Stalling Issues

[Road_Clam]

Originally Posted by blaine

Quote:Today I replaced the plug, had to re-tap for it:

Just to bring everyone up to speed ,I gave him a worse case senareo on his problem.In his original post,he stated that he had cross threaded the plug & had to retap the threads.Now his problem is a grinding noise that gets worse as the bike gets warm until it stalls.He leaves it for 20 mins,and she starts again.He has already drained the oil & no sign of any metal shavings.
:cool:

I read the "cross thread" comment as well, I was curious by this as well. I wonder if the plug thread seal is now sloppy and bleeding off a portion of cylinder compression ?