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109 posts recovered 0 threads started First seen 6 Mar 2007 Last seen 24 Sep 2015
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Last 50 of 109- Worst Week Ever? You Decide! I think I gotcha beat. My wife and I put on over 60,000 miles riding together all over the east coast and Canada. In the past few years, she has had hip and knee operations which forced her to curtail her riding career…
- 2006 Vfr Dash, Brake Lights And Headlights Fuse Keeps Blowing! Me too on my 99
- Official Made It Home Safe Thread! Got home at noon with an empty run through the gap (on a Sunday no less). Three miles from the house the heavens opened up and washed my bike for me. Great time with all.
- Finally A Vfr800! And A Tv Pilot It would really be cool if you could make it to the Texas Mac thing we have in May.
- Can Going Back To Dino Oil Cause Issues? Semi-synthetic is mostly dino oil anyhow. About + / - 15% synthetic if I remember correctly.
- Tire Changing For Cheapskates I simply jack the truck up by placing the jack on the tire with a couple of 2X4 to protect the rotor. The bead breaks easily. If you shake the balancer and not spin the wheel, the heavy spot will drop like a rock and…
- Got Myself A New Stator, New Regulator/rectifier And Some New Cables... Why Is My Voltage Dropping With Hi-Beams On? Your "rewound" stator is the one weak spot in the procedure you employed. Replacement of the R/R twice and battery with the addition of 10 gauge wires sort of rules problems there out. I don't know where in the system…
- Help. Need Painting Advice, Went Down On Hard Bag. Dupli-Color GM 398 was pretty much an exact match out of a rattle can but when you buffed it, the color went to more of an orange. I doubt you can find 398 anymore in that it was around about 7-8 years ago but if you do…
- "new" Old Tires Found In Garage... Tire killers is ozone that is produced near electric motors. If there are none in your garage, like a furnace blower, you should be ok.
- Quick Stator Wires Resistance Question If and when you do the high resistance (megohm) stator test, be sure to keep your fingers off the pointed leads. Most ohm meters that are better than junk will read a resistance through your body and give you a false…
- Official Roomate Thread - Tmac 2014 OK, I'll dive in first. I may have to go to NJ during T-mac this year but if not, I'd like to double up so I don't hold a room that someone else could get if I can't make it.
- Key Turns, Nothing Happens Cat-O'-Straphic battery failure. I had it happen to me once. There is enough punch to work the clock but nothing else. It happens. In my case it happened in front of a Harley friend after just telling him I ride Asian…
- Coolant Type Anything WITHOUT phosphorus or silica or you will be replacing your water pump in a short time.
- Short Circuit? Testing for voltage or ohms. If ohms, all the power points have to be disconnected. If voltage and the fuses blow, see post #2
- When Butt And Asphalt Meet.. Switchblade Not making fun but " HOW IN THE HELL DID SHE NOT SEE YOUR BIKE " Most people set their rear view side mirror to look down the side of the car. That leaves a large blind spot at the rear quarter panel out a…
- 200K Congrats How about a list of things that you replaced and some maintenance you did to keep it going strong. Thanks
- What To Do When Voltage Is Too High Or Low? It would be a good idea NOT to cut out the connectors from the stator to the RR or any other connectors. Jumper them with wires so that, under emergency conditions, you can plug in a new RR while on the road by cutting…
- Wanted - Tools & Tips For Head Bearing Replacement 5Th Gen Taper roller bearings only want about 3-6 pounds of torque and not the 30 or so that ball bearings call for. You don't need a special cut away socket unless you are using a torque wrench to seat the nut. I simply take a…
- Strange Surging On My 2001 I once got a great deal on a Honda 350 that experienced intermittent surging and dropping of one cylinder. It had new spark plugs one of which was a factory failure. Infant mortality on any new product can happen. Try…
- Deer Vs Vfr Took a deer hit some years back at 12 o'clock high. It got my front wheel and took me down on the right side. My shoulder will be separated for life and the incident still haunts me when ever I get on the bike. Heal…
- 6Th Gen Blows Fuse On Left Turn Signal Good find. My 5th Gen is blowing the blinker, horn, stop lights fuse intermittently and some of the guesses to your problem about wiring in the front may help me track it down. We aren't allowed to use amber lights for…
- 2003 Vfr800, Cooling Problem If you have too much anti-freeze vs. water, the cooling capability goes down considerably. Anti-freeze is not a good coolant unto itself.
- Diy Tire Swap - Bead Breaking I have often used an older type flat based car jack behind the rear bumper. Most cars these days are no longer jacked up by the bumper but I had one that was. I put the flat part of the jack on the tire near the bead…
- Anybody Else Regret Buying Their Vfr1200? Ooohhh for a 6th gen body with a 1000 CC (or more) gear driven engine. I can just dream.
- Two Dumb Coolant Questions I would be real careful mixing two different anti-freezeseseseses together. The chemistry could be radically different and non compatible. Check out bobistheoilguy.com and look in their cooling system and additives…
- Kabooom good bye VFR LAME !!! I have had parking lot tip overs that do more damage than that. :tour: Hope the boy has a long happy marriage but it is already off to a bad start.
- What do you carry and why? Kel Tec PF-9 WHY? for virus protection.
- HELP!!! DAMN Gremlins... The O7 may be different from the 99 5th gen but when that happened to me, there was a short on the rear brake lever at the point where the brake wires plug into the brake lever switch. They are two small spade…
- keeping constant throttle, running jerky When was the last time you changed the spark plugs?
- Be Careful out there - cow/motorcyclist fatality accident While just out of Glacier National Park with my friend leading, a cow and her calf cut across the road. My friend had a choice to cut in front of the cow or dive to the UTTER end between mama and the calf. He literally…
- How To Repair Broken, Or Missing Abs Body Tabs, And Hair Line Cracks Or you could just try this stuff. It is fabulous for ABS fixology. [image: 23898-1014-1-2ww-m.jpg]
- If VFR's last for ever, how come you see so few 4th. gens. on the road? Upgrades ???
- Carb Maintenance The pilot jets are not just for idling, they are the main component up to about 3500 RPM if I recall properly. Above that, the needle jet starts kicking in and then at high RPM the main jet becomes king. You can bump up…
- Starter relay question... Relay contacts have to pass high current and that leads to sparks and arcs internally. This causes oxidation and corrosion of the contacts over time. You may be faced with this situation or a partially shorted starter…
- Zumo & TomTom are Obsolete I went for a lung and signed over my first born to pay for a Garmin 660 a while back. I coupled it to a 42" wide screen TV and mounted it on my handlebars. I have to look over the TV but it is a small price to pay for…
- My battery, the VFRness, and resetting the clock... I did a bunch of stuff to improve my electrical system such as jumping all the connectors and adding grounds etc. My LCD voltmeter reads between 13.7 13.9 volts directly across the battery just about all the time and I…
- Oil and filter advice An erl thread
- PLEASE HELP ME! If the bike was in storage or hardly ridden all that time and with 68** miles on it I can only assume that was the case, and if there was fuel in the tank without any form of fuel stabilization, the entire fuel system…
- DID vm xring meets and exceeds OEM Drive chain Quote But Im still running that DID xring chain now at 22,000 miles, just cutting out the orings as Links freeze up ( about 1/2 dosen so far), Please splane what you mean by that. What does cutting out the o-rings…
- Brake Pads Front A word of caution here. The pistons usually get cruddy and as the pads wear, they move out considerably further than when the pads were new. This crud is usually pretty hard by pad change time and when the pistons get…
- Brake caliper mounting bolt "Replace with new ones or not" Ahhhh lawyers. Never did replace a bolt and did the same job you are doing 20 or more times. Just make sure they are properly torqued and a bit of Lock-Tite blue wouldn't hurt.
- Idle too high with adjustment as low as it can go The "O" rings between the throttle bodies and the block --- Maybe???
- Ever diagnose something wrong that cost more than it should have? [image: View Post]gll429, on 11 January 2012 - 08:36 PM, said: i it looked like someone used my motor as a bathroom after eating a 30 pack from taco bell!!!!! :unsure: this brown mud!! all over.. had me at WTF?????? i…
- Ever diagnose something wrong that cost more than it should have? [image: View Post]Baileyrock, on 11 January 2012 - 10:55 AM, said: NO-!NG FULL WELL YOU DID BUT ARE PLEADING THE 5TH :lobby:
- Ever diagnose something wrong that cost more than it should have? Volkswagen Jettas were notorious for having their fuel pump go weak. I set up a fuel pump pressure gage on my daughter's car and started the engine inside a garage. Seconds later the engine bay was on fire. I shut it…
- General Maintenance Questions Brale fluid and coolant that is 6-7 years old and probably has not been changed is due. The brake fliud is hydroscopic and absorbs water even in the form of condensation and coolant looses its properties to fight rust…
- OFF TOPIC CONTENT - communication devices while driving - Closed If this law is passed it will just make more law breakers out of common citizens. Unfortunately we have trained our society into electronic motivation that many can't seem to live without. I sometimes ask myself, "how…
- Top 15 Motorcycle roads USA/Canada slowbird, on 28 November 2011 - 08:10 PM, said: I keep hearing about the Triple Nickle (555) in Ohio? Anyone ridden it? Yup, I did a few times at different events. Ohio saves a lot of money by not putting caution signs…
- Tire Installation Question - Pilot Power 2 CT I have a buddy who was a VP at Goodyear and now makes monster tires for super hauler trucks. This boy knows tires. Well in conversation, he told me of stuff I never heard of before in tire manufacturing and the forces…
- Now I know why most run a PCIII Is you is or is you ain't sure that the chain is adjusted properly. A loose chain will cause jerkin' and surgin'
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