Of course if he does it all as GeoffD says then it is obviously money well spent.. as to me it would be a new engine. Dave Lambeth sounded a very nice bloke, and of course has had many years experiance of what will be best for reliability, if a bike he is using is off to far flung corners of some African desert. Mine obviously, is not at that point in its life, and Im sure has many thousand happy miles to go before anything untoward happens. Im also sure it doesnt affect every XT or XTZ and is pretty much the main failure of these engines.... in as much the same way Honda suffer with output shaft wear on Africa Twins and Transalps.. also an engine strip.xtzrick wrote:Taking home a good as new engine would explain the cost.phil w wrote:I think talking to him, that although the gears are a price, it is the associated cost that then follows. He explained that by the time the gearbox whine/ noise is really noted it pretty much to late, and that the engine should come apart at maybe 25 to 30 k miles to have a look and rectify any gear pitting that happens. If left the damage to elsewhere is where extra cost gets incurred. He did state mind that included piston and top end, working on the fact that if it was apart, it may as well be done properly
Bonding with the bike seems your biggest obsticle Phil.
Rick
Other thing Mr Lambeth did say... oversize headers are a total waste of time unless on a highly tuned engine and motad are really the only ones he would bother to use ???
The bonding thing is definately the stumbling block with me Rick, and when these associated niggles get spoken about it seems to play with my mind and put into my head I should get rid..... thats my problem I guess
Today I went out on the Ten and thouraghly enjoyed it ... of course minus the twisted bars and buzzing front end... ear plugs do help. But it definately is a bike I enjoy one day and feel frustrated the next for no apparent reason ??
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