Somewhat same scenerio...
Just replaced rings and piston pin on my 2000 450ES because of rather loud noise coming from cylinder and some smoke. Rings were obviously worn along with pin. Cylinder wall was okay. Did not bore... went back stock. Still has same high pitch, loud tapping coming from head. Valves were adjusted out to .006" and were in rather decent shape. Springs, rods, rockers all seemed fine. I did run a little seafoam in the last oilchange. Can this affect the lubrication of the top end? Scared to run it like this. I don't think the top end is getting lubed correctly. How would I know???? HELP!!
Just replaced rings and piston pin on my 2000 450ES because of rather loud noise coming from cylinder and some smoke. Rings were obviously worn along with pin. Cylinder wall was okay. Did not bore... went back stock. Still has same high pitch, loud tapping coming from head. Valves were adjusted out to .006" and were in rather decent shape. Springs, rods, rockers all seemed fine. I did run a little seafoam in the last oilchange. Can this affect the lubrication of the top end? Scared to run it like this. I don't think the top end is getting lubed correctly. How would I know???? HELP!!
