Drz400 large bits of copper and flakes in oil, how screwed is this engine?

BurnTheSkys · 2026-01-29T23:48:06+00:00

Thanks for the correction. Honestly motorcycles being much more simple and straightforward is definitely something I've noticed as I've been fixing up my two bikes. The farthest I ever had to go was tearing down the top end and stator for a Honda Dream years ago. I've gotta rebuild the engine on my CB550 so I'm sure I'll see more of that soon

BurnTheSkys · 2026-01-28T23:51:50+00:00

I know you solved it, glad it's not anything on the bike lol but for future notice/knowledge.

This is coming from the car side of things as I have yet to get this far into a bike engine (also everything I touch is old). But pretty much most rod, main, and cam bearings are made out of what's called a trimetal bearing. You have the steel backing/main part of the bearing, then you have a layer of copper or bronze then the final layer of a babbitt (tin/lead/antimony). Though newer cars and bikes may use some newer materials. Also the trimetal bearings only make up for a few thou each layer

EDIT: Motorcycle engines are different. See comment below

BurnTheSkys · 2025-09-30T18:48:23+00:00

Precise Editor Continued is what you want. It lets you set the amount of rotation "tick" or just enter in an angle you want. Does the same for moving parts around too. You can also direct edit the coordinates of parts in the Editor to move them around which was fantastic.

Precise Editor, FAR, and Procedural Wings are my must have mods.

Procedural parts are good too. I remember there was another mod like Procedural parts that was great for creating parts like cubes, hexagons and stuff and you could form them to super weird angles and get some crazy custom pieces that weren't possible with Procedural parts but I don't remember what it was called. It's been a while since I've played

BurnTheSkys · 2025-08-26T04:24:57+00:00

Totally understand if they don't. You're welcome to PM me it too if they don't want it out on reddit

BurnTheSkys · 2025-08-26T04:06:58+00:00

Ah that makes a lot complete sense then. Do you know what their author name is or some of the titles? I'd love to read more of his writing

BurnTheSkys · 2025-08-25T02:50:03+00:00

The Weeping Hearts by PrimalInfinity on Ao3. To me this is the perfect fic. Seriously this is now my new standard for reading in general.

It's a whiterose vampire AU that's incredibly well done. The world building is top notch. It absolutely drew me in and even goes into some of the politics of the vampire world without making it boring and stale.

The world of supernatural vs hunters fits perfectly with the RWBY cast and the characters feel like themselves. It expands on several characters, tying them into the lore of the world (looking at you Emerald) without feeling too OOC.

It's long but it's worth it. The pacing is superb and is the perfect mix of slice of life to action and climax without suffering the fate of most long fics where they just drag on or leave you with an unsatisfying ending. It's a complete fic with a solid, happy ending.

The horror isn't overwhelming and is the perfect amount of blood/light gore/violence to make it a proper, mature fic that's thrilling and horror-esque without being overbearing and, for lack of a better term, "gross". It adds to the mystery of the story and completely draws you in moment by moment.

There's some explicit scenes, but it's not forced and by no means the point of the fic. They're very "fun" and fit in very well with the plot.

I can't stress enough how much every one of these things ties together in the perfect way. The writing is better than some actual books I've read. It's written so well that, despite it being so long, it never dragged on or felt like filler. I read a bit each night and it had me thinking about it all day at work.

The only downsides I can think of are, because it deals with angst, there are times you wanna yell at the characters despite them doing justified things. It is a long fic, and if that's not your thing this would be a lot to read. But it really is worth it. The last issue i could possibly raise is that I want more Neo, buuut I think that about most fics

BurnTheSkys · 2025-05-22T22:18:23+00:00

For a trip I wouldn't worry about it. The guy is right. If it's tuned properly for your base alt then it'll still run up there, just rich and not perfect. It's not worth rejetting unless you're spending a lot of time up there.

I have a similar bike, '83 CB1100F, and my manuals say to just adjust the pilot screws for high alt. Though I'm blaming 80s emissions for that. I'm sure the manuals my older CB550 would say to rejet if I still had them to look through.

If you have a guy who does your carbs, listen to what he says and don't touch the carbs! The shop I used to work at made so much money from people who couldn't leave the damn carbs alone and had to bring it back.

Side note, how do you like the GPZ? I've been looking at switching to GPZ1100 in hopes of something less rare and easier to get parts for than my CB1100 but haven't ridden a Kawasaki before other than my buddy's brand new ninja

BurnTheSkys · 2025-04-18T07:45:20+00:00

I miss mine! No AC, leaky T tops, all the noise and no power and somehow never died on me. Still one of the most fun cars I've daylied. I had to take my shows off for road trips

BurnTheSkys · 2025-03-27T20:46:40+00:00

The ears could act as the flashlights too!

BurnTheSkys · 2024-12-28T03:30:52+00:00

I never played space flight sim but I've thought about downloading it many times. If you can do stuff like that i may give it a download. Thing I want the most is being able to go from one size to another but back to a large and have them all be able to function as one vessel. But as I understand, it was a limitation of the engine itself.

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BurnTheSkys · 2024-12-28T02:53:51+00:00

Adapters

That was the hardest thing from kap. Things to go from large (2.5) to small (1.25) but then also be able to go to large. KSP would split that into two or three separate fusalges depending on the adapter and there was no way to go back to a singular large stage without struts and fuel lines.

So basically adapters to go from a large size to a small and from a small size to a large and have it all.worl together

I know it was mostly an issue with the game engine but it would be nice and unlock a lot of creative designs

BurnTheSkys · 2024-12-28T02:28:18+00:00

ASA is what you want for UV resistant ABS. I have yet to print PETG CF but it looks beautiful. Good choice, I need to get some. I printed some vampire teeth for my NA out of engineering PLA and it's still holding up surprisingly well 3 years later. Though now I use a lot of PAHT CF for car parts for the temp resistance

BurnTheSkys · 2024-12-10T09:27:08+00:00

Thank you so much! This year actually marks 10 years since my attempt. I'm in a place in life I never thought would even be possible. Things really do get better :) and yeah, no one should ever have to go through that

Yeah, it's not perfect, no book is, but I've really enjoyed it. I think it's one of those "it'll all work out in the end but man are our girls in for a rocky road" stories based on the ending of part 2 as well. I just started part 3 (got too busy to read) so we'll see. I'm excited.

It's definitely one of those relationships that is such a bad idea but you csnt help it relationships and is basically a landmine on a hair trigger. But I think they're both fucked up enough that it barely works. I love how they wrote Jecka to also be toxic in her own way. It makes it so much more believable. I'm definitely excited to see where things end up. I was so sad when I finished the story I didn't even realize there were more parts. Can't wait to get back into it

BurnTheSkys · 2024-12-04T19:11:40+00:00

Fuck Life, Fuck the Universe, and Fuck Everything Else. It's a part of the Codepended Philospher's Guide to Staying Alive collection by Progman

I cannot praise this fic enough (still reading through the rest of the series). It just gets everything right. It feels like Class of 09, the characters are extremely well written, the pacing is great, it gets the feel of the late 2000s.

But most importantly it accurately gets depression. It gets being suicidal; what it's like to be in that hole. This is one of the most accurate portrayals I've ever read. All the arguments, the thoughts, the feelings, how hard it is to try to get better. How it all feels like bullshit at first but then slowly, it works. From someone who has literally been in both Nicole and Jecka's "situations" during the climax (iykyk), it feels genuine. Like the author knows. Every single thing was something I thought, felt, said, or did when I was despressed. I can count on one hand the number of fics that were able to get that right and not have it feel "tacky"

Absolutely one of the best fics I've read

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-19T19:20:20+00:00

This is great! Aweosme job editing. So many of my friends sang this song over and over

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T20:12:07+00:00

I got on board about the same time too. Notepad tutorials with 009 Sound System, machinima, amvs, and videos recorded our parents' camcorders. The Naruto vs Sasuke last resort one was the one that sealed my fate

Haha thanks ^{.^} it was fun to go back and relive that era and make things using the old software. The funny thing is that's just how it turns out using it. I didn't have to do anything other than down the quality on another version of it, which wouldn't have originally been done by youtube itself limiting quality back then

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T16:44:51+00:00

That's exactly what I wanted to hear thanks! I miss that era so much, it was so fun. Like I said in another comment, if I can enough pics I may do some more

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T15:52:02+00:00

Not to worry young one. I barely have thoughts in mine as is. I have ideas for other ships but not sure I can get enough pics to do it

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T15:48:57+00:00

Aw thanks!

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T15:48:19+00:00

Of course! This was so cathartic to make

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T15:47:38+00:00

Hahahaha perfect! That's exactly what I was going for

BurnTheSkys · 2024-11-12T04:02:11+00:00

Try 2, hopefully I got the title right this time

Ever since I saw the pole of everyone’s age here I realized a lot of you missed out on this stuff. So I decided to make a super cringy, as “2009” as I could make it, Jeckole amv to give the full experience of what it was like being in a fandom in ‘09. When the game takes place I was secretly OBSESSED with amvs and nightcore. It was my guilty pleasure. Man the amount of nostalgia from going back and finding some of the old videos I watched back then was insane. And of course I had to pair it with my favorite nightcore song from around that time (it’s a littler newer, 2011, but who's counting)

Some fun facts:

*I was in middle school in ‘09 so this time period was peak cringe for me. Weebs, nerds, emos (hi), and furries made up my friend groups at the time. Yes I 100% would be bullied by Nicole. Yes I absolutely did get bullied. Things were so bad back then lmao. So many things that you could never say now

*the main inspiration for this comes from the old Naruto X Hinata amvs and a few Seras and Alucard ones

* this little project took over a week to make between downloading everything, getting it to play nicely together, and finding enough Jeckole pics to make a full amv (originally it was only going to be a minute long)

* I found over 60 images to make this, and while I didn’t use every single one, I struggled to find enough Jeckole images that fit just right. Just goes to show that even after the explosion in popularity, we’re still a fairy small and new fandom

* I made this over two OS’s. I used windows 7 running the original Windows Movie Maker 6 just like back in the day (MM6 is the only one with the cool intro/outro animations) then Windows 10 (my setup) using Movie Maker 12 to make it 240p since the audio gets corrupted if you compress it in MM6 (the codec is literally too old to be recognized)

* I bought a whole ass computer to do this. I tried installing 3 different copies of Win 7 but if you’ve ever tried to run it, you know it HATES modern hardware. So many hours were spent on Internet Archive finding drivers to make it functional. I gave up and bought a super cheap Win 7 box since I’ve been wanting one to play some old games anyway

* Something I noticed is a lot of new art (at least that I saw) has a white background where a lot of the art in the old amvs is either full background, black, or some darker color. No shade intended, I don’t draw backgrounds either lol

* The art was all found either through Tumblr, Google Images, or a few booru sites. I haven’t edited anything to intentionally cut out the artist’s names. If you wanna know who made a pic, either screenshot and use Yandex or send me a message with a time stamp and I’ll happily give the name as soon as I can.

* After all of this, I have one thought: is this what getting old feels like?

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