{"id":1719,"date":"2023-08-13T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T22:16:04","slug":"crankcase-washout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/crankcase-washout\/","title":{"rendered":"Crankcase washout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SX175 rustoration continues. We\u2019ve got the transmission shifting. We got all the water out of it and then filled it to the top with a mix of diesel, turps and petrol (our parts washer brew). Worked it free, seems ok.<br \/>\nToday we worked on getting the water out of the crankcase. Getting the cylinder off was a challenge, there was a lot of packed in dirt around the cylinder retaining nuts. Genuine Queensland red dirt that had set like cement.<br \/>\nAfter we got the cylinder off we put our small parts washer under the bike and piped the fluid into the crankcase to flush out the mayonnaise.<br \/>\nPiston ring gap is 1.6mm \ud83d\ude02 but the cylinder looks have little wear and came up good enough after a light hone. Piston will do, it\u2019s not terrible.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re definitely going to need some new piston rings.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1721\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4572-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1722\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4172-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1723\" src=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4174-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harley Davidson SX 175 crankcase washing\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ON2ErkbSjMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SX175 rustoration continues. We\u2019ve got the transmission shifting. We got all the water out of it and then filled it to the top with a mix of diesel, turps and petrol (our parts washer brew). Worked it free, seems ok. Today we worked on getting the water out of the crankcase. Getting the cylinder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/crankcase-washout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crankcase washout<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harley-davidson-sx-175","category-motorbikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}