Good News...

[EVL20V]

i bet gareth, that if u saw the rear rice muffler off, it would sounds heaps better au!

[GGnz]

Nah because the tip is only 10% of the problem. Tips only make a 10% difference to the noise.

[EVL GSXR]

Dude he's taking the piss... I don't think taking the muffler off would make it sound any worse then what it is at the mo ..

[GGnz]

Getting the new resonators on 12th April. So will all be fixed then.

I would also like to take the time to thank John Deere for their continuing support over the last few months. Cheers.

[EVL20V]

oh man ur so lucky, and secrets to getn a deal with john?

i mean, i wana go a bit further and get john deer down the side of the door along with HKS and Apexi

[blackie]

I would also like to take the time to thank John Deere for their continuing support over the last few months.

* Bolts out of the house to buy a tractor

[BlakJak]

Look up 'Sponsored' in the dictionary next time tho eh?

[GGnz]

Aye? Me look it up?

I was just going off what EVL GSXR said. Im too lazy to look up shit!

[jiranz5]

Here, let me help

Sponsored

1.One who assumes responsibility for another person or a group during a period of instruction, apprenticeship, or probation.
2.One who vouches for the suitability of a candidate for admission.
3.A legislator who proposes and urges adoption of a bill.
4.One who presents a candidate for baptism or confirmation; a godparent.
5.One that finances a project or an event carried out by another person or group, especially a business enterprise that pays for radio or television programming in return for advertising time.

www.dictionary.com

[barryogen]

2-3 weeks and my baby will be back.

here are links to three pics... my oil pump

In the weekend I heard that the new engine has arrived, I dropped off the Oil(fully syn 5/50) and TRD filter, they can do the rest of the fluids for it as they see fit, but the oil I wanted full synthetic as Toyota recommended instead of the 10/40 semi syn that they were going to use.

All up it's going to cost me ~$250(100 for oil and filter, 100 for excess, and 50 for other fluids not covered by the warranty)

It's cost the insurance company $4,600 for the engine, and ~$800 sofar for labour(new engine not in yet)... ouch, sucks to be them.

The reason for the high labour cost is that they hjad to pull it apart to find out what happened, probably trying to get out of fixing it(as I would have if I were them)


To think that at purchase time I was considering not getting mechanical insurance... I mean how often does a Toyota break?

[MasCam]

What brand of oil are you using in it??

[barryogen]

Pennsoil(?) I think... dunno, I dropped it off, I had it written down(the toyota guy told me).

fully syn 5-50 anyway.


Also went and visited them, when they were putting the stuffed engine back together for shipping, they found that the timing chain didn't fit properly, I had a look, but my phones dead so no pics... so I'll describe.

bottom cog, TDC, cog on the top right, TDC, cog on top left, chain looks stretched, and the indicator thing(on both chain and cog) is off to the left by about 2mm... looks like I fsckid it in more ways that one.

[Alex B]

Dude, they will be using running in oil (assuming they are rebuilding it). which is w30.

[jiranz5]

Dude, they will be using running in oil (assuming they are rebuilding it). which is w30.

Seeing as it's a replacement motor not a rebuilt one, it probably won't need running in.

(although I'm sure Dave will "run it in" anyway )

[4ageman]

evan if it was getting rebuilt ya dont gotta use running in oil. not all workshops use it these day's. some do some dont.

[EVL GSXR]

evan if it was getting rebuilt ya dont gotta use running in oil. not all workshops use it these day's. some do some dont.

You sure cause using hard core Full Synthetic would be a nice way to Glaze everything up I would have thought??

[barryogen]

the engine thats being put in has done 12000kms, and was drained just prior to leaving Japan land for shipping(any idea why they would do that?).

so yeah, it's getting a flush oil change(oil in, startup, run to warm, drain), then mines being done, so yay.



It seems that they found the cause of the oil pump failure...

and this URL seems to describe it.
http://newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?s=06cf6f247004941cb5c05164fcd84539&threadid=110791&highlight=underdrive+pulleys

apparently when fitting very underdrive pulleys on these engines it shakes the sh|t out of the engine... yay...

so, insurance is only covering it as I haven't changed it, no idea how they prove that(I didn't but how'd they know that?).

[4ageman]

yep yep im sure. some do some dont i went round and asked a few when i rebuilt my engine.

[mr pad]

yep yep im sure. some do some dont i went round and asked a few when i rebuilt my engine.

I think its better (from what I have read) to run a miniral oil for the first 100kms, change it run miniral for another 1000kms or so and then switch...

[EVL GSXR]

yep yep im sure. some do some dont i went round and asked a few when i rebuilt my engine.

I think its better (from what I have read) to run a miniral oil for the first 100kms, change it run miniral for another 1000kms or so and then switch...

Yeah that's what I thought..
My mate's got a brand new 2004 GSXR1000 smoke's on start up and sometime's when he give's it a hand full not something you want to see with a bike with 4,000kms on it.. His Internal's seem to have been glazed over which isn't a cheap easy fix either..