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Originally Posted by memphis2857
KTM is also having lots of problems with TPI. A large portion of the oil pumps are failing without warning and ruining engines.
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Ouch, that looks nasty...
OK, let's assume that's genuine, I mean the hour meter is on the same bike as the piston...
I have many questions...
Was the owner at fault? Did he put oil or the correct oil in the oil tank?
What caused this? Did the oil pump simply stop working?
How many engines have failed in this way?
Is there any monitoring of the oil pump within the bike's electronic system?
I used to work as a CNC machine engineer, very expensive laser cutting machines. Many times I arrived at a customer's machine and had to figure out why a machine had failed with a view to giving feedback to design engineers to prevent it happening again. Sometimes it takes some detective work!
However, if this is genuine and it's happening to a large percentage of engines then of course it's not acceptable.