Replacement engine advice.
Replacement engine advice.
I think I have managed to track down (thanks to bonesters input) a replacement engine for my GT 750...It has 100psi in each cylinder...price $600...what do you guys think?
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Strika
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Re: Replacement engine advice.
As long as it's OK internally apart from compression I s'pose it's cheap!!!! How many miles has it done do you know???? Could change things?painter wrote:I think I have managed to track down (thanks to bonesters input) a replacement engine for my GT 750...It has 100psi in each cylinder...price $600...what do you guys think?
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Strikas right...k's will influence what you do and have to check
120,000 might be ok but still worth a new camchain and tensioner
while the engine is out
but
given the bikes age....any engine may be up more like 200,000
klicks and compression may be ok now but in a few months...????
100psi is not bad...140 would be better
but you also need to do a leakdown test on each cylinder
which will check the valve sealing as well
hth
120,000 might be ok but still worth a new camchain and tensioner
while the engine is out
but
given the bikes age....any engine may be up more like 200,000
klicks and compression may be ok now but in a few months...????
100psi is not bad...140 would be better
but you also need to do a leakdown test on each cylinder
which will check the valve sealing as well
hth
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I paid about the same a few years ago for a 245Hemi...
Pretty much the same deal - was cheaper to drop the secondhand engine in than to fix the one I had. Don't think we needed to do much to it, either, just plonk it in and away we went.
Generally I have found wreckers to be pretty good with stuff like this, if it is crap they'll say so or strip it down.
You really have two options - put it in as is and hope for the best or spend some money before it goes in and hope for the best
I trust this has proved enlightening
Pretty much the same deal - was cheaper to drop the secondhand engine in than to fix the one I had. Don't think we needed to do much to it, either, just plonk it in and away we went.
Generally I have found wreckers to be pretty good with stuff like this, if it is crap they'll say so or strip it down.
You really have two options - put it in as is and hope for the best or spend some money before it goes in and hope for the best
I trust this has proved enlightening
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Mate check these out:
(near you!)
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GT-750-BLACK_W0Q ... dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1984-Kawasaki-GT ... dZViewItem
(near you!)
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GT-750-BLACK_W0Q ... dZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/1984-Kawasaki-GT ... dZViewItem
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