Fixed! Bits are anyway….
April 16, 2008 at 8:56 pm | Bike | No comment
Well the very knowledgeable and helpful chap at Rens in Haywards Heath has sorted my cam sensor.
He also informed me that my K&N washable air filter was a pile of shit that would likely ruin my engine (I’m not surprised really) and replaced it with an OEM part.
He continued by telling me my swingarm bearings had a bit of play in them which would lead to their relatively imminnent destruction, my rear-wheel/sprocket rubber block thingies (known to realoem.com as “absorbers”) have way too much play in them and should be replaced, my alternator is about to die and I should keep an eye on my rear brake fluid level as it was bloody empty.
I’m also getting a squealing noise from the bike which worsens the harder I accelerate, I’m going to try and isolate that tomorrow as I haven’t the faintest what it could be (I had a brainwave earlier, AHAH! Alternator belt! Which was great, except my bike doesn’t have an alternator belt and probably no bike in the history of the world has either).
The total death toll for parts and labour came to £300, but I’m getting used to pushing £300s out left and right like confetti, this bike shit aint cheap.
I’ve rescheduled my ferry to the 27th of April to get all this stuff sorted out, I’ve also moved it to somewhere in Britanny rather than Santander as there were no spaces on any spanish ferries that didn’t require upgrading to a cabin.
So I’ve got an extra week tacked on in which I have a myriad of tasks, but still the trip trundles on!
Should be a good chance to get my hands dirty and restore my (somewhat shaken) faith in this bike.