things I have promissed to do for the missus, build a henhouse etc. Today I took it for a spin, 50miles each way, and did a couple of WOT pulls from 3.5k to 5.5k in top gear. I have not got my gopro mounted yet, so I counted seconds like I did in my skydiving days: 1thousand, 2thousand, 3thousand etc. and it did 3.5k to 5.5k in 6-7 seconds. We will see when I get the gopro mounted. It keeps going to 6.5k and it hits 90mph at that revolutions, and it would go further if not for my recent vow to nottake it further. So it would appear I have to get the Kawasaki pulley set mounted if I want go beyond the ton. I probably should have let the engine run in more gently, but the sound from the clonk was there from start one after the rebuild. Perhaps this is just how a hotrod sounds, not that it has to, but might in some cases. like this. No oil on the engine outside, no smoke from the exhaust, no oil consumption. And on this 100 miles trip, mostly cruising at 50mph, but with those 3 WOT pulls to 90MPH, it used 6 liters of gas. That is 71 MPH, which sounds pretty sweet. I have not covered a distance with that mileage since I drove the VW LUPO 3L diesel. The homemade cam chain tightener was installed with near zero backlash. I have bought the gasket for the generator side cover, so I can check if the flywheel has come loose, and I have already checked the primary transmission without finding anything obviously wrong there.
As should be obvious, I am not dissatisfied with the bike, it pulls good and strong. But I am also quite embarrassed by the sound it makes, because I feel it could be avoided, and perhaps it shows I screwed up. But how is the big question. Perhaps the gopro can record the sound.
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