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Gold like covering on the bore/cylinder insides and the inside of the crankcasing?



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+1 on that. crankcase on my filed bike has that coating,1st time i've ever seen it. thought it was just mine?



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I've had DTs before for off road use and they've had this too, never got it looked into though? Isit Nikasil coating or?

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nikasil is a hard shiny chrome type coating for barrels. cant work out what this gold stuff is or why its there? cant find any mention of it anywhere?



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seen it on a few now specially the older ones, its an anti porus coating, in the early ytears they sufferd porus cases after a while, it was just a design flaw in the materials used for the alloy, later fixed...so i got told any way



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Aaa I see! Cheers norfe

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makes sense that but... ive had 4 early 90's dt's and they didnt have it,plus my field bike has a 96 4fl lump in it? confuse 



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