Bloody Bike.........UPDATED..

[Jay]

well my bike is in for its 16000 mile service which includes valve clearances............

Had a phone call today saying that the Cam Lobs and Case Hardings are worn ad deeply pitted , luckily i have 13 days left on the Honda warranty.........

One hacked off honda owner.........

[Webber]

thank god you got some warranty left dude, else that could be even more of a nightmare.

[Jay]

thank god you got some warranty left dude, else that could be even more of a nightmare.

yeah mate..........What do you thinkmay have caused it??

[Blimey]

Strange one really being such a new bike. Must be down to the oil or a poor machined part. To be pitted already is odd.

What oil have you been useing ??

Mine has done over 17000 miles now so i guess mine is due too. Done my own servicing so far but after the pain of a job to do plugs i think i may book mine in for the clearences to be checked and adjusted.

[Jay]

Its been serviced IAW the service schedule.......and the reccomended oil too....... so as you say, it maybe down to a poor machined part(s)....but all i know is that Honda better pay for it

[Blimey]

Fingers crossed for you mate.

The only other thing really that would cause it is as its being at the top of the engine,
Loads and loads of very short journeys and reving too hard when cold. As it takes a while for oil to reach top of engine and fully protect and lubricate the cam. But oil nowadays is pretty good to over come this and you would have to do this excessivley

Start pre writing your letter to Honda. Good luck buddy

[age]

well my bike is in for its 16000 mile service which includes valve clearances............

Had a phone call today saying that the Cam Lobs and Case Hardings are worn ad deeply pitted , luckily i have 13 days left on the Honda warranty.........

One hacked off honda owner.........

It a Qc problem Jay, Ducati had the same problem with their followers on the 916 and 996, The followers would loose the hard casing, it was not unusual to have all eight replaced at £100 each.

Age

[TLS-Moose]

Unfortunately for Honda cam's, cam followers, and cam-chain tensioners have all been achille's heels of old

Part of the problem with modern bikes is the cams are much smaller to save weight, the profiles & timing are more aggressive to make more power, and the engines rev much, much higher, so inevitabley contact points such as lobes and followers are under much higher stress than ever before

[jimbo#9]

lol
my oldie allways uses his main stand as he says, leaving it on the side stand staves a certain part of oil..
allways thought he was shittin!!

[Blimey]

Unfortunately for Honda cam's, cam followers, and cam-chain tensioners have all been achille's heels of old

Part of the problem with modern bikes is the cams are much smaller to save weight, the profiles & timing are more aggressive to make more power, and the engines rev much, much higher, so inevitabley contact points such as lobes and followers are under much higher stress than ever before

Spot on and this i can see becoming more of a prob with bikes trying to advance to thier racing sisters giving riders a closer experience to those like Toseland etc ride on the track. The problem then is thier bikes are stripped prob after each race where ours need to have some long life day in day riding issues.

I know KTM's have the same probs being so competion based and mataniece costs can run very high for all day on the road use.

I guess its the price we pay to be a wannabe















Oh and i was sober when i wrote this

[baskie]

well my bike is in for its 16000 mile service which includes valve clearances............

Had a phone call today saying that the Cam Lobs and Case Hardings are worn ad deeply pitted , luckily i have 13 days left on the Honda warranty.........

One hacked off honda owner.........

slick move jay jay, get those badboys under warrenty. ideal. get them to have a check over the bike aswell see if their is anything else needs doing ;) go for it

[Tom L]

dosn't do much to go with the whole 'Honda reliability' thing. Hopefully they should be willing to fix it

[deej]

where did you decide to take it for its service in the end jay ??? doesnt sound too good though

[Jay]

Yeah...........

Just spoke to GT's and....................................

Honda are sending me a new set of Cams :thumbs:
Good job too ;)
well chuffed :thumbs: :thumbs:

[Tom L]

good thing you caught in the end of the warranty, take a spanner to it and see if you cant get some other spanking new parts

good stuff on the result