Old SV engines autopsy

svr-ash · Post by **svr-ash** » Aug 29th, '06, 17:57

Well Josh and I (my 4 year old boy) gave my old engine an autopsy yesturday to see why she went last year and one of the big end bearings slipped under its opposing bearing, wrecking the conrod and scrapping the crank

The bearings were as flat as a fag papper

Oh well at least Josh had fun ;)

age · Post by **age** » Aug 29th, '06, 20:34

You could get the crank built up and reground.

when I was in cornwall living we used to send cranks to Ray brown in stonehouse Plymouth.

You could resell it then Ash

Age

svr-ash · Post by **svr-ash** » Aug 29th, '06, 21:03

It'll probably cost me the price of a second hand engine to rebuild mine with the crank re built, so i don't think its worth it really, I'm keeping some bits for spare JIC

mattl · Post by **mattl** » Sep 4th, '06, 15:35

wow catastrophic rod brg failure ouch, seen the same thing on a late model vmax, 500 ninja, and a zx7. in all cases oil was low and old. how many miles were on your sv?