In the name of all things holy!!!! Whoever designs these fecking things wants fecking shooting!!!!
In a moment of madness last week I bought a 1984 fj1100 for £600 (looked and sounded great in the eBay advert) I don't need to explain the mrs gone away for a few days, Friday night bottle of wine and eBay syndrome to you guys. I'm sure your all familiar with this scenario
Essentially the bikes fine apart from the front forks and needing a bit of fettling and for£600...
So I'll just pull the carbs off for an ultrasonic clean thinks I...why would anybody make a simple job like pulling the carbs off such an impossible task with normal sized fingers and as for putting it all back together again
The manual simply says "shimming the valves requires the use of a special tool" - "sod that" thinks I, I'll pay the local bike shop to do it...so after getting over the shock of being quoted £300 by the bike shop I ordered the factory shimming tool and set about the tedious task of shuffling shims about. Fortunately I only need to buy 3 new shims at a tenner each. so that's £30 for the shims and £53 for the shimming tool so I'm quits in and set up for the next shimming session in 8,000 miles time.
I can see why 2nd hand jap bikes are so cheap.
In a moment of madness last week I bought a 1984 fj1100 for £600 (looked and sounded great in the eBay advert) I don't need to explain the mrs gone away for a few days, Friday night bottle of wine and eBay syndrome to you guys. I'm sure your all familiar with this scenario
Essentially the bikes fine apart from the front forks and needing a bit of fettling and for£600...
So I'll just pull the carbs off for an ultrasonic clean thinks I...why would anybody make a simple job like pulling the carbs off such an impossible task with normal sized fingers and as for putting it all back together again
The manual simply says "shimming the valves requires the use of a special tool" - "sod that" thinks I, I'll pay the local bike shop to do it...so after getting over the shock of being quoted £300 by the bike shop I ordered the factory shimming tool and set about the tedious task of shuffling shims about. Fortunately I only need to buy 3 new shims at a tenner each. so that's £30 for the shims and £53 for the shimming tool so I'm quits in and set up for the next shimming session in 8,000 miles time.
I can see why 2nd hand jap bikes are so cheap.