Bad day.

[Megadan]

Well, to cut to the chase, I went to go run some quick little errands on my Goldwing. About 2 miles from home I start getting a louder than normal chain slap noise from the rear of the motor, decide "not good" head home. Within 8 blocks of my home the noise stops, but the oil light comes on. Lost all oil pressure. Had to nurse it a couple of blocks to get safely out of the way, then push it the last 6 home...uphill for most of it. That was fun.

So I either lost the oil pump, sprocket, drive shaft, or the oil pump chain.. or all of the above. Assuming no other damage was done, which I am somewhat confident of, but I know how this kind of stuff can be.

So, the Goldwing is dead. *sigh*

This kind of throws a wrench in my plans. Many of these parts are "obsolete" and don't exist, so I have to locate good condition used parts. It also requires pulling the whole driveline to do since the rear case has to be removed, and that requires basically taking the entire bike apart.

[goat67]

Well, to cut to the chase, I went to go run some quick little errands on my Goldwing. About 2 miles from home I start getting a louder than normal chain slap noise from the rear of the motor, decide "not good" head home. Within 8 blocks of my home the noise stops, but the oil light comes on. Lost all oil pressure. Had to nurse it a couple of blocks to get safely out of the way, then push it the last 6 home...uphill for most of it. That was fun.

So I either lost the oil pump, sprocket, drive shaft, or the oil pump chain.. or all of the above. Assuming no other damage was done, which I am somewhat confident of, but I know how this kind of stuff can be.

So, the Goldwing is dead. *sigh*

This kind of throws a wrench in my plans. Many of these parts are "obsolete" and don't exist, so I have to locate good condition used parts. It also requires pulling the whole driveline to do since the rear case has to be removed, and that requires basically taking the entire bike apart.

Bummer
Just what you wanted to work on I bet

[pete]

What a bastard & you talking about selling it...
Obslete parts are a bugger... 5 years and I still havn't
found a air box for my 77 montesa 348 trials bike..
well I did but wasn't going to pay $700 new for it plus
shiping from Spain....


..

[cheesy]

Man, I feel for ya. Good luck. David Silver Spares would probably be my first stop. He carries many repops for the CX. You might get lucky with the Goldwing.

[Megadan]

Thankfully they never really changed the design of some of these parts, so I have any year of 4 cylinder Goldwing to choose from, tens of thousands of bikes that met an early grave can donate to the cause. There are also a couple of very well known Goldwing recyclers that will only sell good parts, Even if I have to replace the whole pump and drive assembly it looks like it wont cost me more than about $100. Assuming nothing else got wrecked.

I can be sure of one thing, this episode definitely sealed the deal on getting rid of it. I just don't want to see it turn into a parts bike if I can help it.

[ben2go]

Man, I feel for ya. Good luck. David Silver Spares would probably be my first stop. He carries many repops for the CX. You might get lucky with the Goldwing.
He seems to get a lot of NOS parts. He had a side stand spring for a 70's Honda I was working on last year. I never would have thought I'd find it but he had it.

[MICRider]

If I remember correctly, don't the wings use a hyvo type chain to connect the crank to the clutch basket, and the oil pump is driven off this chain as well? Might just be a bad chain? Seriously a pita to take apart and repair though! That troublesome wing stator is back there as well, though it might not have been as failure prone on the 75. I miss my wing, that was a good old bike :(

Edit: Actually, I think my memory is flawed, lol! I think the clutch basket ran right off the crank and then there was a hyvo chain running to the drive assembly for the rear driveshaft? I never had mine apart, I was just thinking of what I looked at in it's repair manual when I was looking up stator repair in case mine crapped out. My memory sucks!