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captainchris13
21 posts recovered 0 threads started First seen 14 Aug 2006 Last seen 26 Sep 2011
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All 21- Tired Of Having A Hot Vfr? When it is that hot you risk head damage. The metal near the exhaust valves is so hot the water is boiling locally there and preventing proper contact of coolant to the metal surface. Running a water wetting agent gains…
- Eek, a mouse... Ya, after seeing a pic on an English forum of an air box FULL of acorns and laughing, I went and checked mine. Yep, acorns, poop, fur... It's happened several times now, I think I'm going to add some rabbit wire to the…
- Tired Of Having A Hot Vfr? vfrjim2002 I'm waiting for Tightwad to come up with an rig that will tap into the speed sensor and turn the fan off when road speed gets above 15-20 mph. :comp13: Careful on that one, with the fan diabled and a tailwind…
- Tired Of Having A Hot Vfr? Your exactly right, im not argueing that thats whats happening, and you dd a really nice job of explaining and documenting it as well. To simplify it, you have a reduced dumping of thermal energy at low forward speeds…
- Tired Of Having A Hot Vfr? Cool deal on the Fan mods, but its not the problem. The stock fan is adequate, but the coolant isnt. The problem you it is the temp suddenly surges p and won come down till you get some serious air and water moving in…
- Better Sound - Snorkel well, on my 5th gen, removing it made more noise, less low end responsiveness, possibly a touch more at high rpm. the lack of low end responsiveness and smoothness made me put it back in. i am runnig a custom exhaust,…
- Boat Chains, Good Idea Or Not ? uh, move? do you love the city or the bike more? choose. i say this because of the stress you put yourself through will shorten your life and make you old before you years.
- Avon Storm Review So they seem faster and turn in better, but how much of that is the different tires and how much of that is just mounting a NEW set of tires since the old ones are worn out of profile and the carcass has softened and…
- Installing Radar's Custom Sliders - Black Bases ya, i was about to ask the same thing. i think the weak link might be the aluminum stubs where they attach to the engine bolt. Why not just have a special hardened bolt made that is longer? that way you could bolt tthe…
- Tips & Tricks To Help Your Charging System tinyminds Misspent Youth I added fuse holders to the direct-charge wires that go to the positive cable. What is a "safe" fuse size for the output going through each wire? I just put 30amp fuses in them since thats what…
- Tips & Tricks To Help Your Charging System Chev tinyminds Edited: forgot to add this: was getting 0.6ohms of resistance off the factory feet from r/r to battery, getting 0.15 ohms of resistance off the new wiring. Big improvement of resistance off the top. I…
- Soft Bags? +1 on the cortech soft bags... pics in my gallery. 130 mph tested, rain tested, bug tested. stay dry inside as long as you are moving due to how the flaps lay. 3 bag set was pretty cheap and clips together as a set and…
- F3 fork cartridge swap for 98 vfr Trace HispanicSlammer Keith you have to push on the bottom of the compression valve, push it inside into the cartridge in order to get at the circlip iholding it in, once thats out you can remove the compression valve,…
- Fork Oil Level? huh, a thread about forks and oil and i ask a question about forks and oil, and thats hijacking your thread? really? and then you say your done with it anyway.... :goofy:
- Fork Oil Level? Ok, so i ordered some fr springs in .90 from racetech to go with my 929 rear shock conversion (stock spring righ now) and for those of you who redid your forks, what is the magic change in the shim stack to make this…
- Fork Spring/oil Replacement So, has anyone thought of putting a small hole in their forks at the bottom and tapping it for a small drainplug like some bikes have? then i could just attach a brake bleeding pump and suck out the fluid in 5 min with…
- Tips & Tricks To Help Your Charging System VFR FLYER ok, i would like to wade in here and ask a question. first it seems to me when you turn your key on, everything is now on, and the grounds near or at max draw. you push the starter buttom and things dim. would…
- Tips & Tricks To Help Your Charging System ahhh, its protecticing your main harrness. if you have say your headlight wires short, the 30 fuse will blow saving your entire harness from melting. wires make terrible fusible links as they are usually bundled with…
- Tips & Tricks To Help Your Charging System well, when i did my RR i soldered theyellow leads to the stator eliminating the connector. i also did a button hole tie in for my extra black lead since i used a 6th gen RR on a 5th gen but i soldered it. Always solder.…
- Gutting A 5th Gen that shorty was way ,loud and he did it to remove crash damage. Someone else drilled theirs on a 5th gen, the gutting was i think a 6th. of course i have everything i need to cut it apart and reweld it so iave beeb…
- Front end shake - help Yep, i know that shake.... My 99 is rock steady with roadtec z6's (love em!) with no hands on the barsi can come miles down the twisties that way. HOWEVER, if i have the GF on the back (or a lot of luggage ) it will do…
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