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Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 29
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![]() You can fry some regulators scarily quickly running them without the load of a battery to stabilise the voltage. Not saying this is surely the case with a modern MOSFET one, but don't risk it. ... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,184
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![]() Don't think I've ever fitted new ones except if someone was being very picky and wanted them! Screwdriver in the gap is a bit of a butchers method! Try a plastic bicycle tyre lever or something...... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 36
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![]() That's cool. Although probably not going to do any better than the standard carbs, and definitely not than a pair of FCR's... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,954
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![]() Wire brush the loose stuff off and leave well alone unless you really need it off. gob everything in ACF50. Biggest reason for needing to take pipes off is to remove swingarm to do bearings. ... |
Forum: Bikes - Talk & Issues
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Replies: 2,795
Views: 593,325
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![]() I don't miss that awkwardness on DRZs! Awful design! Bleeding I allus just conventional bled down from the reservoir, never had any problem as long as you keep in mind that air rises, so you... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,961
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![]() Quick bit of trials riding in the middle of it all... on a DH bike... easy as you like!! |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Views: 1,040
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Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,090
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![]() Short cans like that mess up the power delivery, don't do it |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,677
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![]() The tensioners may rattle but that doesn't make them crap, there's a sleeve inside that rattles about, very rare to see one actually fail. Electrics wise, if you've got flickering lights etc then... |
Forum: Bikes - Talk & Issues
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,670
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![]() In the event of a crash do not remove a motorcyclists helmet. Unless the cheap chinese lithium battery contained in it is on fire. |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,958
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![]() As the murdoch types do love to villify benefits culture and almost certainly blow it all out of the proportion which it actually exists... It really does exist. I grew up around enough of the fking... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 21
Views: 4,025
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![]() I always filled oil to the top, and you need all the help you can get with the 99 engines |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() Glad you got sorted. Seems you seriously dodged a bullet with the skipped timing. That is rare, and generally causes immediate engine death. That's rubbish. There's no way "load" on the... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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![]() Didn't even know the heater circuit had a diode! I've left them unplugged, and also built custom looms that didn't have them, never made any difference. Didn't stop carb ice when they worked... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() It is function of it. Curvy tensioner has a threaded bar down the middle, pointy one has a ratchet pawl. Curvy one you need to rotate it round to slacken it off, pointy one you take the spring out... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() Don't just go start putting random formulations (a lot of which are snake oils) in your oil before actually fixing the fault. Running your oil low did not wear your cam chain out, no bloody way.... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() Depends if you took spring out before removing tensioner Pointy engine tensioner is nothing like that cbr one |
Forum: Bikes - Talk & Issues
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Replies: 47
Views: 22,875
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![]() Disagree with you there mate I have high sided an SV albeit fairly slow and they saved wrecking the radiator and the same in a fairly fast low side. The motosliders don't bend/fold up anything... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() Cam chain is a big job, I can't remember completely but I think it may mean removing the head. I did one on a K5 or therabouts. Other option could be a broken cam chain guide/tensioner follower... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() Cam chain is a big job, I can't remember completely but I think it may mean removing the head. I did one on a K5 or therabouts. Other option could be a broken cam chain guide/tensioner follower... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 34
Views: 6,405
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![]() If you can be arsed bringing it up to Bacup when I'll be at work I'll have a listen to it but doubt I'll have time to actually work on it Can't really tell from the video but it does sound... |
Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,536
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![]() Those in pic look roughly the same as stock S model ones in terms of position. Most aftermarket rearsets are made to be higher and further back for a sportier position and more ground clearance... |
Forum: Idle Banter
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,236
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Forum: SV Talk, Tuning & Tweaking
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