Are the boots different? I have a set of 86 carbs on my 85 engine and the 84-5 boots fit perfect. Are the 86 heads that different? If so I am...
Matt can you slide the cable all the way out of the cable housing? Perhaps the inner cable has a burr on it and it caught itself on the inner...
With Rock it can be hit or miss on the older stuff. It seems that they buy up NOS parts and sometimes don't so a good job identifying what they...
Yeah, I have spent a ton of money over the years with RockAuto. The are really easy to work with. I hope they get in the motorcycle game also!
New Tire Day! While waiting on the heads and radiator to be done, decided to put on a new tire. [ATTACH] I am no one trick pony! I can screw...
Regarding that cylinder ring, I wish I would have kept one of the OEM '85 gaskets I took off. I am now curious if Honda did round or notched...
Damn, nice job Capt 80's!
LOL!
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?
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