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[Phil Ashbrook]

I just had a meeting with a Sydney engineer who told me he has worked on 5 new Royal Enfield cylinder heads in a row where the exhaust seat drops out of possition when hot then locks halfway as the engine cools down , he showed me them all in a row hanging on a nail in his shed .
Someone at the factory got their maths wrong , I hope the factory has been alerted prompt , has anybody in England recived any bad batch heads ?

[Norm]

Phil,
Never heard a word about this problem and I'm sure we would have and if what you say is correct somebody has been very clever in hiding it.

[Alan R]

Hi guys---------Oh dear !! Do you remember the "Duff" heads that some of the Bullet 65 bikes had ??--- I do 'cos I had one !!--- This is THE one thing that I've been banging on about in previous threads ie} todays Enfield products in the modern world..It now comes down to two words----QUALITY & CONTROL.. They STILL don't seem to have got their act together and got to grips on just what it is they are doing ie competing for a modern customer base ( who are anything but complacent these days !!) in a modern world....This sort of thing is EXACTLY WHY quality control systems and procedures are put in place to start with !!!!These heads should have been nipped in the bud initially by the machinists themselves.. They must have the mind-set of QUALITY as part of their every-day activity at work....ie if you make a cock-up (design or manufacture ) then own-up, learn the lesson, pass it on and bin the item... I do expect a few niggling faults from time-to-time but NOT a MAJOR item such as this------ Come on India, get a grip lads !! The basic bike is OK but you WILL loose customers if this sort of thing keeps on happening...................

[Norm]

Phil,
Let me where they are and I will get it investigated

[Phil Ashbrook]

Hey Norm
I can give you the info by email.
[email protected]
Due to the nature of this information
I would rather keep the partys involved under wraps so as to not
end up in a deformation case .
Phil .

[simon]

Dropping valve seats generally does end up in deformation I've found. Erf erf!

[Phil Ashbrook]

Yeh I know I sound paranoid but it's not a cool thing for a dealer .

[Phil Ashbrook]

Live in Sydney and you know what I mean .

[Phil Ashbrook]

It seems that the bad exhaust seats were all on sixty 5's after the warrenty had expired and with it was a problem with very low oil pressure to the big ends which became terminal , I was told it was a pressure relief valve fault , it was blowing off at 15 psi letting the big end get mostly dirty oil it seems .

[Norm]

Phil, very old news this, nobody cares anymore about it, this problem with the OPR was bashed to death when they were all failing 5/6 years ago. We started plugging OPR's back then and no problems since