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No progress yet. No email reply from the dealer all week after multiple emails which means it'll be special order, and they don't care... haven't had the time/inclination to talk to these clowns yet either. The following pictures are... the bike has just been sitting since the last ride over...

I see. So the order will be Manifold Joints... Breather... Heads. Now the slow process of ordering parts begins again from the local shitty monopoly bike shop (company called TeamMoto, they pretty much own all motorcycle yards in this region, and their service reflects that lack of competition).

Incidentally, how hard is it to remove/reinstall the carbs myself? Has anyone put together a step by step guide?

Would it be possible the head cover's gasket could leak too? I'm somewhat sick of this whole process. I think I'll have all the relevant gaskets and o-rings replaced just to be safe. That way I can ride her over 100,000km and not worry about the cheap arse legacy of the previous owner.

Well since replacing the water pump seals, the sludge build up has reduced dramatically. What took a week (10x half hour rides on average) of sludge build previously came about after just 1x of those rides. It hadn't been weeping anything at that point.

Yeah that's the part. Is it safe to dismantle that part alone and install the new seals without tearing apart anything above it like the airbox and carbs?

Looks like the problem has improved, but not been solved. Week 1 riding was sludgy, but should have been enough to transform any remaining oil that had been sitting in the new radiator into sludge and thus expelled during the extensive weekend flush I put the bike through. Week 2 involved...

Okay, a week's long riding and a weekend flush. The bike didn't move past half on the temp gauge until Friday afternoon. It never overheated, but the fan diidn't come on either at the appropriate temp. The flush resulted in a very decent amount of sludge coming out, and when the drain cock was...

Yeah see I did the garden hose too... it could only push so much out. Even the strategically alternating squirts into the jacket weep holes... over and over surprise junk would come out after letting it sit even for just a few minutes.

I put about 20 litres of boiling hot water through it... hose squirts after letting it cool from the hot water too. Took about 6 hours before I let the final day long ooze occur to try and catch what was still possible to get out without the flow of a proper pressurised run. That was more...

Successfully installed the mech seal on Saturday, no weeping from the water pump hole this time. I have not yet looked under the rad cap, but so far it seems to be promising. Even though it's cool down here now, hitting traffic lights after a decent ride only gets up to half on the temp gauge...

Just a brief update. Been in damage control since the weekend. Seems like I cracked the ceramic head on the mechanical seal, so upon pouring fluid into the system it just pissed straight back out the seep hole. Even with a test warmup... definitely not a seating issue. The source of...

Got my parts on order, should be able to get it done this weekend. I'll take pictures just in case. It's still behaving oddly. Now it leaks from the thermo-to-drain-cock seal in the morning...just an ambient temp change, but still takes a lot of the fun out of riding what with constantly...

I flushed the cooling system yesterday.. pic 1 of the excess sludge is after letting it sit and ooze for a few hours. Pic 2 is today, about 18 hours later. I saw a little of that oily line mixed in with the iced coffee sludge inside the jacket drain holes, wiped/soaked up enough with some...

Been meaning to get around to saying "Hey" but time keeps slipping away... so, Hi. Got my hands on an 07 VMax last November here in Australia, and have slowly been upgrading/fixing it. Seemed like it was in ideal condition when I bought it off an old timer out to trim his stable. Turns out he...