| No way you've done any real mileage with a small socket like that rattling about in the inlet tract mate, you sure they aren't winding you up ??. It would be small enough to work it's way round and sit on the back of the valve and would do serious damage before long, the valves are whacking up and down at a hell of a rate and even with standard cams there's a fair old lift.
Used to be a guy that ran a small bike shop over in Buckingham, had a 916 and rode it like a total nutter (ex racer). He was giving it large down the Aylesbusy to Buckingham road when the throttle jammed open at full volume. After a 140mph panic attack he had the sense to turn off the ignition. Took the tank off when he couldn't find any external reason for the sticking and found one of those orrible mesh filters from the nose cone had become detached and found it's way into the inlet, jammed the butterfly wide open !. Heard of another bloke who had a 916 with a lost mesh filter finding a dead sparrow in his air tube.
[Edited on 16-7-2004 by Paul James]  |