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schmidc8
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 Posted: Wed Jan 7th, 2009 11:03 pm
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I had my clutch side cylinder seize up on me. it ran great all day and 1 mile from the truck it locked up. when I pulled the plugs I found the 1 to be sorta melted. I couldn't roll it over with the recoil until I rolled it backwards using the clutch. Does it sound like that cylinder leaned out? And what would have caused this? What should I be looking for when I tear it down?

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 Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 05:09 am
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Is that a triple? sounds to me she leaned out, I know triples had problems with the seal going bad on the clutch side, there for leaning it out.



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 Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 05:14 am
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no, its a 500 twin.

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 Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 05:28 am
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is it a fan or liquid? was the plug whitesh in color? can u see the top of the piston, sounds like it leaned out, check the boots to the carb, no cracks, check seal next to clutch, does it run?



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schmidc8
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 Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 05:48 am
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it's liquid cooled. i wouldn't say the plug is white, but it is pitted and the other plug is tan and looks good. i can't see the top of the piston but i could feel that it was catching in the cylinder. i haven't tried firing it again.

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 Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 05:59 am
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without seeing it myself, it could be numerous things, carb pluged, jet plug, definetaly lean on that side, did it loose power slowly, or just shut down? I had a yamaha vmx 500, did the same thing, found out the seal was bad on the clutch side, tear it down that will tell you alot more of what happened, for some reason it was sucking air, or not getting lube. good luck



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 Posted: Thu Jan 8th, 2009 06:23 am
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well thank you. yeah, i will be tearing it down soon, but i was trying to figure out what i should be looking for while i'm at it. thanks again.

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 Posted: Sun Jan 25th, 2009 05:27 am
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you might have a ring hanging  up in one of the ports.look down the exhaust port .that is the side that usualy melts down

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