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Hi all, I have noticed the left exhaust is letting out white smoke, not the usual 2 stroke lovelyness that smells so good

Any thoughts please
Cheers

is it steam? blown head gasket? Is your cooling system full?

and incase you've tried to phone/text me, I left my phone in the office on Friday.

Luders wrote:is it steam? blown head gasket? Is your cooling system full?

Hi Ben, The cooling system is full however i have only recently topped it up. Whilst we were at Mallory together i did notice a slight drop off in power before the CDi went down.

I will check on if its Steam tomorrow and give you a bell.

could it of blown the head gasket so soon after all it was only a running in day !? could it be the rings ?

Cheers

Yep, bubbles in the expansion bottle Ben coupled with white smoke = blown headgasket, knowing is 50% of the way fixed

Kev

It's a complete pisser, but a lesson learnt by both of us on this one.

When you fit the new gasket, put a healthy amount of three bond on both sides of the gasket, bolt it all down to the barrels and leave it over night to completely go off.

Plus don't put the water in or even kick it over with the spark plugs in until the sealant has gone off

Thanks .... All done and engine is now running crispy sweet, all ready for castle Coombe

Now looking for some zxr400 forks etc. I'm off to pm Salty, I think he mentioned he has some.

He has some wheels too you might be interested in.

when are you at castle coombe , ime just up the road at kemble

April 25th I'm at work that day

bugger got the 23rd off ,cant realy push for another day