CX500 GL500 650 Global

Just a few pictures of my engine rebuild,i finished it about 8 months now & its running fine
had to fit Diahatsu b/end shells as 650 shells are no longer made ,done cam chain & piston.




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Chris-euro

nice job chris,very nice.there are a lot of man hours gone into that,its looking great

Nice job Chris.Those Euros look as good if not better than many modern designs IMHO and of course apart from Guzzis there's nothing like the CX/GLs on the market.

Can you post details of the shells and job you did.

Did you have to get the crank re-ground?

How did you work out the shells sizes?

Did they have to be modified.I'm trying to get together information for possible crank re-grinds for both the CX500s and the 650s.

It looks pretty good in the flesh too Chris.

I was lucky to be able to fit original shells when rebuilding my 650 engine but I had to fit Audi rings and have the pistons machined. It is run-in now after 2000 miles, including a trip over the France (and the charge back to Le-Havre @ 80 - 90).

It has stopped using oil, which was the object of the exercise.

CXDave wrote:It looks pretty good in the flesh too Chris.

I was lucky to be able to fit original shells when rebuilding my 650 engine but I had to fit Audi rings and have the pistons machined. It is run-in now after 2000 miles, including a trip over the France (and the charge back to Le-Havre @ 80 - 90).

It has stopped using oil, which was the object of the exercise.

If ever you have real bad luck and need to get a crank job I talked with these people some time ago,

http://www.sep-kegworth.co.uk/page1.htm

For a CX500 crank I think it came to around £250 door-to-door.As we can't get undersized shells this lot will re-build a crank to stock specs so standard shells can be used.This was the best thing I could find.I know ,"The Don" in Aus has had cranks ground down but then sourcing the shells was a pain and then they had to be drilled and modified