Michaels12
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posted April 30, 2011 08:21 AM
 Edited By: Michaels12 on 30 Apr 2011 16:22
You never know whats out there
http://dallas.craigslist.org/sdf/mcy/2271283517.html
not mine but its more than just the engine and might be a deal...
  
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WARBIRD
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posted April 30, 2011 01:34 PM
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Brenda, what happened to your engine?
I dont get on here that often anymore... I must have missed somthing.
On another note, the guy who bough my 1427 zx12r wants to sell it now .......
Sorry Brenda, not to threadjack.................Jim, could you pm me the details on the 12R? I was bummed to have missed out when you were selling it..........
Charles
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dougmeyer
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posted April 30, 2011 09:06 PM
Shane,
It was a new crank, which I had sent to Falicon for the stroke, then had it magged, and built into Bren's engine in 2009. It had a couple hours of dyno time, 1200 street miles and 20-30 passes at Texas on it. I'm pretty sure the right side chain tied up and it snapped the end off.
Interestingly, when I rebuilt Brenda's engine in '09, as a precaution, I took out the original Falicon Supercrank stroker which had been in there since 1998. That crank had 4-5 hours of dyno time (not dynojet dyno time, REAL dyno time) and three Bonneville speed weeks totaling about 50 5-mile passes and then some yahoo used car dealer riding it on the street in Texas for 7 years after I sold it on Ebay. I'm going to make a lamp out of that one.
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NINJA12
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posted May 01, 2011 06:10 AM
Does anybody beside doug still use falicon for crank work?
I have not heard a single good reference about them in atleast 5 years.
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dougmeyer
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posted May 02, 2011 02:19 PM
I have no axe to grind with them. I pay retail and have always gotten good work from them. But, I've only bought this one crank from them "in the last 5 years"... I sent them the broken bits and we had an in depth conversation about cause. I'm confident it was not their fault.
When I was at Muzzys (95-2001)we sold many hundreds of Falicon strokers and had probably less than 20 actual complaints, and those usually showed evidence of oil starvation. Muzzy did eventually switch to Marine, but that was less about cranks than personalities. Once we went to Marine, there was a new set of issues due to disagreement over heat treatment specs.
Welding a crank is not exactly novel. When a stroker breaks, it's because the main/rod crankpin offset overlap just gets too narrow and, if there's flex, can eventually break. Not what happened here.
It's really all about (bending) cycles over time. One reason why LSR is brutal on parts
You know, both those companies do a lot of work besides motorcycle cranks, they do all sorts of automotive, marine, two stroke, and even experimental aircraft cranks and rods. They wouldn't still be around if they were as bad as "people say".
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saltwheels east
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posted May 12, 2011 04:00 PM
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Brenda, what happened to your engine?
I dont get on here that often anymore... I must have missed somthing.
On another note, the guy who bough my 1427 zx12r wants to sell it now .......
Sorry Brenda, not to threadjack.................Jim, could you pm me the details on the 12R? I was bummed to have missed out when you were selling it..........
Charles
wb,
pm sent.
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Y2KZX12R
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posted May 13, 2011 02:46 AM
Edited By: Y2KZX12R on 13 May 2011 10:59
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Osti,
That's a +5. too big for Brenda's bike. Needs lots of work to get that in there. Pretty sure you gotta lose the starter.
Jim,
Bren's crank snapped outboard of the right main brg. The rotating assy kept running with everything staying in time so the pistons, valves, head, etc., are unscathed. Not sure why it broke, it doesn't look like it was cracked, but the break is quite large. The basket is broken as is the starter/gen drive chain, so I'm guessing that started it.
Ah. ok. ouch.
I heard as of a few months ago falicon doesn't do cranks anymore. I heard the older guy doing the crank work retired...?
Carolina cycle is going to be doing crank work soon.
We have a local guy here in CT that does cranks but to be honest I cant recommend him. He does a good job on automotive cranks with welding and repair but he doesn't want to do the bike cranks. He did do one rod journal repair for me one time but he is expensive and doesn't want to do the bike stuff.
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saltwheels east
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posted May 19, 2011 05:53 PM
warbird,
you must b on the road or have not picked up your pm.
if you are interested in jim's bike as I got it ; call me at--
216-990-8547
thanks.
bill
the bike is going on ebay tonight.
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