Joined
·
18 Posts
Hi everyone, just signed into this excellent forum after lurking around the edges for a bit and trying to see if my question may have been answered before.
Basically I don't have a goldwing, no, don't hang up and bear with me......
My 'mate', who shall remain nameless to avoid embarressment (see I do look after you Chris...) has gone and bought a 1200A that was a non runner which he was told just needed a new stator and to be fair when I pulled the motor and stripped it down the molten blob did indeed need replacing. So far so good...... but then the weirdness set in......
The two halves of the the crankcases are clearly a different colour to each other. One is silver and the other is more yellow. No way do they appear to be a matched factory pair. There is also gasket cement in and around every gasket face (including the head gaskets and the oil filter O ring....) so I know it's all been apart.
The starter motor is basically just hangin in there and has been 'adapted' to fit with the slots being taken out and packing washers used behind to get it to align. The starter is definitely a 1200 model. However it is only just making a seal in the crankcase when its pushed in. the O ring is only just in the crank case. It looks to me as though it needs to go in by another 10-15mm. If it did this however the chain and sprocket that the starter drives would not be parallel with the driven gear inside.
So I am wondering if someone has changed the crankcase on one side for an 1100 one...... which is why the 1200 starter will no longer fit properly.
I believe that all 1200 starters were the same?
From the parts book, the liners are part of the crankcases so they cannot be swapped around from one engine to another and and would have to be bored out to take the 1200 pistons. I am assuming that advanced muppetry has not taken place at this point and I don't have 1100 pistons on one side and 1200 on the other......
Has anyone come across this before?
I will take a couple of pictures and post up tomorrow.
...and one more thing, the right hand side cam sprocket was two teeth out so unless i'm really lucky, i'm going to be looking at bent valves as well.
Neil
(Used to have an 1100 Interstate in wineberry in 1985, sold it to buy a BMW 1000RS for which I would like to apologise).
Basically I don't have a goldwing, no, don't hang up and bear with me......
My 'mate', who shall remain nameless to avoid embarressment (see I do look after you Chris...) has gone and bought a 1200A that was a non runner which he was told just needed a new stator and to be fair when I pulled the motor and stripped it down the molten blob did indeed need replacing. So far so good...... but then the weirdness set in......
The two halves of the the crankcases are clearly a different colour to each other. One is silver and the other is more yellow. No way do they appear to be a matched factory pair. There is also gasket cement in and around every gasket face (including the head gaskets and the oil filter O ring....) so I know it's all been apart.
The starter motor is basically just hangin in there and has been 'adapted' to fit with the slots being taken out and packing washers used behind to get it to align. The starter is definitely a 1200 model. However it is only just making a seal in the crankcase when its pushed in. the O ring is only just in the crank case. It looks to me as though it needs to go in by another 10-15mm. If it did this however the chain and sprocket that the starter drives would not be parallel with the driven gear inside.
So I am wondering if someone has changed the crankcase on one side for an 1100 one...... which is why the 1200 starter will no longer fit properly.
I believe that all 1200 starters were the same?
From the parts book, the liners are part of the crankcases so they cannot be swapped around from one engine to another and and would have to be bored out to take the 1200 pistons. I am assuming that advanced muppetry has not taken place at this point and I don't have 1100 pistons on one side and 1200 on the other......
Has anyone come across this before?
I will take a couple of pictures and post up tomorrow.
...and one more thing, the right hand side cam sprocket was two teeth out so unless i'm really lucky, i'm going to be looking at bent valves as well.
Neil
(Used to have an 1100 Interstate in wineberry in 1985, sold it to buy a BMW 1000RS for which I would like to apologise).