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Magneto

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  1. On 4/14/2021 at 10:50 PM, Philois1984 said:

    Replaced my air filter. Still had the original one fitted, didn’t look too bad to me ? But I changed it anyway. Tank only had around 1 to 2 litres of fuel which made it much easier. Made sure the breather hose wasn’t kinked when I lowered the tank.E83D1F57-4D55-4E78-8036-A3CE34E895C0.thumb.jpeg.78d269283bb088fe37c8c24f4f778457.jpegE43D07A1-44CF-45BF-8070-B2492B2CEC17.thumb.jpeg.6ba4b8ea2d8e624a20f38db7c6347ff1.jpegB67C3FD1-6B72-42FA-B174-030C152F3859.thumb.jpeg.e9e8d92b49590feb86c8f5fc89885541.jpeg

     

    That filter is quite bad by our standards. On the other hand we had small vendors picking up our trash, oil and air filters to be shipped to Caribbean for reuse. They were considered like new down there... 😉 

  2. 1 hour ago, Stray said:

    Any advice on where to pour a bit of engine oil to aid first startup? Do I drop some down the spark plug hole? Drizzle a bit over the open area under the camshafts? 
     

    I use engine assembly lube for that purpose, interesting idea with your own lube. Oil is fine if you are ready to put an engine into service right away. Not from this company but bird is fine

     

     

    “Also, that “stress cracking” described earlier is all over these engines. Inside and out. Even the cam clamp has some. I opened up one of my scrap engines to harvest the shims and that one had crazing all over too. Must be a casting flaw as Dangeruss says.”

     

    Nothing to worry about those “turtle cracks”, just cosmetics and quite normal for aluminum die casted parts. Those veins are cracks fills - cracks that appears in the molds, not in the casted  part. You could clean them up with a Dremel tool if you fancy....

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  3. Quite story there Kiwi👍 I am stuck on treadmill myself but good to know there are people who live the life fully. 

    I did the motorcycle endorsement on my ZRX in previous century, Lady wasn’t surprised but lectured me about not doing stoppie on brake check strip. Sorry, it’s my new bike lady ;-)

    Which TL you are looking for? Now and then I check for well preserved R model

  4. God gracious, looks like they rode them wheels off! So much work on a new bike? We are spoiled down here with low mileage, well taken care of bikes, whatever is less than 10 years old I call it new. People buy them for coolness factor then don’t ride much. My record so far was 2006 SV1000 with 295 miles on the clock, I got it in 2017. Owner tried to learn how to ride on liter bike...😇

  5. I did mine in 2019 shortly after I got the bike. Passed on few dealers before settling on one in Palm Beach to do the job. Some tried to hold to my bike before part arrived, that took about a month. Quite pleased with new shaft. Old one was clunky at low walking speed, with bike at 20k miles I am assuming that was due to loose tolerances not actual wear

     

    Here is an old pup

     

     

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