Jobiwan
2nd February 2014, 22:19
Gidday all
Back into riding after a 20 year break (yeah, marriage, mortgage, kids etc :-p )
Up'd the ante from the VTR250 I've been riding by buying an '86 VFR700 off TradeMe. PO had servicing receipts, mechanic vouched for the bike (47M/73K), though owner had it checked recently for it loosing power a couple of times suddenly on the m/way... he said he stopped, waited a bit, restarted and seemed fine...
Rode it Auckland to Wellington the day after buying it, loosing power/revs thing happened to me once that morning as left Auckland (while going slow in traffic). Rest of trip uneventful but bike seemed a little rough (thought these VFR's were supposed to be silky smooth...).
Riding around Wellington the next day bike lost power completely and stopped/died... seemed v.hot around r/r cylinder... would not restart till after I got it home and it had cooled right down.
Just getting around to working on it now and have some questions - reasonably handy with the tools but knowledge is not what it once was, so...
Have stripped and cleaned the carbs, discovered r/r cyl carb boot was split (causing lean running?) - replaced all boots... mixture jets at 3 turns, 2, 2, 2.5 - reset all to 2.5...
Did a full valve adjustment - only minor adjs needed...
but, noticed when manually cranking to do valve adj that it seems sticky at cyl4 TDC - did it actually sieze?
...and, when I cranked it some white ash blew out of the plug hole - what does this indicate?
Main question is - where to from here?
Otherwise - does anyone know of an 86-87 VFR750 engine for sale?
Back into riding after a 20 year break (yeah, marriage, mortgage, kids etc :-p )
Up'd the ante from the VTR250 I've been riding by buying an '86 VFR700 off TradeMe. PO had servicing receipts, mechanic vouched for the bike (47M/73K), though owner had it checked recently for it loosing power a couple of times suddenly on the m/way... he said he stopped, waited a bit, restarted and seemed fine...
Rode it Auckland to Wellington the day after buying it, loosing power/revs thing happened to me once that morning as left Auckland (while going slow in traffic). Rest of trip uneventful but bike seemed a little rough (thought these VFR's were supposed to be silky smooth...).
Riding around Wellington the next day bike lost power completely and stopped/died... seemed v.hot around r/r cylinder... would not restart till after I got it home and it had cooled right down.
Just getting around to working on it now and have some questions - reasonably handy with the tools but knowledge is not what it once was, so...
Have stripped and cleaned the carbs, discovered r/r cyl carb boot was split (causing lean running?) - replaced all boots... mixture jets at 3 turns, 2, 2, 2.5 - reset all to 2.5...
Did a full valve adjustment - only minor adjs needed...
but, noticed when manually cranking to do valve adj that it seems sticky at cyl4 TDC - did it actually sieze?
...and, when I cranked it some white ash blew out of the plug hole - what does this indicate?
Main question is - where to from here?
Otherwise - does anyone know of an 86-87 VFR750 engine for sale?