CB500 with Broken Engine

Motorcycling
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The engine in my CB500 is shot. What should I do next?

  1. Get a repacement engine fitted in a private garage. (Any idea how much this would cost)

  2. Sell it on ebay for spares / repair.

  3. Push it to bike meets, sit on it and push it home when everbody has left.

I’ve been advised that it ran dry of oil and that it will need a new crank, con rods and a big end bearing. This will cost £1200 in parts alone which is an “un economic repair.”

Any advice would be really appreciated. The moral of the story is check your damn oil. I could have done this weekly during my rideout prep, oil chain, polish mirrors etc but didn’t and now it’s broken.

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Damn mate!! *goes out to check oil…

have a look on ebay for an engine… :ermm:
if it will cost you that much to repair then perhaps buy a new (old) one…

3

When you say it is shot what is wrong with it?

4

Give me some bike details and i’ll look into for you, I can undertake the work at a fraction of the cost of an independant garage.

5

i think he means he is looking for a CBF500 :wink:

6

“need a new crank, con rods and a big end bearing.” Presumably if it ran out oil then the originals would probably have overheated and warped (i’m only guessing here; I’m no Adz!).

There are 7 going on Ebay :cool:

7

All sorted now,
Thanks for your custom :smiley:

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Nice work Ricky.:wink:

9

Should be plenty of ok CB500 engines around - Seems Ricky is on the case! :slight_smile:

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Yes in short Ricky fixed it. Praise thread is here.

11

You should have asked him to fix the hole in your exhaust too :w00t:;):smiley:

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It’s supposed to sound like that :w00t: noisy bugger aint it :smiley: