Well the 3 out of 4 camshafts are fine (the rear exhaust has a few pits but not too bad), the valve stem heads are not pitted or deformed and the...
Yeah, I'll take the cams and cam chain tensioners out and see whats what. I've done this with two other engines so I'm a dab hand at it now. Maybe...
The engine is out. I will now be able to hunt down that rattle. https://goo.gl/photos/CaG6VmZ2SxNaP59x8
A bit more progress. I had to buy a rear mudguard for it as the OE one had been worn through by an oversize rear tyre. I also bought some cheap...
In my experience the hardest thing to shift is always the the OE collector box. The last one I had to remove I had to hit so hard with a...
Decent silencers are as rare as decent petrol tanks. Almost impossible to find. The only good ones seem to be attached to bikes with everything...
You are probably right. I have two bikes, two really good 86 engines, a very iffy 86 engine which is definitely just for parts and now the 84...
I have fitted 86 engines back into 86 frames and had no trouble. I have no trouble taking off the rear head covers either. Your experience...
Yeah, but you don't get that frisson of excitement you get when thrashing a VF500, that any second the engine could explode ;-)
I was just a bit concerned the wider cylinder heads of the 86 might foul on the 84 frame but this doesn't seem to be the case. So it all systems...
Thanks for that. You learn something new every day. Mine has the welded brackets; never realised that was changed.
This is a new thread about the 84/85 VF500 bike I purchased in this thread http://vfrworld.com/forums/showthread.php/52750-Possible-VF500-purchase...
Swingarm was OK. Took it out and cleaned it up. Battery acid had taken some of the silver paint off so I spray painted it with cheap zinc silver...
Aluminium alloy rear sprockets are fine in my experience. Renthal make good ones. I nearly always swap and had never had a problem with them. Good...
If they are compacted you can keep them going indefinitely by stuffing bits of old inner tube down the sides.
On this side of the Atlantic we refer to them as the cush drive.
This is what it looks like currently. https://goo.gl/photos/aqfg8iTM5pLrH3ks6 One clear advantage of buying a bike from a country that has severe...
And it will bring your rear tyre nearer to the swingarm. Not a problem if you are running stock wheels and tyres but can be an issue if you swap...
Spent the weekend having a good look at the bike. It is not a basket case but is going to take time and money to get it decent. I bought a scrap...
Don't overtorque those bolts though. Plenty of posts on here where they have snapped.
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