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« on: 12 December 2023, 09:35:04 am »
Not sure what you're asking? OEM for your model year is stainless headers/down tubes, with a mild steel link pipe/ end can fitted with an outer stainless sleeve.
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« on: 11 December 2023, 06:01:03 pm »
Transalps have more suspension travel compared to a Fazer.
That and depending on how good the shock on the Alp was, could we'll make the Fazer for you a sports feel. Try it and take a view. To be honest most owners don't push their bikes hard enough (solo) to notice a under damped shock, providing it's not really bad.
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« on: 11 December 2023, 05:48:59 pm »
Possibly, depends how bad or not to you shock is. What do you ride currently?
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« on: 11 December 2023, 05:13:38 pm »
Yes. It depends on quite a few factors, but even a well looked after bike. The shock at 15k miles ish will have lost its edge at least, most will have stopped damping in any predictable manner. That said one of the factors is how and where you ride, a past it's best shock my not be noticed by you.
Don't let the shock issue put you off as long as the rest is fine. Shocks come in many guises, most quality AM second hand can be rebuilt and picked up for £100 or so. Factor in a rebuild approx the same cost, will give you a a quality replacement.
Often quality AM can snapped up for a little more needing no work at all.
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« on: 06 December 2023, 02:50:04 pm »
cheers have seen induction heaters they are very useful but in this application they will case harden the stud and not directly heat the cylinder head. Err no.............. Case hardening takes several cycles of heating and cooling, plus the carbon content of the steel is a major factor, these are low ish carbon content, basically it will do very little. The use of an induction coil is a good idea, they heat both the stud (to break the corrosion) and the head, they've never failed to work for me if they can be loosened. I am mechanical engineer to trade so no issue there but looking at no way in hell can drill out in place access fouls direct line if sight ie drill perfectly flat. Main issue is lack of space and workshop tooling and equipment ie oxyacetylene. As said before depending on your skill and tools you should be able to drill them out. I've done, well I've lost count, never as yet had to take the engine out. Remove the rad at most remove the front end at the head stock at worst. Drill out the broken off studs, often cheap easyouts don't work. You need to drill out the whole stud including the thread, retap, make up or have made a threaded stud the size of the hole now in the head. Screw a length into each hole, using bearing fit, redrill/tap the plugs, fit new studs, make sure you cooper slip the threads. Job done. baffles my why use mild steel in alloy head with tiny m6 threads
Its cheap. Yes you can run the engine all day long without the headers, but why? I wouldn't want to be you neighbours (if you've got any) either
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« on: 05 December 2023, 09:38:42 pm »
Depending on how much you weigh, you're speed, suspension settings, tyre, pressures etc. If you're still running a standard rear shock and fork without them being resprung and revalved for track work and you're quick. The suspension will at points be overwhelmed, the tyre will expand due to the suspension being pushed to its limits. Either will explain the marks.
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« on: 27 November 2023, 07:27:46 am »
Take the rad off and you should, depending on your tools and skill, be able to drill them out, retap and fit new studs.
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« on: 20 November 2023, 02:17:56 pm »
The rip off of people at these corporate run events, just keeps getting worse. Just to visit, not sure if there was any online pre booking for entry tickets before now, but there isn't now, you could get discount which had to be done pre 17 Nov for car parking. Currently it's £48.95 per person for one day and that just covers parking and entry! On line booking knocks off a huge £1.70 but you get slapped with a £2 online charge for entry and £10 off for parking which had to be done before 17 Nov and presumably bike parking if you can't get into free bike parking. Whether it was cheaper a few weeks ago I don't know? Yes you can get free bike parking, but that's 1st come 1st served how big this is who knows plus £2 kit drop off. Most I know go in the car save all the kit faf and buy stuff, so taking the bike isn't really an option. The feed back from contacts in the trade who are there, is don't bother unless you really must see a new bike that's not as yet in the showroom and can't wait until it is. Everything else pretty much, you can see/buy/do elsewhere without paying the exertional entry and parking fee. Don't even go there with the drink and food prices, for what is cheap low end takeaway food. Sadly it's all about corporate making as much money as they can.
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« on: 04 November 2023, 02:42:02 pm »
Sounds like it is not charging. These bike are notorious for the rotor magnets falling and can cause untold damage. The rotor should be changed regardless of condition for safety. Only true way of checking it is to remove the generator cover. You just need to replace the gasket.
The above is very likely. Simple test, but you need to start the bike, jump start it from another battery, once running check the voltage across the battery at 6500 it should be reading 14v. Even at idle it should read around 12.8 - 13v, if it isn't there's a changing issue, possibly the magneto or the rectifier. Is there an alarm fitted, heated grips, or any other extras? These can fail and drain the battery in hours!
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« on: 11 October 2023, 12:04:19 pm »
@Gnasher, is there any reason why owners could not coat the bottom of these pipe galleries with grease? As it would both protect the bottoms of the pipes and all the crap that goes in there would stick to the grease etc..
You could, providing it was heat resistant enough. That said any grease/oil would act as a grit/muck trap ie stuff would stick to it. Just regular flushing with clean water will help prevent major issues. Its the same with most sparkplug wells grit and muck will get in there and eventhough they have drain holes to allow water to escape grit/muck can't. Periodic flushing/air blasting is the way to go, especially before removing the plugs.
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« on: 10 October 2023, 04:52:48 pm »
Okay, now I know what your on about. These filling with rain (which shouldn't really happen) or washing water will not effect the bikes starting/running unlike the plug wells filling which could. Therefore they don't need drain holes, any of the above will just evaporate as the engine warms up.
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« on: 07 October 2023, 09:16:55 pm »
That just drains the plug recesses. There is no drain for the Coolant pipe area that I could see when checking the valves some time ago.
I'm doing all this from memory can someone give me some pictures of what we're talking about please?
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« on: 06 October 2023, 11:26:44 am »
There is a drain hole on the side of the engine and this needs cleaing with a coat hanger wire etc. In any event, once the engine gets upto temp the heat should boil off any water in the plug galleries.
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« on: 02 October 2023, 10:13:47 am »
Yes you can remove the pistons leaving the crankcase in the frame, that said and has been mentioned above your issue could well be just a sticky ring/s.
The fact you've run the bike, tested it, got low compression on 1 cylinder and I assume re started the engine after topping up the oil and got a higher readings all round. Suggest it is/was indeed sticky rings and by running the bike has freed them all off giving you healthy readings.
I would give it a good spirited run, revving to 7, 10, etc working towards the red line in the lower gears for about half hour. Allow it to cool and retest if the numbers hold up, you're not burning/using oil outside the spec, forget about the issue.
I would also mention, Fazers as a rule providing they've been maintained correctly, don't suffer bore/ring issues, if anything it's more likely to be a leaking valve/s. But again as a rule anything below 50k would be unlikely, as the rarely need shim adjustment below that mileage, even above that figure they don't go out much with normal road use.
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« on: 24 September 2023, 03:16:17 pm »
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« on: 23 September 2023, 08:35:34 am »
A sad day, I still miss mine
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« on: 21 September 2023, 07:49:49 am »
Michelin Pilot roads, a real world tyre, my customers love them. In my opinion they're the best mix of grip/wear/cost etc.
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« on: 20 September 2023, 05:00:10 pm »
Dear experts, I have to take out the gearbox, it seems. The question is: if I take the engine out of the frame, is it possible to remove the lower half of the engine, and take out the gears WITHOUT removing the cylinders, pistons, cyl.head etc.? Thank you in advance. No. The bike doesn't have just a gear box, the gear cluster is within the engine casing and there's 2 bolts that sit under the barrel block. These are either side of the cam chain void and cylinders 2 & 3. Why do you need to remove the gear cluster?
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« on: 14 September 2023, 04:54:11 pm »
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« on: 14 September 2023, 04:36:10 pm »
From their very popular Monokey range of luggage, they're 40lt, I think they're the E360Ns which are topcase/panniers. They are unpacked but never used so as new condition, still got protective cover on the badge, they come with all keys. These panniers will fit any bike once you've bought the mounting kit for whatever bike. £140 ovno plus postage or free collection, Melton Mowbray area.
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« on: 14 September 2023, 03:47:54 pm »
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« on: 14 September 2023, 03:06:27 pm »
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« on: 14 September 2023, 02:44:32 pm »
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« on: 14 September 2023, 01:23:50 pm »
This is the last bike I'm trying to shift for the same customer as the RD400 & Blade, again this was her late husbands bike. It's taken longer as she was toying with keeping it, but has decided now to let it go. It's in fully running order, serviced by me in Aug this year and it runs fine as does it ride. It's had been stood pretty much for the last 3 yrs other than MOT's and the odd ride, I've put approximately 300miles on it over the last year, sorting it out for her as she was going to keep it. It's completely standard, except for the polished rims In good to fair condition for year, rust beginning to appear on the odd fastener/bolt/screw etc mainly due to it being standing under a bike cover in her garden for over 2yrs, all easily sorted. There is corrosion on the exhaust link pipes, the offside is worst. These are double skin and it's the chrome outer that's starting to go, very common issue, easily replaced. There are the normal wear and tear blemishes you'd expect for a 17 yr old bike, especially one that's not been garaged all it's life. Both tyres are new Michelin Road 5, fitted at it's last MOT in Aug 22, they've covered 379 miles. Genuine mileage of 10601, which is low for the year. It doesn't have a current MOT, last was Aug 22, after having the front callipers rebuilt and painted by the garage who MOT'd it. Lets just say they worked, just, lacked power and feel and looked terrible. They'd painted them after rebuilding them with car paint, the wrong colour to boot, the paint then hardened and was jamming the pistons. These were both stripped at service, the paint removed, rebuilt and new Vernhill lines fitted. They now work as they should, cosmetically they really need a repaint to return them to as the should look. She doesn't want to spend any more on this bike and this is left for the next owner if they so which. It will either have a new MOT for the new owner or this will be reflected in an agreed selling price, bike is currently SORN. The bike runs and handles as you'd expect, the motor is really strong again as you'd expect from a Busa, it really is all about the motor, if you've owned/ridden one you'll know hat I mean, they're awesome. This is a turn the key and ride off, just needs MOT, and some TLC. It's worth in the region of £4800 ish, to allow for points mentioned above, she's looking for £4000 ovno, she wants in gone. These next pictures were taken just after the service and wash down, they show the cheesy rim stickers that are no longer there. The bike also has 2 sets of Yoshi end cans both used, one set boxed, the other loose. There's also a complete Givi luggage set, panniers look unused/little used, plus full mounting plates and mounting bars for them. The boxes and mounting plates will fit any bike the bars possibly not as it's Busa specific. These will be listed separately but could be sold with the bike if required at extra cost.
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« on: 12 September 2023, 01:04:37 pm »
If there is a noticeable rattle/rumble when the clutch is pulled, that would suggest basket bearing and/or worn basket. Could also be push rod assembly wear.
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