Blaster96,
I have to agree with 409longrod, there's no way your piston could affect your gearbox oil (unless you pour oil in the crankcase and your are talking about this oil...which shouldn't be there anyway).

Scramdaddy,
I appreciate you say it could be my axle bearibgs, caus that would mean I have a huge garage!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
Seriously, when I listen to that sound, I'm stopped and in neutral...and it really comes from the engine!! And axle bearings suffer more on overweighted sport pretending Polarises [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]



Is there anything I can gain from letting the engine warm up? Or will I lose everything? It isn't in pieces now...and I'd rather change entire parts rather than looking for the little chunks...Is there any way to verify if it is piston slap or not?

 

There is a tool that mechanics use, Not sure what its called, but it looks like a steathescope but has a long needle on the end instead of the round peice. If you use one of those it can be used to really pinpoint where the sound is coming from. Its not expensive to pull the topend apart and check your clearances, If you do it yourself probably about $50 Cnd. for the new gaskets... If you are at all worried about the motor "grenading"on you it is well worth it to pull everything apart. A few hundred in gaskets compareds to a few thousand in parts is a big deal!!! I find that piston slap gets quieter as you rev the motor up, Im my experience it becomes almost in-audible at around 5000rpm and sounds like a fluttering\knocking from the intake side of the cylinders. It is definatly audible, not really something you need to listen for, but it is not exactly loud like gears binding up. I would say it is close to the stock exhaust system at idle in decible terms. If you have ever heard a wrist pin let go, compared to piston slap, you will understand what I mean by it being audible but not loud... Sorry, that is the best I can explain piston slap, It is something that you learn to hear and recongnize (banshees are kinda bad for it).

Blaster96, I am still not following you, The only oil that gets changed on the banshee\blaster is confined to the transmission\clutch area, The crank\pistons are lubricated differently, as 409longrod stated, the 2 areas of the motor are seperate... If you are seeing metal when you do an oil change, it is most likely from your gears or clutch basket, in which case I would pull apart the motor and find out exactly why that is (a bit is normal, but more than a bit of filings at a time is not good)

 

Zorro...you could just keep running it really hard and see what happens. Keep in mind though the name "brokemybanshee" is already taken.
I think pulling the jugs is the best way to go if you have any doubts as to what it is. Just to give you one more idea. I had a 250R once that had a loose clutch basket. It sounded like the thing was gonna shake apart. If you had a bolt floating around your tranny it can't be good.

 

I foundthe problem. I used the stethoscope (sp?), and the noise came from the water pump/clutch...I could distinctively hear the piston going smoothly, as well as the in the "mais case" (the central one, the one you have to split in half to see insde).
I took of the the right side cover and found out that the limiting bolt's nut hit one gear of the "sprocket" behind the clutch making a very hard spot. I'm repairing it very soon...

Thanks guys...

BTW...I guess no one could hope to become a millionaire by finding my problem...will we have a millionaire next failure?? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]