squirrelman

bearings too loose will usually CLICK when using front break hard and will cause the steering to wander side-to-side if too tight. new bearings may need readustment after the first 600 miles.

High resistance caused by corrosion will overheat and kill the thing. you can see the corrosion starting here on the top left terminal.....greenish.

must NOT use energy conserving oil in motorcycles ! 😫 photo is my black-tail prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) named Cheeky. very sweet and friendly, he insists upon sleeping next to me in bed !

very often a melted plug like yours will destroy the stator if any two wires contact each other.

in a hot climate it's best to use what Honda recommends, and that's 10W40 or 20W40, isn't it ? 10w30 is for cooler northern latitudes.

10mm is about the limit.

So you rode your VFR from OH to AZ ? 😎

Well, i'm wrong again. sorry !

People who paint their luvly alloy frame black: 😱 It's a bluudy disgrace it is !!

But i HAVE worked in shops, fixed many V-4's in the Honda line (Magnas, Sabres) and still never saw it. thanks for the fire warning though. of course we're talking OEM pumps only, not Chinese replacements, which i would expect to leak ??

Guess i should have stated that i never saw the problem in 28 years of owning and working on many VFR's.

Good on the unfortunate guys who must work outside ! 🙄

This failure is very, very unusual ! 😱

Rog started making shocks to gain whatever small advantage in the Indycar series, and always has the best engineers.