jporter12

I thought you had access to all that stuff.

Nothing for valve grinding and stuff. We don't do that sort of stuff, we send it out to be done as a more complete job, with resurfacing, tanking, pressure testing, etc....

I actually miss doing valves and stuff, almost! It's been quite a few years since I have done any valves on my own.

I went out but only did 27miles' date=' I don't have any good cold weather gloves and my fingers were to numb to go much farther but I had a blast!

Stayed close to home, rode around the West side of Hilliard and into Plain City, got it up into triple digits once, also learned that if you hit the

"speed humps" on Springdale Blvd in Hilliard at +54mph you can actually "jump" them, that was fun!

I found my fingers getting cold, but I wouldn't say numb. I DO have a decent pair of cold weather gloves, but they aren't heated, so the fingers still got cold. Then again, I didn't hit triple digits (not like the 250 would, even) since the roads are cold, and still not all the way dry. Call me chicken if ya want, I'm calling it being safe.

Good point' date=' but I can be cited for "disturbing the peace" if I'm on my own property. I can be charged and cited for domestic disturbance if I'm on my own property.[/quote']

That's probably why your point wasn't talked about.

Why not put a fresh valve and spring in and call it a day? Maybe replace the rocker if you're worried it is compromised' date=' but paying a machine shop to do all that work seems a bit premature. Taking the head off is the "hard" part. Once you do that it's all gravy.[/quote']

Are bikes different then cars? Every valve I've replaced on a car had to be ground, or at least the seat ground to match, and I don't have the stuff to do that! The valve swap is easy, and the head seems pretty easy as well. Hell, I've had the crank out of this motor, how hard can it be to pull the head? Pull the carbs (which I need to do anyway to get to some coolant tube o-rings that need replaced) pull the front exhaust pipes, then a few head bolts. I already have the cams out, as can be guessed from that photo.

I've switched em too. As for left v right, not every lefty goes under, just something I've noticed. Maybe it isn't that way at all, I dunno.

Well, lefty's ARE odd, I married one, so I should know!

She'll let me have it when she reads this one....

Or just don't wreck

I'm trying that one out! It's working pretty well so far!

I know that it's bound to happen one day, though.....

dam, I wouldn't give you spit for the valve spring on that one...

I'm just hoping that with both sets of heads they can come up with enough to make it hold together for a few more years.

I'm also going to check in over at www.vfrworld.com and see if Jamie D. over there ever got anything lined up for an upgrade. He knows all about these bikes, and how well they are know for dropping valves!

The rodas were still wet around here, so I wasn't riding it very hard. There's also some gravel left, so I wanted to be able to change my line in a corner to be able to miss any that might show up. Not to mention that roads being cold making traction not as good as warm riding.

Today I decided work on putting the timing chan tensioner in the Hon-duh. I'm glad I looked at things a little better before throwing it back together, as I found the source of the tapping that I had been hearing for quite a while. The tip of one of the exhaust valves is mushroomed. It's worn through the hardened surface, and is wearing rapidly at this point. Putting it back together would just be setting up for catastrophic failure in short amount of time.

The plan as of now is to get a gasket kit, pull it apart, and send both sets of heads that I have to the machine shop for them to put the best combination of parts that I have together for me.

Here's a pic of the culprit, and the good one adjacent to it:

I only got in about 30 or so miles, but it was great to get out on the bike!

I would hope you didn't touch...or put a hand on a 13 yr old. No pun intended.

We were all 13 once. Sure an egg to the car sucks but, we've all thrown shit at people's rides. It's not like he took a boulder and chucked it on th sumbitch you know? A good talking too, or...you know banging his mom should do the trick.

Uh, no. SOME of us learned to respect other people's things.

I was already thinking of making some chili, this reminded me. The bad thing is that I can't make it as hot as I like to, since the rest of the family doen't like it that way...

Yeah, was just pointing to the fact that one has to be mindful of state and city laws. But I'm with the 'she layed it on" crew myself and was probably a bit to aggressive.

I just looked at a couple cities in my area, and they have such laws. They use language such as only to be used as a warning to other vehicles or pedestrians, etc.... Actually, Johnstown's ord. uses the ORC, then adds this to it.

Try looking up Columbus City Code 2131.32A.

Unncecessary Sounding of Horn.

(a) No person shall sound any horn or other signal device on any motor vehicle or motorcycle except as a warning of danger.

(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

I would imagine most cities have such laws on the books.

This is all I can find:

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4513.21

Man I just looked out my window. It may be in the high 40s but its overcast and the roads are still wet and muddy. Lame. Definitely not going for a ride.

F-dat.... I have all my gear out, I'm riding.

Just found out that the Hon-duh is staying parked though, I think I just averted a major crisis there! Story at 11, or after I ride the 250, and go grab the camera at home.

Dude you stole my bike.

You guys are riding twins! Way to go! DO you swap here and there?

Did you get them runnin yet? One has 3/4 of a motor in it, the other doesn't start 90% of the time.

The one with "3/4" of a motor (valve covers are pulled, I didn't know that they were 1/4 of the motor ) is in my bay being worked on, and the one that doesn't start 90% of the time (starts 99% of the time, just takes some finesse to get the starter clutch to grab) is warmed up and been down the driveway (squid style, no helmet, under 20 MPH) ready to go now!

I really don't want to ride it until it is done. That's my motivation to get it done. But see, unlike either of your bikes, mine runs

I will be out on one, if not both of mine today. I see some irony here...

In the state of Ohio..If you have a vehicle registered to your name.....Regardless of whether its in use or not, its supposed to be tagged.

Supposed to be registered is different than REQUIRED. It is REQUIRED to have a vehicle registered to operate a vehicle on a public roadway. If a vehicle is not being driven, the is no REQUIREMENT to register it. Vehicle registration is primarily a way to collect taxes for the USE of the vehicle on the roads. If it's not neing USED on the roads, what's the point?

It would be quite expensive for me to register the car that I don't drive at this time, because then I would be REQUIRED to carry insurance on it, just to let it sit.

If the vehicle is one that you drive on the roads, get the stupid registration renewed on time. You can renew up to a few months EARLY, or even a couple years at a time.

I won't be riding. Bike has all plastics off waiting to be prepped and painted. Headlights are out and I need to adjust/sync the carbs before I take it out.

So, about an hour or so of work and you could have it back to where you can ride it. You're getting as bad on the excuses as I was when it was getting cold!

I miss 5 1/4in floppy disks.... I always liked thumbing through those boxes trying to find California games only to find my sister hid it in a BOOK!

You MUST be OLD!

Most people got confused when you'd call a 3-1/2 inch floppy disk, well, a floppy disk. The shell was hard, they thought that should make it a hard disk. I had to explain that one to people more than twice.....

if you've ever worked in a union you know that they're as worthless as the people they help keep employed. (speaking from experience at multiple union jobs, that shouldn't even have been unionized!)

Back in the day, they had a place, back when companies could get away with almost anything. These days, there are too many labor laws, and about all the unions deal with are above and beyond maintaining safe and fair working conditions, and more about how much money they suck out of the company, and how many benefits. Just my opinion and how I see it, of course.

CO is lighter than air. Therefore, install your detector on the ceiling, away from heat ducts. You want to install these near sleeping areas much like a smoke detector. They must be more than 15 feet from a gas appliance.

Thanks for the clarification. I must've been thinking of something else, or just have seen someone do it wrong before.