simon duval smith(Guest)
Ex Member
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Hello all fellow TR1 guys and girls Can someone help me please? I bought a 1981 TR1 with 27,000 (43,000 kilometers) miles on it. The bike had not been used much for a few months before I rode it. For the first 100 miles it was fine, no smoke, no oil leaks. Then it started smoking heavily from the right-hand silencer after a run, sometimes from the left too. Lots of oil leaks, all on the rear cylinder plus the clutch cable/actuating arm cover. Now (1000 miles later) it is pumping oil onto the back tyre out of the chaincase, and has used about 4 liters of oil in 1000 miles. The breather on the front cylinder is clear, there is no breather on the rear cyllinder - should there be one? I have seen pictures of TR1s with a breather on the rear pot and some without. The compression is exactly 150 psi on both cylinders cold test. I have had many bikes but never had one that went into self-destruct so quick! I don't ride it hard, very rarely more than one-third throttle and 4,000 rpm
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