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HispanicSlammer

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  1. I have notice that will require a major update, and a  renewal of certificates, more license fees.

     

    It's going to be a lot of work and frankly my interest have moved on. 

     

    Last year we did not meet the goal, keeping vfrd going has been a lot of work over the last 21 years but I think it is time I moved on. It was a passion and not a business. My goal was never to make money, I did it because I loved vfrs. But over the years I became less and less interested in riding. 

     

    I even almost stopped riding. I bought a second bike and renewed my love of motorcycles a couple of years ago, with a smaller lighter bike.

     

    Every time I got on my vfr, my neck, knees, back and well it hurt. So I sold the vfr a couple of weeks ago for a more upright bike.  2020 ktm 1290 gt. I had 89k miles on the veefalo, I got the best miles out of her. But it's time to move on. 

     

    Honda has..

     

    Thanks for all the friends, good times, rallys, meet ups, Frankenstein vfrs, turbo builds, tire and oil posts. 

     

    I just don't want to do this anymore. I will keep it going until the certificate expires. All good thing must come to an end. 

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  2. Not conclusively I am pretty sure its a damaged pair system oring like stated in the thread before.  I am not burning oil at a significant rate, my oil level is the same day after day. I will look into it when I do the next service interval. 
    I just did a valve clearance check, removed the rear cylinder cover, sure enough the oring was missing. I put a new one on, buttoned up the bike, started it up...no smoke. Thanks so much for the help.

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  3. On 7/10/2018 at 6:10 AM, swimmer said:

    OP never posted about what he found, though the thread title seems to have changed. @HispanicSlammer, did you find the cause?

     

    Not conclusively I am pretty sure its a damaged pair system oring like stated in the thread before.  I am not burning oil at a significant rate, my oil level is the same day after day. I will look into it when I do the next service interval. 

     

     

    Update I did a valve clearance  check, rear cylinder head oring was missing. Replaced it finished the valve check, put it back together. Not smoking anymore. !!

     

    Thanks for the help in identifying the root cause. 

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  4. I will have gps route files available after the weekend.  I can either post them up or email them out to those who can use them.
     
    Good I tried to trace one out on mapsource, cant find some of those roads. Or I have to drill in way detailed. 500ft it would take a while, hoping you already did all that.

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  5. On 2/1/2018 at 6:38 AM, BlueTraveler said:

     

    SW-MOTECH Bags-Connection QUICK-LOCK EVO City Non-Electric Tank Bag

    SW-MOTECH Bags-Connection Slipstream Tail Bag

     

    Both bags fit like they were made for the bike! I used bulk elastic shockcord to fasten the tail bag to the seat (available from REI in the US). Here's a recent picture of them in the wild...

    hennE8.jpg

    Oh  Like that picture put it in the vfrd gallery so I can feature it on the homepage

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  6. Went for a long ride Monday with my usual crew. They tell me the 1200 is puffing blue smoke out of the exhaust when it decelerates.

     

    OK

     

    1) crankcase ventilation malfunctioning?

     

    2) valve seals, valve guides.

     

    3) bad rings?

     

    I suppose I need to get to the heads and do a pressure test. I'm gonna need a proper adapter for my pressure guage. 

     

    I'm notrying even sure if there is a pcv or pair valve to test, well there has to be. 

     

    Ideas suggestions?

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    Contributions - VFRD is a member supported website with no commercial advertising

     

    Every time I turn on the local NPR radio station I cringe when they are doing fund drives, which is pretty much every three months.  I am a supporting member but its seems like jeez every time I actually listen, which is probably once or twice a month driving my car around town. I have to shut it off cause its well a bit over bearing. I hope to never have to do that here but it seems the time has come for me to ask for help since I am going out of pocket lately to keep this place going.

     

    We have collected 59% of the goal so far which was sustaining us up until I lost the hard drive on the server, which entailed a lot of work on my part and some serious downtime involving me trying to restore the old software for 3 days strait to no avail.  I had it like I wanted it and many of you like the old site the way it was too, however Linux is constantly changing, constantly upgrading and bits of pieces of software go unsupported and unavailible as time goes on.  They call it a Lamp stack - the engine that drives a linux webserver.

     

    Linux - the operating system that allows a computer to work

    Apache - the software that serves up HTTP web and publishes our site to the world

    MySQL - the database that powers all the data and stores it rapidly and efficiently

    PHP - the programming language that this forum is written in

     

    Well every part of the lamp stack must be compatible in order to make vfrd work, I lost the hard drive and the old outdated lamp stack that worked with the old forum software.  I had to rebuild it - I tried to recreate the stack the way it was so I could just copy over the saved files from the site, but my backup was incomplete, it had all the vfrd files I needed but not all the of the linux files so I had to rebuild from scratch.  3 days trying to get the right combo of stack to work with the old files just wasnt happening and I was coming to conclusion I needed just to upgrade everything to the latest version and upgrade vfrd forum invisionboard software as well - I had planned on doing it anyhow but I was waiting for the moment when I had all the right peices of the puzzle in place.  Did not happen that way as you know and as the forum is currently not in the same state as complete as I would like (a home page would be nice WORKING ON IT TRUST ME IM WORKING ON IT) - so I rebuilt it as current as possible with a lamp stack that works together with all the forum programs in unison.

     

    Well that server melt down cost a bit more money than I had planned for and as a result - we are 75% of the way into the budget year with 59% of the budget proccedes collected, I am coming up short!  

     

    VFRD needs to collect $225 each month to sustain operation, I planned a bit of overage but with issues we had I did not plan enough. But $225 a month will do the job!  So far this last July we have Collected $70 and nothing so far this month.  I have put an awful lot of time and my own money into this thing I could use your help - those of you who have already contributed thank you so much. If you havent and you value this place as much as I do please help out!  You have no idea I have much I hate to have to ask!

     

    http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/index.php?/donate/

     

    HS

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