I personally also saw a heavy coating of carbon on top of piston.
are you contributing that to ATF in the gear box?
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Naa. Obviously just rambling off symptoms that were odd. I put a hinson basket in it and new clutches and steels, ran with the magura hydraulic awhile ago, and its super smooth. It just had a weird failure while warming it up. Maybe coincidentally, shortly after changing to ATF, but I additionally had a bunch of stuff in there according to my mechanic, which seems odd with 20-25 hours of ride time. I had always ran 10w30 valvoline, until switching to ATF, which is the same price here, by the way.
I can't make myself buy a case of oil thats 15 bucks a quart.( Synthetics) Maybe if it changed color when it needed changed after several hours of abuse. The problem is, you have to change frequently, to clear clutch fiber debris, check that the water pump seal is holding, and with my aftermarket crap to be sure theres oil in it. (No windows or check screws) I don't know what caused the lock up or stuff in there. SUcked on the Timing, that I do know...