Can someone tell how or why the valve tappet adj screws on a 1st gen vf500f can come completely out? We had this happen on 1 of the adjuster...
Well one of these days the local police are going to bust my kid and I big time because when we ride together we don't mess around and my cb550-4...
Not long ago my son and I repaired the cam chain tensioners on his 85 vf500f which helped quite the motor down a bit but after a week or so a...
I have a nephew in Illinois that is a shop manager for a Honda shop and he was chuckling while I was whining to him about cam timing on the V4....
I'm sjona2011's dad and I first want to thank all of you for your input. This is the first time I've gotten this deep into a V4 and all I can say...
I had ordered #95 jets to replace the #90's that were in it and while I was waiting for them to arrive I went ahead and shimmed the...
The spark plug caps on my 85 vf550f are getting in bad shape and I'm having a hard time figuring out what options I have available as in do I make...
Well you would think that being my nephew is the chief mechanic and oversees the whole shop where he works that I, the coolest Uncle in the whole...
As it stands now the bike is running cooler but I think that has more to do with removing the lower half of the fairing than anything else. It...
You have the right idea but this is a pic of it at the auction. I pretty much have stopped looking at the exhaust as a culprit because it it was...
We bought it about a month and a half ago at an auction and it wasn't running. From the looks of the fuel it hadn't run in at least a year because...
Right now the plan is to have all the carbs ultra sound cleaned to try to make sure all crud is out of them. I've seen worse but in our case our...
I have a busy evening planned so I don't have time at the moment to be specific so I'll try to post a pic and more info tomorrow but it's an '85....
Our vf500 is running way too hot and I'm having problems figuring out what it is, to make it worse this is our first v4 so I have no clue if every...
First off mines an 85 and I'm assuming the petcock mounting flange is the same on an 86. I don't have pics but if you do have a clearance issue...
Keep in mind you still may have clearance issues when using an M3 screw. The button head of the screw that's nearest the petcock mounting bolt may...
I did similar to what blitzas did. In my case a previous owner had already taken it apart and rigged it back together and it was when it started...
Excellent Mobtown. My computer whiz 19 year old says that's exactly what he needs to use as a template in a graphics program of his. As far as the...
Yep the backlights for the gauge cluster are working but it don't help much in bright sunlight. Yeah I know I should've already known whether the...
I know this is going to sound ignorant but I don't know whether the lights in the clusters are working but my guess is no. I literally just got it...
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