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Offline scoobs

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #850 on: April 26, 2013, 05:12:10 PM »
Started to do a combined "Bun burner 1500/ Saddlesore 1000" ride but only got 15 miles (1%) into my trip when my speedo/ odometer input went flakey :( It's hard to do a measured ride when you can't measure it....
I'd just installed a new sensor as I had a similar problem a week ago.
Shit happens but I'd really been looking forward to this trip  :dunno
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Offline Grim

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #851 on: April 26, 2013, 10:12:46 PM »
Pulled the wheels tonight. Getting new tired mounted in the morning. Not a horrible job to pull I expected it to be a little harder. Excited to see how it rides with a fresh set of radials replacing the 13 year old Bias.
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Offline Octarine

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #852 on: April 27, 2013, 12:33:30 PM »
Took the bike on a shakedown ride and the engine seized. I just put oil in two days before. No oil on garage floor and no oil coming out the exhaust. A tiny drop at the drain plug but no way 3750ml came out there.

Any ideas? Im going to pull the plugs and squirt in some penetrating oil. Is it possible to burn that much oil in 40 miles of riding?

I have to say I am extremely disheartened. I do have a donor 87 k100 lt, is an engine swap possible to my 85 k100 naked?
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Offline TimTyler

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #853 on: April 27, 2013, 01:05:39 PM »
Is the engine oil gone or did the engine seize regardless.

The last work you did was valve shims so that's where I'd start looking for the problem.
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Offline Grim

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #854 on: April 27, 2013, 07:24:00 PM »
Got the tires mounted $10 each at a local wheel place. They repair rims including motorcycle. They had no problem mounting as I waited on their bead clamp tire changers. They did not have a balancer that could do motorcycle wheels.  In and out in 45 minutes.

Picked up a harbor freight balancer on the way home. Piece of cake. Front wheel was fine. Back wheel needed 1oz. Probably could have spun the tire about 180 and got it down to 1/4 but I had no way to easily break the bead.

Took Ducks recommendation of Avon 46 on the back and a Bridgestone on the front.

The goddess of motorcycles smiled upon me and got with Mother Nature and held off the rain that was suppose to be here at noon. Let me get 45 miles of test ride in. :D  Big improvement over the 13 year old bais 491's.
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Offline WayneDW

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #855 on: April 27, 2013, 09:33:56 PM »
Winter is finally gone and I got all the fairing parts back on Old Blue so took her for a 100 mile jaunt today.
Wow those clean fuel injectors (Mr. Injector) are the bomb!  Mine weren't that bad before the cleaning but now it's like I added a turbo or something:  Smooth and fast!
I also had balanced the throttle bodies which I'm sure helped as well.
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Offline Octarine

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #856 on: April 27, 2013, 09:50:43 PM »
Hoping its not seized. Fuel pump wasnt making noise so I checked the connector. It appears fine.  Unfortunately I dont have a garage so until I find one it will have to wait. No riding for me this spring it looks like.
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Offline Chaos

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #857 on: April 27, 2013, 10:21:30 PM »
Quote from: Octarine on April 27, 2013, 12:33:30 PM
Took the bike on a shakedown ride and the engine seized.

You mean it just stopped running or is locked up solid?  Any bang-clunk-crunch noises when it stopped?
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Offline Octarine

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #858 on: April 27, 2013, 11:46:17 PM »
It didnt lock, it just felt like it ran out of gas. Filled the tank and nothing happened. Checked and cleaned the 4 pin connector.
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Offline Chaos

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #859 on: April 28, 2013, 01:14:55 AM »
try jiggling the key in the ignition, the kill switch, and the unplug-plugin big connector to the brain under the LH battery cover.  All well know suspects.
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Offline TimTyler

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #860 on: April 28, 2013, 06:46:32 PM »
R+R Monkey Nuts

Turns out the old ones were not in bad shape, but I put the news ones in anyway.

Alternator brushes have a little life left in them but I should order some new ones. They are at ~6 mm and 5 mm is the service limit. New is 10 mm.
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Offline Grim

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #861 on: April 29, 2013, 06:48:32 PM »
Eventually I'll get all the neglected maintenance caught up.

Tracked down some NGK's yesterday to replace the plugs. Noticeable improvement on the ride to and from work today. Gets a little better every day.  :riding:
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Offline TimTyler

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #862 on: May 02, 2013, 11:55:12 AM »
Advanced the timing.

Why did I wait two years to do this????

It took all of five minutes and a couple of hex wrenches. Nice improvement in throttle response at idle and low RPM's. Engine seems a little more smooth. I just eye-balled the clockwise rotation of the HES, let the engine run for a while, and then backed off the rotation a bit to play it safe.

Balanced the throttle bodies and the TPS to complete the process.
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Offline TaosBrick

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #863 on: May 04, 2013, 04:49:49 PM »
Have Chile Red mostly back together after the Dread Spline Lube. Amazingly, I don't think I effed anything up. Have to touch up some rust spots on my Reynolds Rack, then the rest goes back together and I'll be on the road again.
  Prolly a good thing I couldn't get on MB for the last coupla days with the server change - y'all didn't have to listen to me whining and wringing my hands thru the Dread Spline Lube  :2thumbup:
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Offline Chaos

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #864 on: May 04, 2013, 08:28:39 PM »
Hopped on for a quick ride and noticed the front seemed mushy before I got 50 feet.  Parked it and took the Ural.  Later I checked tire pressure, front was down to 1 psi.  Why the hell does compressed air leak out of a rubber and aluminum contraption after being perfectly happy there for the last year? :musicboohoo:
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2023 Ural 2WD sidecar (BMW's bastard step child)

Offline Octarine

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #865 on: May 04, 2013, 09:02:33 PM »
Racinrich came over and we checked out my fuel filter. Turns out I need to replace the strainer. Something jammed the pump, once we cleaned it the pump worked. Unfortunately my donor bike has the newer type strainer so I have to order one from Beemer Boneyard.

All in all a good day, I was sure i had killed the engine.
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Offline tsbt

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #866 on: May 09, 2013, 04:59:13 PM »
Going back in to replace transmission seals before it's too late and I'm kicking myself for starting this in May.

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Offline argent brick

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #867 on: May 10, 2013, 02:41:46 AM »
Changed the oil and checked the spark plugs. I have never done an oil change that was as fast or easy as this one. :)
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Offline sh00ter

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What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #868 on: May 10, 2013, 08:13:35 PM »
Got the tranny back on and the swing arm. Worst part of the job so far was that boot on the front of the swing arm. Hopefully it continues to go smoothly. During photos:
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Offline greenmtrider

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #869 on: May 10, 2013, 08:39:19 PM »
Today I replaced the front break lever with a adjustable, what a great difference.  I also ran my wire for the GPS hard wired to the battery.  Made sure all connections got solderd and shrink wrapped.  Next up will be to add 12 volts to the tank bag for charging cell phones and other gadgets.
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Offline mystic red

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #870 on: May 11, 2013, 07:05:50 PM »
Oil, tranny and final drive change. And while it was on the lift, wash and wax wheels.
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Offline Scott_

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #871 on: May 11, 2013, 09:12:28 PM »
I installed my WTPMS. Don't know why I haven't had one of these before now......Time will tell.
Next will be 2 full sets of tires, once they arrive.
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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #872 on: May 11, 2013, 09:32:13 PM »
last weekend we were busting out the lost coast of california...

we went to red full overheat... fan was not moving... moved the the blade with a stick and could hear it trying to run... pulled the fuse and hoped for the best...  we were 50 miles from anything... thats why its called the lost coast... a 10 foot wide road in... a 10 foot wide road out... switchbacks and enormous grades... we had to stop a few times butts we made it to the 1 and we could keep enough air flowing to get us back to our home base...

ebayed a fan assy from a & m... called to conform the order... had it 4 days later... today we returned to the hotel where we left the motobrick... it was over 100 degrees with no shade and no wind... the truck had it at 110 indicated...



everything on the back of the truck would burn you from the unabated sun...



ever see anything like this... its so f ing hot on the back of the truck the belly pan melted in three spots...













wtf... #3 in the back of the radiator... gotts lucky that f er didnt leak and the fan didnt rub through... so it was fan assy and done... 3 hours and new 50/50 green coolant...

still freaking about the melted faring...

j o
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Offline mystic red

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #873 on: May 11, 2013, 11:19:25 PM »
Ummmm....you look hot, need a cool drink?

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Offline Grim

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Re: What Did You Did To Your Motobrick Today ?
« Reply #874 on: May 12, 2013, 04:24:16 PM »


Went and managed a 100 mile ride today hoping to build confidence in the bike after sorting out a couple issues. First chance I have really had to just go ride since I bought it a few weeks ago. Had 28 miles on the tank of around town commuting. Ran 70mph for a while and ran up to the top of a decent little mountain. Got an intermittent miss after about 50 mile. Thought my issue I had come up a couple weeks ago was back so I headed home instead of continuing on. Did OK on the hwy but when I exited and got caught at the light I got a couple pops as I pulled off.

Decided when I got (if LOL ) home to pop the plugs out and see if they had fouled. As I pulled up to my garage I could hear a new popping noise consistent with RPM when I got next to the family Truckster where the souldn was bouncing back at me as I waited for the door to open. Left it running and put it up on the stand and got my helmet off to investigate.

  Seems I didn't get #4 plug wire full seated and it popped off.  :oops: I cant believe it was firing at all! The tab on the top of the plug hat was actually sticking through the slot on the plug cover!  :yow

My millage for the tank with an intermittent miss worked out to be 39-40mpg
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