Oh man, you guys aren't going to like this:
Well as I posted in
this thread the trusty Fazer is now back up and running. By a bizarre and unlikely coincidence, today my trusty van ran out of mot! I'm not sure if this is lucky timing or what. Certainly if I hadn't checked my pile of paperworks for all the various projects, I would have missed this deadline and probably found out half way back from Donington via ANPR.
In light of the above comment regarding the oil, I did a couple of things first off I double checked the old cylinder head to where and how the oil ways had become jammed. I could only see muck under the cam holders, in the cam journals; as if any broken bits/swarf/alloy grindings hadn't been able to escape. There wasn't anything terrible in the old oil as I recall, just a bit grey from alloy paste. The oil ways themselves on the old head were clear. There is just one 8mm ish opening in the casting which seems to flood the head so that the cams run in a bath of oil rather than have it pumped through the tiny ways within the camshafts themselves. I will go and look this up though unless anyone knows better.
Secondly, I drained the oil which was barely 20 miles old. It was dirty but not too bad.
So I strained it through a dust mask.
...and stuck it back in. Next time I have any money, I might even change the oil. For the moment, it can live on Halfords finest and stfu. The bottom of the pan still looked ok too though I didn't drain the last dregs back in.
Then I even washed it.
Happy days.
S.
