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Messages - McCabe-Thiele (Ted)
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« on: Today at 11:19:01 AM »
I change my Broadband provider almost every time it's out of contract so I use a Gmail address & outlook to avoid the email trap. I was a loyal customer for almost 20 years with VM but they seem unable to reward loyal customers in the long term.
Most of my internet is hard wired so little to change with Wi-Fi at home.
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« on: Today at 09:04:30 AM »
Not as impactive for me but I had a similar issue with my free Flickr account due to a combination of loosing my old ntlworld email address and password.
In the end I gave up and opened a new account using my new email address - lost a load of photos forever.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 06:50:04 PM »
My experience on cars before individual coil packs arrived was that many used resistor caps and resistor plugs without problems with one coil on 4 & 6 cylinder engines so it's a new thing for me to consider it.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 06:27:07 PM »
The worst oil smell I've experienced has been with car diff oil.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 05:38:57 PM »
When I removed mine I used a cordless Impact tool to undo the hex bolt. I did not encounter the turning problem if your is turning sounds as if it should undo with a bit of wedging.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 04:33:21 PM »
Iirc a suitable sized brush stale has been used by members in the past to prevent the rotation. I believe it's inserted down the fork leg to jam the inside part. Never had to do it myself so you might find it via the search facility.
I assume you have removed the spring.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 02:53:19 PM »
I'm 26 years ahead of you Roo!
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« on: May 16, 2024, 01:52:35 PM »
I had some new tools from Wendy for my recent birthday - undecided between Metric & Imperial so she went for the safe option. Edible ones! . Edible Tools by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr
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« on: May 16, 2024, 12:16:37 PM »
I took my bike in today to have the oil pump seals changed and get a set of genuine Honda exhaust mounting studs fitted to replace the rust prone homemade junk currently in place. The mechanic had to tell me he would only try so hard if any are very stubborn, lest they snap off. If that happened where would I stand though?
A local engineering firm Helicoiled four of my head studs on the 500 I snapped three , removed four, left one for them - one is fractionally out of alignment so the new Delkevic clamps would not fit one pair of studs. I used my originals that have more clearance. They skimmed my head as well - they did a brilliant job removing only a few thou to get rid of a couple of marks near where the head gasket seals the bores leaving a mirror type finish. It cost more than I expected tbh.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 11:18:16 AM »
Nice one, dead jealous but hopefully on the way back to getting out on the bike, left thumb joint replace, now some rehab and then the throttle hand later in the year.
Cheers
Dennis
Yikes Dennis - hope the operation is a 100% success.
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« on: May 16, 2024, 09:51:10 AM »
I'm going to dismantle the points plate to clean it up. Ken is sending me some proper screws to replace the Allen Key Headed ones to prevent overtightening.
I agree David the main three back plate screws are pretty central. It the CB ones that are at the extreme end, I will see if there is a make on them when I strip down the plate.
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« on: May 15, 2024, 10:07:59 PM »
Ted, if you can find any D7EV are the dogs doodads for the 500, it should have had newish D7EA in it when you got it, D7ES is the original and not available the A is same as S according to NGK. You should not be using the R type
So a resistor spark plug when you have resistor plug caps does this cause a problem somehow ?
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« on: May 15, 2024, 10:04:21 PM »
So far nobody knows. Why did you choose 'R' plugs?
I have no idea, I can't remember when I bought them either. I do have a set of Denso X22ES-U plugs. I think my bike had NGK D7EA fitted .
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« on: May 15, 2024, 08:22:43 PM »
I have no idea when or where I bought them - I have a set of new NGK DR7EA plugs. DS show the 500 plug as NGK DR7ES.
Can I use these DR7EA no idea what the S means compared to A ?
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