So long time no post!
I've been fairly busy settling in to my new home and workplace, messing about with other bikes motorised and man-powered and generally realising I have to save for a house. The latter of which has put a dampener on spending with regards to motorcycles....
I managed to get the garage painted in brilliant white, and got some rechargeable lights from screwfix, which has transformed the dark dingy thing into somewhere I don't mind working.
Before
After
And today
Unfortunately the CB750F's have had to be moved on. Well the complete one has gone, the one in bits just has less bits now...
I bought a 1990 VFR750F for the road after selling the XJ900F. I don't have any recent pictures of it as it looks like a bag of shite and has more bodge jobs on it than I have had hot dinners, but that's another story.
Also unfortunately the grey mountain bike in the second picture was stolen off the roof of my car earlier in January. Scumbags.
And finally I'm now sharing my garage with a car mad mate as garages are hard to come by here. Hence the car seats and huge boxes full of car cleaning stuff. The MTB on the left is also his, so as you can see it's getting pretty busy in there!
I haven't posted anything on the bike in a while as it's been pretty faultless, and I don't think people are interested in seeing oil changes!
However it developed a nasty misfire while on track yesterday which would not go away, despite changing the plugs about and giving it a once over.
Whilst not a day-ender it was very annoying, so after finishing work ridiculously early today I started stripping the bike down for a proper inspect.
Front and rear coil packs off and all sparkplugs out.
Testing the coil packs they came up just out of spec on the secondary windings, with one of the ht lead prongs having a fair amount of corrosion on it.
All 4 plugs were a lovely brown colour though, so I don't think they are at fault.
I also chucked the multimeter on the pulse generator which came up just out of spec also.
So whilst I pondered the misfire problem I decided a proper strip was due before Cadwell.
Doesn't take me long to get this thing apart these days, done it enough times now!
Got the suspension linkage apart for a clean and re-grease.
Slight bit of polishing or "brinelling" on the inner races but nothing to worry about or out of the ordinary.
Cleaned up the shock too, but forgot to take a picture.
Most annoying bit of the misfire issue is I have nowhere I can test the bike to find out if I've cured it when I change something as it's not road legal.
There's a massive airfield nearby, but it's always full of pesky helicopters....