Originally Posted by brd883/1200xl

Thanks for the info guys. . . part of the problem might be that it has been rebuilt once, and there was glazing on the cylinder walls and that went to the machine shop to get "trimmed off"

Im not sure what you guys are talking about, about two things though . . i keep reading references to indy? and torque plates? im new at this so bear with me if you could. . .

And I have taken it back to the guy multiple times he was a family friend who did awesome work on my dads bikes and other local bikes, but he wouldn't take any responsibility for my bikes issues

And i didn't upgrade the heads yet because i was going to school full time working as much as possible and building a toyota rock crawler so funds were tight

Now that i may have to break into this motor again though i may just save up some cash and do it all from scratch maybe get a zippers kit or something to that affect

and does anyone have ideas on why its only the rear cylinder the first time it started drinking oil when i went to get it rebuilt we compression tested it and it was only about 20 percent efficient and now that is the cylinder that went again, and it has been the cylinder that has always backfired out its pipe ever since the first swap . . .