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joeystalin
18 posts recovered 2 threads started First seen 6 May 2012 Last seen 9 Oct 2013
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All 18- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? She strikes again - trying to put the forks back together without an impact. Compression valve assembly just spinning inside the tube. Guess I'll take it back to work and try an impact again. Question for those in the…
- Installing Racetech Gold Valves After quite an arduous process of getting my fork internals disassembled, I was graced with the next challenge when upgrading my compression valves: Racetech's cryptic/generic instructions, their kit with more parts…
- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? Bolt came out yesterday at work with....an impact wrench. I was almost hoping it wouldn't work so that everyone would agree with me that its a shitty design and we would all march together to Showa's doorsteps with…
- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? JZH 2. Forget everything I've written above and get yourself a long 6mm Allen bit and an air wrench . Not an impact driver; not an electric hammer drill; an air wrench. Carefully and fully seat the Allen bit into the…
- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? Yeah, I will try an impact and then drilling tomorrow. But I really hate drilling out bolts. There's always the danger of damaging surrounding material. The bolt doesn't move up and down at all.
- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? Beck Showa had been building forks of such design for ages and Honda never found it neccesary to request for any changes all those years to make it easy for the home mechanic to remove that lower bolt........ I guess…
- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? Conedodger I went through this recently. Thought I had loosened it enough before taking fork apart, but had not. I reassembled the tube with the spring and cap and still couldn't get it out, even with an impact gun.…
- How The Hell Do You Remove The Fork Bottom Allen Bolt? What kind of design is this where there's a bolted joint, but no way of holding both sides of the joint? The bolt is slightly loose but the whole cartridge inside the fork is just spinning. I tried using an allen wrench…
- Another f4i shock 6th gen conversion I didn't have a 1.75" P clamp at work so I used four heavy duty 120 pound zip ties, and a piece of rubber, to try mounting the F4i reservoir to the rear subframe tube. I took the bike on a 600 mile trip this weekend. It…
- Another f4i shock 6th gen conversion Thanks 2thdr, I'm very familar with those style of P clamps from McMaster. :) I was probably going to do that but I'm concerned about where, not just how. Seems anywhere underneath the battery might have problems with…
- Another f4i shock 6th gen conversion Does anyone have good feedback on the reservoir mounting location? I mounted my F4i reservoir similar to this (stolen from the stickied F4 shock thread) [image: reservoirmount.jpg] mine is slid a bit further back on the…
- Handlebar Vibration At 45-50Mph... Help! I have the exact same problem on a 2007. Only it has been there since I bought it, and it is only noticeable with hands off the bar, so it doesn't bother me too much. But if I get up to an indicated 100 (which is more…
- A New Way To Gut Your 6th Gen Exhaust I drilled out the top two exhausts with this method about a year and 5,000 miles ago, and have not had any problems. Sounds so good, I want a little bit more. So my question is, has anyone gone from two hole-sawed…
- New Bell RS-1 experience bumping to add to the archives, in case someone is looking for a review. i am returning my Bell RS-1 due to the incredible wind noise it exhibits on the VFR, for me. in my normal riding position, the wind noise is…
- Worst oil change ever [image: View Post]Vee-Ef-Ar, on 07 May 2012 - 05:25 PM, said: [image: View Post]joeystalin, on 06 May 2012 - 09:31 AM, said: - Also lifted tank , removed intake snorkel and unplugged vacuum line from flapper valve…
- Worst oil change ever Not sure what the hell is going on. Tried it again a few times yesterday, lifted the tank, looked at all connections it may be, and well the battery died after a few attempts at cranking. So I threw the battery on the…
- Worst oil change ever [image: View Post]Cogswell, on 06 May 2012 - 10:54 AM, said: That sounds like normal engine cranking - it' just not firing. When you mentioned "sealing plug" next to ignition pulse generator came out, did that mean the…
- Worst oil change ever Never had this problem before, bike won't start after an oil change and also removing the clutch cover. Now I am not mechanically dis-inclined, far from it actually, but I don't know the VFR very well and this is the…
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