What did you do to your Vmax today?

[113s&s]

Well as I entered the shop today to get my weed whacker out. I looked over at the Max and there she sat over in the corner on jackstands.
So I asked my Lovely VMAX "Why are you like a damn woman" You are expensive, require all of my attention when I am with you, You shake when I ride you to fast, and you break down and wont allow me to ride for awhile if I ride you to HARD!

So I just talked to my VMAX today and asked why she is such a bitch at times, but I stil love her and she has atlasted all of my girlfriends.

time to dump the bitch and get a new girl....once your riding another bitch you wont give the max a second thought...few years ill do the same....i like the kick of the inline power more

 

[maleko89]

Talked to Rusty this weekend, nice guy! Thanks for the help Rusty!

I've spent the last week unwrapping my wiring harness looking for issues. I only have time working an hour here and there due to family responsibilities but oh well...whaddya do?

Anyway, this project started when bike wanted to die at idle...especially when the fan was running. I checked my charging voltage and it was below the minimum of 13.5 volts. Now, I've been reading that the r/r has another function besides charging the battery. Since it connects to the crimp near the battery it also supplies juice to the rest of the electrical systems on the bike. I'm hoping that by fixing the charging system woes my rpm drop goes away.

Tonight I found issues with the main switch and also two crimps. One crimp is where the brown lead branches to the fuse box and the other is the blue wire that branches to the tail light and all the front lights. The crimps and wires were pretty corroded. So snipped, cleaned and butt spliced those.

I'm also taking richwrench's advice unplugging all connectors and cleaning them and squirting dielectric grease in each one. Did the ignitor handle bar control connectors tonight.

Next, I'm cleaning all grounds and testing my R/R. I also need to fix wiring to the main fuse and where the R/R connects to the harness. I'm going to take Rusty's advice and add a wire that goes from the red R/R wire directly to the battery. Rusty, do I need to put an in line fuse in there? I wasn't planning on it but wanted to check first.

Parts of this project suck...especially the soldering. I'm finding the stock crimps are hard to heat up for the solder to flow. So I'm just cutting those off and butt splicing everything w/o soldering.

I got a lot done today. I finally broke down and snipped the crimp near the battery and re-wired it. I also repaired all the wiring to the battery and cleaned all grounds. I found a bad wire coming from the ignition fuse so removed the fuse connector and cleaned and touched the solder up. While I had everything apart I removed the fuel pump to inspect that. Occasionally, it clicked rapidly for 5 seconds a pop when flipping the key on/off. One of the diaphragms had a small tear so fixed that. Hopefully that takes care of it.

I started the bike up and am now getting 14.1 - 14.2 volts at idle.

I also wired up a toggle switch with in line fuse. I hooked this to the blue/white terminal on the starter relay and then grounded the other side of the switch. This allows me to trigger the starter w/o firing up the ignition. I no longer have to remove my plugs and ground them when checking compression. Which reminds me...I ran a thread chaser in my #3 cylinder to clean that out and also cleaned the plug seat. My compression is right on! 165 psi.

Next mods are a horn relay. I've been talking to Tyler P. and he says it makes the stock horn MUCH louder. I'm also going to do his power supply mod using another 12V 30 amp relay.

4gasem, thanks for that heat resistance blanket! It worked like a charm! I owe you lunch at Bobo's next year.

 

[113s&s]

[QUOTE=maleko89 My compression is right on! 165 psi. ..i was wondering what the cranking pressure was around on a max....is that with carb slides fully opened along with throttle

 

[maleko89]

No, that was just full throttle. Slides don't' really start to open until 4500 rpms. I should've tried to manually open to see if reading would increase.

 

[113s&s]

No, that was just full throttle. Slides don't' really start to open until 4500 rpms. I should've tried to manually open to see if reading would increase.

i asked because doing that test on harley motors ive owned the ss carb is just a butterfly fully opened..and would wonder with the mikuni carbs on same motor how you would get the same results with slides closed

 

[dannymax]

Sync'd the carbs.............good thing, they were way the hell off. The rods on the Carbtune looked like stairs.

Did the shotgun yesterday, will that throw the sync way out of whack?

Something sure did, but all is good now. :clapping:

dan

 

[gunrunner]

Not much , as had to take main light again to tighten the indicators as one of them has worked lose again only to find i have snapped another bolt (#2) that holds main light to bike i take it as been vibration on both counts as are both done up tightly .

Has this ever happened to anyone else ?:confused2:

 

[dannymax]

Well, here's a couple thousand words! :rofl_200:


dan

 

[44 magnum]

Well, here's a couple thousand words! :rofl_200:


dan

Ummm.... I don't get it.

I won't be surprised to be the only one either.

Signed,

The Dumb Kid

 

[4gasem]

Ummm.... I don't get it.

I won't be surprised to be the only one either.

Signed,

The Dumb Kid

A picture is worth a thousand words... He has 2 pictures... So 2 times 1000 is 2000...

:eusa_dance:

 

[44 magnum]

I picture is worth a thousand words... He has 2 pictures... So 2 times 1000 is 2000...

:eusa_dance:

Ooooooohhhhhh...... See I thought he had burried treasure in one of the pics and we had to find it.

:bang head:

 

[113s&s]

changed my oil..with different make filter my filter tool seemes just a hair to small would not work...used the old screw driver trick... that side tracked me....poured about a good half a qt into motor with no drain plug....just had enough oil left to fill the sight glass....dont tell anybody

 

[mnmax]

Finally took pics.

Couple months back installed 05 R1 forks/otec triple .

Ohlins shocks, had the resivoirs and top mount polished and the body that used to be gold zinc, I had black zinc plated.

And lets hear it I know how much you all love the headlight.

also new drag bars and LED blinkers. Only have the front led installed with the rer hlogens right now. need to have my buddy install the load equalizer to get the rear Led to work

Bike also has 1500 tourmaster motor. 164HP/105ftlbs

Now need to do something with taillight.

would like to get rid of backrest, but wife would have to go with it. But shes cool so I will keep her.

 

[Thevmaxrider]

Finally took pics.

Couple months back installed 05 R1 forks/otec triple .

Ohlins shocks, had the resivoirs and top mount polished and the body that used to be gold zinc, I had black zinc plated.

And lets hear it I know how much you all love the headlight.

also new drag bars and LED blinkers. Only have the front led installed with the rer hlogens right now. need to have my buddy install the load equalizer to get the rear Led to work

Bike also has 1500 tourmaster motor. 164HP/105ftlbs

Now need to do something with taillight.

would like to get rid of backrest, but wife would have to go with it. But shes cool so I will keep her.

Looks great!! I get my R1 front end from Cycle one off on the 13th of Sept (just in time for me to go on a good long ride). Should have my sport tail by next week too. Seeing your Max makes me want the days to pass even faster LOL.

 

[Buster Hymen]

Finally took pics.

Couple months back installed 05 R1 forks/otec triple .

Ohlins shocks, had the resivoirs and top mount polished and the body that used to be gold zinc, I had black zinc plated.

And lets hear it I know how much you all love the headlight.

also new drag bars and LED blinkers. Only have the front led installed with the rer hlogens right now. need to have my buddy install the load equalizer to get the rear Led to work

Bike also has 1500 tourmaster motor. 164HP/105ftlbs

Now need to do something with taillight.

would like to get rid of backrest, but wife would have to go with it. But shes cool so I will keep her.

Wow, that headlight is huge! What is it off of? It must throw off some pretty good light.

 

[Redbone]

Very nice looking and it must move with that tourmaster motor in it! :thumbs up:
I like the profile of the headlight from the side and the 3/4 view from front. I would also like to see it from the front, straight on if you get a chance. Really like the R1 forks, looks like they were made for the Vmax.
Looks like your swingarm 3" over stock, or are my eyes deceiving me?

 

[44 magnum]

Finally took pics.

Couple months back installed 05 R1 forks/otec triple .

Ohlins shocks, had the resivoirs and top mount polished and the body that used to be gold zinc, I had black zinc plated.

And lets hear it I know how much you all love the headlight.

also new drag bars and LED blinkers. Only have the front led installed with the rer hlogens right now. need to have my buddy install the load equalizer to get the rear Led to work

Bike also has 1500 tourmaster motor. 164HP/105ftlbs

Now need to do something with taillight.

would like to get rid of backrest, but wife would have to go with it. But shes cool so I will keep her.

Totally bad-ass bike Bro. :biglaugh:

 

[fasterlapdunn]

^ i'm with stupid. forks look awesome and the radial brakes yummmmmmm. how much was that motor $$$$??:worthy:

 

[mnmax]

I bought the bike used and it came with a really huge 8" headlight from a Honda 919. It stuck out way to far.

So I replaced it with now a VROD headlight and it is very very bright, way brighter than the stock light.

The vrod headlight looked much better on the stock forks, in sat back farther and it looked better from the front. The light doesnt look as good with the stepped triple trees. I am considering going back to the stock light because it looks better with the stepped triple.

I still have a few thing to do. I am going to get a billet brake resivoir. Thats the one problem with going to 05' forks with radial brakes, I had to have the round r1 resivoir. I could have went with the 98-03 forks and used the FJR resivoir but I wanted better braking. and a new light, and a clutch master with a billet res to math the brakes and some new mirrors.

 

[maleko89]

Do you have a relay setup for the headlight?