WOW
What a difference!!!
Any photos of the old air filter? I don't think you mentioned it anywhere in this thread.
Thanks for all the congrats. Trust me, I will never attempt it again. I am still concerned that the coolant flush was only 2.5 qt and the final fill was also only 2.5 qt. I wish I had measured what came out both times.
And now it is, believe it or not, snowing. That will end and then be bitter cold and icy tonight and all tomorrow. Thursday I might be able to slip in a short ride after work, but then it will rain for 5 days, all through the weekend and early next week I want to ride it!!!
I actually posted it Oct 27 in an appropriate thread http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=13197.msg303081#msg303081 Somehow it slipped by ya...
You said that you filled and ran it with pure distilled water right? Then drained that and added the coolant. You may not have the correct % of coolant to water now.
That is possible. But what else can I do? I drained it, filled it with distilled water. Ran it, feeding as much as it would take (ever) which was 2.5qt. Drained it, filled it with premix. Ran it, feeding as much as it would take (ever) which was 2.5qt. I don't know where the missing 1 qt is. Perhaps it was just retained somewhere that would not drain. In which case, there is a 1 qt remnant of unknown mix of distilled water and premix that diluted the new premix. From a freezing standpoint, it won't matter, since here it will never get below maybe 20F. From an overheating standpoint, that shouldn't matter either, since water is better at heat transfer than premix. From a corrosion standpoint- I don't know (at least I used distilled).
I asked my mechanic friend "if there is missing coolant in there, will it eventually replace what is missing from the overflow bottle?" And he said yes. But after my 30 min test drive, the level didn't change. And after several hours of cool-down, it still didn't change. It is a mystery that I don't like.
don't sweat it man, it's good..
Just for clarity....I will gladly ride an extra 8 hours to Arkansas from my home in Utah before I will ever put myself thru doing a valve adjust on this bike. Just saying. Life is too short!!
Just for clarity on these two posts, between these two above quoted valve jobs, Fred Harmon moved from 15 minutes from my house (Texas) to 8 hours from my house (Arkansas) .
He is indeed now living in the Mountain Home Arkansas area.
OK, back to max's story....
some folks seem to have too much money, and time..... I really feel the whole job is quite painless, just takes a couple days.
Just for clarity....I will gladly ride an extra 8 hours to Arkansas from my home in Utah before I will ever put myself thru doing a valve adjust on this bike. Just saying. Life is too short!!
To each his own. I, for one, find this type of work relaxing.
I think you grasp the jist of what I said, and to be truthful, the total job first "go round", did span a few days, I really took the "time" to remove, and document it all, in my brain, and in photos; and as I am very particular, anal if you really want to know when it comes to things like this) a lot of time was spent on educating myself; didn't have to deal with broken bolts and such in mine, but the "actual" time in disassemble, inspect, adjust, re-install" along with doing extra's like routing vac lines for t/b synch (for future use, and anytime I want to check), cleaning, and looking closely at everything, really totaled about 12 "real working" hours... having never done it, and being one of the first to do it. The "wasted" time that accumulated over the multi day process, during allocation of parts (which wisely I refuted until I "KNEW" exactly what I needed, did accumulate, and add to the total process hours, but in reality, all the wrench turning, measuring, and re turning of the wrenches to completion, was a day and a half.. with beer breaks, and photos. Having said that, I walked into the house many times, and continued on with normal life, and working a 70 hr week at my Paying Job...
For me, it not about money it was about wanting to know it was actually done correctly, within my control, and without any damage to anything. But I am not kidding when I say I don't think I could go through that again. And I really do caution people attempting this job to think carefully first. It can take a LOT of time and there are a LOT of ways you can totally destroy the engine, plus it is very frustrating.
and document it all, in my brain, and in photos;
you did good. I'll pat you on the back, and you should never be afraid to do it a second time. I have to do it again next fall.. and have no fear...
Get a lift, it saves your back, is all I have to add....