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What do you recon it is? A small gear tooth? looks like it’s taken quite a whack to going by the scrapes.
[Edited on 29/10/09 by Mr Whippy]
[Edited on 29/10/09 by Mr Whippy]
Tricky to identify as it's taken a bit of a battering. My £1 is on part of one of the sidecases (clutch cover?) where one of the fixing bolts pass through. Not too much of a pain to check?? Doubt it's a gear tooth given that it's ally.......
if the surface is curved, can you work out the rough diameter of the component it came from, as above that would tell you if it came from the clutch
looks like a piece of the clutch basket possibly ?? i.e. with teh small marks on the side looks like what you'd get where the clutch plates grab onto the 'fingers' of the clutch basket ??
Looks too thick to be the case here, but I recently had the same thing on a zetec. It was the end of the dipstick!
You know, it looks suspiciously the same as the pieces of ally we have found everywhere in the car when our 5VY threw a rod due to oil starvation and
it broke the block...
The signs of abuse on the side of the pieces, the scratches, the thickness, everything...
Could it be that your engine has been put together from several engines? Could it possibly be that a broken engine's parts have been used, and by
accident a small piece of ally got in there? Check the oil you have drained, see if there are any more pieces of metal, even tiny ones in there...
Follow the advice of the others, check everything carefully, but if you had a 100% reliable engine wih no oil, water loss, good power, it would seem
strange that such a piece is missing from the engine without effect...
Good luck!
Gergely
well im voting for an old piece of clutch cover when possibley the engine went down on its side, smashed the cover,new cover fitted but no one got
all the bits out, i would forget it and thrash it 
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Originally posted by afj
i would forget it and thrash it
Cheers guys...
Engine was from Yorkshire engines. Malc said he built it to get a complete engine.
The sump gasket was old and flakey, so its not been removed for some time.
The piece of metal was wedged right in the gap/corner of the pick up.
Clutch basket seems fine, nothing missing... but also looks brand new.
There was a VERY small piece of metal in the oil sump as well and thats it, oil is clean. Some scars in the engine when i look up with the sump off
but i cant be sure if its part of the casting.
Engine was running fine when ticking over to warm up.
Spoke to Andy at AB Performance, said he'd log on today to view the pics and give an opinion.
[Edited on 29/10/09 by Major Stare]
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
if the surface is curved, can you work out the rough diameter of the component it came from, as above that would tell you if it came from the clutch
Why not ask Malc?
You will never meet a nicer bike breaker (actually he is much better than that).
For what it is worth: On bikes the sump is a pain to take off because the exhaust often runs under it. And we all know the problems with exhaust
studs. As leaving bits in the sump doesn't do any harm I suspect there are often bits of crap in there. I found a bit in my sump, which turned
out had been sorted ages ago, but they hadn't emptied the sump.
Coming from a car perspective, taking the sump off is easy. Coming from a bike perspective changing the clutch is easy!
Leave it I am sure you are fine. Otherwise you need to budget for a set of gaskets and all the accidental damage that you might do when you strip it
(speaking from my experiences doing the same)!
Matt
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Originally posted by matt_gsxr
Why not ask Malc?
All sorted.
Spoke to Malc this afternoon.
Put everything back this weekend and prey for dry weather
So what was it then? Would be interested to know.