What did you do to your bike today?

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 11:00

New exhaust arrived this morning!

If the rain holds off, It'll be on this evening

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lmfy2k · 18 May 2016 at 11:19

misterjingo said:
New exhaust arrived this morning! If the rain holds off, It'll be on this evening .

which one did you go for mate?

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 11:27

lmfy2k said:
which one did you go for mate?

I went for the Akro in the end. It's pricer, but as my bike is still in warranty, and the akro is an offically recommended part, its covered too.

I do have to mention ghmotorcycles for sorting it out for me. The akros are like gold dust for the 701, I ordered from their site, and it turns out they were out of stock with no firm date on new stock. Rather than refund, they called around other dealers to source one for me.

lmfy2k · 18 May 2016 at 11:31

misterjingo said:
I went for the Akro in the end. It's pricer, but as my bike is still in warranty, and the akro is an offically recommended part, its covered too.

I do have to mention ghmotorcycles for sorting it out for me. The akros are like gold dust for the 701, I ordered from their site, and it turns out they were out of stock with no firm date on new stock. Rather than refund, they called around other dealers to source one for me.

stunning mate, get a video up asap!

(without baffle

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MowyTone · 18 May 2016 at 11:32

Found a lower left hand fairing that actually matches my paint scheme (few and far between) but it was on ebay for £75

.....so I made a cheeky offer of £25 and it was accepted!

wazza300 · 18 May 2016 at 12:03

Did you figure out the choking issue?

MowyTone · 18 May 2016 at 14:11

Not yet, I havnt opened up the air box yet. I know the screws are in a bad way as are the jubilee clips on the intake hoses. So I'm going to get replacements before I take the tank off and have a look

edit:

Found this link that explains how the ram air works. I suspect that I have either clogged one of the side hoses or I've dislodged the left hand one when trying to replace the horn

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 17:38

Looking at taking the baffle out, but it looks like it's welded in:

What would be the best way of removing this without damaging the exhaust?

Captain · 18 May 2016 at 18:05

Once the bolt is removed they should slide out.

TallPaul_S · 18 May 2016 at 18:28

^^ - The nut is welded to the baffle, not the baffle to the exhaust

Undo bolt, remove baffle, profit

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 18:34

I did mean the nut was welded

It's rounded, so looked like it'd be a pain to get out.

Will get some pliers on it shortly

TallPaul_S · 18 May 2016 at 18:46

Haha, yeah that's the captive nut on the inside, you won't undo that! There'll be a hole in the outer with an allen head bolt which goes into that nut.

famas · 18 May 2016 at 19:12

yeah that's the captive nut on the inside, you won't undo that! There'll be a hole in the outer with an allen head bolt which goes into that nut.

Beat me to it

Valve clearance time! luckily it was only the exhaust side that needed adjusting.

When changing valve shims its much easier to work on one cam shaft at a time.

Working on 1 cam shaft at a time means you can use cable ties to hold the chain to both sprocket which means you dont have to worry about losing the timing.

With the chain tied to the sprocket and the cam chain tensioner removed there is just enough room to lift the cam shaft out of position and clear of the buckets.

with the cam shaft out of the way its a good idea to stuff rag in any holes that the shim may fall into.
Its easy to remove the bucket with a magnet, some times the shim will stay on the valve.

other times it will stick to the inside of the bucket.

Once the bucket is out it's just a case of inserting the correct size shim and putting every thing back together the way it came out remembering to tighten the journal caps in a criss-cross pattern.

MowyTone · 18 May 2016 at 21:38

You make that sound simple!

TallPaul_S · 18 May 2016 at 21:54

MowyTone said:
You make that sound simple!

Yeah - I'm happy working on my bike, but anything to do with engine internals... Nope. I'll leave that up to the professionals thank you!

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 21:56

TallPaul_S said:
Haha, yeah that's the captive nut on the inside, you won't undo that! There'll be a hole in the outer with an allen head bolt which goes into that nut.

They've made it impossible to get to. The carbon fiber end bit has been riveted on, blocking access to the bolt bit

. Googling, it seems a few people have drilled the bolt out, but theres no simple way to do it.

I've been out this evening, and whilst on the bike, it's hard to tell the difference. It's a bit deeper, but not massively louder. I'll put some comparison footage up.

wazza300 · 18 May 2016 at 21:58

Did it say removable baffle in the description?

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 22:02

Nope, but the dealership who sold it to me said the baffle can be removed, I'll get in touch with them tomorrow to see how they recommend removing it. They even offered to sell me extra baffles cost price, in case I wanted to modify them (do people do that?)

TallPaul_S · 18 May 2016 at 22:20

Yeah you can cut down the internal tube to make the baffle shorter and therefore louder.

Bit of a shame it's not easy to remove, the bolt is there and it's obviously removable... hmm.

misterjingo · 18 May 2016 at 22:34

I fitted the smaller plate too. It makes the end look much better now. I just need the proper seat to finish it off.

There currently isn't a proper tail tidy, but a lot of the back plastic stuff can be removed - so I did that for now.

I'll glue a reflector to the bottom of it tomorrow.