Took today off work as I knew that looning around the Welsh twisty's with the B King's would cause it to flare up and it gave me a chance to slow time clean it plus put some more oil in/find where it all went. Naturally the heavens opened so I scrubbed around the oil park and got the joy of washing a bike in the pouring rain. Now I remember why I never normally clean my bikes!


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Sold it for scrap

Made it VERY noisy

Fitted new front wheel bearings today some good jap ones not the Chinese rubbish normally fitted by piaggio that only last a year .srv / GP 800 seem very hard on wheel bearings in my experience.

Fitted 'service kit' to front brake master cylinder & got a 13 month MoT

About a month and a half ago, it developed a knocking, and a serious lack of power. As I tend to do, I tackled the problem by sticking it in the corner of the yard in disgrace. I'd resigned it to being bottom end and a "I'll fix it one day" job.

Now, the day before it started doing that, I'd just about run out of fuel and brimmed it at my local BP. Last week someone mentioned to me that a fair few cars that had been filled up there had ended up in his garage having new injectors fitted. At that stage, I put two and two together.

So, Thursday night and today, I drained the tank as much as I could, refilled it, and stuck a second hand injector on for good measure. Result is, it feels a heck of a lot better, and it's improving all the time, so I went out and did 60 miles round a load of remote back lanes.

On the way back, my dash started flickering, so I diagnosed it by pretending I couldn't see it. 400 yards short of home, it died altogether. Fail on my part, hadn't done the battery positive up right.

I wonder what was in the fuel that could kill injectors?

Not a clue. I don't know for a fact mine needed one, but for the sake of £20, I chucked one on. Just taken it out again and brimmed the tank and it's getting better all the time, but still feels down on power. The excuse calendar is blaming the weather.

Potentially blew the bugger up not long after I posted that. Suspect waterpump or stat fail because the engine was red hot to the point that it spunked its oil out, but the radiator and header tank were barely warm.

So far I know it's not seized, but the battery went dead because I left the key on while I was getting recovered, so no further investigation as yet.

I got nicely soaked by a big rainshower on my way home this evening.

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