Baileyrock

I have never seen shims, so I was hoping to see one and how they are used etc.

Is there 1 kind of shim for VFR's for multiple places or many kinds of shims?

A steel flat washer can be a shin, nothing special ! Using washers or shims with a hole in them requires you to remove the bolt to get them on. As mentioned by Beck here, you can just loosen the top nut and slide in the U shaped body shims availible from most auto parts stores.

AS HS mentioned you could slide your fork tubes up in the trees 5mm instead. :thumbsup:

Is it just me; I can't see any pics? If it is not just me, are they recoverable?

I think older post have pics deleated to save site space ??? This post is from 2002 !

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Does this apply to 6th gen VFR's too? Sorry if it is a stupid question.

Yes, same'o :thumbsup:

mpg? MPG?!?

Good grief, Man! If I'd wanted an economical bike, I'd've (can I do that?) bought a scooter.

Besides, after the VTR1000 GGM (Gas Guzzling Monster), anything's economical. It did worse fuel mileage than any of our cars.

No, we want MORE POWER! and BETTER ACCELERATION! and especially MORE THRILLS!

I don't know why I added mpg, I've never carred about it ever ! It's always been FPG (Fun Per Gal) and I don't really care how much it cost ! :beer:

Good stuff Magellan, would like to see longer term effects to driveability and mpg.

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Nice Job !

I had the same problem on a crashed 5th gen. VFR a few years ago, the front end impact popped/broke out this same lower bearing seat.

I thought I was screwed, but I thought about it for a while and decided to have my local machine shop just build an insert. They over bored the frame with a step and made a sleeve insert that was pressed into the new larger hole that had a much stouter seat .

Worked like a charm !

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This is a cool and quick Mod, but will also affect the Link ratio of the shock in some way. Can't throw it off to much though, but it will be working the shock a little different. This was one of the things mentioned by Phil at AfterShocks when using a CBR shock on a VFR, they run a different Link ratio resulting in slightly different valving !

I think it's partly the VFR's link Ratio that requires a much heavier spring than most, not just because of the pigish weight ! :goofy:

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You can say that again... Debbie is about my height...  about 5'11"...

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Who's the Old guy messing up the pic of Debbie ? :huh:

Your parts are much prettier Larry ! :P

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I'll be sending the forks to California Suspension Works for a complete Gold Valve job and springs along with a custom sprung Ohlins for the rear. ?Looking forward to the wrenching experience and the "transformation" that is about to occur.

Thanks again to everyone who weighed in on the topic. :beer:

:twist:  Sweet ! Should be an awesome transformation ! :bow:

Please post results !

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Still in a major dilema. ?Following this thread and the one where everyone is going the Hyperpro route. ?

I spoke with Traxxion and they were helpful, but fall into the fixed rate school of thought on springs.

Preliminary research for F3 forks looks they run $300-$400 for a servicable set. ?Is this about right? ?Was anybody able to find a much better deal?

:twist:  ZMZMON2,  Using f3 internals with the stock VFR lower tubes with give you Pre-load and Rebound Adjustment, not Comp. That's built into the lower leg tubes.

On cost of used F3 forks, I see them in the $100-200 range on ebay all the time and even better you can buy slightly bend forks much cheaper and still use the undamaged internals. I've bought several sets of bent F4 forks for less than $100 shipped to my door. Only problem is now I decided to just run the whole F4 forks instead( on Vtec), now I have to buy some good one's . :doh:

Do you mean can you use a compression valve for a rebound valve?? ?No the rebound valve has a large teflon strip while the compression has a small o-ring (cause its is static and does not move). ?If you look closer at them you will notice the difference when you look at the side profile.

Details,details  :goof:  Yes your right, i finnally look at the sides of them !

Thanks again HS ! :bow:

:twist:  That's why I'm asking, I don't have a Rebound Gold Valve yet just the Comp. Gold Valve.

The stock all have o-rings !

I'm wondering if I can modify (machine) the stock rebound valve close to a Gold valve. ???

:twist:  Thanks HS, I know they all use the same one's. My question is :where the Gold Valves (gold piece) for comp. and rebound the same ?

The stock one's of the VFR look identical as do the F4's(interchangeable) between bikes and r/c.

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:twist:  HS, the valve bodies for comp.& rebound look exactly the same for the VFR and F4, looks like you could use a rebound body on the comp. side and vise versa.

Were the Gold valve bodies the same and just have different shim pacs or what on your's ? ???

:twist:   SweeT Heat !

Sure didn't take you long to use that extra heater.

Awesome ! :bow: