Re: [ST] Re: Longevity

[Denny Cornett III <dbcornett@xxxxxxx>]

on 8/7/04 5:01 PM, Sum1 at iamsumtimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   My '99 ST made it to 18,000 miles with only a fuel sender failure and a
> crank position sensor slipped out of adjustment. At 18,000, which was last
> weekend, I was cruising along at 70ish, running fine, engine temp normal and
> no warning lights, when it made an awful crunching noise and locked up. The
> damage is so extensive that it's hard to say what happened first, but my
> theory is that the timing chain jumped off of the cams, although it wasn't
> broken and the adjuster was still in place. The head has a large hole
> punched in it, all the valves except 1 are gone, laying about in the
> crankcase along with the remnants of two pistons shattered into small
> pieces. Two bent rods. Lord only knows about the crank and the rod that
> still has the better part of a piston on it. The chain was off the intake
> cam, but still on the exhaust cam.
>   In any case, I'm looking for a Daytona engine if anyone should have one
> laying about. In the meantime, I still have my '74 Norton Commando to ride.
> 
> Scott S.
> Kentucky
> 
> 
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WoW!  That pretty much sums up that engine, Daytona it is.  You might ask
Larry Kamerer if he has any engine contacts.  He put that single sided
swingarm on his RS Special.

Denny


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