thirdgen's massive F4i rebuild thread.... pix intense!!
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Glad she's running good, man. I'd say 11k is a pretty good indicator.
We were down May 13-17th? Something like that. We stayed in some cabins in Tellico Plains. Had a good time. I did about 1325miles over the weekend.
There's talk about going down again in early october, but I'm not sure if I can make it yet. I got promoted at work and I have a few other trips scheduled. Just not sure how everything is gonna shake out.
When were you guys at Deals Gap??
There's talk about going down again in early october, but I'm not sure if I can make it yet. I got promoted at work and I have a few other trips scheduled. Just not sure how everything is gonna shake out.
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Well guys, just figured I'd post a little update on how she's doing. Not all too much to say other than.... bike is running great!!
Just went out and snapped this a few mins ago... logged exactly 15,316 miles since April 3rd when I got her running again after the wreck (177,428). In that time she's taken me all throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland without even so much as a hiccup, and still going strong as ever and ridden each and every day. She did the 120 mile/day commute thing every single day (M-F) for 2 months straight without even batting an eye (errr headlight)
Only issue I've had was a couple weeks ago, I was over in Hickory, NC on my way to Best Buy, sitting at a long stop light and noticed I hadn't heard my cooling fan come on. Look down at the temp and it's at 231... 235... 239... uh oh! Quickly pull into a parking lot and discover my cooling fan blade is broken right in the center where it attaches to the motor shaft, so the motor is spinning but not the blade... arg! I just replaced this blade about a year ago for breaking in the exact same spot. I just put my old one back on for now that I fixed with some JB Weld and it's working fine for now... gotta go order another one tomorrow. That's the only thing though... everything else motor/trans related is perfect!
That's about it... 7,256 until the big 200k mark, shouldn't be too long. I think she'll make it there just fine....
Just went out and snapped this a few mins ago... logged exactly 15,316 miles since April 3rd when I got her running again after the wreck (177,428). In that time she's taken me all throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland without even so much as a hiccup, and still going strong as ever and ridden each and every day. She did the 120 mile/day commute thing every single day (M-F) for 2 months straight without even batting an eye (errr headlight)
Only issue I've had was a couple weeks ago, I was over in Hickory, NC on my way to Best Buy, sitting at a long stop light and noticed I hadn't heard my cooling fan come on. Look down at the temp and it's at 231... 235... 239... uh oh! Quickly pull into a parking lot and discover my cooling fan blade is broken right in the center where it attaches to the motor shaft, so the motor is spinning but not the blade... arg! I just replaced this blade about a year ago for breaking in the exact same spot. I just put my old one back on for now that I fixed with some JB Weld and it's working fine for now... gotta go order another one tomorrow. That's the only thing though... everything else motor/trans related is perfect!
That's about it... 7,256 until the big 200k mark, shouldn't be too long. I think she'll make it there just fine....
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sticky?
this post has a lot of great pics and info that anyone could use when tearing into any part of their engine and i would hate to see this forgotton sometime down the road..
just a thought..
btw..this is a phenomenol job..ive never heard of or seen someone do a rebuild this in depth. i hope she keeps goin strong!
this post has a lot of great pics and info that anyone could use when tearing into any part of their engine and i would hate to see this forgotton sometime down the road..
just a thought..
btw..this is a phenomenol job..ive never heard of or seen someone do a rebuild this in depth. i hope she keeps goin strong!