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output shaft bearing failure

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Just picked a project bike with a bearing failure on the output shaft (secondary drive), the bevel gears are chewed up, looks to have been a ball bearing coming loose and dropping into it's path or just chewed up from excessive movement.
I have pulled the engine apart to get to the secondary drive internal unit and the bearing cage is gone and is very loose.
Anyone seen this failure before ? bike has done 50,000kms

 
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Yes, I've seen it before. The bike was run low on oil and something in the bottom end failed, which lunched the drive gear. The engine was junk.
 
#3 ·
Engine runs and is in excellent condition internally, other than the noise from the secondary drive.
The guy I got it from took it to a Suzuki dealer to get a quote to repair the noisy secondary drive, they quoted him $3500 Aud to repair, $1200 in parts, main cost is a new secondary drive.
I picked up a used drive from a low mileage bike.
 
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A buddy of mine had a 2006 C50 SEC and he had a drive line noise that developed. It was said to be the output shaft bearing. He managed to get Suzuki to cover the cost under warranty. I don't remember how many km were on the bike. He rode the thing and racked it up to over 100,000 km. before he sold it. The motor was starting to smoke and he was finding metal bits when he did oil changes. He got 11 yrs of riding out of it.
 
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The engine will still have an issue, whether you choose to address it or not. The metal shavings and chunks from the old output shaft were circulated around inside the engine for an unknown period of time. That undoubtedly damaged internal components which will show up at a later time. Most common is going to be loss of oil in between service intervals. The more extreme case is going to as David said and the engine will start smoking.

Before you put it back in the frame, do yourself a favor and run a compression check and a leak down test. It will tell you once and for all if there is any damage to the pistons, rings or cylinder walls from the brillo pad that was floating around in the engine.
 
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The cylinder walls, piston rings etc all look good. When I drained the oil only found a couple of tiny specs of metal, then when the cases were apart again only a few small specs at the bottom of the sump, then all the metal, small and big chunks were all sitting on the outside of the metal oil pump screen they were all caught there in that little chamber.
I was expecting to see far more internal damage than what I found. Once it's all back together I will run a compression test to see where it's at.
 
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