[Hvymax]

I was leading Rob Cortis with the bridge through the streets of DC Wednesday! On stage with the Prez Thursday.

 

[terry_g]

My 2017 KLR is ten months old today.

 

[Hvymax]

Those are rookie numbers! You need to pump those up!

 

[campfire]

Lake Berryessa "Glory Hole" spillway.




Breakfast out with friends on Thursday.

 

[Cabrito]

Marin Headlands, out for a quick ride to scrub in the new front tire on the KTM

 

[campfire]

 

[campfire]

Took the wife out to the coast for Valentine's Day.
(and a bowl of clam chowder at Spud Point Crab Shack!)

 

[planalp]

A few pics I snapped on today's ride:

 

[planalp]

Two more:

 

[campfire]

Lot cleanup week, with a burn pile on a cloudy morning.

 

[pdwestman]

That would take a long willow switch to toast a marshmellow!

 

[dohalloran]

Decent weather in southern Ontario

Last few days have been unseasonably mild. That brings in a SW wind, and now the rain.
Anywho, ventured a bit off the main roads today. In the pic of the bike head on,
you'll see the wet slimy stuff on the hill in the distance. That turned out to be 1st gear and dragging my feet, as the front wheel would go wherever it wanted.
Managed to avoid the death grip. I love getting this bike dirty.:surprise:

 

[planalp]

Been playing around with Nikon's free image-processing software. Top photo original. Bottom photo, got rid of the signs and "dramatized" it a little bit.

 

[planalp]

Well, not this week, but was able to clean up a photo from my last Colorado trip by removing the unavoidable phone lines in the background and making it look a little better.

 

[PaulZ]

Reddish Knob, VA

 

[campfire]

Still trying to figure this one out. I mean in what order did things fail.
It's my quarantine project.

 

[Tom Schmitz]

I see dem balls were dem balls shouldn't be. Upper balancer, eh?

 

[pdwestman]

I see those two balls and 2 bent Intake valves.

 

[campfire]

I see dem balls were dem balls shouldn't be. Upper balancer, eh?

I see those two balls and 2 bent Intake valves.

Well, you're both right.

And I know where they came from too.



So just where would be a good place to start a thread on this Tom?
2012 Gen II engine I bought as a core for extra parts. But now it's a garage quarantine project that's keeping me busy.

Having a blast digging into this thing, and trying to find what happened, or what happened first. Pretty sure what Tom said, it was probably the upper balancer bearing failure, then the chain rolled thru everything.

 

[Tom Schmitz]

When mine went the engine would still run. Poorly, shakily, and noisily, but it would run.

In your case, the balancer may have hit the transmission hard enough to shock the cam chain into breaking and the rear wheel kept driving the engine over. That pushed the piston into the valves, probably just once before they tried to close.

Then the whole thing shuddered to a stop.

You should start a tear-down thread in the Gen 2 wrenching subforum so we can see what happened.