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General Discussion / Re: Rubber on Exhaust

« Last post by PeteS on Today at 06:18:20 AM »

I use wet Brillo pads on chrome. Won’t scratch it or stainless though if the stainless is oxidized it may
Brighten it and you might have clean the whole exhaust to match.

Pete

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General Discussion / Re: Engine degreasing techniques??

« Last post by Chuck in Indiana on Today at 06:18:10 AM »

^^^^^ I've used a pressure can like this since I found one in the dumpster at work. (Guzzi content)  It was leaking, and the "engineer" that threw it away didn't realize that changing out the O ring on the trigger would fix it. Stoddard solvent and 80 psi.

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General Discussion / Rubber on Exhaust

« Last post by Rad1o on Today at 06:08:46 AM »

Hello,

I have a Stelvio E5. The exhaust on the right hand side has a somewhat flimsy heat shield which probably could be longer. I must have had my boot resting on it when I moved my feet back once or twice and some rubber melted off the sole and transferred onto the exhaust. Now it is burnt in and dark black charcoal. I tried turpentine with not much luck.

Is there anything that would easily take the rubber off without scratching the exhaust?

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General Discussion / Re: Problems with my 2020 V7 Racer

« Last post by blu guzz on Today at 05:59:48 AM »

You have a real conversation starter there.  I imagine you get a lot of questions and comments with that beauty.

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General Discussion / Re: Engine degreasing techniques??

« Last post by Perazzimx14 on Today at 04:46:24 AM »

This is the best way for me. I have metal spray bottles, they look similar to oil cans but with a spray nozzle. Mineral spirits is cheap and doesn’t hurt paint and rubber, generally

Harbor Freight has a refillable pressurized sprayer that would be perfect for this application.

When my wife and I shot Trap mineral spirits was the go to bore and receiver cleaner. A coffee can with about 3" of mineral spirits in it, barrel business end in the coffee can and the cleaning brush chucked up in the drill motor. 30 or so seconds of scrubbing and 1000's of rounds worth of plastic wadding and old powder residue scrubbed away 

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General Discussion / Re: V9 Project

« Last post by Crashcraddock on Today at 03:55:11 AM »

Mate. Bike looks awesome. 

 I'm all in on this wheel subject as I have v7'd my v9 (2016 model) and want to put a wire wheel on the back to match the one I've put on the front.  In my investigations so far, I believe that the rear wheel spacer set and spindles (parts 2B001956, GU92204220, 2B001310, 2B001279) for the early V9's is the same as the V7 850.  From that I deduce the width of the hub section of the wheels and space between swingarms is very close.

I'm wondering if we could swap out the Flexible couplings' hub (part no's 2B001303 and 2B006860R), get new cush drive rubbers then run the new model wheel?

In regard to "The other potential option is to replace the V9’s final drive with one from an E5 bike and use a V7 Special wheel as you suggested. But the part numbers of the pre-E5 V9 driveshaft and the E5 bikes do not match, so perhaps there’s a difference in the driveshaft-side splines" or perhaps it's just the length of the shaft using the same uni joints.  I can't find a part number for either bike's uni joints, but my gut tells me that the uni joints will be the same.

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General Discussion / Re: Problems with my 2020 V7 Racer

« Last post by Kiwi_Roy on Today at 02:43:33 AM »

Good for you.

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General Discussion / Re: Voltmeter

« Last post by Kiwi_Roy on Today at 02:40:46 AM »

Hmm, I ain't keen on that article - too generic/general purpose and seemingly out of date.
This is better..
https://www.ecoflow.com/uk/blog/guide-to-battery-voltage-chart

Notes: unless I'm really penny-pinching, I opt for Gel/AGM batteries, though occasionally LiFePO4 (especially when I find one cheaper than an AGM!)

Theres very little difference in the two charts 0.2 at 10%  0.09 at 100%
If I see 12.5 when I turn the key on your chart says it's 80% mine says it's 70% plenty of cranking available.
With the older wet cells we used to use a hydrometer but nobody ever bothered to read the temperature which is critical.

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General Discussion / Re: The Yamaha that refuse to act nice

« Last post by faffi on Today at 01:17:47 AM »

I was not looking for information, I just needed to vent 

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General Discussion / Re: How hot is your exhaust?

« Last post by faffi on Today at 01:13:17 AM »

Single-wall headers will blue, also on older bikes. Motorcycles from Japan usually came with double, or even triple wall headers, to prevent the chrome from turning blue. These days, chrome is less common, but the metal will still change color if it gets hot enough.