Hello everyone! I am new to the forum and this is my first thread.
I bought my 1993 ST1100 Pan European in november. The condition of the motorcycle is something else.. It was very well taken care of, 69 000km on the clock. Every bolt I turn there is this white grease like substance ( maybe factory). I couldn't beliveve it myself. In the past months I read a lot, got the service manual and did some maintainance, changed ALL the fluids, filters, spark plugs, greased the main drive ect. ( aka preventative and regular maintanance), beacause the motorcycle is new to me and I wanted to check everything, to make sure all is good.
Now the timing belt story. I ordered the Gates T325 timing belt 2 times from the UK and after almost 3 months of waiting my nurves couldnt take much more. Nothing came.. so I had to search an alternative which was available in my country. So I ordered a CONTITECH CT 529 ( alternatives to that are GATES 5048, DAYCO 94240) they are for Opel Kadett 1.6 diesel. It was a shot in the dark..
When I got the timing belt I disasembled the Pan and found the original Honda timing belt in there, everything was clean inside and none of the pulleys, nor the water pump had any resistance or noise or play in them ( what a relief). I know what you will say, 69 000km is no wear near the change interval of the belt, but I don't know for sure if that milage is correct/ real, altough the perfect condition of the motorcycle.
The Honda belt was like NEW. I tought about leaving it in there, but I had the new one on hand and desided to change it anyway. The two belts are the same lenght, width and teeth count. The only diferance that I saw was that the Conti CT 529 teeth are a little more straight at the bottom of the belt ( see picks)
I assembled everything and rode her for about 50 km, everything OK.
I don't know if the slightly different theeth profile is going to cause any problems or wear. I will report if there is anything abnormal.
I post this info for those who are in a need of a new timing belt and can't find an original Honda one or the T325, those belts that I mentioned above are an alternative, they are widely available and very cheap in my country at least.. What do you think, is the belt looking ok on the timing gears?
I bought my 1993 ST1100 Pan European in november. The condition of the motorcycle is something else.. It was very well taken care of, 69 000km on the clock. Every bolt I turn there is this white grease like substance ( maybe factory). I couldn't beliveve it myself. In the past months I read a lot, got the service manual and did some maintainance, changed ALL the fluids, filters, spark plugs, greased the main drive ect. ( aka preventative and regular maintanance), beacause the motorcycle is new to me and I wanted to check everything, to make sure all is good.
Now the timing belt story. I ordered the Gates T325 timing belt 2 times from the UK and after almost 3 months of waiting my nurves couldnt take much more. Nothing came.. so I had to search an alternative which was available in my country. So I ordered a CONTITECH CT 529 ( alternatives to that are GATES 5048, DAYCO 94240) they are for Opel Kadett 1.6 diesel. It was a shot in the dark..
When I got the timing belt I disasembled the Pan and found the original Honda timing belt in there, everything was clean inside and none of the pulleys, nor the water pump had any resistance or noise or play in them ( what a relief). I know what you will say, 69 000km is no wear near the change interval of the belt, but I don't know for sure if that milage is correct/ real, altough the perfect condition of the motorcycle.
The Honda belt was like NEW. I tought about leaving it in there, but I had the new one on hand and desided to change it anyway. The two belts are the same lenght, width and teeth count. The only diferance that I saw was that the Conti CT 529 teeth are a little more straight at the bottom of the belt ( see picks)
I assembled everything and rode her for about 50 km, everything OK.
I don't know if the slightly different theeth profile is going to cause any problems or wear. I will report if there is anything abnormal.
I post this info for those who are in a need of a new timing belt and can't find an original Honda one or the T325, those belts that I mentioned above are an alternative, they are widely available and very cheap in my country at least.. What do you think, is the belt looking ok on the timing gears?
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. Oh the irony I thought..
I did however rotate the cranckshaft maybe 10 times before I tightened the tensioner bolt and all the marks were spot on! Belt tensioner got the slack out of the new belt right after I started to rotate and didn't move ever since. Belt had no slack. I know this is a stupid question but I really don't want to nor have the time to do the timing belt job again atm. Have riden about 600km since the job, and nothing abnormal has happened. Do you think I am good?
. So if it is necessary I am willing to do it.