Thu Mar 6 09:50:37 1997 - Message No. 485
From: jr@beta.amd.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Juergen Reimann)

Subject: Re: Shooting, AT history




Hi all,

Shooting:
From my experience a (soft, not loud!) shooting seems to be a normal
stage during the live of a Honda V-Twin. My AT started to do so at an
age of ca. 40.000 km. As far as I know this is harmless and means that
the engine will have a remaining lifetime of more than 50.000 km.

AT-history:
I'm not sure, wether the XLV is an ancestor of the AT. I think all
present small Honda-V-Twins are derived from one engine (VT 500 C/E (1983?),
my first bike :)) by making it bigger and bigger: Transalp (600ccm),
VT 600 C , NTV 650, XRV 650, XRV 750 (... XRV 900 ???). I don't know
wether the XLV motor is part of this family and so I'm not sure wether
it makes sense to compare these motors. I was told they had lots of 
quality problems with the engine and transmission of the XLV. 


Bye 

jr

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