New to site and this bike.

I'll be painting too when I get my stuff in from Chuck so I may have to look into this squirrel spec paint.

I mean, if the military is using it it has to be good, right????? :wink:

 

So is this a good thing? And do you have item numbers for the paint?

 

That sounds like some crazy, supernatural paint.

Do Voodoo spells and hexes come along with it or is that extra?

 

Hey guys been busy today so got home late from work. I'll get that paint info for you guys tomorrow. I can tell you it's paint they use to paint support equipment like maintenance stands and stuff like that, equipment we use for heavy jobs where the stands will get beat up so it's very durable paint. I bought Krylon plastic paint to paint them but the guy doing the job said it wasn't covering up enough of the imperfections even after he sanded them some but this stuff he used laid on so thick it filled them in making the fairings look new. I'll get the mil-spec number and find out where you can get it from. Those guys are getting use to me being in there I went in there today with my spokets and sand blasted them and they didn't even question me, they even showed me where the fan switches where in the paint booth incase I wanna come over and touch something up myself.

 

Sounds like what I used to do in the USAF. I made all kinds of seat covers and the lot for all kinds of folks.

 

Well tomorrow is the day the carbs should go back together and we will start to reassemble her. I'm touching up frame stuff now. She's in so many pieces now it's had to believe she was a bike. Last major items I still have to buy are front rotors and break pads all the way around. I needed a chain also but got a brand new one off ebay today for $54. Was sitting on it but called cycle gear and had them look up the chain the guy had posted and they had it for $130 so buy it now was a must. Other than that I should be down to cosmetic things I still avent found an answer for replacing the mirrors but thats still low on my list. I'll save the decals for next to last cause my biggest issue will be seat replacement. The bike being black and white now that blue seat is not going to cut it. Been searching but nothing yet. I'll post pictures of the assembly to match the ones of the tear down so you guys can see the transformation.

 

If you are slapping a new chain on be sure to get new front and rear sprockets, usually a good idea.

 

It keeps getting deeper. We decided to drop the rear spring to have it reworked, in the process had to remove the rear pipes and thats what took up the better part of the day. Those things needed some love bad I literally grinded and polished myself exhausted. We got the carb parts in from Honda but that had to wait cause the mom and pop store I needed to get my screws from for the carbs was closed for good Friday. We headed to Fresno tomorrow for some big bike accessary sell in the morning so I'll be painting rims and pipes tomorrow afternoon unless we can find a ace hardware that we can match screws to finish the carbs. I didn't plan on doing anything to the pipes but as with anything that has to be done right we discovered a fault and had to fix it. Most folks see that as a set back but to me it's reverse aging. The more I do now will save tons of repair time and money later. It does get frustrating just when you think you can start build up again then there is another set back.

 

Hey guys picking up new fluids tomorrow. Can this bike handle full synthetic at its age or should I got with a blend. This is new territory for me with a bike this old, I want to do whats best for her.

 

If you put in full synthetic you'll find some oil leaks you didn't see before. My opinion is to make a old bike full synthetic it needs to be rebuilt with all new gaskets. Then it's a great thing. At this point you should just go Dyno IMOP and see how that goes.

 

Today was far most the worst day I have had since I owned the bike. It all began when I got over my buddies house I opened the garage and it was an absolute wreck. So me being the good friend I was decided to clean up a bit before he got home and we started on the bike. Now I know it's not cool to go in another mans garage and start re-organizing things but that was'nt my intention, I just started putting tools away you know in the places they go sockets with the correct boxes stuff like that picking up old soda cans and taking out the trash corner etc. Well I think the garage knew I didn't belong cause shit started happening that freaked me out ( garage door closed on it's own, the fan kept cutting of and the one that really got my attention my bike thats been sitting on 2 jackstands for weeks just fell over) yea that got my attention so at that point when I seen the garage was getting personal I took my ass outside and waited for him to get home.

Well we got into the bike right away and I quickly learned it was a mistake picking up his tools cause the guy was lost, it seems that even though the place was an absolute wreak he knew exsactly where everything was including all the parts to my bike and my moving things around slowed us down something terrible. Well we got the rear spring in and torqued to specs so next we decided to put the freshly painted exhaust back on. Well 5 hours later thats where we are. You see where the pipes connect from the manifold junction and the rear pipe junction there was a accident at 1 point where it looks like someone rode up on a curve and hit the pipes at that point and bent them so we had to heat with a torch to get em apart we took em to a muffler shop to get them rounded out on the ends but they didnt have a fitting small enough to get in to bend out so we where stuck trying to bend them out some with a vise and plyers. Needless to say it took a while but the ends were so bad off from being riden like that the internal pipe tips coroded out and I'm going to have a major vaccuum leak.

Our intial thought was get em together clap em back down and JB Weld the hell out of em but after walking away from it to clear our heads we decided to put the bike back together with the pipes bolted in place take it to the muffler shop and have them cut out the bad section ( just where the pipes meet) and weld new pipe in. My 1st major upgrade is going to be new pipes on her but until then this is going to be the fix. I'm going to have to replace the pipes from the headers back anyway. And that brings a question, do you have to drop the engine to get those back 2 pipes out? Other than that we got whipped today but tomorrow we taking it on from a different angle, organize the garage 1st with him there so his garage dont freak out and we building the bike all the way up to carbs on to see how they came out. I'll keep you posted. I have tons of pics from the job but we so far in I dont know how to post them from start to now so once shes running I may just do 1 big build thread with pics from begining to end.

 

the fairings look good

 

I was worried I might have aproblem with the exhaust pipes myself since I have to install a new shock I got for mine, it looks like it could be a potential bitch.

 

Big Dukie the good news for you is, you dont have to drop the pipes to take out that spring. Mine needed to be painted so we took advantage since we was back there removing the spring. My honest sugestion is dont remove them if you don't have to. But I will concur if you do they can be a bitch.

 

I'm not sure on the vfr's but on my vf750 you had to remove the rear shock and the bits and pieces in that area to get to the rear header bolts...and the clamps on the downpipe that drop the lower section from the upper if the vfr's have them.

 

REDEMPTION!!!!!

Today she fought a good battle and resisted us at every single corner, not a I don't wanna go back together resist but more like a she gonna let me hit it but acting like not going to resist. She was being difficult but right when we got fed up she would give in. Got her built all the way up to wheels on for stability but still waiting on rotors Supertex put in the mail and the pipes which we are taking her to a muffler shop tomorrow. The best news of the day was we got the carbs on and they where perfect. Not 1 single leak and we confirmed it was the float seals that was the culprit. Still needs to be sync'd but she starts on command and sounds strong. SHe is mighty heavy though. I'll post more tomorrow but until then here are pics of where we are. She is still dirty so don't get all huffy on me until mechanical is squared away there is no need in cleaning up cause we dont know what may go bad still she has alot of old stuff on her still.

 

Curry, is that you or yer buddy leaning over on the bike?

 

That's me, and for some reason that bike looks super small under me. This is my buddy Weller. His garage thats his Gsxr and dirt bike. We met in 2004 and have been stationed at the same bases since. He got me into bikes in 05. It was his 929 that became my 1st bike when he got the gsxr.

 

A while back you were asking how it would keep up with modern bikes so to speak and I feel a need to tell you of the only holding these bikes back. The suspension. The first real mod anyone needs to make is to put a set of CBR f2 wheels, tires, and forks with an upgraded rear shock. I changed that on my bike before I rode it so I didn't know what I had. Recently with my acquisition of the second stock bike, I found out, and I will never ride one with the stock set-up again. Besides modern rubber; you get better brakes, and WAY better feel.

 

Supertex, I was planning on upgrading but in a few months, so I got to ride her like she is for now, unfortunatly I got 1 income and 3 teenagers at home so all purchases have to be budgeted and the stuff we are fixing now is whats in the budget. But getting the stuff done isn't a problem as long as its in the budget so trust me the upgrades are coming. I found a set of F2 rims last weekend but the guy wanted$250 for them and I felt I could do better than that but he had 3 sets of em and if you guys say thats a good deal I can go back and get a set. The rest of the upgrades wont be a problem I just need to know where to start looking for the stuff. I want to do this right but my upgrades move at my budgets speed.

My suspension is already bad though it feels super soggy and gives easily to m weight. But remember My daily commute is 14 miles both ways on base 35 mile per hour to a 2 mile 55 mile per hour stretch with 1 slight curve that 25 miles per hour so she wont be under any pressure until i get the upgrades. But they coming bro. I like how you let me get the mechanics out the way then you eased me into the next evolution. I'm learning day by day but I'm learning.