Something I have noticed is the number of camshafts for sale on Ebay seems very heavily biased to 84/85 engines. Far less 86. Maybe this is...
Get them vapour blasted I reckon.
Jealous. The RG is on my buy list too. Sometimes think it's like a grown up VF500. Heavy bugger though,
I think it was some of the aftermarket pipes for the 84/85 that didn't fit the 86. I bought a very cheap Laser 4-1 pipe for my 86 but have yet to...
Could be. I don't have enough evidence to see if there is kind of pattern. The only thing I used to be able to say with any confidence was that it...
No, they all look like that. Kind of pitted but not deformed. I wouldn't be too concerned about them 37,000 miles is millions and millions of...
Link to the valve tips on my 37K engine (grey and pitted single photo) and my 3K engine (bronzed and one valve tip slighly deformed)....
OK. Thank you replying. The VT250 was a really short lived model in the UK. Maybe 2 years at the most. It's really interesting that you have...
So you can confirm that VTR250 valves fit the 86 VF500? That is useful to know. I was always under the impression the VTR250 valves were a direct...
I have heard of valves breaking at the cotter groove before alright. Jamie Daugherty who races (raced!?) these said that was the failure mode he...
Something else to bear in mind is that modern springs are not necessarily going to fix the problem anyway. The design of the springs will have to...
Yes, its a challenge alright. I knew all about the engine issues when I bought my VF500 in 2011. It was one of the reasons I bought it. It's such...
Sorry to hear, but thanks for posting. It's really strange and interesting. All the valve tips in my high mileage engine looked fine. Some pitting...
That is really odd. Intake valves have a much easier time than exhaust. Yours is the first I have seen with a failed intake. More evidence on just...
I have an interest in this. However, I think anyone with a real desire to keep a VF500 on the road has probably already made provision for the...
Never bust them. Stopped the leak. Cheap solution. I was poor. I had no option.
If a float sticks open doesn't the fuel just feed into the overflow pipe and not into the inlet tract/cylinder? I used to have a sticky float...
We all know the VF500 drops valves. Plenty of tales of woe have been posted here and the other groups. I have a 1986 VF500F2F which has about 22k...
Only you can answer that. If it's just going to be something to mess around with then at least it's an interesting bike that still looks great...
Out of the frying pan into the fire...
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