Allen Millyard, engineering master, pulls the motor out of a low mileage Pan European due to a noise from the engine The O ring seal on the oil pump is damaged, must have been really clumsy to screw that up Of considerably more concern is the wrong bearing shells were installed on one cylinder at the factory, they were oversized hence the noise Makes me wonder how often this happened elsewhere and nobody was as thorough as Allen and the customer paid for the error …puts a new light on the 1200 drive shaft fiasco If you haven’t heard of him yet he’s got a good YouTube channel featuring most of his special, 100cc V twin Honda, Kawasaki V12, H2 four, Flying Millyard 5 litre V twin, Dodge V10 8 litre, etc,
Yeh, I saw that. was thinking that the iron collared worker which was responsible for the insertion of the o-ring regarding the oil pump fucked up, but then the offending bearing shell problem makes me wonder if they were drinking too much saki. His creations are at museum in Birmingham Alabama US, was gona ride up there from South FL in February as I took off a week unpaid while wife and kid were doing a ski trip. Well, now I cancelled that as I am doing some Euro-trash vacation in June/July, may end up visiting the Ducati factory hopefully. Anyway, I think that ST is was over engineered compared to the VFRs we ride, at least the Gen3 bikes I am familiar with. PEaCe
Allen lives 15 miles away from me, if I’m over that way at the weekend I’ll often see him out on one of his bikes, the exhaust note from the 5litre V twin is very distinctive
