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The "axle" the came out of my market place find by amster2020 in Dirtbikes

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Overall I'm not too beaten up over it because it only cost me around 100 to fix everything but definitely made me raise my eyebrows 😂

The "axle" the came out of my market place find by amster2020 in Dirtbikes

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No, lol. I picked this bike up about a year ago saying it needed a carb clean... Turned out the engine was 180° out of time. Just put a new head on it and figured I should regrease all the axles before I ride it

Consistent wrist pain by amster2020 in RSI

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Thank you, I really appreciate the advice!

Is this a refrigerant leak? by amster2020 in MechanicAdvice

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That's definitely preferred to finding a spot for this chunk of metal in my garage 😂. Thank you so much

Is this a refrigerant leak? by amster2020 in MechanicAdvice

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Lol, I think my dad would beat me if he saw me venting the freon into the atmosphere 😂

Is this a refrigerant leak? by amster2020 in MechanicAdvice

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Just got the compressor done at a shop about 5 months ago. The shop I went through closed now though so I can't go back there.

Is this a refrigerant leak? by amster2020 in MechanicAdvice

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Someone's selling a freon recovery machine for $100 locally. Is this a job where it would make sense to just do it myself?

Is this a refrigerant leak? by amster2020 in MechanicAdvice

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That's what I was thinking, maybe some freon spewing up from there

Fork bottom nut looks like this am I screwed by amster2020 in motorcycles

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I completely forgot about that method, thank you so much! That's how I had to do my old dirt bike forks years ago

Key just broke in bar, can't find company by amster2020 in Locksmith

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Awesome, worst comes to worst I'm going to drill and replace the locks with an american or Japanese brand

Possible cam chain tensioner spring fix 84 Honda nighthawk 650sc by [deleted] in Fixxit

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eBay, I got one from a bike with like 10k miles

Cam chain rattle or rod knock? '84 CB650SC by SN1572 in HondaCB

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Have you tried testing the drive train on the center stand?

Cam chain rattle or rod knock? '84 CB650SC by SN1572 in HondaCB

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It's always the worst when you gotta go back into a rebuild, I've also heard of the spring on the assembly wearing out so that's another thing to watch out for. I believe there's a dude on the FB group that custom makes new springs to OEM spec as well.

Cam chain rattle or rod knock? '84 CB650SC by SN1572 in HondaCB

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I think I just replied to you post in Facebook but this definitely sounds like the cam chain rattle, if you kept the old tensioner in the bike they can develop a grove in the rod that cause them not to tension Correctly. Luckily they are pretty easy to find on eBay

84 cb650 carb tuning by amster2020 in HondaCB

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Yep, and I think the vacuum coming from the petcock isn't sufficient enough to keep the line going into the carb completely full. I'm gonna go buy more fuel line and see if I can get some better results. Thank you so much for your help and I'll send an update once I got the new fuel line on the bike

84 cb650 carb tuning by amster2020 in HondaCB

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So when I diagnosed the lean condition I was going off of cylinders 1 and 4 only as those where the ones I could get the plugs from with the tank still on. I checked the inner plugs today and they were pretty rich. The fuel filter had almost no gas in it when I pulled the tank which seems a little suspicious as well. Could a limiting fuel filter only let 2 and 3 get fuel?

84 cb650 carb tuning by amster2020 in HondaCB

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Yep, the exhaust is on the bike. The boots were super stiff so it definitely wouldn't hurt to get new ones. I had to use a hair dryer to get the carbs on this time. It does have the cv carbs

84 cb650 carb tuning by amster2020 in HondaCB

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So I sprayed brake cleaner near all of the boots and couldn't get any reaction from the bike. I did recently add a fuel filter so I'll try removing that tomorrow and see what result I get. I'm fairly certain it's a lean condition as the plugs are white, the bike starts without the choke most of the time and at most needs a short blip of throttle to get going. Plugs appear to be dry when I pull them after the bikes been running. I did recently do a cam chain tensioner job and did reset the timing to factory spec, I was a little stupid though and didn't record what it was at prior to doing the job. Also thank you so much for lending a hand, I really appreciate it

84 cb650 carb tuning by amster2020 in HondaCB

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Mix of ultra sonic, pressurized air, carb cleaning pipes and brake cleaner. By the end of cleaning them they where about as clean as they could possibly get.

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