INCOMING!!!

GRiSO Capo Posts : 9645 Join date : 2013-05-29 Age : 66

Batten down the hatches! I've got a 2012 Norge coming in this afternoon. Ownner check the valves and they were tight so he loosened them off then rode 300km before it went 'BANG! Clank-clank-clank!' and failed to proceed!

I have a feeling this one is not going to be pretty!!! Shocked

Pete

GRiSO Capo Posts : 1055 Join date : 2017-08-06 Age : 68

Pictures of carnage when available please.

Don Abbondio Posts : 6031 Join date : 2014-03-13 Age : 68

Maybe the last rites might be more appropriate!

Fra Cristoforo Posts : 614 Join date : 2016-04-14

Operator Error? WTF over!

GRiSO Capo Posts : 9645 Join date : 2013-05-29 Age : 66

Not sure. I'm guessing it's a flattie that has been ridden to death.

GRiSO Capo Posts : 9636 Join date : 2013-09-30

GRiSO Capo Posts : 9645 Join date : 2013-05-29 Age : 66

It’s lost it’s valve timing and bent some valves. Gotta pull the air Oz to get the head off. I think it’s the RH side because he said smoke came out of that side.... Laughing

GRiSO Capo Posts : 568 Join date : 2018-10-04 Age : 59

Thanks for the Chopin funeral march reminder. I did forget how nice it was Smile

Too sad for the Norge

GRiSO Capo Posts : 9645 Join date : 2013-05-29 Age : 66

Shouldn't look like that.....

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GRiSO Capo Posts : 520 Join date : 2016-12-20

Horrible sight!

Don Abbondio Posts : 6031 Join date : 2014-03-13 Age : 68

Sudden compression loss, not to mention the jaws of (non) life.

We do implanting at work, but not like that!

Fra Cristoforo Posts : 614 Join date : 2016-04-14

Hold my beer Jethro, watch this!!

Don Abbondio Posts : 1017 Join date : 2015-02-27 Age : 76

Look on the bright side - 3 of the valves look fine, and there's only a little dent in the piston. Reminds me of the burnt Carberry - 3/4 of the rear tyre was perfect.

GRiSO Capo Posts : 1055 Join date : 2017-08-06 Age : 68

That is fuuugy. If he's lucky the rod isn't bent.

GRiSO Capo Posts : 205 Join date : 2017-07-05 Age : 64

It looks like it took a few hits before it broke off.

L'Innominato Posts : 3154 Join date : 2013-05-28 Age : 58

That looks... Odd.

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2012 MOTO GUZZI GRiSO 1200SE

2013 MOTO GUZZI STELVIO 1200NTX - Orange Blossom Special

GRiSO Capo Posts : 1657 Join date : 2014-09-22

it will polish out

i assume the flatties ran too tight, but i wouldn't have thought they would push the valve that close to the piston without your knowing about it beforehand

GRiSO Capo Posts : 9645 Join date : 2013-05-29 Age : 66

No, it was a factory roller bike. It lost its cam timing on that cylinder.

Don Abbondio Posts : 130 Join date : 2015-04-22

Poor bugger. I assume it is recoverable at great expense? I feel for him having just had a similar experience but with a happy Motomoda outcome. By the way Pete, the GRiSO now has 1100kms since the shells went in. Lots of commuting and stop start work with the odd flog up the valley, some of it in +28 degrees C.