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Huge McPunch posted:Do a bench synchronization. I always thought you had to use something like a carbtune to sync a carb. That is pretty cool. 
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I have a carbtune too The flashlight stuff was just to get a baseline to start from. The chrome on the forks looks great and everything is straight as an arrow. I wouldn't be surprised if the seals are just a million years old.
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Aug 13, 2011 20:39
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KARMA! posted:I always thought you had to use something like a carbtune to sync a carb. That is pretty cool. You do. What I described will give you a pretty precise zero though. Doing a vacuum sync is really hell if you're way off to begin with. Anyway, a bench synchronization will be spot on 95% of the times. If you really need to measure vacuum it's because you're too lazy to remove the carburetor block or something else is wrong and can be helped by misaligning butterfly hight at your intake. Huge McPunch fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Aug 13, 2011 |
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Installed a fender eliminator and swapped the stock system back on to prepare for my high-mount install tomorrow. I'm completely exhausted. The old full exhaust was practically cemented to the bike. Thank god for rubber mallets and PB Blaster.
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Aug 14, 2011 00:22
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kylej posted:Flushed the brakes on the SV and disconnected the tail light. Tomorrow I'll pull the mirrors then unplug and tape off the headlight. Head to VIR Tuesday.
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Aug 14, 2011 02:44
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Relocated the ECU again, though I think it should be good now. In between the battery and fuel tank was still too close to the engine and it was getting hot to the touch, so I tossed the old stock exhaust servo motor with a servo eliminator and put the ECU there. For reference the old ECU is in the old position (actually it was a bit further back), the new is forward and completely under the seat so it shouldn't get too hot.  All tucked away with my servo budd.  And while you can't really tell from a distance...  ...wrapped the tail up tighter than the space shuttle (R.I.P.).  I'm probably going to add some more heat shielding to the side where the exhaust runs to the can since it's pretty close to the ECU too. Hopefully that'll do it.
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Yesterday I took the wheels off the DRZ to Sun Enterprises - a shop that I didn't even know about until Honda sent me an email about the CBR250 (which I went to go look at last week, but they sell them as soon as they come in...) I was really impressed by the size and layout of the place in comparison to the 'close' store. They've got a TON of gear and the service department up front and the showroom is in the rear in a separate building connected by a dedicated corridor. A two story H-D dealer/service shop next door on the adjacent property. Color me impressed! So, I brought the tires in at 11am, they quoted me 3pm - which is remarkably better than the 3 days that the 'close' shop quoted me for a tire swap on a Saturday. Wandered around looking at the bikes for a bit, then noticed a big rig at the shop next door. The Harley Davidson Demo Truck, to be specific. * Taking your tires to be swapped on a Saturday and having it be done the same day for $50? Nice. * Having them call you in one hour, instead of three? (and not having to fight the rimlocks, or worry about how much money you'd spend pinch-flatting tubes) Excellent! * Being able to go test ride Harleys in the interim? Amazing (and lucky!) * Riding the XR1200? Terrifyingly bad! Didn't we used to have a test ride thread?
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Aug 14, 2011 21:22
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I finished changing the fork seals and bushings on my Firebolt. It took longer to do than I planned, but once I had the right tools and all of the parts, it went pretty quick. An actual spring compression tool makes everything go very smoothly. Ended up changing my head bearings too, since they felt kind of crappy. And I got it all done just in time for it to start raining.
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Aug 14, 2011 22:06
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 it loving runs and belches fire. needs some 93 and a good carb sync. I also am about to sort out why the drat headlight won't come on. KARMA! posted:I always thought you had to use something like a carbtune to sync a carb. That is pretty cool. you do, bench sync is just a good starting point.
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You can build a ghetto carbsync for like 10 bucks. Just google "Ghetto carbsync" they work like a dream.
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Changed the oil and installed a manual cam chain tensioner. And it needed the oil badly as only 1 quart came out and it takes just under two. Should have done this when I first got the bike.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Don't see many SV's in red, that might be the first one I've seen. Looks good. Thank you. It is a rare color I think. I never see them at SVRider. high-mount installed today  Was way more of a pain in the rear end than it had any right to be but it looks great so I can't complain.
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kylej posted:Thank you. It is a rare color I think. I never see them at SVRider. Does your right heel contact the pipe if you don't hold it up? When I rode my friend's SV with a Leo Vince mid-mount mine would if I relaxed my right foot. I love the way the high mounts look though. edit: I ride with the balls of my feet on the pegs King Nothing fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Aug 15, 2011 |
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King Nothing posted:Does your right heel contact the pipe if you don't hold it up? When I rode my friend's SV with a Leo Vince mid-mount mine would if I relaxed my right foot. I love the way the high mounts look though. Dunno. I have to wait for the fancy high-temp silicon sealant to cure for 24 hours before I start her up. The exhaust manufacturer sells a heel guard for the mid-pipe which should help if it does rub.
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Rode a chain nearly to failure. It was on its last legs; tensioned to the end of the swingarm before I left. Rode 500 miles, oiling it every 100. It's now sloppy loose and smells like burned rubber since all the o-rings are failed. New chain should be showing up tomorrow. Interestingly fuel economy went into the toilet during this period. Last week was 48mpg, the first half of the ride was 44, then 42, then 41 for the last 100 miles.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Interestingly fuel economy went into the toilet during this period. Last week was 48mpg, the first half of the ride was 44, then 42, then 41 for the last 100 miles. You said that the O-rings failed, and that explains it enough. Imagine you're a person running this chain through your hands, and for every link that passes through your fingers you have to grab it and bend it to the appropriate angle before you can move onto the next one. Now, at first, the chain has good O-rings, so every joint is nicely oiled and bends freely. But after awhile, the seals fail, and oil leaks out of the joints in the chain links. Sure, every hundred miles or so a dude comes along and sprays the chain you're holding with oil, and the links become a little easier to bend. But, since the seals have failed, very quickly they regain that slightest resistance again. As you move the chain through, more oil drains out and dirt gets in, and they're ever-so-slightly more difficult to bend. Pulling the chain and bending the links individually is very easy, even when the seals have failed, but your engine is doing that four times for each circumference of the chain (as it latches onto, and then exits, both sprockets) thousands and thousands of times a minute. A 4mpg drop is pretty understandable. My Enfield can't run o-ring or x-ring chains, as they're all too wide to fit through the primary case. When I installed an "automatic chain oiler" (really I redirected the crank blowby oil, a drop or so a mile of oil mist, onto the chain) I gained a few MPG at first, because before I just had sprayed ATF or whatever I had onto it every hundred miles or so.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:all the o-rings are failed.  I think I just shat myself. you're probably going to need new sprockets too. just my $.02
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
Oh yeah. New front and rears are on the way.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Oh yeah. New front and rears are on the way. good. Didn't happen today... but I haven't posted it here yet, just on http://gnarlywrench.blogspot.com I got the 76 tank painted   and everything remounted.   Then I cleaned,  prepped,   and painted the oil overflow catch can (stole it off my 75 parts bike WITHOUT having to remove teh tank. fuckyes tinyfingers)   I'm still trying to figure out why the hell I cannot get the drat thing to time properly. For some reason I have to advance the points plate almost 90º to get the timing right. Even then the timing light doesn't stay on, it just blinks for a second. I'll be pulling the valve covers and timing covers soon to make sure that, 1) the camshaft holders aren't hosed up and 2) the timing gears are still right where they should be. and the timing belt didn't skip a tooth or something.
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Awesome my dad dropped my Kawasaki too, I just noticed it today. He took it out while I was at work, this is a guy who decided to take out my 600 supersport without a license, just a permit, and hasn't ridden anything beyond 50cc cubs.  
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Sounds like it's time to get your own place
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You seem so sedate after discovering that. Shouldn't you be  ?
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Why are you still living at home when you can afford something like 5 nearly new motorcycles? Priorities, dude.
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Stop leaving the keys out  I mean I know accidents happen, but when it's not your bike and something similar just happened, what? 2 weeks ago or something? 
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nsaP posted:Stop leaving the keys out This. I'd be super pissed if my dad was playing around with my property.
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kylej posted:Why are you still living at home when you can afford something like 5 nearly new motorcycles? Priorities, dude. 
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Odette posted:This. Now you know how he felt when you were a kid. 
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BlackMK4 posted:Now you know how he felt when you were a kid. God drat, that brought back some weird childhood memories of playing with the car and dad running after me with a wet wooden spoon, screaming bloody murder.  It's a good thing I ain't having any kids anytime soon!
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nsaP posted:Stop leaving the keys out Believe me i'm absolutely furious, i'm just exhausted because it was my birthday yesterday and I come home from a fun over nighter in the city to find that the 636 went down. All extra keys are now locked in my personal safe. Yes he dropped my GSX-R 1000 that I had owned for one week that hadn't been dropped in it's life. I did my best with touch up paint and some rubbing compound/polish, replaced the frame slider, and broken shifter. Sigh it's so ugly now when the light shines on the upper fairing, it's about 450$ for a new one, luckily it doesn't need any stickers or decals. The left fairing itself is pretty unscathed along with the tail, the shifter is slightly bent, and I realized the clutch lever is bent into a candy cane. I haven't dropped it or even come close to dropping it since owning it for almost a year, it may have taken a tumble on it's right at some point before I owned it but the left side was flawless It's even more ridiculous because i'm been pushing the dad to take the drat MSF, he attempted the DMV skills test on my GS500 and failed horribly, which I think is a stupidly easy bike to ride. He still refuses to take the MSF because he thinks hes a pro when clearly he is not, also hes a total squid and is too cheap to buy gear but apparently doesn't mind costing me hundreds/thousands in dropped bikes. GSX-R photos after my patch ups:    
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Move the gently caress out of your parent's house.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Move the gently caress out of your parent's house. Your dad is dropping your bikes to let you know this.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Move the gently caress out of your parent's house. My god drat dad keeps scratching my 911 when he pulls his VW Rabbit out of the garage, it's totally bumming me out man. I slammed the curtain to my room, I was so angry.
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Move out or buy some rotor locks. I moved out at 18 and was on a ramen noodle budget for a loooong time. With a bike your gas savings should be fairly significant so hopefully that will help you offset rent. Seriously though, if there is any way you can move out do it. The freedom is absolutely intoxicating if you've never been on your own before. Just be frugal and build up a bit of a bankroll just in case you fall on hard times. You'll grow a lot as a person when you start having to do everything for yourself.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Cycle Asylum > Life Lessons Content: Today I prepped my bike for it's new headlight arrangement. The front fairing stay, fairing, and gauge cluster were all cracked in various places from the last guy, so I'm going the round headlight + trailtech gauge route. Electrical systems are still black magic to me; is anything going to go wrong if I ride without a gauge cluster and headlight plugged in for a few days?
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AncientTV posted:is anything going to go wrong if I ride without a gauge cluster and headlight plugged in for a few days? Today I get to put the lights and mirrors back on the SV. After a great track day it's back to commuting duties tomorrow.
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Right now, I: - live on my own - in a city that's absurdly cheap to rent/live/eat/booze in - own four motorcycles - own no car - have a girlfriend with a new car under warranty & a hidden carport that I use for my bikes. If I lived with my parents, I'd be competing with my stepbro who's a massive gearhead that takes up the entire garage for his tools, equipment, and random muscle car or ancient Jap car he takes home to fix up and flip. Not to mention the other caveats of living with parents, and the general shittiness and priciness of living in Chicagoland, which negates the prospect of free residency and free food. move out dude.
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I still haven't had any major problems living with my parents, but I'm planning on moving out soon after I graduate college. Going to miss using my dad's garage once I do though. Anyway, for content, yesterday I figured out that my KDX no longer has a clutch. It's been kind of sticky for a couple years, but this time I managed to ride around my backyard about 10 times with the lever pulled and it never disengaged. I guess it's time to fix it.
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After I got my bike back from Idaho [see: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3405422&pagenumber=6#post394545274 for a brief ride report], I did an oil change and a headlight bulb replacement. New bulb is a gently caress you bright Sylvania Silverstar Ultra because everybody I ride with says they can't see the stock low beam during the day. Ended up burning out the high beam so I had to get a new bulb. Gonna make sure to ride tonight and see how bright it really is! My Mobil1 10w40 went up in price at Autozone. Used to be like $9.95/qt, now it's $10.95 or something. At least I can still get it at Autozone. I prefer not dealing with motorcycle parts counters just to get oil change stuff.
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clutchpuck posted:After I got my bike back from Idaho [see: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3405422&pagenumber=6#post394545274 for a brief ride report], I did an oil change and a headlight bulb replacement. Why not just buy a gallon of the Shell Rotella T for $25?
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