P5! What year, miles and why your rebuilding?
Thats sounds about right, I can check the shop manual on my laptop when I get back from dinner. How about a pic of the machine & the story on how it failed? Normally the P5 is dang near bullet proof unless severely abused
the story is it was smoking like crazy, still ran great, clearly oil smoke and loss of oil. the exhaust was dripping with oil, they continue to run the machine with the excessive smoking thinking oil filled the exhaust when it flipped. They switched exhausts to see and still the same. Finally Too many complaints they finally stopped using it. I got there checked all the basics , they told me it was low on oil many times. So I suspected it probably got too hot and possibly cooked valve seal/possibly rings.. So I looked at the exhaust valve it was super caked up as of it was dripping and I didn’t think rings would push up that much oil, taking a closer look the cylinder has a huge upper lip can be easily felt, as well as two pretty worn half piston marks on each side of the cylinder towards the bottom with scrape marks all the way up from each side of the piston around both sides of the wrist pin. this machine is only a few years old it runs tours on a giant ranch that’s a complete incline down to the ocean up to like 2000ft elevation. Running all week. Got a new complete head and cylinder+piston. Just wasn’t sure about that play in the rod.
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Do you have a link I became a member thanks allot everyone!
