Yes, take your point. I was intending to get away in the second week of July but persistent delays and setbacks in the installation of a central heating boiler meant I could only leave this week. Boiler installed Friday, I'm on the boat the following Monday.Bustaspoke wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:39 amNot sure about your timing,it's been raining at some time or all of the day for what seems like forever,but since last Friday it's been lovely around here,West Lancs & the 7 day forecast is more sunny weathermangocrazy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:02 am Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Sheffield anymore...
Yes, I got so pissed off with the English (lack of) summer that I legged it down to the south of France. On the VFR...
My old FZ750 has a hydraulic clutch & it has a near permanent leak on the clutch slave cylinder,I think the seal fails due to grit & muck being flung at it.Is it a common problem on the VFR? My XJR owning mate says that they're also known to fail.
Pretty sure that the slave cylinder is the problem. I replaced the seal a few years back but it's never really been right. I'm wondering if the bore of the slave has some pitting or scratches that allows fluid to seep past. Or it could just be a failing seal, as you say. I think I have a spare slave seal somewhere in the garage. If so, I'll swap it out and see what the state of the slave bore is like.
And to add insult to injury, the bike wouldn't run much above 100mph and was as flat as a fart much after a quarter throttle. Acceleration was pants, but the bike would hold 6-7k rpm up the hills but no more. I have a feeling I may have adjusted the choke cable 'tight' so it's permanently on, albeit only to a degree. If it's not that it's (another) carb tear down.
And when brimming the tank, fuel runs out of the overflow until it's down to three-quarters(ish) full. I suspect it has a small split in the internal tank overflow pipe. So it's definitely tank off time, as well.
Apart from that - no problems!