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| Originally Posted by nogaromill998 "It looks like the crank had been balanced by itself which would mean some sort of modification to either add or remove weight."
The phrase ' engine in a million bits ' merely indicates the engine is apart Kev....and doesnt even hint at the crank being balanced by itself, so thats a pretty big assumption imho, and would have been far better served by asking a question, rather than opening debate away from the original post without even so much as asking me direct. I only heard about it cos someone gave me the heads up.... |
In the thread you started on Ducatisti, in the very first Post you have written after the bit about the engine being in a million bits
"and the crank is ready for collection, after balancing, tomorrow"
http://www.ducatisti.co.uk/forum/des...bike-prep.html No mention of crankshaft assembly,or rods pistons etc, so whoever it was that brung it to the attention of the RC assumed it was the crank being modified, which for most people in DD would have to be the way they would do it as many only have the two con rods and two pistons that came with the engine.
Another DD entrant was wanting to get his crankshaft balanced so that he could match it to the new pistons he was getting, so on the 13th of Jan the day before I started this thread he emailed the RC to see if it was legal, possibly after reading your thread on Ducatisti (but that's only an assumption on my part) in the RCs reply he was told that if metal was removed from the crankshaft then it would be illegal and could be sucessfully protested.
From that point I wanted to know how big a issue this was for people and was it a gray area and if the rule in place is sufficient or in need of rewording.
Or maybe we need to add a rule regarding balancing of the crankshaft assembly and how it can be done without modifying the crankshaft itself