Owen Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Anyone into black magic, curses, etc??? I'm having so much bad luck with this car, I could write a novel. So I'm rebuilding the engine after having it seize on me, figure I might as well buy some trick parts like Cloyes Hex A-Just and their two piece button timing cover. It's a really high quality unit, but they don't give you any screws or a crank seal...OK, I'll use my old bolts. Wrong, they don't fit cuz the bolt shoulders hit the body of the cover! Next day, I use my lunch hour to get some socket head caps, wait all day to get home and finally get the damn thing mounted. OK, next, the damper. I get out my damper installer and start tightening the thing on, then SNAP, the damn damper installer bolt snaps off inside the snout of the crankshaft! Now I need to get bolt extractor bits and either tap the snout for a larger bolt thread or get it machined, which means tearing apart the partially assembled bottom end again... There must be a really strong curse on me, been lasting like 3 years now. So if anyone can do a strong countercurse, preferably be email, I'm all for it! wen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim240z Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Dude, you have the worst luck of anyone I know!! Did you find the problem? Was a main bearing that 'picked up'? More importantly, did you find the reason it picked up? Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 If you find out a spell or charm (gris gris bag in VooDoo, don't ask how I know that) let me know, I figure with my luck the last 6 months that I must have been either Adolf Hitler or Dr. Mengala in a past life because I've been getting my ass kicked by bad luck too. Oh well, at least I have my health... (high blood pressure, history of family heart trouble and strokes... I'm so lucky...). Sorry to hear that man, in the crank nose, ouch, just don't break off the easy out, they're hell to drill. Regards, Lone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikelly Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 ...Owen, I had that happen and was able to get the piece of the tool out without damaging the crank. See if you can take a small screw driver or seal chaser and back the broken piece out of the snout of the crank. Typicaly it is the shoulders of the balancer thast cause the bind and the tool failes, not due to cross threading, but due to torquing of the tool. DOn't panic.. On that same note, It must be a hybrid thing... Friday My 1990 Honda Civic dies in my driveway. 30 minutes later my 1993 GMC Dies in my driveway. I spend all weekend trying to troubleshoot the truck (When I should be relaxing and enjoying my 36th Birthday...). By Sunday afternoon I think I have it (The truck) sorted out. Monday evening I put the K&N filter in the bike and put half a gallon of gas back into the tank, thinking I should be able to get down the street to get gas the next day. Tuesday afternoon I stop off at Pepboy's on the way home thinking I'll grab the parts to fix the Honda... Of course they don't have the parts, so I get in the truck to go home and the truck won't start again. At this point I have rpelaced the starter, replaced the ignition switch, and now I go back in pep Boys to replace the battery... It still won't start. So I call the wife who swings by and picks me up on her way home from Dahlgren. I get home and call a tow truck, and then jump on the bike to gas it up since I'll likely be driving it to work the next day (Today...) I get half a mile down the street and the bike dies... I pull off the side of the road and turn the petcock only to find it is already on reserve (As I thought it should be) and that a piece of the petcock gasket has been slightly pinched, creating a gap for gas to ooz out of... It is moist. SO, Now I'm faced with the fact that I can leave the bike and go get the car to GET gas, or push the bike... Can't take it to the gas station because it won't hold much gas, and I really don't want to leave it and take a chance on it getting gotten like Katie's bike got stolen. SOOO I push it home. AND to add insult to injury the tow truck PASSES ME towing my truck to my house... What's worse, is that the truck is NOW STARTING! Heat soak does that... Turns out that it was the battery cables that were fried on the truck (I guess I shouldn't complain since the truck has 240,000 miles). I eventually got the gasket for the petcock on the bike squared away and drove it to the gas station AFTER I got the truck fixed (New battery cables I sourced from my race car...00 gage wire!) . The Honda is still broke down, but I know it is either the fuel pump or relay and I should have that sorted by tonight... nothing like having three vehicles and NONE of them working... Oh, and Chris Bracewell and I had some concern over the K&N filter messing with the tuning done at Fast Lanes, but I noticed that the throttle response was quicker after the swap to the K&N and other than that, it runs fine... Good thing that ZX9R is light... Pushing it 1/2 a mile wasn't too terrible, but there weren't any hills either.... Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 Dude, I'm glad all my bad luck is for the moment, confined to the garage! Tim, it wasn't the bearings, it was silicon gasket material which oozed out and got into the oil. Then it made it's way to the cylinder walls, heated up, and made a rubbery surface, hence the rubbery sound when we were turning it by hand. I THINK the rod to rod clearances at the crank are too small though. The engine is still tight to turn over with everything installed, but a book I read said it would take close to 45ft-lbs to turn it by hand. I tried this with my torque wrench and it was 43-45ft-lbs to turn. So I'm not too worried yet. Owen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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