Like a bad penny it's back. When I got back from the Ozarks I had a phone message and a text from my buddy that I sold the XS2 to. He was out riding it and all of a sudden it developed a grinding/whirring noise in the engine plus some vibrations. He thought it was coming from the bottom end and mostly on he right side. He was able to limp it 25 miles home. He asked me what I thought, I said I think you have a problem. Probably a wheel has moved in the crank. One of the weights may have come loose and knocked things out of wack. Wanted to know if I would help him with it. Said sure give me a couple of days to get my shop organized and then bring it over.
Yesterday he hauled it to me and we looked at it. First thing I did was pull the left side cover and check for the rotor rubbing on the stater. Looked good. Started it and left end of crank looked good and true. The engine did have a grinding/whirring noise. Next drained oil and looked for sparkly stuff in it. Oil looked good. Ok off with the clutch cover. Fired it up and there was wobble on the right end of the crank. Pulled the clutch, took the gears off the end of the crank. Dial indicator said .0030 run out. Also noticed that it did not turn well by hand. Very stiff with a notchy feel as it turned.
Told him if you want to fix it only one thing to do pull the engine and tear it apart.
Six hours later it looked like a XS2 exploded in my shop. Some pics of it being worked on.
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