Ever lost a tool inside your VFR?

I'm asking because I just did
I'm now scared to ride the bike for fear the rear shock pre-load spanner will either mangle a pivot or wind up in my chain.

Any suggestions on where to look...
known "pockets" at the back of the motor or atop the swingarm?

I already mangled one of those plastic fasteners trying to pop off the right side decorative fill plastics. How do you get those out anyway??

Thanks for *any* tips- good weather predicted this week and I'm stuck looking for a small bicycle spanner for fear it will catapult me or mangle my swingarm or both!

(it's a 6th gen VFR if that helps any)

 

Just to make it complicated there are two types of plastic clips used to hold the fairings on my 6th Gen.

The ones around the black plastic section below the oil cooler open like this

The clips in the fairing of a Honda VFR800 - YouTube

The two underneath the fairing require a small cross head - undo a few turns will withdraw the claw section, use a thin flat blade screwdriver to prise the fastner out which will allow the fairing to separate at the bottom.

Chances are once you get the fairing off, the blighter (whatever tool you dropped) will be lodged in the most inconvenient location.



SkiMad

 

Nice video thanks! Also like the one "vfr engine sound explained".

I have to take a closer look but I think the fastener simply had a center pin. It could even be from a different brand as the fairings have been removed a few times before I took possession.

 

Use a small philip and press the center of the Black plastic clip until it is pop and sink in, then use a flat knife or a thin flat srew driver to pull it out.
As for searching for your lost spanner, open the seat and remove the tank to have more access. That think is hug so I am sure you will find it. Good luck
:thumbsup:

 

Might help to know where you think you dropped the spanner wrench. What were you doing when you noticed it missing. I always try to retrace my steps and figure out where it might have fallen.

Barring the above and likely uninformative information above, there is one place you might look. I can remember loading up my tool kit on my 2000 VFR while placing the tools on the seat and I dropped the chain spanner wrench and it bounced off my knee and I heard a metallic clink sound and I spent forever looking for the damn thing. When I finally discovered it's location I was shocked. It had bounced off my leg, over the chain guard and lodged itself in the hole where the shock goes through the swingarm. It fell handle end first and had just wedged itself in there and was on the front side of the shock so it was really hard to see. I have also dropped the bolts that hold the tank down at the back and they wound up just sitting on the back of the engine/transmission case in front of the rear shock (there is actually a fairly large amount of space in there where a tool could fall.

 

It was a smaller headset spanner from a vinyl bagged bicycle repair kit from the 70s.

It's funny- all these years shuffling it from one tool box to another wondering if I'd actually ever need it and THIS is what I get for my troubles! Lol

Good advice all- thanks. I got good weather and some time tomorrow to look... Sorry for the cliffhanger

 

If you didn't find that, it could have ended very badly!

I dropped a screw into the air intakes of an old R6 I had. Bloody nightmare.

 

Things could have ended very poorly indeed. I don't think any major issues would have come up with the spanner wedged in where it was as it likely would have floated up and down in the swing-arm cavity, but I don't even want to think of what would have happened if it had fallen out while I was riding. All manner of bad things could have occured.

I have dropped washers, nuts, bolts and tools down in various places on all kinds of vehicles I have owned over the years and have forced myself to find every one of them. Something to do with being mildly OCD I think. LOL