HEAD GASKET REVIEW....So I received the Vesrah 86 VF500 head gaskets from the greatest guy ever Colddevil Matt! Tip of the hat to him! The head...
I hear you about the valve clatter. I did not remember it being that loud from back in the day. It does get better when the oil pressure gets up.
Those are the gaskets I have had a ton of trouble with. Good price but the head gaskets don't fit without modifications. BUYER BEWARE!
Man I felt bad for you when you posted about that transmission disaster a while back. Your bike looked awesome! Thanks for the encouragement and...
LOL, my motocross career consisted of blowing up a lot of engines! Expensive hobby not to mention the chiropractor bills after a good bail!
Thank you for the encouragement. This whole forum has been incredibly encouraging on my completely insane quest.
Nice, surprised I never met you! Yes sir, been around a lot of power plants, including Nuclear. Cut my teeth out of college on turbo compressors...
Continued.... Here is the intake runner...Kind of hard to see the red, but the entire runner is coated in the sticky mess of the RED KOTE....
FAILURE ANALYSIS.... As @Paul Myers replied to it did not look like a head gasket failure. What I found were (2) separate failures that may or...
You are correct. Normal blown head gasket will have steam cleaned the piston and combustion chambers. This is pretty mysterious. My day job...
That is a great story! I worked in a Honda dealer 83-88 and remember all that you said. The 600 Hurricane was unobtainium even for employees as...
Yeah, good point, this engine has 11:1 I think?
So I got up early and pulled the rear head off. Here is what I found. Pistons were wet but the cylinder walls look fine. Does not look like any...
Thanks for taking those pictures. Not sure that is going to work out of the box. The VF500 part is a right angle with close to the same...
Me doing my favorite thing in the whole world....pulling VF500F engines! The leakdown test was going great until I tested the LAST cylinder. It...
Man I hope that is it. I just did a leak down on #2 and no problems at all. No air bubbles coming out of the radiator neck either, I let it sit...
Yes, that is exactly what is happening. It has not done this before but I have not ever let it sit and idle this lone either(15 minutes or so)....
Yeah, I used to have a VFR800FI and they do look similar if memory serves. Been a while though.
I have tons of automotive bumpers and looked into modifying but this one has a molded curve in it that makes it tough. I have some old GSX650F...
No rush on that! I appreciate the effort. I have a lot of jobs to do before I need to mount the fuel tnk again.
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