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- Sat Jul 26, 2025 8:58 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Driving me mad, give me some ideas please!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 686
Re: Driving me mad, give me some ideas please!
if it revved ok before the work, its not likely to be the advance/ retard unit
- Sat Jul 26, 2025 8:56 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Driving me mad, give me some ideas please!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 686
Re: Driving me mad, give me some ideas please!
What are the compressions like now? Is the airbox inlet free of obstructions? Is the exhaust coked up? Are 1 of the cams 1 tooth out?
- Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:30 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Speedo / Tacho Reconditioning ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 573
Re: Speedo / Tacho Reconditioning ?
or Peter Bond in London
- Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:28 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: KZ1000A2 Low Compression
- Replies: 6
- Views: 896
Re: KZ1000A2 Low Compression
sounds like something stifling the engine - sock in the airbox, needles set too low, carbon buildup in the exhaust, or ignition not advancing.
- Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:51 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Source of small oil leak?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 654
Re: Source of small oil leak?
chain lube especially if you've got a chain oiler will fling itself off the gearbox sprocket and run down the rear LHS of engine and then sump, causing these symptoms too.
- Sat May 31, 2025 6:26 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Cable tie method for changing shims?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 802
Re: Cable tie method for changing shims?
Buy one it'll pay for itself the first time you use it. Any method that holds a valve open and then you rotate the crank risks another valve opening and hitting the open one - potentially bending both. The Kawasaki tool , once in place, will not let the cam ( and hence the crank) from going round to...
- Mon May 12, 2025 6:46 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: fuel tap rubber seal/oring
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1926
Re: fuel tap rubber seal/oring
I think that's a round section O ring ( but I'm sure I will be corrected if wrong)
- Sun May 11, 2025 6:39 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: fuel tap rubber seal/oring
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1926
Re: fuel tap rubber seal/oring
don't be tempted to use an o ring that's the right size. the seal has flat surfaces top and bottom where it presses against tank flange and tap face flange
- Thu Apr 17, 2025 6:36 pm
- Forum: Out and About
- Topic: 28.03. - 02.04.2025 England & Trip with the ER6n
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4253
Re: 28.03. - 02.04.2025 England & Trip with the ER6n
Nice journey, thanks for the pics.
Gute Reise!
Gute Reise!
- Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:06 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Fuel hose.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2615
Re: Fuel hose.
make sure its resistant to ethanol in petrol - I have a notion that it should have a "J" as part of the code number on the side. (If I've got that letter wrong feel free to correct me)
- Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:02 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Cracked Head
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3105
Re: Cracked Head
I remember seeing a comment on the website ( a long long time ago - decades ) that it didn't matter unless the crack extended all the way up the spark plug threads , from combustion chamber to outside world
- Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:32 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: A4 carbs help
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5560
Re: A4 carbs help
I know this sounds a bit daft ... but brass bristle brush and tomato ketchup - it's apparently mildly acidic but washes off easily
- Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:56 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Bike won't start!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 815169
Re: Bike won't start!
trove = to remove. bloody predictive text
- Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:55 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Bike won't start!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 815169
Re: Bike won't start!
I agree with above - if the timing is 180 degrees out, then it won't start and you'll get the occasional backfire. Easy way to correct it is to trove the tank and swop the feeds to the coils. Each coil has 2 low tension input wires , one is (I think) yellow/ red and the other is some other colour. B...
- Sun Mar 09, 2025 6:19 pm
- Forum: Bike Help
- Topic: Z900 a4 brake plate catching hub
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2041
Re: Z900 a4 brake plate catching hub
John Browse?