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[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Scuba

Yep, if you got a scuba tank, 2600 psi at your service, might just turn your motor into a cannon

Either way I don't think I personally would want to run it after breaking it free. It's locked up for a reason. I personally would try compressed air first before laying a mass amount of pressure to it. Btw theres ways of getting compressed air sources a lot higher than 250 psi.
Just trying to give a fella options...

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

+1

+1 to both of you guys, like I said earler, "IF" the bike was running when parked inside for 10 years, the motor is not rusted frozen. The only motors I have seen rust frozen are marine inbord boat motors that had the exaust heat exchangers rust through and then fill the jugs with salt water You may have been lied to, if it is seazed, it burned up with no oil in it and he filled it back up to sell it

+1 on what Steve is saying. My xs was parked for 7 years in a uninsulated wood shed in sw Washington... It ran when it was parked in there. I changed the oil, pull the plugs, sprayed some seamfoam deep creep in the holes, dropped a little oil on top of that to lube the cylinder. Hooked the jump box to it and it rolled right over. Put plugs in it added some seamfoam to the oil in the case added gas to tank and lit fire to it. Of course ymmv. I knew mine ran previous to storage cuz I rode it in there.

[ddragon63]

Lmao... I was thinking nitrogen! Not sure is want to introduce compressed breathing air to on oily cylinder under pressure. It'll unstick the piston. But then you may be finding pieces of it for days! Oxygen+petroleum+pressure=combustion.

I got a 6000 psi nitrogen bottle sitting here on the cylinder dock if you really need some pressure

[jetmechmarty]

OK guys. I have a stuck one at the house. It's an XS650 but that shouldn't make a difference. I bought it in a junk yard for $30, locked up tight. I go home on the 4th. I'll try to make time to grease gun break it when I get home and tell you how easy it was.

[Sparkett]

DING!! you got it!

No battery yet, well the one on her is a gonner..just wanting to see if the one is as gummed together as the one carb was, kinda a set???

Am I reading you correctly and you are trying to determine if your engine is frozen in a cylinder or two and trying to break it free?

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Different

Thats a different animal,, ball bearings, not like the 1100's. If your motor is frozen, most likley its in the jugs as the bearing very rarly freeze on those. 1100's bearings can spin, causing rattle, then total failure, or, weild to the crank, causing a seized motor

OK guys. I have a stuck one at the house. It's an XS650 but that shouldn't make a difference. I bought it in a junk yard for $30, locked up tight. I go home on the 4th. I'll try to make time to grease gun break it when I get home and tell you how easy it was.

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Na

Na, scuba tanks are filled with compressed air, not O2, so it is safe, but 2600 psi will send the piston flying all by its self

Lmao... I was thinking nitrogen! Not sure is want to introduce compressed breathing air to on oily cylinder under pressure. It'll unstick the piston. But then you may be finding pieces of it for days! Oxygen+petroleum+pressure=combustion.

I got a 6000 psi nitrogen bottle sitting here on the cylinder dock if you really need some pressure

[ddragon63]

Thats a different animal,, ball bearings, not like the 1100's. If your motor is frozen, most likley its in the jugs as the bearing very rarly freeze on those. 1100's bearings can spin, causing rattle, then total failure, or, weild to the crank, causing a seized motor

That would be my concern on a stuck motor that i have no real prior history on. Ran out of oil (due to various reasons too long to list) and the crank, bearings, and rods and or mains have joined in an unholy union..... which if that is the case you can put whatever pressure system you want to it and your gonna break or bend something. Take your pick of parts that will give first. Most liely blow your threaded pressure hose and plug threads straight @ you...

As my companies safety advisor I would like to take this moment to remind you to please have your safety glasses on while conducting this experiment

[ddragon63]

Na, scuba tanks are filled with compressed air, not O2, so it is safe, but 2600 psi will send the piston flying all by its self

If you wanna get technical scubas are filled with compressed breathing air. Which is "suppose" to contain as much o2 as the air out side we breath. Which I'm sure we all know how a diesel works... Air, pressure, oil, bang. Either way 2600 by its self will turn the rod into a question mark....

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Joke

It was a joke Dragon, I hope everyone knows better then to apply 2600 psi of anything to any piston in a cyl, thus the canon referance

If you wanna get technical scubas are filled with compressed breathing air. Which is "suppose" to contain as much o2 as the air out side we breath. Which I'm sure we all know how a diesel works... Air, pressure, oil, bang. Either way 2600 by its self will turn the rod into a question mark....

[3Phase]

It was a joke Dragon, I hope everyone knows better then to apply 2600 psi of anything to any piston in a cyl, thus the canon referance

If you did it right, a set of Wiseco pistons would just drop in without doing any of that pesky machine work.

[ddragon63]

Broken pistons make good xmas gifts for smokers.

[Mathh]

Have U tried disassembling the middle gear just to check if maybe this part has seized solid?

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Neutral

Should still turn over in neutral though

Have U tried disassembling the middle gear just to check if maybe this part has seized solid?