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All my vehicles have been converted to CAT ELC. I think Caterpillar might know something about coolant. One type to rule them all.

I recall buying this from Boonstra in the Netherlands, Dutchy. It will be well-travelled if it ends up in Finand.

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I run Prestone Universal 50/50 (green) in everything except the Toyota. That gets some sort of red stuff, I bought an off brand equivalent.

Busy Little Shop is officially my aircraft hanger and motorcycle stable... if I call it a garage Mary claims parking right for the Camaro...

Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? | How did it get to THIS? Currently I employ DexCool in the RC45...

Thank you!!! Appreciate your time.

Don't own a VFR young enough to use blue coolant.😁

This is the 8 gen. Measured with Vernier caliper the centre of shift shaft to centre of toe pad is 104mm. The offset from front face of shift shaft to inside edge of toe pad is 40mm. Part no 24701MCWD60 Bolt 957010602000 Rubber 24781KR3770

Thanks. I guess that proves my concept! Obviously, I'm not going to buy high-end Australian garage equipment and have it shipped here, but I will have another look at their "docker" design to see if there's a simpler way to make my "cradles". Great minds think alike... Their "dockers" even incorporate front wheel cradles (albeit not the Baxley-type "pinch" version I'm gong to use). How long have they been in business? I wonder if they saw this thread last year! I see they're using a standard Chinese "manual stacker", but I've found that electric ones aren't much more expensive. I wouldn't really fancy foot-pumping a bike up 2m and then moving it manually into place. Anyway, I've figured out a place to store an electric one (utilizing the otherwise useless space under the lower stairs on the other side of my garage's internal wall) which should make it all but disappear (lol). I didn't see anywhere Moto Stacker has mentioned using pallet racks for storing the bikes? Maybe they don't have high ceilings down in Oz... ("Blue Bro" will be converted at some point, but I will need to make some 5th gen bracketry for my 6th gen A&A kit.) Ciao, JZH

Might have to be mesh. Oatey says none of their stuff is OK in fuel.

this stuff? https://www.oatey.com/products/P_038753309996/oatey-abs-mediumbodied-black-cement

Why not put a piece of mesh around the outside? JB Weld is not as good for plastic as ABS pipe cement

Any of you know anything about plastic? JB Weld tells me that some of their products will withstand fuel, but if cannot be polyethylene or polypropylene. I need to seal up a crack in this longer in-tank OEM filter straw. My 1st thought was JB Weld.

So, nobody owns a 2004+ AND a tape measure?

It was Honda green before Honda blue. So could be genuine stuff but, yeah, 20+ years old. Honda began transitioning to blue coolant for most vehicles around 2002–2005, moving away from their older green formula. I still use an appropriate, quality coolant in green cuz it just looks right to my old-school eyes.

Does anyone need this? I bought it by mistake, doesn't fit the 86/87 VFR700/750 but should fit the 88/89 with the 17" front wheel. Yours for the price of the shipping (note - I'm in New Zealand).

Apparently thermal cycling causes the ethylene glycol to converts to acids (glycolic, formix, oxalic) and that causes the pH to drop and increases the corrosivity to metals. Moral of the story, change your coolant at the recommended intervals, kids. I've personally seen a thermostat corroded away (my ST1100), and have seen photos of the vanes on the impellor also eaten away.

Is this from never changing coolant, a bad run of metal, loose hoses, wrong coolant? I’ve seen flakey coolant build up but never this kind of corrosion. I am always concerned when the coolant isn’t Honda blue. The bike had no cooling issues.

Saw this a minute ago and thought of this thread. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DUVWf489P/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I tried Tiniracing, but their stock status was incorrect. I got a refund. It looked like the VFR800 5th gen kits were pretty dried up, so I went for a VFR800 6th gen. I dared to do so since the Rapid Bike wiring harness of both had the same number at some point in time. I bought it at Ecubitt in Spain. Today I did a fitting and I do need to elongate the wire to/from the crankshaft sensor. On the 6th gen both injector/TPS and crankshaft sensor are located at the right, but on 5th the injector/TPS connector is at the left. Ordered some Sumitomo MTW .110" from Eastern Beaver from Japan, so that should fix that. Connector for injector/TPS was perfect fit. Still need to double check if the pinout of 5th vs. 6th is the same though.

Just saw your other post. Nevermind.

5th gen is 110mm long with 50mm offset.