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what have you done to your bike today??
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Re: what have you done to your bike today??
Took the Honda Silverwing scoot for it's MOT this morning, a healthy pass...!
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Re: what have you done to your bike today??
After a bit of winter fettling - new C&S, greasing shock linkage, rebuilding wheels, caliper clean-up, oil, filters etc. - it was MoT time today for my '98 Africa Twin.
Bizarrely, as I was setting off for the MoT, the front cylinder cut out, so to and from the MoT shop was on my XRV375!
Fuel was getting through to the dead cylinder, so not a carb issue. The culprit turned out to be spark plugs. Both plugs renewed in the offending cylinder and it's back to it's old self, running fine.
Bizarrely, as I was setting off for the MoT, the front cylinder cut out, so to and from the MoT shop was on my XRV375!
Fuel was getting through to the dead cylinder, so not a carb issue. The culprit turned out to be spark plugs. Both plugs renewed in the offending cylinder and it's back to it's old self, running fine.
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Was it the front cylinder ? if so how much skin did you take off your knuckles on the radiatormark vb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:58 pm After a bit of winter fettling - new C&S, greasing shock linkage, rebuilding wheels, caliper clean-up, oil, filters etc. - it was MoT time today for my '98 Africa Twin.
Bizarrely, as I was setting off for the MoT, the front cylinder cut out, so to and from the MoT shop was on my XRV375!
Fuel was getting through to the dead cylinder, so not a carb issue. The culprit turned out to be spark plugs. Both plugs renewed in the offending cylinder and it's back to it's old self, running fine.
Nice work anyway
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Re: what have you done to your bike today??
Must be a Honda V twin thing. I remember years ago as a despatch rider when i had my first VT500 i thought i would see how long it would take for the plugs to pack up and so i carried 4 spares in my top box for such an event.
So there i was one day, miles from anywhere and sure enough just ground to a halt, whipped out the old plugs, in with the new and away i went.
I think it was after about 23,000 miles if my memory serves me.
So there i was one day, miles from anywhere and sure enough just ground to a halt, whipped out the old plugs, in with the new and away i went.
I think it was after about 23,000 miles if my memory serves me.
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Re: what have you done to your bike today??
Yeah, it was the front cylinder. The offside plug is easy to get to, the nearside one however is a bit of a bugger. But my flexidrive plug spanner, as ever, worked a treat. It's a bit of an art not getting your knuckles scraped, but I seem to have mastered it after many years of AT ownership Whoever designed the AT certainly didn't do it with ease of maintenance access in mind!boboneleg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:21 pmWas it the front cylinder ? if so how much skin did you take off your knuckles on the radiatormark vb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:58 pm After a bit of winter fettling - new C&S, greasing shock linkage, rebuilding wheels, caliper clean-up, oil, filters etc. - it was MoT time today for my '98 Africa Twin.
Bizarrely, as I was setting off for the MoT, the front cylinder cut out, so to and from the MoT shop was on my XRV375!
Fuel was getting through to the dead cylinder, so not a carb issue. The culprit turned out to be spark plugs. Both plugs renewed in the offending cylinder and it's back to it's old self, running fine.
Nice work anyway
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Re: what have you done to your bike today??
It is odd. Yes, the two plugs per cylinder run off a common coil. I can only imagine one plug failed a while ago, and then the second one failed last Friday, namely when the front cylinder went dead. I (wrongly) assumed that with two plugs, one at least would be working and therefore suspected the common denominator to both plugs - the coil - had failed. But when I checked it out it was showing all the correct resistances both with and without the plug caps. And a good 12.5v was getting to the coil's low voltage winding. As a bit if a long-shot, I renewed one plug and it fired-up without hesitation. I renewed the second plug on the offending cylinder as it too must have been faulty. As a precaution, I also renewed both plugs in the other (rear) cylinder in case they were to pack up in time, too.