Welcome aboard Strommer! That there is a very pretty bike. I owned one just like it in 1985 and keep an eye out now for one as a restoration...
My 99 is not what I would call silky smooth but it is not hard on my hands at all. The V4 engine doesn't have a high pitched in-line 4 vibe, more...
Yeah, good point, they are from a 5G I think, with the side mounted gears rather than the central drive on the 86-97 750's. The cam lobe position...
Phase 2 completed; not only did the crappy weather depart, we got an absolute corker of a day without a cloud in the sky, but pretty nippy. So...
First thing I'd suggest is to pull the coolant hoses off the wax unit and make sure they are flowing freely, and flowing freely through the wax...
Ok phase 1 completed. Not too much of a struggle to remove, one seized bolt in a rear connector clamp, and those gaskets put up a fight. Found one...
Not here; my guess is the fault will be in the detente mechanism around the shift star.
Thanks Gentlemen. In addition to the leak, I found non-standard nuts on the front studs, so I replaced those last week with OEM parts and...
I have a slightly leaking exhaust gasket on the front head. Aside from the noise, the bike runs well. I have new gaskets ordered but would like...
There's basically two parts to the gear shift mechanism, the detente mechanism that translates the pedal shaft movement to a one up or one down...
All my bikes have high km, my 5G has 96000km, my ST has 107000km and my VTR1000 (the baby) has 76000km. All of them have had some coolant hose...
The cheapest thing to try would be some new plugs.
Well if you want sound and smoothness, you need a 3rd, 4th or 5th gen, with gear driven cams. These add a certain exotic sounds that the 6th gen...
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In the 5G service manual it states that the PAIR solenoid is open by default (i.e. no signal from the ECM), and closes when there is a signal from...
The word from those in the know (my best mate works for local m/c tyre importers), is that Pirelli Angel GT's are actually a Metzeler Z8 with...
Mate, I don't know everything! It was just a semi-informed opinion. It seemed to me that all the gears would be balanced more or less by design as...
I looked in the service manual, section 1 has all the cable run diagrams. The ground should bolt to the outside of the right frame member just...
Man I feel your pain. At least you got the bike running for a bit so there is light at the end of the tunnel! This sounds more like a spark...
I fitted a voltmeter to my 1999 5G, and installed a relay to power it. The positive feed goes from the battery post to an inline fuse, then...
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