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  2. vfrbart
    Not much to go on here
  3. vfrbart
    Its de paired ...just seems like the top part of the airbox will not seat properly
  4. interceptor69
    The drill bit arrived and it appears to be a simple reverse drill bit. Doesn't look like the one I've used before but that was a spark plug that broke off in the motor. Is this what I need to drill those out? Want to make certain before I truly screw this up.
  5. interceptor69
    be a simple drill bit, just reversed. Is this what I need to drill the bolt out?
  6. MBrane
    Pics would help. I have de-PAIRed, and de-flappered my airboxes to avoid these issues.
  7. MBrane
    I found that wheel vise essentially useless to the point where I didn't even bother to mount it. I did mount the front stopper bracket. Being in earthquake country I always strap the foot pegs with tie down straps in case things get shakey. Would hate for a bike to topple over while on the lift. I had it happen once in my old garage due to the rear stand. Fortunately it was so tight in there it just fell against the work bench, and I was able to push it back up with no damage. I widened the base of the stand after that incident.
  8. Today
  9. vfrbart
    Just changed out the thermostat(hope i never have to do it again). Now I cannot get the top part of the airbox back on. It seems as though everything shifted to the left and as far as I can tell thats not really possible. Any suggestions on how to go about this ? Thanks Kevin
  10. Worfje
    For your information: according to RapidBike USA the Evo 2 and Racing 2 are not available and are not planned to become available for VFR800 5th gen due to no demand (quote: your bike is a dinosaur, without intending to insult you). I ordered a Racing kit from Italy and I hope their stock status will proof to be valid... 😁
  11. natnif
    @8200rpm what an excellent post, this really helped my understanding of the braking system which I now know I was not clear on! @jfheath If you are so inclined, that guide would be gratefully received. That diagram is really useful, thank you.
  12. Dav
    100% agree, looking for used pump is pointless because they are really expensive and worn out long time ago. that sounds very interesting. I hope its gonna work well.
  13. Burger
    i'm in a similar situation (my pump was peeing out the weep hole which means the shaft seals are toast)--in my research i have not heard great things about those repair kits. and yeah, other options are not great: new gen5 pumps are basically impossible to find, a gen6 water pump allegedly bolts right up but they're not cheap. a rebuilt pump may be an option if you can find one. the route i chose to go was actually an electric pump, for which i will hopefully have results to share very soon.
  14. Dav
    Im back after some break with updates in cooling system. After 5 months break i drained the coolant and it looks bad There is only one option for this bike. Disassemble and inspect the entire cooling system. yee to be expected, scale and oxidation on aluminium parts. Left radiator out and the right one Pump going out as well no wonder the cooling system is dirty I did my best to clean this pump but according to the internet, impellar its made out of steel and galvanized. After almost 30 years this coat is gone so i need to find repair kit or just try to pull impellar out and sand blast it and paint but it would be really hard to pull out impellar without damaging it, Its press fit on shaft. Radiators all clean, both were packed full of dirt and scale. Anyone have any experiance wit this aliexpress repair kits? I have no other option for this moment :/
  15. natnif
    I might look at the PAIR delete next time I have the tank off. I ended up taking the rear caliper off altogether as I couldn't get the pistons to push back. Realistically, it needs a rebuild kit and new pistons as they are corroded, but for the sake of a test ride, I've cleaned it up and put it back on the bike. Now I just need an hour where the weather plays ball so I can bleed the brakes and bring it for a test ride to see where I'm at with the original problem!
  16. keny
    The lift table is tested, sure works, even it's quality is a bit disappointing, some improvements needed. So now as you look from a different angle, yes the wheel is not center as chain line way off whit the Zephyr 750 rear wheel. Fortune one I know has a Zephyr 550 whit orginal rear wheel so did visit him to get some measurements to find out what needs to be done. Turn's out the the 750 wheel has 10mm wider spacing between rear sprocket as brake disc compared to the 550, and it's actually even 5mm a side from rim center. So I need to get the rear brake caliper bracket slimmed down 5mm to get the rear wheel in center (measuring distance between rear shocks as rim tell same difference) and the rear sprocket holder also grinded off 5mm to move the rear sprocket into line whit the front! The chain line is now 10mm off! That's a lot! Then I need to calculate the spacer for sprocket side still.
  17. keny

    Anything goes!

    Images added to a gallery album owned by keny in Member's Gallery

    Other VFR and other pics....
  18. Sirbike
    I didn’t do much in the garage today, this is a great thread to carry me the evening.
  19. BusyLittleShop
    You're welcome... Check this out... fun with engine noises... [youtube]
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  21. Burger

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    Burger replied to Shoelib's topic in Fifth Generation VFR's

    this fan fits: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BC2DDM1P as far as wiring it, i have my stock switch triggering a relay which feeds power straight from the battery. another option would be the many aftermarket automotive fan controllers. i'm also playing around with another more serious cooling upgrade; hopefully soon i'll have something i can share with everyone. more details to come....
  22. WGREGT
    Finally getting around to the 4th gen tank I'm having to clean out. Got it looking pretty good to my eye with just nuts & bolts and shaking. Surprisingly most of the dark black wet crud that I could only slightly scrape off with a long screwdriver really dried up after leaving it off the bike and open for a few weeks. It all dried up and an air compressor blew it out, but man....it took a long time with the compressor. Just clouds and clouds of debris coming out of all 3 holes in the tank for a loooong time. Flashlight showed a few small piles of loose rust etc and then back on the compressor. I have a new boroscope coming tomorrow between 4-8am to double-check the work so far. I bought vinegar but right now I don't think I'll use it. If I do it will only be in the lower 3-4" of the tank to make it as good as the rest. Doh...writing to ask if putting the tank fuel gauge float in my ultrasonic cleaner is OK to do. It is fine in gas so should be fine to submerge JUST the unit, and leave out the end of the wiring, right?
  23. JZH
    No worries, I tend to specialise in "wall of text", which often isn't a great way to convey information! You're right, the part numbers are indeed different for the US and ROW spec RC36-I bikes, and I can't tell you definitively why that is, but I can tell you that I compared the petcocks on my parted-out '90 CA-spec FL and my '93 UK-spec FP when I rebuilt the latter, and they were as identical as I could determine. There is one difference I just noticed when I was looking at the one in my parts box the other day, and that is the absence of the "ON", "FUEL" and "OFF" marks stamped on the outside of the faceplate of the FP's petcock. Perhaps there was no need for such marks on the models with the remote fuel tap, as the faceplate is completely obscured by the remote pulley mechanism? That difference could have been enough to cause Honda to give the US-spec bikes a different part number. A lot of what I consider "knowledge" is just best-guessing what Honda engineers were thinking when they made their decisions. YMMV. Ciao, JZH
  24. Terry
    I did the same adjustment on my VTR (which I sold and now miss a bit...) and it was a very sweet-running engine. Some report carb-farts at idle and occasional stalls with the VTR but I never had any of that. It is always a comfort when riding to know that all the bits that can be adjusted, are optimised (and in your case, very clean!). I found the VTR to be a much more relaxed engine at low revs than the 5th gen VFR which needs a few more revs on board to feel happy. I think the TPS in this case is used to make small adjustments to ignition timing.
  25. DrErgal
    Yesterday, after dinner and after a veeeeery long working day, I decided that I deserved an hour in my bat-cave 😎 So I took the occasion to set the TPS: acc. to the Service Manual, the reading was out of spec. The engine has always run smooth and regular, but I'm curios to see if I can notice some difference. here's the reading "as is": and the reading after the regulation: It has been impossible to go further (the SM recommends to keep the reading between 490-510 Ohms); maybe, if I removed the steel frames into the slots I could gain some extra degree of rotation, but let's see how it work this way before putting again my bad hands on it. The carbs have been serviced and cleaned with ultrasonic cleaner last summer, so I didn't need to do anything else on 'em. But you know... when your name is Dr. Ergal you simply can't avoid to... well... THIS 😁 Useful? Oh my dear... absolutely NO 😅 Essential? F#ck yeah 🤘 Beside, I'm just following Sir Colin Chapman's motto, "simplfy, then add lightness" 😎 I'm about to reinstall the carbs this weekend; but I have to make a small mod on the protecting panel, first
  26. Skids
    Thank you BLS.
  27. MBrane

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    MBrane replied to Shoelib's topic in Fifth Generation VFR's

    VTR fan blade swap is a good one. Pushes air out instead of in. Easy swap. RC51 oil cooler swap is a good one too, but requires a bit of fabrication, and may be hard to find these days. My play girl had the fan switch sensor fail so I ordered a new OEM switch. It was bad too, and no return on electrical parts. I installed a manual switch on the L handlebar so I can turn it on/off at will. All you have to do is ground the circuit.
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  29. Captain 80s
    24mm is likely the ID (how most o-rings are listed), not OD where you are measuring. A 24 x 2 o-ring has an OD of 28 Buna 90 O-rings 24 x 2mm Minimum 20 pcs Metric B90 O-rings 24mm ID x 28mm OD x 2mm C/S 90 Durometer
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      Juniper Pass

      I took a day off from work and also from my bicycle training to take out the Veefalo one last time before the weather turns ugly, supposed to snow the rest of the week and possibly start sticking to the ground along the Colorado Front Range. I took a leisurely pace up hwy 105 toward Morrison and got reacquainted with the bike since its been over a month since I took any sort of twisties on it at all, hwy 105 is a scenic ride along the front range between Denver and Colorado Springs, its mostly easy fast sweepers and lite traffic so its a favorite road of mine when going north. Then I have to negotiate a bit of traffic near Highlands ranch and up hwy 470 into the mountains. I decided to take the Morrison Exit and try either Lookout Mountain or head up Golden Gate Canyon - this time it was Lookout Mountain, I was sort of making it up on the fly as I went along. Lookout Mountain is my old bicycling haunt from my days while I was working at Coors, its a killer ride and all uphill - I don't think I could do it today If I had to, not quite there yet! I saw a whole bunch of riders doing it though and wished I was in shape enough to be there doing it as well. 30 more lbs and I will be able to do it! On this day I would do it on the Veefalo instead.

       

       

       

       

      I took a video from the gateway to the top at the Lookout Mountain State Park, getting past riders, the guy in the green jacket actually pretty much astounded me with how far he had gotten in the short time it took me to set up my camera, some 3 miles at least and up to the gateway from the turn off at hwy 6! Amazing I thought. I took the first two turns slow then got more comfortable as I went up further, till I was doing well, I made some gearing mistakes and took the tight 15mph marked hairpins in the wrong gear so I lugged it a bit on one or two. Still enjoyed it though and then got off at the top and hiked over a rock outcropping for an overview of the road for the pictures below.

       

       

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      Lookout Mountain - Golden Colorado

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      Lookout Mountain Park top of the mountain

      From there I headed up interstate 70 to Idaho Springs for a beer at the Tommy-knockers brewery, I was the only customer in the joint - slow day for them so they treated me like a king! I got a nice tour of the place sort of impromptu, they made me a nice Pastrami sandwich on rye and with the brown ale it was fantastic. I must say the beer is much better there than in the bottles - its always good at the brewery. I am glad I stopped

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      Tommy-knockers Brewpub Idaho Springs

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      Idaho Springs Colorado

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      Mashtuns and fermenters

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      Rows of fermenters

      I finished my lunch and since the road to Mount Evans is right there I headed up Squaw pass hoping to get in some nice pictures I wasn't expecting what I found, ICE IN ALL THE SHADY PARTS

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      Icy patches on Squaw Pass definitely taking it easy on that road

      There were some section where the ice covered the whole road for 300 yards or so I had to roll through it with my legs out to help keep the bike from sliding and falling over, I took it real slow. A Ford pickup was right behind me so I pulled over to let him pass but the guy was going slower then even I was so I pressed on - in places where I could see I just cut over to the oncoming lane and out of the ice where the sun was shining on the road more, but some places there was not alternative so I just had to go slow, good thing it wasn't slick but rather they tossed some gravel over the worst parts so I had some traction!

      I did stop for pictures in all the best spots

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      Echo Lake at Mount Evans showing off my new plate

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      Elephant Butte Park and Denver

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      Close up

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      Veefalo on Squaw Pass

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      Juniper Pass

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      Juniper Pass

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      Mount Evans

      My route A is home B is Tommy-knockers

       

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      I Am Back !

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      Not that it matters and not that I expect anyone had noticed, but to those who sent me "where are you?" I would like to say I am back. Not only that I am officially returning to VFRD after nearly 2 months break but I have also ridden my Hawk last weekend and had FUN! Let me restate that; I had major fun riding! Something I have almost given up on.

      Most of you have been riding your whole adult lives and riding is not only a hobby to you, it is part of you. But I started riding three years ago and even though I have encounter some setbacks, till this spring I loved riding with whole my heart. However, I have always considered riding as my hobby. As a hobby which suppose to make my life better, more fun and more rich. Life is too short to do something which we don't fully love.

      My love of riding received a first major scar this spring: I lost a friend on the racetrack. He was a total stranger who offered me his help after I lowsided at CMP track last year. I still remember hearing his "Hi, my name is Todd, do you need help?" while I was duct-taping my roadrash from ripped jacket. He helped me straighten up the shifter and we kept in touch. The next time we saw each other was the day he died.

      With 9 months delay, I can say that Todd's death shook me more than I have realized. It rooted fear in me which was fueled by seeing and hearing about others getting hurt over and over again. If I was to summarize this year - it would be one big accident report. I became sensitive to every broken bone, every roadrash, every lowside. And even though I did 10 track days this year, I became slower and slower and slower. Suddenly, I have acquired this 'grandma' riding style on the road, frozen with fear that behind every corner there is car standing in my lane, or major sand trap or deer staring at me ... I was crippled with fear not only for me about also for my fellow rider.

      So, at the end of this year, I rode more and more by myself. I could not bear the feelings of responsibility for others on the road and my lines were crippled by my own fears. It all culminated this fall at WDGAH. In a freaky accident Love2rideh82crash was taken down by a truck crossing into our lane. I was done. I finished the weekend, locked the VFR into a garage and took a break.

      Until the last weekend, I pretended that motorcycles do not exists. As a last instance after 2 months break from riding, I decided to go to CMP track to see if I can still have fun. I also felt like I should go for the memory of Todd. I went and I had fun! I had much more fun than I expected and the most fun on track I can remember. Suddenly the whole track connected into an uninterupted line of turns and I felt one with the bike riding around! I was giggling like a little girl in my helmet and keep on giggling ever since smile.gif

      Granted I was not the fastest one and through out the weekend, I have never exceeded about 60% of my riding abilities, but I had no "oh-shit" nor 'blond' moments. I could have maybe go faster, I could have brake later for the turns and I could have lean further, but I am no Rossi nor Stoner. I decided to ride for fun and I had amazing blast riding well within my comfort zone.

      I was proud of myself when, after bandaging Ricks arm, I was able to distance myself and go back to riding without the year-long fear. I did feel bad for him but the feelings were not crippling my lines nor my mind. And when a total stranger came to me and said "Hi, my name is Todd", my heart stopped for a minute though but I suddenly knew that my life went a full circle. I probably will never win MotoGP :idea3: , but I am back! :wheel:

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