The restoration has begun... Now the questions!

You are very welcome

I am building my VF1000 (I bought broken)
It had 2nd&3rd gears missing, as you can see from my avatar. I was in need of geer parts,CAUTION DON'T DEAL WITH SpeedSupplies.Com, THEY ARE A DROP SCAM,EXPLAIN IF YOU NEED IT.
So I had a trans that needed shift forks and a shift drum(my drum was blown out at both ends. Thanks to a goggle Europe search I found this most extraordinary Dutch company. Till they were the only ones THAT HAD MY PARTS!!! I think they have the manufacturers warehouse as best Friends.Hope my bike can look as nice as your super project. Cheers Michael Richard...:thumbsup::canada::cheersaf::cheersaf::cheersaf:

 

Adendum;

Still they ship UPS and I recieved my parts sooooooooooo fast. But some are slow as they source the very scace parts
I bought the last 29mm spacer from them so if anyone needs a lft shift fork I have one along with yhe spacers that break off on the mainshaft. Cheers. Michael..

 

Yes, CHEERS!!! :thumbsup: Thanks for the tip on SpeedSupplies... I will be sure to steer clear! I hope I don't have any trans issues.... I bought my project non-running and have dove in head first.... I'm getting ready to open up the engine soon. I'm hoping to get the frame back up on it's own wheels and then with the workspace freed up get into the engine and trans.... Good Luck with your project as well! I should be posting fresh pics soon, it's just so damn hot out in the garage right now and I can really only get out in the early am on weekends... Thanks Again, Michael!

Steve

 

Well, I was able to get out this morning and get the epoxy primer down on the rims... Hope to be able to shoot the black primer surfacer this early afternoon, gotta wait and see what the temps are... I went ahead and snapped a few misc. pics just to hold you guys over for now... The parts are trickling in, the fork tubes are primed, the triple neck is painted( I don't remember if I posted a pic of it earlier or not?). The weather should start getting a little more reasonable here in a few weeks and I can hit it hard on the project. I have my "missing" seals on their way from the Netherlands thanks to "mrich"! Til' next time.... By the way, if any of you reading this thread have seen some of the videos on youtube about VF1000R's, there is a video titled "vf1000r" from "fasbike" that shows an exhaust system from "ART" if any of you might know what the model number for that system would be I would really appreciate it... I don't believe that it is originally for the VF1000R.... More to come soon!

PS. Sorry about the fuzzy pics, I had no idea they were fuzzy until I downloaded them....

 

rims

Don't know about the cammo paint but to each his own. How is the rest of the bike going to be painted?

 

Hey Tex, That's epoxy primer! LOL! That's funny..... The bike is going to be painted in the Rothmans Honda scheme, instead of blue and white mine is going to be candy pearl tangerine and pearl white respectively and will have the gold/red striping to separate the main colors....

 

VF1000R paint

Salvo,

I hate to rain on your parade, but the Rothmans colors are KILLER together. When I had mine painted, I was stunned how good it looked.

Your nickel though.

Larry

 

Whoops

LOL That's funny. I thought you were going to do something like the RWB, but when I saw the rims I was like "the hell?" don't they look cammo to you or am I just nuts? :crazy:

 

What kind of paint did you use on the triples, Salvo?

 

+1 please list paint number you used on the triples

 

I'll let you guys in on the secret if you'll help me figure out what to do about my rotor bolt problem! I had ordered one "F" model bolt to see if it was close to the "R" model and maybe just longer like the parts listings show, 8x57 (F) vs. 8x32 (R) but when I picked it up today at the dealer, wrong..... Not even close! So, my project is back on hold until I get this dilemma figured out! Hey Seb, you've got quite the project going... if you were in my shoes what would you do for a remedy? I have given thought to using an allen bolt with a flat washer and a bushing underneath to kind of mimic the bolt head "area" and still fit the spacer that actually sandwiches into the rotor between the rotor bolt head and wave washer/rim... I can draw a sketch of what I'd like to do if it doesn't make sense here. Any thoughts? Please??? Oh yeah, the secret number for the paint is Krylon Industrial 1765 Gold over a coat of SEM epoxy primer, the a couple coats of Krylon Industrial 01000 Gloss clear. I'm not a big fan of aerosols but I will use them occasionally for detail painting. Everything else gets a uerathane with hardner for durability. I will confess that the paint for the bodywork on this project will be AutoAir. It is waterbased and will be cleared with a uerathane. The bike in my avatar was sprayed with the AutoAir colors, they are super easy to spray and really "pop" in the sunlight! Don't forget your ideas for the bolt issue....!

 

Why exactly do you need new bolts? Do you still have the old ones? If they only have a little rust pitting, you can gently wire wheel them to make them look new again. Follow up with a little polish & you're good to go. If the manual says to use new, don't worry about it. They say that for all models!!

 

Every one of my bolts broke off when I removed them... I actually thought for a moment that they were "breakaways"! I have since found that, that is not the case... In my last order from Motogrid they had been able to get me 3 bolts, so I assume these were the last ones in the Honda warehouses... I snapped a couple of pics to show the difference between the "F" model and the "R" model, on the microfiche they look similar and show that the "F" model is longer, so I hoped that I could get some of them and just cut them down to size... Wrong, they were totally different. I have included a sketch of what I am proposing to do and wanted to get your guys' opinion? I just want to be safe however I can get it fixed... I spent several hours last night scouring the net and found nothing close to a replacement. In my sketch, I will find or make a bushing to mimic the size of the shank on the factory bolt so that it will fit onto the spacer just as tight as the factory bolt... What do you guys think?

 

Or you could dig around on the forum here, and over at VFRDiscussion.com, and see if anyone has spare bolts!

 

I've seen bolts very similar to that at Ace hardware. Whenever I need something just a bit off that's where I go. They even have an automotive bolt section.

 

slick50?????????????????????????????

 

Slick50? What does Slick50 have to do with my bolt dilemma? Just curious...

 

Hey guys! Wow, it has been quite the summer down here... I had hoped to get back into the garage by now but several things had come up. It is finally getting to a decent temperature now and I should be able to start making things happen again.... First on the list is color on the rims and then tires... afterwards I should be able to start getting the frame and forks back together. Hopefully progress pics soon!

 

rotor bolts

OK, 12 8mm x 32 fine (?) thread pan head ss allen bolts, with 12 ss washers and 12 8mm x 12mm (?) ss bushings? I'll go to my favorite hardware store and see what I can build. Let me know some specs on the bolt and the bushings.

Larry

 

Guess I should reread My own message's

sent a pm to you today. Check out the part number and fishe