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Greg_e
| | Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2015 - 04:41 pm: | 
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I forgot to bring my compression tester, guess that will have to wait.
The electrodes look OK, but I think the plugs are fairly new. The air cleaner has something written on it that suggests a 2014 change, and it looks almost new.
Picked up new exhaust port gaskets and a few other things to get my working again today. Going to finish off the oil draining parts and move on to checking cam chain tensioners. Then hopefully put it back together, install the oil cooler, fill it up and be done for now. |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Sunday, October 04, 2015 - 02:24 am: |
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Got the cooler installed, took way my force than I have ever needed to get the old filter off, I think it really has been on the for 50,000 miles.
Brake covers say DOT 4 fluid so that's probably what I'll put in.
Looked at the cam tension plastic, worn but not critical. Can probably go another 5000 miles which is more thabpn I need right now. Just need a few more weekends for local riding, then the big freeze when I can take the time to replace them. Need to look at the pushrods and see if it might have adjustable in there, would make the job easier!
Got the engine and transmission oil changed, didn't do the primary because I didn't feel like finding the drain plug, might do that while I'm working on the header sections.
Now on to the headers... Is there an easy way to make the pipes round again? I'm having problems getting the pipes to fit back together. Most of them are oval. |
Natexlh1000
| | Posted on Sunday, October 04, 2015 - 08:10 am: |
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My dad had a tapered brass drift he used for that sort of thing.
The only issue with it that I found was it tended to get stuck in there. |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Sunday, October 04, 2015 - 10:57 am: |
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Thinking about tail pipe expanders. Hoping I can get some locally that fit. Harbor freight lists three sizes, autozone has one listed. That and a plastic mallot should get me going again.
Need to look at the pushrods and see if adjustable have been installed. I really hope so since it would save me a bunch of money and a pile of time. Really should look in the rocker box, but not wanting to deal with that yet. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Sunday, October 04, 2015 - 11:51 am: |
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So they did switch brake fluid to dot 4. Interesting. It seems that after 2002 they started doing a lot of things to save production cost.
If you don't have adjustable push rods you can just cut them out with a bolt cutter. Replace with tapered adjustable's. If you don't get tapered ones you can possibly hit the push rod tubes and pull it out of the rocker arm socket and when it pops back in it will make a tick that will drive you crazy! DAMHIK!
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Greg_e
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 10:34 am: |
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Trying to make sense of the ECM tuners out there. My 05 doesn't have o2 sensors installed, but the Delphi ECM has spots for them. SO I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to put o2 sensors in besides welding the bungs and creating the wires. I've read a few posts suggesting that TTS Master Tune system can enable the narrow band function which would get me a self adjusting AFV like with the older Buell. But I'm also thinking that something like a Thunder Max with wideband o2 or Power Vision with Autotune might be better.
Just wish the damn things didn't lock to the ECM so people would sell them used. Makes the complete ThunderMax look like a better deal. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 11:46 am: |
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http://www.daytona-twintec.com/TCFI.html |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 01:23 pm: |
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Didn't see that the TwinTec has an Android app. That might push it forward though I've been reading about issues with the WEGO module, they were posts from several years ago though. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 04:03 pm: |
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My friend, that's the engine builder, has been using these for a while after the Thunder Max got so expensive and their service wasn't being very helpful. He's had good luck with them. |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 04:29 pm: |
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Same price as ThunderMax now (Gen4 with WEGO, both about $900 with auto tuning), but I printed the Gen4 instructions which is the correct one for my 2005. Seems like it should do everything I would want. Going to put some miles on and decide what I'm doing over the winter.
Still need to install the heated grips and hoping I can get the exhaust tubes opened op and round again so they slip together properly. Don't want any tension/compression in them that might snap a stud off the head. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 04:48 pm: |
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I just talked to another friend that is in the German car world but also owns an old Ducati. He said that Megasquirt now sells a Microsquirt that works on bikes. Since you already have injection your crank will work for timing. Might be an option but I don't know price and it's probably not a plug and play but sounded like it was extremely adjustable. That stuff is over my head but I need to start learning. |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 05:03 pm: |
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No Megasquirt! Those bastards took the hard work of their users and turned it from open sourced to closed profit! I can not support them in any way. I would be happier working with a DIYefi system, even though the maturity and number of users is very small.
http://www.diyefi.org/ |
Tootal
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 05:33 pm: |
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Holy Crap! I think I hit a nerve!! Doooh!
Sorry Greg, I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to computer stuff. I feel really good that I can reset my tps with ecmspy! |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 09:02 pm: |
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Well, it goes even a little deeper. When Harley shut down Buell, I went to the microsquirt forums to see about assistance in building a Buell specific code base, similar to the rough one for Harley. All I got was a pissy response from Bruce about how it was designed for a car, blah, blah, blah. I'm pretty sure they never planned on keeping anything open, but I'm pretty sure they planned on taking all the data and help they could get to build their second generation system.
You should talk to Fred over at the diyefi site, he has even more of the back story than I do. I lived part of it, but he lived a lot more and contributed a lot more than I did. If I had the kind of time I'd need, we would have that fully programmable, diy ecm for our buell's. And then it would probably be pretty easy to adapt to any of the modern efi Harley engines. But a lot to be learned to get there and never enough time to learn it. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 09:15 pm: |
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So it sounds like you would know something about Ubuntu. I have geek friends and one mentioned Ubuntu when I had a hard drive failure. He said to get a new computer with Windows 7 and replace the hard drive in the old computer and get Ubuntu and play. I must admit that all that stuff would take this old brain too long to sink in. I have nothing but respect for the geeks. I love the old saying by Will Rogers that said, "Everybody's ignorant, just in different subjects!" |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - 10:54 am: |
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Ubuntu is fairly easy to get going, but something like Mint with Cinnamon might be easier to grasp. It's a Ubuntu core with the lighter weight and more Windows like user interface. Either way, download and burn a live disk, boot from the disk and take a look. Don't even need the hard drive to function to do this.
I'm more involved with Centos which is the open side of Redhat. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - 04:19 pm: |
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Was that a low flying UFO or did that last post go right over my head!!
Man, if we had to rely on my computer intelligence we'd all be using a rotary phone! |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 06, 2015 - 09:24 pm: |
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Got the pipes hammered out and put back on the bike. Fired right up with only a few seconds of clicking while the oil pressure came up. Nice to be able to hear the engine sounds again, sounds like everything is working just fine. Needs a few cable ties up around the regulator/cooler and to put the chrome heat covers on the headers and ready to ride again.
Going to need new headers somewhere down the road, or a really good tool to reform the slip joints. |
86129squids
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - 02:08 am: |
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I'm hoping for the same mojo, as my fish tank recovers and my fishies get better. Got a sick pleco, and a sick ghost knife, but I believe they'll recover.
Weird, but true. |
Tootal
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - 04:07 pm: |
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It's a little late but for future reference, to get the mufflers off I take the little semi U shaped mount off the rear of the muffler and bolt it back on at 90 degrees. This gives me a handle to twist back and forth on to break them loose.
I realize that's not where your major problem was but just thought I'd mention it as it's always the hard part on my bike.
The use of High Temp anti seize never hurts during assembly either. |
Greg_e
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - 08:33 pm: |
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Mostly the problem was the pipes being squished into an oval, and also having the clamp cave in a U shape in both sections. The oval prevented me from twisting, and the depression meant I had to jump over it. Getting the front off the rear was a major amount of work. |
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