my "little" bike

gonna start the carb teardown tomorrow. wish me luck

 

Good Luck I'm really torn between buying a VF 750 F or a VFR 750 at the moment, I've seen an immaculate VF at a dealer but they are asking daft money for it.

 

get the vfr, i got mine for very cheap, and i was lucky that it came with a spares bike and we had exactly the right spares at work, they are a very troubled bike, need lots of maintenance

 

Yep I think you are right, go for the VFR for now and leave the VF until later. I've seen first hand a lot of the VF 750 F engine troubles, I just can't help loving them though! (and the VF 1000 FE)

If I went for the VF I was just going to use it for local jollies, keeping it more as a collector's piece and accepting it could spend more time on the bench than the road. The VFR I would want to get proper miles out of so I need to think sense not nostalgia.

 

Fuel tank is off, what a pain that is, im actually gonna change the fuel pipes I think now

 

ok so after 3 hours, got the carbs off, drained them, the fuel was brown, took a float bowl off, full of old rust, gonna split the fuel pump and clean the filter too, jets seem clean, carbs have been off before. gonna upjet by 1 size i think

 

this was the inside of the float bowls

 

carbs are together again, might try getting them on the bike tomorrow.

 

new fuel pipes fitted, new fuel filter and cleaned out the fuel pump, also made up a new earth cable, cant fit them to the bike as my shoulder is too bad from the tendonitus still, plus its minus 3 outside and gale force winds (its always windy as i live right by the sea)

 

Tendonitis sucks, I had it my wrist for years. Have you had a chance to look at the cam lobe surfaces? Saw in some of the pictures the rocker covers were off.

 

Yeah measured all of them, they were all like new, was actually quite shocked as I know these had bad cams, they did a recall on them, our parts fiche actually has the old part number!

 

That's good news, though a lot of them died because of the cams it was eventually sorted out.

I've seen cases where I guess the mods had not been done where they were badly pitted, obviously worn and in a couple of cases where they had worn completely through the outer hardening and effectively the whole cam lobe had worn away, leaving the engine full of swarf! Wish back then we had digital cameras, had to be seen to be believed in some cases.

 

update time. got the carbs on, still have all the skin left on my knuckles! have test ridden it, but it starts, i put the tank on for a test start, had the airbox off as im gonna clean the filter at work tomorrow. next step, seat cover, and then its paint. watch this space

 

Update, carbs and filter is back on, runs good, started first push of the button, do need to adjust the mixture a little tho, but that can wait till the dyno is fixed, then I can set it up right

 

Update. Started sanding for the paintjob

 

Any pics? Love to see works in progress.

 

Welcome to my world !

 

Im kinda lucky, the old yellow is gonna be part of the new paintjob, so its not too much spraying, lots of clever masking needs doing tho

 

the sun was out so i went up the mountain