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Looks like you can't win with the flat tappet motors unless you have a bike with very early stage damage. How you could convince a well informed punter to buy it from you is another matter.
Pull the valve covers, by inspection you can tell if they are rollerised.
I was talking about resale and how a potential buyer could determine if the 2012 bike came with factory rollers or was rollerised. As a seller I could state that it came with factory rollers when in fact it was a roller conversion after delivery. You can't tell that by looking. Could affect the resale value of 2012 bikes.
MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU CLEAN THE SUMP THOROUGHLY! IF YOUR TAPPETS ARE MORE THAN A TINY BIT WORN I STRONGLY SUGGEST BACK FLUSHING THE COOLER AND INSPECTING THE OIL PUMP. PULLED THE ROD CAPS ON RALF'S BIKE THIS MORNING. DEAD AS THE PROVERBIAL DOORNAIL.
Sad news.And next are the front and rear main bearings.
I wonder if it is the carbon, not the metal doing the damage. The carbon would be a little bit of lapping compound. I would think the filter would have done a better job.
Pretty unbelievable for the bikes with what amounts to one summer riding season and you're into rebuilding the engine. Downright shameful. Not the budget model line, but supposedly top of the line.Brand damaging. Couldn't give me a 2012. Even with the fix, unless you know for a fact it was done right and other things checked, its no better than it was before, just other things to go wrong. One reason there are likely a lot of one time only MG riders.
I suggest you just insure it well and burn it........NOT, Pete