Re: Lost Compression

[Mick <bmwmick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:08 AM 9/1/2006 -0400, samnt650@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Wondering if this happened to anyone on the list.  My ride is 99 R1100RT 
>w/ 42000k miles.  One day I tried to start the bike and found it ran very 
>bad.  It felt like running on one cylinder.  Bike simply couldn't go far 
>and ended up towed to dealer.  Initial diagnostic shows I lost compression 
>on one cylinder.  The shop has not taken the bike a pieces yet.
>
>Has anyone experienced bike w/ such low milage w/ (1) stuck valve?  (2) 
>blown seal of any sort?  (3) bad luck???
>
>Since I did majority of work, the bike received regularly services (valve 
>adj, oil chg...)
>

Broken pistons and broken valves have been reported from time-to-time
but it is NOT a common failure. 42,000,000 miles is a LOT of miles though. :))

Mick
Tucson

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