pg wrote on 01/26/20 at 07:08:43:



Hi, yes ive got a couple of tins of ACF-50. here its pricey but agree its good stuff. I dont like the sticky film much, but if im storing a bike/parts for a while i do use it  Smiley

Two dead lead acid batteries, if you contemplate going gel in the standard battery box, you may have to trim a small rubber/foam pad the battery sits on. I tried going gel, but the gel battery was 1mm or so too high for the box, gave up and went back to lead acid. I have the "Notorious Head Plug Leak" I think, I just watch the oil level and tip some in now and again. If this happens to you, you can buy a better one from Verslagen and there are posts on how to install it. One poster from this country claimed he installed one by removing the front tappet cover. I don't know how true this is. I did have the speedo rattle which the servicing dealer fixed some years ago. There's clamp below the exhaust pipe which has rattled loose, bolt probably frozen due to heat and rust, not sure if the nut is captive or not, living with rattle. At the 72000km dealer service, the mechanic claimed the clutch was slipping under moderate acceleration. I'd had a ride with much lane splitting, hate that, and no doubt the oil was hot and the clutch hard worked. This may occur but the bike can still cruise respectably at, or dear I say it, above our ridiculous open road limits. Speaking of clutch, another thing to watch is so called "moving block" at road works. This only happened once on Schedyways Hill out of Warkworth. A truck moving at 20km was set in front of a line of traffic to reduce speed over new chip seal. I was on and off the clutch until it pretty much disappeared. Turned round and went back towards Puhoi, as the oil cooled the clutch returned. Those are my issues.

JC  

I was reading about your slipping clutch on a high millage bike.  

When the Aluminum clutch pack gets hot it swells , but the steel/fiber plates don't.    So ...

I experienced the same thing.  (a little over 50,000 miles.)

Upon investigation I found the clutch pack with no disk in it can only collapse so much.   Well , I measured the thickness of each disk in the pack added them together and found the empty clutch pack could not collapse enough.
Apparently , the steel disk are all in tolerance and the fiber disk are in tolerance .  
So ... " What the **** " .    
The deal is :   Those fiber plates and steel plates don't wear ,
but ,
the back of the clutch pack "does the same job as the steel plates". It's ALUMINUM and it does wear , the solution is to add an extra steel disk into the clutch pack.  $8.50 +-   99% chance the dealer will have to order it.

Steel plates = about .060"
Fiber plates = about  .130"

1 steel plate is enough , you may need to increase the length of the push rod in the middle of the clutch pack for the thicker disk pack ... but maybe not ?   It's only .060" we are adding !   Mine has enough adjustment to work like a new one !  

[quote author=767F6F687377796F1C0 link=1579595271/30#33 date=1580075475]Two dead lead acid batteries, if you contemplate going gel in the standard battery box, you may have to trim a small rubber/foam pad the battery sits on etc

Thanks for your experiences. over 77k its a pretty modest list thank goodness  

One other point Juliana, The belt guard broke twice at the rear where it is clamped by the shock absorber bolt/mounting. The first time I was able to patch it with a larger packer, second time no go. Suzuki NZ wanted $NZ 400, but I got lucky and got one off Trade Me for $150 or so, and a virtually new drive belt was thrown in, could have had the pulleys but too much postage.
You will also have noted your 8litre/2litre reserve tank. I once crammed 11 litres in. If you cram fill, there will be leakage around the tank cap. It's only serious if you fill on a hot day and wander off for coffee or something, cram fill and go. I've done Camebridge Waiouru, but I was on fumes when I got there.

Serowbot wrote on 01/26/20 at 15:19:35:


Might be the  same guy who asked me if it was hard to adjust the valves on the Titan haha

Ok maybe it was the head cover that he removed.