04 September, 2008

The Operation

As previously diagnosed, the bike suffered from a case of blown headgasket. The one shown below is taken from the bike.
A close up shows the material between the cylinders is no longer there. That sums it up all, the damage. Combustion gases was able to escape through there into the cooling system thus resulting in the coolant temperature not being able to reach the point of activation for the fan.

New parts that went in with the headgasket. Heavy Duty Cylinder Head Bolts.


Heavy Duty Cylinder Head Studs. Hopefully it'll be strong enough to keep the compression in. As a comparison, this HD head studs are torqued down using 60lbs of force as compared to the stock 35lbs.

Mileage on the clock after the repair was done. Kept as a record. Also done during that time was the installation of the Gixxer 1k shock.

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