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Thank you for the well wishes etc guy's, it really means a lot to me.


Kind Regards


Andrew Mc

The 14th of June last year "2011" seen a rather straight forward medical procedure go awfully wrong which has changed my life, and not for the better. It's extremely likely I'll soon be going into hospital for neurology and other stuff so I'll be quiet net wise for a while A lot of stuff h...

Depending on what's gone wrong the fuel should make it out of the injector return line, it seems like you might have to take a serious look at what fuel filter you are running also. I cannot be of much help to you at the moment snoopy as you don't know what has really gone wrong also, hopefully it's...

Hello Andrew Welcome to the forum, there is a lot of good information on here, don't forget to use the search feature if you need to look up something specific, and don't be hesitant to post up a request for help. The fellowship here are only more then happy to help out in anyway they can. Kind Rega...

Great to hear your making progress

Hi Jazzman Yes, that would have been me you were talking too at the model trains at Edgeworth :), welcome to the forum mate, I've been seriously ill so don't get to roam around the forum sometimes for a while. Arranging a date might be hard to do, but if I'm feeling well enough I will be going up to...

Yes sounds like compression is good, like T.C.F said, it might need more investigation. They are a great little engine when they are going, but a pain in the ass when they aren't !!

Keep us posted

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If you have the injector out I'd place something soft "plastic tube like lube spray tube" down the injector hole and keep the rocker cover off and see when the inlet and exhaust valve rock at an equal point that the piston is at TDC, that will be on the exhaust inlet cycle, if the engine i...

Some of the microscopic holes in the tip of the injector may be blocked, it only takes particles of microns thickness to clog the injector, my advice take the injector to a specialist, or even try and pick a new one up, if it is a clogged injector tip put a finer particle filter on the bike. You wil...

Nice job Dieselfly, kind of keen to build something like that myself, awesome mate


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Excellent!, so how does it get along

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Yes I heard the 25hp version were breaking cranks, unless they fixed the problem. I think to get the extra stroke to increase cc's they were making the big end journals smaller which was the weak link.


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Yeah that is one big let go with a well ventilated crank case, will be interesting what the findings are.


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Yes all the best with it Andrew, hope you have an excellent adventure mate, the fuel economy will see you able to go long stretches without worrying about running out of fuel, and if set up right should be reliable as any production bike out there. I have not had a chance to see your web link, but w...

@ andrew, is 20K per head so much? No but aren't you asking if you should buy a head or complete engine, I've given you my oppinion! rupturing cylinder heads is a strange and uncommon problem. Yes I have not heard of it and don't have a clue why your having that problem the whole engine is well-main...

Excellent Sean, awesome that you have made some dollars for fuel etc - now that is thinking

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Hi nanbo, this is already the second head with rupture... Arnaud, you cannot have it both ways, either you replace the engine and hope it goes fine without cracking the head, which seems uncommon besides your case !! But I could be wrong. Or you just go out and purchase a new head "maybe compl...

Awesome, thanks for sharing the article, nice chopper , and the female addition, super

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What an extremely awesome build, cannot wait to see the finished product. Great work Henk


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With that many K's I'd seriously think about replacing it. But only my view.

The price of parts to fix and probably rebuild it would cost more then replacing it, at 66K parts are going to be worn and if not needing replacing, soon will be.

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A little late I know, but wishing you all a Happy New Year, and of course a belated Merry Christmas. May 2012 be a great year for us all.


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Just found this one from the Suzuki GSX1400 Owners club page taken back in 2008



Seems it gets a lot of attention !!



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Chuggy the diesel dog makes it onto youtube in the Christmas Toyrun , appears 1.42 minutes into the vid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU37hrnh2lo



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Chuggy the diesel dog makes it onto youtube in the Christmas Toyrun , appears 1.42 minutes into the vid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU37hrnh2lo


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Your spot on oldbmw, it was made of stainless steel and included a swirl chamber and screwed into the piston.

Cannot locate the pdf , may have been taken off the net.



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You need to modify the top of the piston to run veg or it will gum up, so my gut feeling is yes the veg oil had a significant contribution to kill your engine by gumming up the rings as you said. Do a web search for modifying direct injected diesels to run veg oil, problem is the top of the piston d...

Awesome piece of workmanship would be nice to take for a spin, bet it turns heads real fast.

The bikes are just getting better all the time, brilliant work.



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Thanks Stuart We had a show of over 6000 bikes, the run started at 10am and it took over an hour for them to all leave, at the foreshore they were still coming at 12.30pm, 25klm ride, took me 47 minutes to complete and for the first time able to get it on camera, although the sound was terrible due ...

All ready for the children's toy run tomorrow, the diesel dog is done, hoping for a good show of bikes to help the underprivileged children of the region. My wish is that everyone gets a toy this year. A ;) http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/380027_200828623333063_10000217781632...

Sounds like a great idea, wonder if you need to use the synthetic stuff or if both mineral and synthetic go OK.

OK! I've thrown a spanner in the works ....................



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