Nevermind, I just noticed that the '86 has different markings. JPorter: Does your 1985 have the '86 rotor markings?
I finally installed my heads last night and thought I would pull up this thread again to see what you guys came across. Now I am confused! What is...
There is an earlier thread talking about this. I believe it was Jamie who pointed out that during idle (warm up) there is not enough oil pressure...
I just bought two of those from my Honda dealership, so they are still available. He did have to order them, but they only took one day to arrive.
Wow! I did not know these were so expensive! Am I every happy that my parts bike had three practically new rotors on it!!!
....are there so many still on the road? I was looking at the used bike postings and I counted close to 30 first gens for sale in the Toronto...
It has been so long since I took apart everything that I can't remember the configuration of the wires to the coils on my VF500. It is also not...
I just used good quality rattle can primer, paint and clear coat and I got good results. If I did it again the only thing I would consider was...
The hose lengths look odd... The bottom, smaller hose coming out of the lower part of the breather separator chamber goes down (drain) The...
I am not doing the oil kit on mine. I have spent enough on the bike already. If Jamie's $125 kit was still available I MIGHT have considered it,...
Re. Clearences - make sure that you are looking at the back of the Clymer manual for the 1986 specific information. The clearences are different...
Has anyone tried these out? They use a double banjo bolt at the master cylinder so the individual lines run right to the caliper rather than the T...
I had to use a lot of force to break mine free, even after a liberal penetrating oil soaking from both sides.
It is the intake valves and apparently the intake cams that changed in '86. The exhaust was unchanged as far as I know.
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Title is the frame, basically. So you probably would have got dinged the same without the motor parts. It doesn't make much sense, but that's the...
This looks very promising for making new tabs and filling cracks on fairings. Has anyone tried it? YouTube - Create New Tab On Motorcycle Fairing...
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Since I am generally going to keep the thing under 10k rpm (risk management!) then I should not have any problems using these modules. They were...
I have checked a few of the fiche sites and the 1984 and 1985 units are the same part number, but the 1986 is different. I wonder if there was a...
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