Author Topic: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ? (Read 2998821 times)

mystic red · « **Reply #400 on:** May 26, 2012, 07:02:04 PM »

Yep, those are heated. Check the fuse first.

CRASH · « **Reply #401 on:** May 26, 2012, 07:21:35 PM »

New tires again. Conti Road Attack IIs. Maybe the best handling tire I have had on this bike, but they were toast at 2,977 miles. The last 600 miles or so they pretty much sucked except for freeway riding. Lots of center tread, wear bars and shredding on the sides - so at least I had fun on them. Dunlop RoadSmart IIs are the next experiment. Unless a new tire comes out soon, I have run out of tires to try on this bike.

sh00ter · « **Reply #402 on:** May 26, 2012, 07:26:13 PM »

Quote from: CRASH on May 26, 2012, 07:21:35 PM

I have run out of tires to try on this bike.

What are your favorites? I'm running Z6's and like them quite a bit...

Inge K. · « **Reply #403 on:** May 27, 2012, 06:16:03 AM »

Quote from: mystic red on May 26, 2012, 07:02:04 PM

Yep, those are heated. Check the fuse first.

If the fuse did blow, a lot of other things wont function....start circuit,,,instruments,,,brake light.
Here is a picture of the intermediate wiring (which also include a resistance wire).

Inge K.

CRASH · « **Reply #404 on:** May 27, 2012, 04:32:12 PM »

Quote from: sh00ter on May 26, 2012, 07:26:13 PM

Quote from: CRASH on May 26, 2012, 07:21:35 PM
I have run out of tires to try on this bike.

What are your favorites? I'm running Z6's and like them quite a bit...

Remember, I have the new fangled K ... with the goofy front end, so it deals with tires differently. Personally, I think the Pirelli Angel STs are the best all around tire for my riding style. Handle well at speed, longevity is decent (5k average), don't start acting wonky half way through their life. FYI, the Z6s for me were not up to my riding style. The front end never felt planted and they slid around a lot on me. I could power slide the bike through corners on command ... not too bad, but sometimes it would want to do it on it's own volition ... this was not fun.

I have a document I have reviewed the tires I have run on this bike ... maybe I will format that and post it up if people are interested. So far it includes Z6s, Pirelli Angel ST, Avon Storm 2s, PR2, PR3, Tomahawk Remanufactured tires from hell, BT-023, and Conti Road Attack 2s.

billday · « **Reply #405 on:** May 28, 2012, 08:02:51 PM »

Big day today, with help from my pal Michael, who supplied the tools:

1) Compression check. Came up 150 PSI on cylinders 1, 2 and 4; 140 PSI on cylinder 3. Not bad!

2) Balanced the throttle bodies with a 4-channel Carbtune Pro. Thanks Duck as always for your great how-to.

3) New spark plugs. (This should be embarrassing -- I've ridden this bike over 13,000 miles in 20 months and never pulled the plugs. I have no idea how long they were in there before I bought it. Happily, all four had a healthy grayish tone, no signs of ill health. They were Champion RA6HC's; the new plugs are Bosch, from Beemer Boneyard.

Still to do: adjust the "choke" and the idle speed (balancing the TB's seems to have cooled down the idle).

mystic red · « **Reply #406 on:** May 28, 2012, 10:06:01 PM »

Had to take longer than that, you went thru a CASE of Crown Royal?!?! :yow

sh00ter · « **Reply #407 on:** May 29, 2012, 01:25:06 PM »

Quote from: johnny on May 28, 2012, 08:07:59 PM

if i can do it on the bed of a truck in a hotel parking lot on a 90 degree day with the unrelenting sun beating down... you can do it in your cozy garage... 4 hours total... all because dr l duck Hubbard explains splientology...

this is the 1st time i have had this apart... the previous owner had a dealer receipt for a $600 spline lube at 40k miles... im at 90k miles now so i wanted to swap in a 30k mile driveshaft and lube the splines...

i found some not very sticky green goo on the splines at the drive shaft output and at the final drive... butts the driveshaft input splines still had the oem goo on there... so... the that dealer didnt remove the swing arm and goo up the input splines... you just cant trust those dealers... best to do it you self... if i can do it... you can do it... really...

so... new rear pr2... new to me driveshaft... spline lube with guard dog + honda 60 cocktail... new final drive fluid...

had to take the landing gear handle off our trailer to lever that 12mm... he he he... got it done...

j o

Hey JO - nice work man! Where'd you get those fancy rear-end helmet locks? They look like they might actually be use-able ....

CRASH · « **Reply #408 on:** May 29, 2012, 02:15:16 PM »

That seems to be a bit excessive on the moly lube application. :yow

billday · « **Reply #409 on:** May 29, 2012, 06:59:54 PM »

Quote from: CRASH on May 29, 2012, 02:15:16 PM

That seems to be a bit excessive on the moly lube application. :yow

It's how they do it in the church of splientology.

TaosBrick · « **Reply #410 on:** May 31, 2012, 08:49:21 PM »

Welp, finally made time for the much desired swapping of my old forks for the gently used, cleen n' spiffy ones Dr. Duck sent me a coupla weeks ago. He even sent me some brandy-new fork boots along with 'em - what a guy!

Procedure went as follows:

Old ones removed.

New ones on.

Hmm... Kinda like the Café look. Not too practical tho.

Getting this washer/spacer stack right was the hardest part.

All Done - Looks Shweet, will ride shweeter. Thanks Duck!

tsbt · « **Reply #411 on:** June 01, 2012, 03:58:24 PM »

I just bought her a whole bunch of presents and along the way I took pictures of my journey.

tsbt · « **Reply #412 on:** June 01, 2012, 04:09:16 PM »

Andrew the parts manager didn't show guess he was on lunch, got my gak from a different guy paid my whopping bill and headed home and got some lunch - all happening with typhoon rains, whadda mess. The things I do for her, heh.

Chaos · « **Reply #413 on:** June 03, 2012, 01:17:20 AM »

Got my gaiters on!

Snowy · « **Reply #414 on:** June 03, 2012, 04:15:00 AM »

Replaced the front disk bobbins on the K1100RS with S/S ones from Motorworks in the UK. No movement at all now.....they have wavy washers to take up movement and I assume will allow a small amount of flex. Maybe they will loosen up in time who knows.

sh00ter · « **Reply #415 on:** June 03, 2012, 07:45:25 PM »

Went a little nuts...

Added the blessed cruise control ( aahhhhh ) It went very well .. Using red's "pit of hades" location for the servo. Added three LED switches to the left fairing - one for the cruise power; one for a manual fan switch; and the other to shut off the massive JO conspicuity lights (should i ever decide to do so)

Here's some fun photos:

hooking up the throttle body

Mount for the servo cable

Relays 1 & 2

Relays (one for the servo power, one for the LED brake light)

the 3 LED switches (yeah, I f**d up the rubber a bit, thinking of ways to fix/obscure this)

Quick disconnects so the inside fairing can be removed

Building the switches / wiring

The pit of hell

mystic red · « **Reply #416 on:** June 03, 2012, 07:54:10 PM »

a little nuts?!?! nice effort!

sh00ter · « **Reply #417 on:** June 06, 2012, 01:09:59 PM »

Added speed bleeders to all 5 bleeding points. Wow. These are one of the better upgrades.

Crapdealerbob · « **Reply #418 on:** June 07, 2012, 12:21:19 AM »

No pics, had the cracks around the base of my Staintune muffler welded up. Really enjoying my new Road Pilot 3 front & rear tires.

Brickhead · « **Reply #419 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:30:15 AM »

Heading for the transmission and gear shift mechanism. I got way too much slop in the lever. Going to paint the wheel, changed out the fuel quick disconnects, and give it a real good looking over.

And this:

I am hoping this from the present shifting issues.

sh00ter · « **Reply #420 on:** June 07, 2012, 11:23:23 AM »

Added license plate helmet holder (thanks JO for the tip!) - fanfriggintastic....

Replaced exhaust rubber grommet (made an improvement in reducing high RPM vibration) - mine was mostly shredded
#12 in the diagram

canazei1200 · « **Reply #421 on:** June 07, 2012, 11:46:27 AM »

Saw it pass 195000 miles then play up in the rain coming home. Did not want to tick over bit of a pain in nose to tail traffic.

healthy · « **Reply #422 on:** June 10, 2012, 02:32:56 PM »

Installed a national cycle "defender" windshield bought from a fine sir on this board. Now just for the 100 iterations it will take me to find a good position.

I've also added some brake quiet to the rear of my pads, but with only partial results. I'll go for another application later or maybe next weekend.

Also trying to tackle a very slow but persistent leak in my front tire. Basically I find it down by 8-10 psi each weekend. Not sure where it is coming from, definitely no foreign punctures. I swapped in a new valve core and I'll see how that is after a couple days. If that doesn't do it I'll swap the whole stem next weekend. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll put in the wheel gunk, though I'd really rather not. Running dynabeads right now, not sure if the leak gunk will fill the same balancing role.

Now if it wasn't so hot right now I'd be trying to find the most wind blast free position for the shield. As it is I'm inside drinking ice water.

frankenduck · « **Reply #423 on:** June 10, 2012, 09:07:14 PM »

Spline lube:

mjydrafter · « **Reply #424 on:** June 12, 2012, 07:21:51 AM »

Last night I added a relay harness with 3 circuits to my bike, Hi beam headlight, low beam headlight, and an extra either for a big loud nasty horn or a set of driving lights. I haven't decided yet... :yes

I installed the harness to run a 90/130 headlight. That things like a freakin laser, man. :laugh

I will be receiving my new to me final drive on Thursday and will install it that night hopefully. I went ahead and got a Qt of Redline heavy shockproof gear oil to go in it, from Jegs.

Since I have had the final drive off twice now (I did the full spline lube a month ago, FD, DS, and Clutch), I can pull the final drive and put it back on in an hour or less.

News:

Author Topic: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ? (Read 2998821 times)