XT 600E Glazed Cylinder Sleeve
Anyone here experienced that the cylinder sleeve starting to "glaze"? and oil usage starting to increase?
Haven't opened the engine yet, Still figuring out what caused my brother in law's bike to start using oil from about 20000km on the odo.
Spoke to a guy that had a similar problem on his 600e , he said from what he could see afterwards is that his air filter was clogged up while he was doing a longish trip. Because of the clogged filter the bike was running much richer and the process then started to glaze the cylinder sleeve, thus the piston rings are not "sealing" properly. He opened the engine and just replaced the rings and honed the cylinder, after that the bike didn't use a drop of oil.
Anyone here experienced this before?
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