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the ole zed, obvs still grumbling about its enforced extended daily ride, decided to start rattling last week, not being completely stupid i thought id better have a quick look

checked the usual stuff and all looked ok, thought id change the cam chain whilst i had the lid off............................ good job i did!!

what you'd expect to see if you draped a chain over a pencil....




hmmmmmm - not quite what you'd expect to see...........



two of the links are almost seized completely solid and another one is really really tight,

but what i couldnt get a good piccy of was that on the seized links there are tiny little cracks radiating out from the link pins like spider webs

bloody good bit of luck i feel - who was it that said the sun never shines on a dogs arse

Got that just in time i think mate.

Hmmm, what caused it though

MCZ900 wrote:Got that just in time i think mate.

makes a change for me

Pigford wrote:Hmmm, what caused it though

OI dont start that piggy - iv got enough to worry about

old age ? when i got it it had not been used since 1988 ? buggered ctt for a couple of hundred miles ? full moon (most likely with this old crate ) ?

dunno mate but a mate has a spare gsxr11 motor so if it dont behave itself it'll be for the chop ........... that'l teach it

If it'd been sitting for some time, that'll explain it

thats what i thought.. how! when its always going round and round in oil caught it just in the nick of time i`d say

Is that/was that a soft link?


AL