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On my bike (09 zx6r) the intake side of the airbox is the bottom and the engine side is above the filter, so doesn't need anything other than a simple drain, has been that way on every bike I've seen.
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Some bikes have a little transparent (or not) cap you remove to drain it, some have a little one way valve that gets blipped by pressure waves in the airbox. A postie/grom has both! Just gotta look.
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Apr 7, 2020 06:15
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Uncapped mine last night and had a bunch of gross watery oil fall out. Kinda weird but only one sploot, maybe 25-50ml, nothing close to a litre (I've never done this in the two years I've had it). Wonder if it's possible the tube filled up and after that the excess started blowing out past the air filter, cause that's a thing that's been happening for as long as I've had the bike.
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Apr 7, 2020 11:46
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Going to twin headlights. Filled the big hole:
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Apr 7, 2020 13:59
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Gorson posted:Going to twin headlights. Filled the big hole: Please tell me twin round headlights? With the NACA ducts, that would be pure 80s sex.
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Apr 7, 2020 14:14
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Please tell me twin round headlights? With the NACA ducts, that would be pure 80s sex. Wouldn't have it any other way.
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Apr 7, 2020 14:31
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Please tell me twin round headlights? With the NACA ducts, that would be pure 80s sex. Objectively the best headlight style.
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Apr 7, 2020 15:05
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Renaissance Robot posted:Uncapped mine last night and had a bunch of gross watery oil fall out. Kinda weird but only one sploot, maybe 25-50ml, nothing close to a litre (I've never done this in the two years I've had it). Usually I get about 5-10ml of oil per thousand miles, thanks to this sloppy engine. Having a liter of water was completely unexpected, not sure if it was the 100 miles in a wet blizzard, or the 600 miles of post-blizzard roads that did it.
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Apr 7, 2020 18:49
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Uncapped it again today and another few drops of oil came out, so it's definitely been building up in there fairly consistently. I'll mop up the mess around the air filter and continue draining the hose regularly, and see if the splatter comes back. If it doesn't I'll consider that mystery solved.
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Apr 7, 2020 21:47
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Gorson posted:Wouldn't have it any other way.  this is for a hawk right?
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Y'all remember these? Google "whitehouse customs cb-750" to get a few more pics not from the BikeEXIF article
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Apr 8, 2020 01:42
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Jazzzzz posted:Y'all remember these? A shame it's a really nice bike without the AOOOGAH lights. Slavvy posted:
I've been teasing pictures of it in various stages before but I'm a useless shitheel and haven't been able to finish it. I'm using my Coronavacation to knock out a few things I have been dreading, mainly bodywork.
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Today I ran my battery completely flat by leaving my heated grips on like a dumbass  Managed to push it to a halfords and get it jump started, now after half an hour of giving it the beans in second gear up the motorway it's back up at 11.5V. Given I'm riding over an hour almost every day, is my battery likely to suddenly cark it after being abused like this or can I just expect a slight acceleration of the usual slow decline?
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Apr 8, 2020 18:58
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if your battery is at 11.5v while the motor is running, it is likely quite dead
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Apr 8, 2020 19:12
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The DZUS fastener smiley face is a nice touch
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Apr 8, 2020 19:56
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right arm posted:if your battery is at 11.5v while the motor is running, it is likely quite dead Nah that was with the engine off. I forgot to measure it while running.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Nah that was with the engine off. I forgot to measure it while running. well then you're probably fine!
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gently caress   This explains the huge clanking noises that have been coming from the back for the better part of a year. I'd assumed it was the centrestand bouncing off the endstop. I've flipped it upside down for now, but I've only been able to get one bolt out on each side; the other two are seized and I've rounded out a socket trying to get them off. I'm... not really sure what to do next.
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Apr 10, 2020 18:48
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Renaissance Robot posted:gently caress  But no seriously vice grips. The bolts are dead soldiers, grind flat spots on the bolt heads and vice grip them out. Or cut/shear the bolt heads off, remove the exhaust, and vice grip the bolts out from there.
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Apr 10, 2020 20:21
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8mm haft with a 10mm head holding the exhaust on: just a quiet little gently caress-you courtesy Kawasaki.
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Apr 10, 2020 20:26
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Gorson posted:
I more meant next as in "after I get these bolts replaced". Although if the tab on the muffler can hold out another year or two before cracking/wearing through I suppose I'll be happy enough, since I've been fantasising about getting a set of megaphones anyway.
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Apr 10, 2020 21:19
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 put some graphics on the boxes 
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Fiberglass is magic. I didn't take a before-before pic because I'm a dumb-dumb but this whole edge was cracked and chipped and very weak at the back end of the naca ducts there and needed repair. Some resin and some loose fiberglass (and sanding): Dremel + a bit more sanding:  Used the remaining resin to fill a low area. The hard work here is done.
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Apr 12, 2020 02:34
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Godspeed on the painting
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Apr 12, 2020 02:54
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Ah, it’s so nice to be able to work in open air again without gloves or pain. Got a lot done today:
The sensor hasn’t worked in a year, the bike still starts in neutral but I figured I’d finally take Slavvy’s advice and disable it entirely. For now I’ve just got them jumpered together with some spare wire but it’s a little janky. I don’t like doing anything irreversible on wiring so I just want thinner wire I think.
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On the RT  Waiting for the rear brake actuator rod to show up so it’s actually got both brakes although the boy is pretty good at sending it with a bald tire and no rear stoppage. Fork seals on their way as well. Edit: Rear brake rod. No idea what this came from but my buddy had it left over from parting something out. 
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Bike hasn't started yet this spring, I had it going on one cylinder but then nothing. Finally spent some time yesterday taking the fairings and gas tank off, neither plug had spark. Put in new ones, strong spark, bike ran strongly. This is the 2nd or third set of plugs it's fouled, hoping if I ride it a decent amount this season it will burn the crud off the plugs and I won't have to deal with this every spring.
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mewse posted:Bike hasn't started yet this spring, I had it going on one cylinder but then nothing. Finally spent some time yesterday taking the fairings and gas tank off, neither plug had spark. Put in new ones, strong spark, bike ran strongly. That sounds like a richness problem rather than a plug problem.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:That sounds like a richness problem rather than a plug problem. I do remember adjusting the idle screws really rich, and it was probably before I got the airbox clamped to the carbs properly. I'll try resetting those screws to stock
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installed a new rear tire (last one was used to go to banff, and to cross the US from OR to TN and gave up the ghost at 10464mi), high fender kit (why not, I am quite bored), and then picked up a couple bundles of wood for the fire pit 
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Today I removed the front end of the fireblade, mostly due to lockdown boredom. Found that the brake pad retaining pin is stuck tight on both front calipers, so took both apart and cleaned them out. Emptied fork oil as well because I have no idea when it was last done. Would like to change the radiator but I’ve run out of money. This weather is for riding not maintenance  
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I finally ventured out and got a floor jack so I could get the front wheel off the Goldwing, but I justified it to myself by saying I'll use the floor jack to take my winter wheels off my car instead of the janky screw jack that came with my car. It worked! Anyway, I had to take the front wheel off because my speedometer quit at the end of the season last year. I replaced the $80 hall effect sensor and that fixed it for approximately one mile and the speedo died again and I left it. Turns out the grease inside the worm gear housing on the front wheel was rock solid and completely gummed up. Of course the Goldwing uses one of those tabbed rings that is basically made out of velveeta to drive the speedo worm gear so it folded over instantly at the mere thought of sticky grease. Thankfully I had some bicycle chain degreaser laying around that instantly freed things up. I cleaned out the worm gear housing, refilled it with fresh grease, bent the tabs back out on the aforementioned cheese ring and put it all back together, it works again!  An 86 goldwing is surprisingly crippled by the speedo sensor not working. The auto-canceling turn signals, which actually work in 2020 by some manner of blessing from Soichiro Honda himself completely stop functioning without the speedo. The radios speed-sensitive (1986!) volume obviously also stops working, but I dont care about that because I never use the radio except to make sweet instagram videos. The suspension air pump (also another blessing from Mr. Honda in 2020) lockout is also speed-based rather than just being neutral-based, so you can totally adjust the air ride suspension at 80mph on the highway when the speedo doesnt work. This bike was like a space shuttle for 1986. Those auto-canceling turn signals? They auto cancel via the speed sensor AND an angle sensor in the steering stem, and the bike does some math to figure out if the turn signals should cancel. If either the speedo or the angle sensor stop working, the blinkers wont cancel. Anyway, I'm glad I got it working because how else are you supposed to rack up bragging miles on a Goldwing if the odometer never moves? Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I finally ventured out and got a floor jack so I could get the front wheel off the Goldwing, but I justified it to myself by saying I'll use the floor jack to take my winter wheels off my car instead of the janky screw jack that came with my car. It worked! So much Honda in this post, I feel bloated now but in a good 'ten burritos' kind of way.
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That is both beyond neato and also completely off putting. The Goldwing is a machine of contrasts.
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Sitting here trying to visualize a 34yo k1600gt or multistrada, gave myself a migraine. Trying to imagine a 30+ year old KTahahahahaaa
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The nice thing about the Goldwing is that yeah it has a lot of stuff to go wrong, but everything is very logically engineered. The few times I’ve had to tear into the bike it’s been both very well made (obviously) and made in a way that makes sense. There isn’t much “engineering for the sake of engineering” on it thankfully
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Too much snow this week to ride, so changed the oil and filter in the Ninja. I'm still waiting on more oil to show up to change oil and filter in the GS750, but given that I still haven't transferred the title and registered it and Secretary of State is closed, not like I can legally ride it at the moment anyway.
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Where are you that you have so much snow still? I live in the “frozen tundra”, aka Wisconsin and we haven’t had snow on the ground since mid-February at least.
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Idk, here in Maine two weeks ago I was riding to work Mon-Weds, 6 inches of snow on Thursday, and back to riding on Sunday.
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I ran the 250 a little today. Revs dip momentarily if I gun the throttle, it doesn't seem to return back to idle quickly at all. I don't know how much of this is that maybe I didn't give it enough time to warm up and how much of it was my amateur carb cleaning over the winter. I might pull it apart and try to make sure everything is spic and span again.
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