Recent content by Laughter13

Well i finally hit the pavement.... and my wife says no more. My loss your gain! check the craigslist listing here: http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/mcy/2559922458.html

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Dont think i have posted any pics of Rose since all the cleaning/detailing, paint, and a few new bits here and there. For those you dont want to read all the way back, when i purchased the bike the previous owner had black primed most everything and never painted it. The tank had been dented...

got ambitious over lunch and decided to stop by my local honda dealer and pick up some high quality motor oil, brake fluid, oil filter and do a quick oil change and spark plug swap (bought the spark plugs on Bikebandit.com). Good news.... Shifting has dramatically improved, so whatever...

Not getting many responses on my shifting issue so i figured i would post the next thing i have noticed... I have noticed some knocking while idling below 1700 rpms. Happens when cold, hot and pretty much any time idling below the 1700 rpms. The sound, i believe, is coming from the front...

After 7 months at the mechanic shes finally back! After all that time the mechanic still couldn’t get the carbide bit out of the cam chain tensioner locking bolt, so I will have to address that issue in the near future. The new cam chain, guides and tensioner have completely removed any sound...

yup the engine is still on the bike.... mechanic has the top end off to replace the cam chain. He has pulled it down to the heads and told me that if i we needed to split the case, the cost would be too much and the bike isnt worth it. As for the rattle, it was getting progressively...

yeah.... that would be nice. problem is that this is the tensioner locking bolt and the other end of it is inside the bottom of my engine. Appreciate the feedback though!!!! ;)

so you have ground out around an easy out similar to my situation? did you need to remove the engine to do that method? My concern is that my mechanic seemed to think that we could potentially loose the ability to keep the tensioner rod tight. I was confused by this since i figured drill as...

Appreciate the encouragement... Just got off the phone with the mechanic and feel a little better about his competance. He explained to me that he has spend a few days (in total hours) trying to get this damn "easy-out" bit out. Tried welding to it (but wouldnt take any weld), tried...

yeah... i agree that this guy doesn't see to be at the top of his game. I have been on the phone for about an hour, still two hours since mechanic said he would call right back. I have called about 5 local bike shops and as soon as i tell them that i have a broken extractor bit in the engine...

so... pretty pissed off today.... but let me start at the begining: about 5 weeks ago i dropped my bike of at the mechanic that i spoke of in earlier posts. As stated before, he looked a little worried about removing the extractor bit from the cam chain tensioner locking bolt. I spoke with...

Very very good point.... I have been trying for a while to get the right words to decribe my concerns with my new found mechanic, and you hit the nail right on the head. I actaully have marked all the events i could find online in my outlook calander just for the purpose of trying to go to...

finally got the tank all sanded and polished out.... ended up glassy as hell and am really happy with it. This was my first automotive paint job ever, so the 14 hours of work i have put in to it are out weighed by a sense of pride in how quality it looks.

Well... its been a while since i have been on. I toyed around with the idea of replacing the cam chain myself, and seeing what it would take to remove the stripped out bolt, but once i got down to the heads, i got really nervous. It got to the point where i was really worried i was going to...