[DEairheads] Fwd: 83 R80RT /7 engine repair

[chris daring]

I just received this email from a fellow airhead rider. Does anyone have a
suggestion for Dave??

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From: chris daring <cdaring69 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 8, 2020, 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: 83 R80RT /7 engine repair
To: Dmjacob1 <dmjacob1 at aol.com>


Dave welcome  and sorry to hear about your r80 problems. I am not familiar
with anyone around here working on motors. I mostly do my own maintenance
but I haven't gone any deeper than top end work. It sounds like your
problem may be in the bottom end. I will post your original email and see
if anyone else responds.

On Sat, May 2, 2020, 4:51 PM Dmjacob1 <dmjacob1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> My name is David Jacobson and I am an airhead member.
> We recently moved from NY to Greenville VA which is just one mile  over
> the MD line on the shore.
> I bought an R80 down here and to make a long story short I lost oil
> pressure an the engine started rapping. Anyhow, I fixed the situation at
> the $2000 oring and I believe there is oil pressure which I will be testing
> to confirm. I have an appointment at Bob's in November which is when they
> will work on an airhead engine.
> My question is do you know anyone else who can fix an airhead engine? I
> don't want to give it to someone that will be learning on my bike.
> Any thoughts on this will be greatly appreciated!
> Thank you Dave
>