Re: Lost Compression - broken Camshaft?!?

[samnt650@xxxxxxx]

Ops..  typo on the milage.  Actually I have 42000 miles on the bike.  Just spoke to shop, they found the camshaft snapped.  Guy at the shop never saw this before!  Has anyone seen a camshaft broke on their bike????
 
 
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From: bmwmick@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx; oilheads@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Lost Compression


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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