K guys, help me out please! About three months ago, I put in a helicoil into cyl head #1. She's been running fine, without incident. The other night I took her out for a ride, and she ran like normal. About a mile from home she started hesitating, and I got concerned so I decided to pull off into a well lit parking lot so I wouldn't be stranded on the highway at night. Half way across the highway she dies.... and I coast into the parkinglot. I ended up pushing her fat butt home six blocks! Uggghhh!!!
I checked the sparkplugs, and they are fouled pretty badly. When pulling sparkplug #1, the helicoil is attatched to the sparkplug, and came right out of the cylinder. It was only finger tight, I didn't need to use the socket wrench to pull it.
I've not heard of this before, especially since I used the high heat (red) loc-tight on it when I installed it, and waited the full 24 hours of cure time before putting the new plug in! I was extremely careful when I threaded the cylinder, and felt I'd done a very good job. Is this normal, or did I screw up somehow? Is the red loc-tight going to hold it back in place for a while, or is the head toast now, and needing replacement? This is only a temporary fix I know, but the next owner can put a new head on it, or I'll sell it as a parts bike.......
Thank goodness that 636 is replacing this beast soon, at least I have that to smile about!
