The past week has been the biggest wet we have had in Far North Queensland for many years. The community I live in has one access road that comes in off the highway. The other day the River burst it's banks and isolated MOST people for 2 days.
My mate around the corner has had a K1 since new. He rode out to the highway with water halfway up the oil cooler. Got back in that afternoon but the next day the water would have been over his head so he brought it around to mine for an oil change as it was due. I asked him if he had ever changed the washer on the sump plug - he gave me a strange look - Has NEVER changed it, never had a leak.
He has probly washed the thing twice in its life (3 times now after going through the water :rofl2:)
He lubes chain regularly and gets new sprockets and chain when required. Obviously gets tyres when required. The LED display stopped working years ago at around 80,000km. Only major issue was recently when he had timing chain replaced.
These 1400s are awesome
Great story Buddy. How it kept going in the water, not sure. I know they do. I once had old 250t hustler thru water up to the carbs. Never missed a beat.
How many kms on it Buddy? Asking because mine is getting up there (210k kms) so keen to know when timing chain became an issue. There was a previous post on here relating a guy who had timing chain issues at 312k kms - if that's the same guy then I figure I've got some time yet!!! :boogie2:
Well, the LEDs stopped working so we think around 110-120000km. Cost him $700 for chain and valve clearance. First time valve clearance had been touched too
Quote from: grog on Thursday, 29 March 2018, 11:00 AM
Great story Buddy. How it kept going in the water, not sure. I know they do. I once had old 250t hustler thru water up to the carbs. Never missed a beat.
Didn't the Hustler have points on the left of the crank? Must have been a good seal on that bit, cause if that filled with water, she'd be a definite no go. My first bike one of those. Had no idea what I was doing or what needed doing.
Quote from: black14 on Thursday, 29 March 2018, 01:25 PM
How many kms on it Buddy? Asking because mine is getting up there (210k kms) so keen to know when timing chain became an issue. There was a previous post on here relating a guy who had timing chain issues at 312k kms - if that's the same guy then I figure I've got some time yet!!! :boogie2:
I think it was an aussie guy who spun a crank bearing shell around the 312k Kms mark :whatever:
Pretty sure someone will correct me on this ;)
Col, hustler did have points, no idea hoe it kept going but did. amazing bike, wish i still had it. never ever a problem with it. and i neglected it big time. reved it to max every day. had it on the beach, thru rain, just kept going. same story for gt550, then gt750, 4 of them. no wonder i still have suzuki. only diff is i baby this one. obviously not needed by Buddy report.
From memory, which isn't always correct nowadays, the report of the 300k bike was indeed from Australia, round Adelaide / Murray Bridge way. It was on the old org & it was from RossP, was a mate of his. Recall it grenaded itself just shy of the big 300. Said he hadn't done anything major in maintenance, just the usual, & the big end let go on a trip back to Adelaide. Said it had been knocking for a while & progressively got worse but ht e guy just kept riding it.
I have another recall from old web. Bloke just west of here broke cam chain at 318 ks. Bought bike with 98 on it for bugger all, owner thought too many ks.
She'd be munted if the cam chain broke Grog? They're not free running engines are they?