Commiserations on your expired engine. I suppose 56K miles isn't too bad. I collect pictures of bust VF500 engines (I is weird). Yours wouldn't be...
Did the acid leak out of the battery when it was on is side? No electrolyte and the battery won't be able to crank the engine.
You did all that in a day? ;-) You're right though. Looks great from far away.
That bit of the fork stanchion is just cosmetic (Oops didn't see your second picture). They don't look bad. If you get them out and use a good...
Depends. It varied from year to year. If they are #92 and #95 mains and 30mm carbs, then the #95 go to the front and the #92 go to the rear. If...
It was GBP175+vat just for the materials. Labour was on top. Labour was by far the biggest part of the bill.
I got another quote off another outfit when I was seeing if I could get it repaired and they were a bit cheaper....
The paint and blast media used to get the old paint off was GBP175+VAT. It was around the price of that new tank, yes. Getting the white line on...
Or just a bad connection on the bulb pins. I ended up rearing down the front end of my FJR hunting for the headlight relay when all it was was...
I called them a body shop but they are not really. They are full on motorcycle restorers. The guy that panel beat the tank is definitely highly...
More than the cost of that new tank linked above. Most of the cost was labour.
You should check the valve clearances for sure. You should also try to determine the condition of the cam followers. These can dish and cause a...
The tank is perfect btw. Any blemishes in the picture are just light reflections. The outfit that did it are https://mts-motorcycles.co.uk/
A sort of happy ending. A body shop in the UK repaired and repainted my tank. Cut out a big section of the base, panel beat it back into shape,...
Could be loads of things. You might want to stop running it until you know more. If it were me I would fit the silencers so you can better hear...
Maybe not in the US but you can still buy head gaskets on Ebay in Europe. Not OE perhaps, but I just bought a Vesrah complete kit for an 86.
Sounds like a urethane type noise damper some gearbox sprockets used to come with.
If it's any consolation I paid GBP2000 for mine back in 2011. However it was original, low mileage, needed nothing and was in good nick. Spares...
I read somewhere for a LED bulb to work well in a headlight the reflector need to be shaped to direct the light, not the front glass. So modern...
I was going to say Hagon but the damping adjuster is different to my one. Spring is the correct colour though..
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