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Forking Righteous!

24 April 2009 1630 hrs Run down to the basement. Using the dremel, with a wire wheel attachment, get the final paper out of the old air filter housing. A blast of compressed air blows all the fibers out and away. Using a small drill bit, I put a couple of holes in the housing. I put the UNI foam (two layers of the HF series) into the housing and safety wired them in. (Note: I thought I had the picture of that with me... where did that go?) I put the air filter into the air box, but didn'
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Valve Covers!

17 April 2009 The End Goal: Sonic .90 Springs and New Url After spending most of the day fixing up my step-dad's '79 Cub Cadet 1250 (new seat and arm rests, needed to drill and tap the seat for the arm rests), I finally made it back to the man cave to button up the valve check. Getting a torque wrench on the rear #1 cylinder bolt was a real PITA. Anyway, I got both valve covers back on and took another hour to get the darn airbox and 14 hoses back together. While down in the cave I took
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Valve Check!

14 April 2009, 2030 hrs About a week ago I pulled the valve covers off, and the '00 has been sitting naked with the internals exposed just waiting for me to get a block of time to slip the feeler gauges in and check the valves. Well, after a bit of futzing around we have results (I took my time checking and rechecking): Valve Clearances (measurements in inches) Valve Clearances at 24k miles All within spec! I put the rear cylinder cover back on, have yet to do the
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Time Is Always Short

3 April 2009, 1000hrs I had just spent about 1.5 hours on my roof, fixing shingles (again) due to some high winds. About a week ago I ordered a set of Sonic Springs (0.90) and PJ1 10W fork oil. I ordered the seals and bushings from Service Honda as well. I have a choice here. Do I fab up my missile launcher/50 cal pushbuttons or put the rear back on and prep for valve cover removal, or finish up the MIG? I had some red RTV kicking around, rather than purchase some black, I put on the red a
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Nothing To See Here

14-16 March No new progress. I've determined that I might as well do the forks while I'm tearing into everything though. I still need to drain the fuel and pull the tank to do the valves. I'll be pulling all of the tupperware this week, probably hang it from the floor joists. I'll do the valves, forks and rig up my garage door opener. While I have all the plastics off, I think I redo the compressor attachment for the stebel and rerun beefier wires for the heated grips. But, unfortunately
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Is It A Stout Or A Honey Brown?

7 March 2009 2130hrs Burning both ends of the candle! My wife went out with a friend, kids are in bed. Time for the brake and clutch fluid flush. Ewwwwwwww I went to Advance AutoParts on the 6th to buy a vacuum. They have a loaner program. Pay full price, bring it back within 45 days and get the full price back. SWEET! Fluid purge went fine, as far as I can tell, but check out the Stout I pulled. That's been there since it was built in October 1999. Gross! Stout! Bleeding fro
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It's A Wa-rap.

7 March 2009 0400hrs Yes, that's right 0400 hours. My wife is a CPA, and has to work weekends now that it is the 'busy season'. She puts in 8 hours and is home for lunch. That means I have a couple of hours whilst the mini-us'es are sleeping. Don the mask and wrap the MIG! P3070009.JPG This KaoWool is really thick. I ended up wrapping the shotguns separately, then the single tube and finally the whole shebang. P3070010.JPG Problem is, it is WAY too thick. I unwrapped it, and pe
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Who Said Change Was Impossible?!?

6 March 2009 I work (normally) a 9/80 schedule. That's 4 9-hour days, an 8-hour Friday and the second week is just 4 9-hour days, with that Friday off. This is my first Friday off in a VERY long time that I can dedicate to working on the bike. The first order of business was moving my second bench over to the workshop. I really wanted to work on the shock install, but a can of lacquer was calling me. My CF can is flaking and sun checked, so I went to it with a scotchbrite pad and some 600
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Waiting For The Bolt & Clevis: Repack The Mig!

March 2, 2009 Start the MIG Indy teardown! I got my MIG from a 'big lister' quite a few years ago, after he had low sided his '98. He indicated it had never been repacked, so I purchased a bit of KaoWool from another 'big lister' about 5 years ago (yes, I've been meaning to repack this for about 5 years!). My new bolt & clevis are away being welded and painted (thanks RoBoots21!) My better half and the two boys are out getting haircuts and I have my 2YO daughter. It's not bed time yet.
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Stock Shock Removal, Modifying The Clevis

March 2, 2009 Bike is on the operating table. The rear wheel and slip-on have been removed (more on the slip-on later). It's time to remove the stock shock. The triangle and bottom shock mount bolt are removed with out much to do. I pulled the front tank bolts and rear tank bolts. I propped the tank up and forward to gain access to the top shock mount nut. P3020012.JPG I had a lot of trouble removing the dog bone, so I coaxed the shock out with a punch and a ford wrench (dead blow ham
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I Need A Lift!

February 25, 2009 I've started the spacer modifications for doing the shock upgrade, but I really hate working at floor level. I need a lift. The $$$ for a real lift isn't in the cards, and I consider myself to be pretty handy... We just built our house (walk out basement, which is where I'm doing all this work) and we have a bunch of leftover lumber. The lumber is slated to be used to build a pool shed this summer. I need a lift right now though. So, a couple of 2x4-8's, a bunch of screw
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Preparing The Stock Shock Parts

After about 9ish years of ownership, I thought it was about time I do some real maintenance on the 2000 VFR. For Christmas 2008, my much better half got me a CBR 929 shock. It happened to be one with the triangles and dogbone still attached. In order to do the shock swap, I'll need to use the stock top mount clevis with a longer bolt and a space. SEBSPEED suggested I simply cut of of the ends off the 929 dogbone and use that. February 20, 2009 It turns out that the DB is 36.5mm, so, using
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