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Help diagnose by listening to my sick 1982 Goldwing GL1100
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<blockquote data-quote="aslatk" data-source="post: 23547" data-attributes="member: 1010"><p>I think joedrum is right. Off a tooth or two on one side. This may have caused a piston to hit an open valve. Maybe it jumped a tooth right at start up when the piston didn't have much momentum and ended up against an open valve locking up the engine. Rocking the engine back and forth freed it up only by putting a hole in the piston or bending a valve. Without a compression gauge, use your kill switch to keep the engine from starting and crank it over. Listen to the cranking rhythm. Should be nice and even. If not, low compression. Using a compression gauge is the best test. Getting the two bolts in the center of your timing cover is really difficult. At least on mine (80 GL1100). First glance at my timing cover I didn't see the center bolts. Not much clearance between the center bolts and radiator. I ended up removing the radiator. You do need to check the timing marks like joedrum described. That may give you a cause of the problem and if valve timing is off, the result is kinda major. I've been wrong before and the guys here are pretty experienced on the Goldwings, a lot more than I am for sure. Maybe it was hydrostatic lock caused by fuel. Maybe that caused a worn belt to then jump a tooth. Man, that sure is a nice looking bike. Regardless, seems to me worth fixing up. Hope its a relatively easy fix for you. Time for me to get my beauty sleep. I need lots!</p><p> :lazy:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aslatk, post: 23547, member: 1010"] I think joedrum is right. Off a tooth or two on one side. This may have caused a piston to hit an open valve. Maybe it jumped a tooth right at start up when the piston didn't have much momentum and ended up against an open valve locking up the engine. Rocking the engine back and forth freed it up only by putting a hole in the piston or bending a valve. Without a compression gauge, use your kill switch to keep the engine from starting and crank it over. Listen to the cranking rhythm. Should be nice and even. If not, low compression. Using a compression gauge is the best test. Getting the two bolts in the center of your timing cover is really difficult. At least on mine (80 GL1100). First glance at my timing cover I didn't see the center bolts. Not much clearance between the center bolts and radiator. I ended up removing the radiator. You do need to check the timing marks like joedrum described. That may give you a cause of the problem and if valve timing is off, the result is kinda major. I've been wrong before and the guys here are pretty experienced on the Goldwings, a lot more than I am for sure. Maybe it was hydrostatic lock caused by fuel. Maybe that caused a worn belt to then jump a tooth. Man, that sure is a nice looking bike. Regardless, seems to me worth fixing up. Hope its a relatively easy fix for you. Time for me to get my beauty sleep. I need lots! :lazy: [/QUOTE]
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