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The "Today I did something to my bike" thread
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The QuietMan wrote: »You hardly bought it new did ya? I love the colour.
Nope but I know the guy who did, bought in US, shipped to Germany, then over here.
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The QuietMan wrote: »Speechless. Is she a keeper?
I bought it in 2008, not planning on letting it go
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Today I changed oil & filter. Filter was an absolute pig to remove. Used a strap wrench and it bent and buckled. Ended up putting a large wooley sock in between to get it off. Tut.
Rode up and down the road then and gear changes feel better. Is this possible?
Like this? Happened me last weekend
So I bought these instead
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The QuietMan wrote: »Like this? Happened me last weekend
Jayz it must have been welded on. It was the filter itself that buckled on me.0 -
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The QuietMan wrote: »Oil like tar
That's ok.
Start getting worried when it's the colour of mud or even lighter!
Looks clean with fairings removed.
Obviously I never got to check that far when I took it for a spin.
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That's ok.
Start getting worried when it's the colour of mud or even lighter!
Looks clean with fairings removed.
Obviously I never got to check that far when I took it for a spin.
Are you happy enough with it?
The dreaded sludge? Never came across it in anything I’ve owned think god.
She’s actually very clean underneath a bit of surface rust on the down pipes alright but that’s to be expected for her age plus being a northern Irish bike for 15 of her 18 years.
I was going doing the plugs and coolant until it lashed out of the heavens, I’ll do it the next dry day we have.
Very happy with it, even on the motorway the other night she pulled like a train.0 -
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Found an OC91 Mahle (BMW oilhead) in the man cave.
"around 20Nm"
They can be a pig to remove, but they are recessed, so you can't get hands/straps round them. The cup has a big 27mm hex on it. Far too easy to over-tighten.
My usual tool for getting them on is the Facom automatic band (some filters don't have any flats/notches on them). Haven't bust a band yet, but they are available separately.
I have stripped/sheared numerous fasteners over the years giving it more grunt than intended.:o0 -
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The QuietMan wrote: »Just changed out the plugs on the busa, are they in a fair condition?
Not perfect, good to have them changed!0 -
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The QuietMan wrote: »The air filter was spotless would you believe, so i seen no reason to change it out, it was almost as if it is brand new. A hiflo filter, might try the K&N filter at the next service.
the ZZR that bad? I think i'm finally starting to weaken the Mrs hatred for bikes, she wants my next one to be this and not a GL1800 because she loves the colour :pac::pac::pac:
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The woman take sense
Yeah monocoque frame on the ZZR makes some jobs a bastard.0 -
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You can buy a brake hone tool pretty cheaply which has three expanding stones that are pushed out by spring pressure, you chuck that up in a drill and add some oil and just move it back and forth in a tube to get the tube polished internally.newmember? wrote: »I'm trying to service the centre stand on my deauville that has got stiff and doesn't return fully and needs a bit of a kick. The stand pivot has a hollow shaft running inside it that's fixed to the frame at either end. I need to clean all the rust and crap out of the stand pivot tube that rotates around this shaft. Does anyone know where I'll get a wire brush similar to a bottle or pipe cleaner that'd do the job that has wire bristles? Anything I've seen online is advertised as a wire brush but then when you look at it properly you see that it is indeed a brush made of wire but the bristles are actually nylon or whatever which wouldn't really be good enough for what I need.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »Yeah I was pretty sure that was what you meant... but someone else reading it might not know
Well that's their problem isn't it :pac::pac:
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