PowerGroove's Catastrophic engine failure and rebuild thread

[liveFAST84]

Originally Posted by PowerGroove

All I can say is... THANK the GODS for service manuals. I just spent the entire day re-routing all the harnesses, cables and hoses.

I'm done until Joey gets here Sunday. I'll be riding it to the track on Monday with a little luck!

Glad to see your bike back up and running bro. Let me know if you heading to the track Tomorrow, I might be able to head out there and chill for a bit if I get out early from work.

[PowerGroove]

So she is running great! WOOHOO!!

Today is my birthday and it's been pretty much the best damn birthday I've ever had! Roomies cooked me breakfast.. I got tons of texts and calls from friends and family and I'm off to go have a nice home cooked dinner from the little lady!

Best thing was getting the call from Fred Cummings Motorsports here in town offering me a full time position in sales! I'll be selling Kawi's, Zuki's, Honda's and Polaris! Pretty much the best damn thing I could have hoped for!

Today I started tearing apart the original motor and will soon get the real diagnosis on the actual reason for the failure.

Here is the progress. As of now I'm stuck as I need to get a Torx set and borrow M.o.M's impact wrench to get some more of the parts off before cracking the case open.

Got her set up to start pulling the shit off...


Found this little broken piece of aluminum ... not sure where it came from... probably gonna find out the more I get apart.


Oil pump, starter and other bits are off...



Clutch plates removed..


Everything nicely bagged up and organized.


Oil pan off..

[johnnyE]

Happy Bday and thanks for the great thread. Too bad you had to grenade a engine for it to happen.

[givuhcky22]

awesome stuff. seeing engine internals makes me really proud of what humans are capable of.

[liveFAST84]

Happy Bithday bro! and congrats on your new job. Those guys at Fred Cummings are real cool. Special the older guy on the sales floor, He let me sit on a couple of bikes since i was looking on upgrading to the 11 6r. No test drives tho lol

[oldninjadude]

Good to see your making progress PG, & Happy B-day.
In the first pic, I noticed the position of the oil filter, I did not know it sat in such a location on the 09s.

Now this has got to be the best of all,...
Quoting you here>>>"As of now I'm stuck as I need to get a Torx set and borrow M.o.M's impact wrench to get some more of the parts off before cracking the case open." WOW!
Must be nice to have such a sweet & capable lady, Cook you B-day meals & loan you tools too.!
Iv never even had the pleasure of knowing a woman who had her own tools, Let alone one who had more than myself.
You must be doing something right PG.

[liveFAST84]

Originally Posted by oldninjadude

good to see your making progress pg, & happy b-day.
In the first pic, i noticed the position of the oil filter, i did not know it sat in such a location on the 09s.

Now this has got to be the best of all,...
Quoting you here>>>"as of now i'm stuck as i need to get a torx set and borrow m.o.m's impact wrench to get some more of the parts off before cracking the case open." wow!
Must be nice to have such a sweet & capable lady, cook you b-day meals & loan you tools too.!
Iv never even had the pleasure of knowing a woman who had her own tools, let alone one who had more than myself.
You must be doing something right pg.

+1 i agree with ond...

[MistressOfMayhem]

Originally Posted by oldninjadude

Good to see your making progress PG, & Happy B-day.
In the first pic, I noticed the position of the oil filter, I did not know it sat in such a location on the 09s.

Now this has got to be the best of all,...
Quoting you here>>>"As of now I'm stuck as I need to get a Torx set and borrow M.o.M's impact wrench to get some more of the parts off before cracking the case open." WOW!
Must be nice to have such a sweet & capable lady, Cook you B-day meals & loan you tools too.!
Iv never even had the pleasure of knowing a woman who had her own tools, Let alone one who had more than myself.
You must be doing something right PG.

It's all part of my master plan...

... to get laid.

[PowerGroove]

Originally Posted by MistressOfMayhem

It's all part of my master plan...

... to get laid.

[oldninjadude]

Originally Posted by MistressOfMayhem

It's all part of my master plan...

... to get laid.

But Iv tried that, Cooking & loaning out tools, one in particular.
I cant say Iv had much success with this tactic.

Something tells me you will fair better.

[MistressOfMayhem]

Hmm...

Come to think of it, I think he's just using me for my tools.

[PowerGroove]

shit... she's onto me...

[oldninjadude]

I got an idea ( yeah stand back) I'll get PG a set of power-tools, & you be my gal.

[PowerGroove]

Originally Posted by oldninjadude

I got an idea ( yeah stand back) I'll get PG a set of power-tools, & you be my gal.

hmmmm....

Makita please!

[oldninjadude]