Yamaha SRX600 Reborn. Part2.

So I put engine on workbench and began disassembling it in February 2013 . There was nothing worrying at first glance. Camshaft was in good shape, without signs of oil starvation.

Carbon depositions persisted in liberal amount on the combustion chamber and on the valve surfaces.

But there were less of them on the piston.

I got first bad news when removed piston. There were scratch marks on a bush of the connecting rod’s small end.

The second bad news was the picture I saw when disassembled cylinder had. Carbon depositions looked unordinary, such like backed caramel, glossy and resistant to mechanical and chemical affects.

I have an idea, that reason for this lies in fuel tank liner. In fact tank was covered from inside twice. First time it was done with poly-something liner long time ago in Japan. Secondly it was recoated with red iron oxide in Ukraine, after SRX was imported, due to  pre-selling maintenance. I think that iron oxide coating could be slowly dissolved by gasoline and then could be baked in intake channels, on valves and other surfaces under heat exposure.

But these difficulties had to be solved anyway. As for scratched bush of connecting rod, after much thoughts and consideration I decided to bought new rod kit and to repair crankshaft with it. The best one I could find on ebay was T.K.R.J connecting rod kit. I received the parcel with it in March 2013.

Nice kit included all needed parts to renovate crankshaft and it was of high quality.

But before crankshaft could be repaired it needed to be ejected from crankcase. And I got yet another difficulty at this point. I found out that rotor nut was stuck, firstly. I managed to remove it only after heating and using electrical impact wrench. It turned out the rotor itself became another disappointment. It not only needed special puller, but stuck on shaft also.

So I made the puller with materials I had at hand. These were a huge and thick metal pancake and hardened bolts.

But it was hard to pull of rotor even with it and impact wrench.

I saw a reason of this when rotor was pulled. A bit of rotor and shaft stuck together. Nothing to worry about, but the point is, that rotor seating surface needed to be cleaned before assembling.

Next step was separating halves of crankcase.

And then crankshaft was pulled out. Engine had about 50K kilometers and laid on table disassembled that was a good reason for crankshaft bearings change. I ordered and got them in April.

Procedure of crankshaft repairing required to use press and some special stuff and skills I hadn’t, so I gave it to expert.

Then was interruption in work for some time. I had to maintain my Zephyr, to do some works with Yamaha XJ Cafe-racer, to undertake traditional May ride to sea and so on and so forth.

To be continued.

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