hello everyone, newbie here ive been searching the forum for a while to try and get an answer to this but need a bit more help.
about a year ago I swapped bikes with my son and inherited his 2001 mille r, engine-wise it appears pretty standard apart from twin high mounted end cans (a bit like the renegade system but made by ART who I think are now non existent), its had the frame painted black and what appears to be a later models rear subframe, it also has the brembo monoblocs from the later model. prior to us swapping bikes, the bike had always ran well apart from the occasional smell of fuel from the pipes when following him and the ridiculous 80 mile range before the light came on. I put this down to some owner in its lifetime fitting the rear cans without modifying the eprom etc. something I was going to get round to in the future.
I went away for a couple of weeks and upon returning, the bike wouldn't start even with the assistance of a jump pack, swapped the plugs and it started up, left it again for a week or so and wouldn't start again so whipped the plugs out and they were coated in oil, cleaned them up and started again fine.......the pattern was now set that if I started it or rode it every day there was no problems, however if I left it over the weekend, no chance of it starting without cleaning the plugs,
Last weekend I dropped the oil and filter, took the oil tank off and cleaned it out including the strainer/filter, removed the oil cooler and let it drain then put it all back together, put 4 new plugs in and flashed up fine, got my lad to take it for a 5 min ride so we could get the oil level bang on and when he came back it was smoking like batmans car!! left it again for a couple of days and yet again it wont start and when you take the plugs out theyre coated in oil.
ive come to the conclusion that its either done a head gasket, a valve guide seal or the oil pump so was just in the process of taking the motor out today. Dropped the oil from the tank, took the oil cooler off completely and when I did the pipe which goes from the tank into the engine by the sprocket, is absolutely bone dry internally even though the bike has been run for 2 x 5 min sessions up the road. don't actually know how this can be possible because even if the strainer in the tank was partially blocked the weight of the oil in the tank would surely fill that pipe without the engine started, so could this point to the oil pump before I proceed to rip the engine out and get the heads off, has anybody out there got any ideas because this is totally doing my head in.
Rich
about a year ago I swapped bikes with my son and inherited his 2001 mille r, engine-wise it appears pretty standard apart from twin high mounted end cans (a bit like the renegade system but made by ART who I think are now non existent), its had the frame painted black and what appears to be a later models rear subframe, it also has the brembo monoblocs from the later model. prior to us swapping bikes, the bike had always ran well apart from the occasional smell of fuel from the pipes when following him and the ridiculous 80 mile range before the light came on. I put this down to some owner in its lifetime fitting the rear cans without modifying the eprom etc. something I was going to get round to in the future.
I went away for a couple of weeks and upon returning, the bike wouldn't start even with the assistance of a jump pack, swapped the plugs and it started up, left it again for a week or so and wouldn't start again so whipped the plugs out and they were coated in oil, cleaned them up and started again fine.......the pattern was now set that if I started it or rode it every day there was no problems, however if I left it over the weekend, no chance of it starting without cleaning the plugs,
Last weekend I dropped the oil and filter, took the oil tank off and cleaned it out including the strainer/filter, removed the oil cooler and let it drain then put it all back together, put 4 new plugs in and flashed up fine, got my lad to take it for a 5 min ride so we could get the oil level bang on and when he came back it was smoking like batmans car!! left it again for a couple of days and yet again it wont start and when you take the plugs out theyre coated in oil.
ive come to the conclusion that its either done a head gasket, a valve guide seal or the oil pump so was just in the process of taking the motor out today. Dropped the oil from the tank, took the oil cooler off completely and when I did the pipe which goes from the tank into the engine by the sprocket, is absolutely bone dry internally even though the bike has been run for 2 x 5 min sessions up the road. don't actually know how this can be possible because even if the strainer in the tank was partially blocked the weight of the oil in the tank would surely fill that pipe without the engine started, so could this point to the oil pump before I proceed to rip the engine out and get the heads off, has anybody out there got any ideas because this is totally doing my head in.
Rich
