Split the crank cases and find the clutch side crank bearing locked up tight.
Their was no oil on the lobes on the crankshaft like you normally find when you take apart a
Engine for a rebuild, this coincides with my findings years ago, if I drive my Pilot off the trailer then into the shop and take apart the Engine I find all kinds of oil inside the bottom end, if I take my Pilot warm up the Engine then run it down the hard road for a mile
WOT (Wide Open Throttle) then back WOT (Wide Open Throttle) and right into the shop killing the Engine and not letting it idle THEN remove the Engine for a inspection/rebuild I find little or no oil in the bottom end.
This tells me that on long WOT (Wide Open Throttle) runs the oil is being washed out of the Engine, any oil that fell out of suspension has been remove and burned.
Any thoughts on adding oil injection to this Engine I would love to drill some holes and pipe 2 stroke Engine oil right to the bearings, additional oil for the bearing you would continue to mix gas/oil as normal this would just add a drop of 2 stroke oil into the bearing say every 3 seconds of Engine run time or something.
The HOT SETUP would be to use a injection pump like found on snowmobiles or PWC but how do we connect it to the Engine to spin it?
Anybody know of a small electric pump that would pump small amounts of 2 stroke injector oil? That oil is about 0 weight.
Ok how about if I use another Pilot fuel pump to pump the oil I guess I need to rig one up and hook it to a reservoir of oil and take it for a ride in my Pilot and see if it will pump oil and how much it will pump then pipe it to the clutch side bearing?
How about skipping all this crap and just mixing the gas/oil at 20:1 and not the current 32:1 will the extra oil be enough protection for this already to be known short lived bearing?
Getting sick of this clutch side bearing shit this is the main reason why I swapped over to the 440 Engine in my Pilot, my 440 Engine came from the factory with dual bearings on the clutch side.