help!

[HDTboy]

Emery will probably be too coarse, wait till Saturday and we'll put it together if you like. You got some new head bolts?

[emaN]

It's a length of emery tape which has been used a couple times already, so it's not as coarse as a 'new' bit...

re the 'head bolts'; just spoke to Dan at Colemans & priced some up

$70 odd bucks EACH!!!

And, there's 12 of the suckers!!
And, they gots to come ex-Japan, so there'd be a 3wk wait

So I'll be throwing the 'old' ones back in methinks!

(BTW, no, i'm not dissing Colemans!)

[imdying]

They're not torque to yield bolts are they? i.e. throw away

[emaN]

I've been asked this before, but wasn't sure...

How do i find that out, dying?

[imdying]

No RF900 manual in the Chch Public Library system, so can't look it up for you.

However..... it's a GSXR motor, from the 750/1100 dynasty.. must be plenty of guys who've got manuals for those on here? What say you guys? Do RF/GSXR W motors have TTY head bolts??

Heaps of cages have them now, no idea whatsoever about bikes though sorry mate. Just thought I'd mention it, hate for you to have to do it all over again.

[emaN]

Tboy & i got proper stuck into it on Sat, so much so that we forgot about one of the camchain guides...which is why we had so much slack on it! Eventually managed to slot it in w/o having to take the head completely off.

It's amazing how much aggro a jack can save; undo a mounting bolt, tilt/lower the engine a smidge, slip head on, jack it back up....sweet!

However, we ran outta time and had to put her away; we're not far off done tho'!

A little inconvenience is the cams not having the notch they 'should' have; they could be aftermarket items?

Costs so far:
helicoil - $36 (the main problem)
gasket - $40 odd
coolant - $20
oil - $50
oil filter - $25
plugs - $34 (x2)
coppercote anti seize - $20
labour - beers (big ups to Tboy!)
time off road - priceless

So what's that? $230 odd + beers + missing out on some great rides

Moral - check your plugs semi-regularly! Check the condition of the electrodes for wear; if they're getting thin, bin 'em!

[emaN]

I put her back together on Monday night, the 11th... Tboy came 'round to listen out for any strange noises. She started up ok, but was making sounds Tboy wasn't happy with..

So, a couple hours on Good Friday were spent (under the watchful supervision of SlickD & r4q2) sorting out the cams again.
This time when we started her up she sounded a whole lot better!

Me >>
Yeh, i was stoked!

Got her Reg'd & Wof'd on Sat, then went for a quick blat over to Tga to see whanau & make an appearance at the Jazz Festival.. She ran fine..

This all meant that Sun we could join the East Cape ride...so join we did!
Had an awesome day out; great to be out riding with mates again!

After some 'spritely' riding we pulled over to meet up with/wait for Keystone & Jo; no sooner had we pulled up,we had steam rising up all around the bike; coolant leaking out from the gasket. arse.

Planned on taking it easy back to Rotovegas; didn't quite pan out that way..but hey, she was still running & pulling along rather nicely.

To be on the safe side we torqued her up again; didn't take long to do, cos i'm getting good at pulling her apart, & Tboy's getting good at fiddling with her cams!

Fingers crossed, this is the last update!
Thanks all for yer help/ideas/comments!

Outta here; gone ridin'!

[emaN]

Well, torquing the bolts tighter didn't stop that leak.

Pulled her apart for the 4th or 5th time, prepped & cleaned all surfaces again, and got original gasket looking pretty good too.

Threw on some Hylomar (recommended by a mate who used to work on leaky EA Falcons), and torqued her up...again!

Got as far as sitting the cams back in place, but waited for Tboy to finish off that part - and he's done an awesome job of it too!

We fiddled with shims on the intake side while we were at it; they were all a wee bit tight. Exhaust ones were ok.

Threw it all back together and rode over to the Mount to meet up with Tga KB'rs and she went sweet....and NO LEAKS!!!!
done done done!!!!



Next project is to finish off the rear end conversion...as soon as i get my tax refund (if any!)

[DemonWolf]

Watch out on those tax 'refunds' IRD tends to be nasty when they make a mistake and decide you have to 'pay' it back 5-8months later! Wasting a good week of my time trying to find out what the hell happened and why I have to pay $200 odd back to IRD

[emaN]

mongrels.
if they wanted it back i'd go drop an RF tail unit on their lap.. the old fat whale-like one, that is.