Yes any wear no matter how insignificant will leak slightly and cause a decrease in performance. Fortunately the plates are relatively cheap. And considered a wear item.
Since your engine doesn't use def use an appropriate engine oil in the temperature range indicated in the book. Rotella is fine just make sure you use the additive package called for and not the package for emissions engines. The hast seems to prefer the oem oil for best performance and...
This is normal for that series of rtv. There's a small retard device attached to the hst cable that has given up the ghost. Research and get yourself a coast valve for your model.
Thanks for your review. Interesting about the muffler. My x1100c is first generation with thousands of miles hours but no muffler breaking. I did adjust the idle though many years ago to stop the shaking. Yes the new style tires are a win i think. I just installed a set on my x1100c but i...
I just used some quick uneducated averaging for the amount of days you say you owned it and the aprox hours you say you put on it in two weeks from the first time you noticed and came up with 63 hours. Waz aprox .26 hours a day. Take in consideration that there may have been hours on it when...
Try this. Take out the plugs and squirt some gasoline into the cylinder and crank with the plugs out. Do this a few times to clean the oil out of the rings and then reinstall the plugs and try to start? If it runs but smokes horrible and doesn't clean up your rings are shot most likely?