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Thanks for the offer mate I appreciate that but wouldn’t like to ride someone elses bike for a full day. If you’re really keen to ride I can get my brother’s bike and still go out – I was going to make that call tomorrow and didn’t want to stuff anyone around and figured I might spend saturday fixing it but it right now I don’t even know what’s causing the problem!

I’m really second guessing myself but I know that my bike always starts easy and idles smooth whereas today it idled for a good couple of minutes then wouldn’t idle and then wouldn’t start and that’s when I saw the white stuff in the sight glass but then the oil I dumped looks ok!

I do feel as though I’ve had a bad run with this bike but I think its tainted by the work I did on my brother’s bike due to him drowning it. The work I’ve done to date on my bike was caused by the previous owner rather than a trait of the bike so I don’t hold it against KTM but I’m starting to think the low maintenance 2 stroke might be better.

Funny thing is normally I love getting the wrenches out but this week has been crap and I just want to ride to de-stress.

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Special thanks for the offer too, much appreciated.

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Thanks I’ll make some enquiries tomorrow. With any luck I’ll be able to ride monday at least that way I’ll have good memories to block all this bullshit out.

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Thanks for the help. Any idea what they cost and where I should get one? If its pricey I’m probably better off taking the bike down the mechanics and get them to test it.

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I don’t have a compressor – any other way to pressurise the radiator? I’ll pull the oil screens out too shortly but the oil has no debris. I’m lost how there’s water in the sight glass and that’s caused it to stall….

Do you think I should pull the head off and put a new set of gaskets and piston in it?

plug looked fine when I pulled it too *bangshead*

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I just drained the oil and it looks kind ok I think??? I expected some definite milkiness but it is quite consistent in colour which is a very dark green.

I’m thoroughly confused to the point that I just checked the sight glass again in case I was imagining a problem but sure enough it still has the white smear across the inside of it.

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No oil in the housing or in the vent hose. I bled the coolant not long ago and haven’t boiled it yet the the fins are exposed so I’ve definitely used coolant. There was about a 2c peice of whitish oil on the valve bridge and the rest looks ok but the oil in the sight window is now slightly higher, green slime look and some white residue on the glass. As I posted previously this wasn’t the case on tuesday.

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Pulled the plug again and hit the starter with it in gear and its turning ok and no bad noises.

Why would water in the oil stop it from running though?

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I tried that and nothing came out I can try it again now – is it safe to use the electric start do you think?

Are there any other possible causes for water in the oil?

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Houston we have a problem! I went down the garage to get the bike prepped for saturday and it started first press crisp as. Ran for about a minute then didn’t want to idle and stalled. Started again then stalled. I took a look at the sight glass and the oil looks bad I’ve just pulled the valve cover off and noticed a smidgen of white oil. Clicked it into 1st and tried to turn the back wheel to put it at TDC and I can’t move it

I’m going to drop the oil and take a better look at it but from my little mechanical knowledge I’m thinking water in the oil is gasket failure at best. I’ll pull the head off and look for any damage and then with any luck a new piston/ring head and base gasket will fix it so I can still ride on saturday. Hopefully blackwoods have a torque wrench on the shelf I suppose I’ll need one now.

I don’t mean to sound like a quitter but this will do me for this bike. PM me your 2stroke prices moto I’m switching teams

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Hmmm…. I may be out. More details to come in the oil in the airbox thread

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ha! don’t worry the jello only used a third of the bottle and she left the rest for me!

I usually run off the “latest posts” page and didn’t notice it was vic and I think I may have confused jak with ECKS

I’m always keen for two days of riding up till about 3-4pm on the first day ride

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Where’s that mate? PM if you need to keep it on the down low

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I reckon geared up at 830 – I’d go earlier but I have a mate coming up from sydney so I don’t want to be too harsh.

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Bugger! Looks like its just me and 2 other blokes now! Let me know if its anything I can help with mate.

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