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Mcqueen posted:Why the gently caress would Kawasaki make the front axle nuts such a pain in the loving rear end to get loose? Manual says tighten to 90~lbs and here I am sitting on it with a giant Milwaukee impact...17mm allen socket got so hot it burned my fingers when I touched it. As in a breaker bar? Which is made for breaking loose high torque connections?
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Mcqueen posted:Why the gently caress would Kawasaki make the front axle nuts such a pain in the loving rear end to get loose? Manual says tighten to 90~lbs and here I am sitting on it with a giant Milwaukee impact...17mm allen socket got so hot it burned my fingers when I touched it. Try some penetrating oil, like pb blaster or kroil
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Mcqueen posted:Why the gently caress would Kawasaki make the front axle nuts such a pain in the loving rear end to get loose? Manual says tighten to 90~lbs and here I am sitting on it with a giant Milwaukee impact...17mm allen socket got so hot it burned my fingers when I touched it. velocross posted:Try some penetrating oil, like pb blaster or kroil I recommend a concrete pill.
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Aug 30, 2015 06:03
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Coconut oil is a much better penetrating oil if you know what I mean fellas 
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Aug 30, 2015 06:10
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SaNChEzZ posted:As in a breaker bar? Which is made for breaking loose high torque connections? Haha, yep. Fell off some scaffold and am trying not to stay broken.
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Aug 30, 2015 07:09
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M42 posted:I'm extremely pleased with the results. The headlight/gauge is finally attached properly -- the old assembly would loosen even with loctite, the gauge couldn't be angled so I could see it fully because the mount 'arms' would hit the MC bleeder bolt, looked like poo poo, etc. That gauge mount looks 10,000 times better. That last setup gauge cluster setup looks like some serious PO "gently caress it I need to get out and ride" mentality.
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Aug 30, 2015 16:33
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I welded the step lever back onto my scooter's centerstand. Again. This time instead of calling in favors/begging to use a friend of a friends rig, I bough an el-cheapo HF flux core welder. Normally my welds look like hemorrhoids, but now they've got anal warts too.
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Did some riding this weekend. Day One: leaving work Friday  Left at 5:25 instead of 4:15 like I had planned (stupid work). The first 4 km or so took half an hour  Not sure if leaving earlier would have made any difference on that though. I was supposed to meet my pal Matt at the motel, and he said he was aiming for 8:00pm. I got there 8:05, and if I hadn't taken a slight detour off the 402 exit where I went left instead of right, I would have been there spot on 8:00. He didn't show up til over two hours later as I'm sitting around starving, watching CBC Dawson Creek since that was what channel was on when I turned on the TV. Found a great little pub in town and had a well-needed beer & burger.Day Two: The bane of circumstance Woke up to the sound of rain. Towelled the bike off, and we headed off to the race track where we were going to do a drag race experience day.  A late start because my friend has zero sense of time or urgency. I lead the way, and got the turn off near Parkhill wrong, so we ended up going the wrong direction for a bit. So an extra 10 minutes there and back. Got turned around, and arrived at the track only to find that there had been enough rain overnight for them to call off the day. Plus there was apparently more rain on the way, so that was that. Shot the bull with the guys who were organizing it, and they said there's a classic car show down in Blenheim, and they were all going. Hey, what the heck!  This time Matt lead, what with having a GPS in his car and all. Checked out the cars, met up with the guys from the track again. We had lunch, and he went on his way to go visit another of our friends, and I hit the highway to go to see my parents.  So that was about 445km all together for Saturday. Day Three: The detours home  Left my folks around noon, and of course hit up Forks Of The Credit! Did 3 runs, the first being super lame because I was stuck behind some cagers going slow, but the last run was awesome because there was no one in front of me, and on the way in a group of like 12 cruisers came up from the other way. I think the turn at the bottom of the hill says 30km/h and when I looked down after the bend I was doing about 60 LOL. I didn't want to hit the highway right away since it was starting to get hot out on the pavement, so I did some derping around the side roads before I eventually hit enough civilization that it was time to just hit the 427 and get home. First time packing up the Krieger bag for a long trip, and it's pretty excellent. I have a feeling I would have been better off with a 20L and two 10L on the side, but whatever. And man, now I gotta clean my leathers & helmet, and give the biek a proper wash after all that. Chris Knight fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Aug 30, 2015 |
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After a bunch of work related delays I finally got more time to work on the CBR. For those keeping score at home I had previously popped the carbs and cleaned them, replaced the petcock, fuel filters, and lines. This was to solve idling issues and a tendency for the bike to die when rolling off of idle and a general case of the sat-too-longs. The good: Fired up relatively quickly and all of the fuel lines appear to be really solid. The hesitation when you grab a handful is totally gone and it no longer has a god-awful lumpy idle. Idle is a little high but I can dial it in, why I haven't done this? Well... The bad: Hmm what's that smell? Why yes that would be coolant sizzling to perfection on a hot engine. gently caress. Looks like a dry rotted line from the water pump to the head. New hose on order. The entertaining; Neighbors walking by while we cranked the bike, fire extinguisher in hand. Reactions to the smokeshow generated by assorted crap/grease/secret sauce in the carbs/fuel system burning off. The collective realization that maybe doing all of this in the underground parking garage was ill conceived.
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Aug 31, 2015 13:46
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New shoes for my GS. Scrubbed them in some on my 60 mile commute this morning. Hopefully by the time I get home I won't need BBQ sauce for those strips. The shop had a 1290... holy poo poo do I want one of those.
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Aug 31, 2015 17:43
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How does the front tire feel in parking lots? I put a pair of those on my Uly and they feel really weird at direct-steer speed.
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clutchpuck posted:How does the front tire feel in parking lots? I put a pair of those on my Uly and they feel really weird at direct-steer speed. They just got put on Saturday AM and I haven't done much more than my commute this morning, but I think the best way I can describe it so far is that it feels really really sensitive to input at low speeds. I'm coming from Anakee 2's and these need way less input from me to turn, especially at parking lot speeds. I figure I'll just get used to it.
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Chris Knight posted:Did some riding this weekend. My condolences 
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Chris Knight posted:Did some riding this weekend. Ahhh I know the pain of living in southern Ontario and our straight loving line roads everywhere. Sucks so much.
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nsaP posted:My condolences Better than sitting around the house depressed. VERTiG0 posted:Ahhh I know the pain of living in southern Ontario and our straight loving line roads everywhere. Sucks so much.
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Rolled over on the way in to work today: Bought it with 6 miles on it.
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Chris Knight posted:Better than sitting around the house depressed. That's why the good lord invented booze and internet poker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjB3oTFFRzY
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:Rolled over on the way in to work today: Fuckin awesome!
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Revvik posted:Ok let's clean up this front end, tuck those cables, and relocate the turn signals. Let's start by moving the turn signals to the lower position: Crossposted, probably in a better thread for it. Goddamn this bolt will turn to liquid before it will turn a millimeter.
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You need to invest in an impact screwdriver. Also that factory indicator layout is hilarious. It looks like the headlight's throwing it's hands up in the air like it don't care.
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Bought some crashed-rear end race fairings for $100, tried fixing fiberglass for the first time, and rattlecanned. Total 50ft job. They will work for now.
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Revvik posted:Crossposted, probably in a better thread for it. Goddamn this bolt will turn to liquid before it will turn a millimeter. Did you use some penetrating oil? I found that helped a lot. Worst case, have someone weld another bolt on top and you can use that to turn it out. Or just get an impact driver like slavvy said. Or take it to someone with one.
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Washed both bikes. Cleaned both chains. Rode both bikes.... gently caress now they both need washed again
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Stupid Harley with their stupid different sized axle nuts... Oh, I need a 28mm and a 1-1/4 to take them off? Fun. Off to the store for more tools...
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builds character posted:Did you use some penetrating oil? I found that helped a lot. Yeah I tried that. quote:Worst case, have someone weld another bolt on top and you can use that to turn it out. Or just get an impact driver like slavvy said. Or take it to someone with one.   The dealership was busy til Tuesday but there was a little lawnmower repair shop down the street from me. Rode there and asked nicely.
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El Jebus posted:Stupid Harley with their stupid different sized axle nuts... Oh, I need a 28mm and a 1-1/4 to take them off? Fun. Off to the store for more tools... You've probably already discovered this, but the caliper bolts that look like inverted Torx are just 10mm 12 points. Any ACME Box O' Sockets will have it.
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Marv Hushman posted:You've probably already discovered this, but the caliper bolts that look like inverted Torx are just 10mm 12 points. Any ACME Box O' Sockets will have it. E-torx 
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Revvik posted:Yeah I tried that. How many times a week does your bike get washed?
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Came home from work, and had to pick it up off the street after some fucker knocked it over. Broke the right side passenger peg mountings. Ugh.
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Chris Knight posted:Came home from work, and had to pick it up off the street after some fucker knocked it over. Broke the right side passenger peg mountings. Ugh. I would have lost my loving mind. You seem calm about it.
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Slavvy posted:Also that factory indicator layout is hilarious. It looks like the headlight's throwing it's hands up in the air like it don't care. WELP 
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SaNChEzZ posted:How many times a week does your bike get washed? Maybe biweekly, I've been working too much.
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Didn't understand why my new-to-me Duke 690 was so ridiculously peaky / had zero low-end poke until I dug through the bag of parts that came with it and found the original throttle tube. The previous owner had spent a small fortune on a power commander, new airbox, dynotune, and bullshit racing bling like $600 rearsets ... then installed the most aggressive throttle tamer he could find. With the stock tube, the bike's gone from feeling like an anaemic 250 at everything but flat out to the snatchy AF KTM experience I was hoping for. Yessss. I'm wondering - is there any good reason why someone would do that? Spend a stack of  on vroom vroom bits then neuter the bike with a slooooooooow twist throttle?
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It smooths out the initial on throttle response. If it's a G3 setup, the most aggressive cam is perfect - just enough to blunt the initial roll on, but doesn't add enough twist that it's difficult to get to WOT. KTM used a super aggressive cam on the throttle bodies on the older 690s so just fixing that makes the bike a lot easier to ride. I didn't like it because it just made me do wheelies all the time. Just forced me to do them. Every day.
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Z3n posted:It smooths out the initial on throttle response. If it's a G3 setup, the most aggressive cam is perfect - just enough to blunt the initial roll on, but doesn't add enough twist that it's difficult to get to WOT. Shhhhh. You're safe now. You can talk about it here. And post pics. Video too.
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Revvik posted:Maybe biweekly, I've been working too much.  Clip on fairing finished after too long dicking around with stuck bolts. May have to sticker it up. Also pictured is the chin spoiler. Definitely did not go the official Harley Davidson merchandise route with that - $220 versus $40 for a knockoff, ok. My bike theory is starting to follow that of the cars from the original Fast and the Furious, spoilers fuckin' everywhere.  Pleasantly surprised by how quickly this went on compared to the screen. It has the option to show a real fuel gauge instead of a dummy light if I feel like pulling the tank and putting some sensors in it but no matter what I do it'll still be a 2 gallon tank. Would be fun to visibly watch the gauge drop as I go down the street though. Capped off my three day weekend with a 20 mile bicycle ride and waxed the Sportster.
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prukinski posted:Didn't understand why my new-to-me Duke 690 was so ridiculously peaky / had zero low-end poke until I dug through the bag of parts that came with it and found the original throttle tube. The previous owner had spent a small fortune on a power commander, new airbox, dynotune, and bullshit racing bling like $600 rearsets ... then installed the most aggressive throttle tamer he could find. With the stock tube, the bike's gone from feeling like an anaemic 250 at everything but flat out to the snatchy AF KTM experience I was hoping for. Yessss. I bet they did the throttle tube first as the cheap fix to a snatchy throttle. Weren't satisfied and did the PC. Already used to the lame tube, saw no reason to swap back.
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prukinski posted:Didn't understand why my new-to-me Duke 690 was so ridiculously peaky / had zero low-end poke until I dug through the bag of parts that came with it and found the original throttle tube. There's also a ignition map switch (circle dial) under the seat. The manual should have more info on it but it should be #3 standard, #2 aggressive, #1 soft and #0 bad gas... If I remember correctly.
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velocross posted:There's also a ignition map switch (circle dial) under the seat. The manual should have more info on it but it should be #3 standard, #2 aggressive, #1 soft and #0 bad gas... If I remember correctly. Yeah, I'm familiar with that switch. My issue was that, regardless of ignition map setting, the bike was totally underwhelming at anything under half throttle, then it'd all came on in one big wallop. Which was fine for riding flat out, but felt dull as fuuuuuuck at commuting speeds. Stock throttle tube's woken the bike up nicely. Actually has some low- and mid-range oomph now. The downside is that it the stock throttle *is* pretty snatchy, I guess, but I didn't buy a ktm for practicality so that's all good by me. Outgoing tube was a K400 G2 throttle tamer, for those playing along at home. ie: the tamest throttle they make. Z3n posted:KTM used a super aggressive cam on the throttle bodies on the older 690s so just fixing that makes the bike a lot easier to ride. I'm making a mental list of the finest mailboxes in my neighbourhood.
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VERTiG0 posted:I would have lost my loving mind. You seem calm about it. Eh, I was already having a pretty lovely day, and by the time I got home and saw that, I was just out of fucks to give.
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