New motor going in today!

[racer122]

Got my new motor (Thanks Tiller2NV).

Today is the day. I'm shooting for the Jim Brewer engine replacement record of 1.5 hours. I'll shoot some pics too.

[SWEET-TL1000R]

AWESOME!!! Good luck, take lots O pics!

[TLSBill]

Good luck..

[Ogre1231]

1.5 hours huh? good luck with that!

[rzarobbie]

Racer.. you're up in Aspen. i wish I had known. I have always wondered, How in the world do you pull an engine out of a bike? everything seems to be so well put together, I can't seem to figure out how to remove it without minor damage.

I've cherry picked engines out of cars, but I am sure it will be quite different with a bike

[Scrapyard]

Originally posted by rzarobbie
Racer.. you're up in Aspen. i wish I had known. I have always wondered, How in the world do you pull an engine out of a bike? everything seems to be so well put together, I can't seem to figure out how to remove it without minor damage.

I've cherry picked engines out of cars, but I am sure it will be quite different with a bike

It's not that hard really. Get the bike on stands, disconect all the wiring, hoses and accessories. Ususally, I stuff a good floor jack underneith with a piece of ply wood so you don't damage the pan. Raise the jack so it barley resting under it. Then find all your mounting bolts and break them loose. Then I usullay remove the front mounts first, then the upper rear and let the motor swing down onto the floor jack. After that just pull the lower rear bolts and lower it down. Once the motor is out the bike wieghs half of what it used to so if the motor is still up between the frame you can usually lift it off and out of the way.

[Hammerit]

Re: New motor going in today!

Originally posted by racer122
Got my new motor (Thanks Tiller2NV).

Today is the day. I'm shooting for the Jim Brewer engine replacement record of 1.5 hours. I'll shoot some pics too.

About time you get that Tiller back on the road again

[racer122]

It's in, and running great. Took about 3 hours for the swap itself, and another 1.5 for bolting up misc. stuff, like bodywork. But, it's together and going great.

I'll take it for a real test run tomorrow, and report back. Oh, that's my buddy Tim (T-bone on this board) who is holding the clock. Unfortunately, I have a cheap camera, and you can't tell what it says.

[Stabber]

Nice work. Did you brace the motor and lif t the frame off or raise the bike and drop the motor out of the bottom

[Jim Brewer]

Re: New motor going in today!

Originally posted by racer122
I'm shooting for the Jim Brewer engine replacement record of 1.5 hours.

Wooo... I took way longer than that!! It was 1.5 hours just to pull it, then 2 hours 40 minutes to get it back in and hooked up. (see this thread ).

And, I didn't have all the street stuff on, so you really did a great job as quickly as you did!

How did the test run go?

[Steve TLS]

Good effort!

[racer122]

Jim,
Thanks. There were two of us working on it, and together, we have pulled a lot of motors (though this was the first time with a TL). Anyway, I started off with all bodywork already removed, so I was cheating a bit.

The test run is promising. However, I was having a little problem.

You know the sound that bikes make at the end of the front straight at Second Creek (right in front of the grandstand, running clockwise). Sort of a sound like the chain is slipping on the teeth, or something like that? What causes that sound?

My chain is tight, but I have a cable clutch conversion, and I *THINK * it may be a little out of adjustment. Under really hard acceleration, and under decel too, something with teeth is slipping in the motor. I just am not sure what it is, but I suspect it is clutch related...

I'm going to get out today and work on it a little more. I'll have more time, since I had to prematurely quit last night to go to a party full of dancing Brazilian women. No kidding. Of course, I only paid attention to my beautiful wife, but I was wishing I had a buddy there to live vicariously through.

[racer122]

Oh, and Stabber, we lifted the bike a bit, removed the front wheel, and mostly lifted and lowered the motor. Mostly by hand, with a jack under it for bracing.

I was surprised at how light the motor was. You should feel my oil-cooled GSXR1200! (which you literally HAVE to move in and out by hand.)

[tl1000lasse]

Nicely done

[Jim Brewer]

Originally posted by racer122
You know the sound that bikes make at the end of the front straight at Second Creek (right in front of the grandstand, running clockwise). Sort of a sound like the chain is slipping on the teeth, or something like that? What causes that sound?

You mean that sort of high pitched whining sound? If so, as best as I can tell, it's the brakes on drilled rotors. I don't think it's an engine noise cause all bikes make about the same noise there.

Under really hard acceleration, and under decel too, something with teeth is slipping in the motor. I just am not sure what it is, but I suspect it is clutch related

Hmmm... I would think that if it's the primary gear, you'd notice it all the time. Are you sure your chain isn't binding and/or misaligned? I had a problem with my TLS where the chain would bind up a little on deceleration and make kind of a hard ticking noise.

My experience with clutch slipping is that it's a smooth type of problem, similar to just putting a finger on the clutch lever.