- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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I use water and simple green in the ultrasonic, but a much thinner ratio of simple green. It doesn't take much. Also it's probably obvious but blow all the parts out with compressed air immediately after cleaning to remove the water and simple green cause they won't help if they sit in there.
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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Cool, I got the aircraft simple green stuff so I'll try that. Do you find you often have to replace / re-plate bolts that have lost their chrome / shiny coating?
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Jul 27, 2016 04:32
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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So, regarding your EX650 ABS hack, I was reading up on the parts and it sounds like the computer for it is calibrated for specific wheel/tire sizes. They warn against fitting nonstandard tire sizes which I assume means the computer is programmed to accept only a fixed ratio of revs of the front wheel as compared to the rear. Of course the 650 has 120/70-17 front and 160/60-17 rear and a CBX has 19 front 18 rear. Did you have a solution for that?
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Jan 1, 2017 16:05
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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Interesting. The 650 manual specifically warns against fitting nonstandard tire sizes so I figured it wasn't actually calibrating when it rolled. Aside from that issue I was really tempted to try to fit a system like that on my 1982 R100RT I just bought.
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Jan 2, 2017 07:37
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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I would assume your setup would work just fine, actually, as long as the wiring and hoses and sensors are all in solid shape. ABS isn't that complicated, you just have to feed the computer the input it wants. I'm just annoyed that it has fixed preprogrammed wheel sizes.
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Jan 3, 2017 01:24
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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BMW actually does have ABS system that they put on this bike, but they're so goddamn old they almost never work and parts are expensive as gently caress.
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Jan 3, 2017 23:41
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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All the more modern BMW ones either suck or are integrated into high tech electrical (can-bus) systems. I looked into retrofitting an ST4 ABS system onto my ST2 Ducati, even that was a major pain, the parts are too rare and expensive. A Japanese system that runs standalone like that EX650 would be the only viable way to go I'd say.
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- Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester
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I didn't bother checking into any non-Japanese system because of parts availability and price. Just on assumption. V-stroms have a viable system too it looks like, but I can't find anything out there that has front/rear tire circumference ratios similar to my RT.
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