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My xt I got last year sounded a little more clunky than it should of,I checked valve clearances and were fine,so bit the bullet and took top end of to find it had a pretty badly worn small end bush in the rod and looking at piston may possibly have been run out of oil at sometime on its life..
On stripping engine I found the blanking plug in the right hand side of gearbox output shaft had fallen out,hence oil from the pressurised gallery just pouring out the end of shaft..
A Conrod,piston,bearings and a ball bearing welded in end of shaft later all was good,and I've gone from thinking what a piece of junk I bought to actual quite liking it,and doing two fairly big trips on it.
The front brake can seem a bit spongy,I would just bleed it with a syringe from the bottom up then just ride it...my front brake got a lot better with a little use,it's as good as one would want given the front tyre on the things now..
Stick at it and it will be a good bike.
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