I REBUILT A YAMAHA YZF1000R AND TRIED TO RIDE IT
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- This Yamaha YZF1000R Thunderace rebuild has taken the best part of a year to complete. Through all the pain and heart break, all the sets back. We eventually completed the rebuild!. And in this upload we finally get to take the bike out on the open road!. But first it needs to pass the MOT test....
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You need to put teflon tape on the threads of your compressor fittings.
When using ptfe tape make sure you put it on the same way on the thread front to back anticlockwise or when you tighten down on it, it will unravel. Good Luck.
100%. All air line fittings need to teflon taped for a proper seal.
Was going to say it, but you said it, spot on!
You beat me to it too. Definitely will solve the leak. Excellent video!
I was recently told that you roll it like spaghetti then feed it into the valley of the thread. I had always wrapped it round like paper.
The thing that you still have your old man to see it and ride it. Thanks good sir.
It's a proper bike with no mothering features. I prefer bikes like these as they make you a better rider rather than letting the bike take you for a ride 👍🏼
Great work on the restoration. Regarding the rust in the tank, I did the following:
Filled the tank with Apple Cider vinegar and left it 24 hours
Drained it out, then rinsed with water, to loosen the rust.
Drained the water out then sprayed lots of WD40 in the tank.
Drain this, then fill with fuel and put an inline fuel filter.
Change the filter after 2 months and I never had an issue.
Oxalic acid is by far the best for rust . I tried apple cider, sulphuric, hydrochloric, commercial products and a host of other products and so called remedies. Definitely oxalic acid looked like a new tank inside, shiny metal.
@@davidvanhinsbergh2444 on point.. oxalic acid used in dry cleaning & commercial painting for removing metallic stains.. doesn't harm clothing or paint nor hands & doesn't attack clean steel but destroys rust/oxides
Yes your old mans correct.. You get a bike and stick with it! Its Fazers for me. Absolutely love the ending ! No broken engine had me going. Definitely correct about total price for bike
Well done your perseverance has won the day great update.
Ptfe tape around the threads or couplings will work a treat boshhhhh
I had both bikes. The first year of the R1 saw their gearboxes breaking a shaft from memory and by the 2nd year they had it sorted and a new paint livery that was awesome. I bought mine within 24 hours of seeing it. The difference was huge. Your bike is way more rideable and they have excellent handling, The R1 was a real handful. It was a race bike and required 100% concentration. I had an exhaust fitted and the carbs rejetted to suit and it had 145hp on the dyno.
Well done wrap plumbers PTFE tape round the threads to stop your air leaks top effort
Restoring and riding on the bike you used to ride pillion on as a kid with your dad is really special. Glad he’s still around to see it. Great job, well worth the effort.
What a great video and fantastic to see your old man swing his leg over it. Love the colour by the way, it looks amazing. I’m calling this a win for you 🏆
Thanks 👍
Absolutely loved this video👏 Great work Rye!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've watched your videos and sometimes have questioned these way you do things but ... This vid is the best one you've done. Just taking it round to your dad is fantastic. Look after your dad♥️.
Be careful of the bike though. If you aren't familiar with having no electronics it will bite. Look after it, it looks great👍
Well done Rye
Gritting from Eastbourne
Dad seams
to be proud
Nice Haiku
A mate of mine had one of these from new. Still a great looking bike after all these years.
That part where you went to show your dad,that was pretty special mate.bike looks awesome and this series of videos was brilliant.well done BOR....keep up the good work.
Lovely journey, great bike, used to ride with a buddy who had one, I nearly got the 600 version, Thundercat 600, went with the CBR600 instead. Priceless indeed to restore you dads old ride :)
The guy who does fuck all apart from complain about others will be along shortly no doubt..... Congrats on getting it through the MOT
The Thunderace was the 1st big bike I ever rode , after having an NSR 125 RR , the Ace belonged to a work mate who had purchased it new , he'd only had it a month after getting back into biking , he let me have a go and I absolutely loved it , fantastic machine , it was the same silver and red , great memories 👍🏻
Had same issue on my fazer caliper,bought cheap copper brushes to fit on drill,made cleaning the grooves the seals sit in much easier using brake cleaner aerosol
I've been riding since the late 80's and had an immaculate '96 Thunderace for the last 5yrs that's still only got 13000 on the clock. LED lights all round including angel eye headlights, black screen and scorpion exhaust but pretty much standard apart from that. Arthritic back forces sale and that's it pictured... West Midlands
Great video and what a job you did, good on ya mate 😊
Huge respect.
All my fond memories are with 5 speed gear box. Suzuki RF900 & Honda Transalp 650. Inline & Twin and always love the meat of a 5 speed. Mate you are on one of the most underrated bikes on the planet. ❤
“Impressive that you have come this far; your perseverance and dedication are commendable. Your videos are interesting and enjoyable to follow. This Thunderace looks beautiful once again.”
I'm so proud of you! What an amazing series this has been! Congratulations and treasure that beautiful YZF1000 for many years to come.
That looks stunning, im actually thinking of buying one from a friend of mine, i drove it some kms and loved it, love the engine, its so smooth, and more confortable than my SV650s as it stands.
Congratulations Rye, it was a hell of a good job 😉
Nice bike, well worth all the effort to restore it.
I had 96-97, it will lift the front wheel at 60mph. Despite the engine angle and forward weight bias. It has plenty of grunt !
Well done man
You need PTFE or Teflon tape on all threads
Its a bike you will never make money on after a full rebuild, but thats kinda the point isnt it.
You get it 😉
Proud moment between Father and Son, you did this. Ride it with pride. Well done.
Video on your dad riding be cool, and you were saying power range Well you can always play with cog ratios to suit your feel.
Great job, great review of the bike and seeing your dad's reaction was class. Fair play fella
Thanks 👍
I bought exactly the same bike in 1998. Italian model as well, as a parallel import as they were known back then. At its first MOT, the testing station stuck a beam deflector on the headlamp for me! Kept it until 2018. It was Yamaha's stop gap bike between the FZR1000 and the R1. In fact I think the first R1's had the same engine? Might be wrong on that one. Still, it was and still is today an awesome bike.
You've done a great job, as for the downshift try blipping the throttle on the downshift. It's something I do and it works bloody well. Great video.
Well done Rye. Only use E5 or less in the bike. E10 will screw it up. It’s hydroscopic due to the ethanol. It will degrade the rubber in the carbs/lines etc, and make things rust!
Absolutely.... anything after 2002 can use E10 etc without concern (though it degrades quickly, so maybe not in anything that will be laid up for more than a few months); 1992 - 2002 "some" can use E10, anything prior to that you should definitely stick to E5 or less (PS the word is actually 'hygroscopic'...... another couple of words are 'pedantic' and 'bastard', which can always be applied to me! :D)
@@WoBlink1961 I was fairly inebriated when I wrote my comment, to be fair.
Absolute quality... You've done a cracking job with the bike and especially taking it around to see your dad... Good job mate 👍🏻
I think bikes, and probably engines in general, are known for getting better as they get warmer. Too warm is not good though.
Teflon tape works wonders for sealing air leaks on couplings for air compressors and more. Great vid and job well done! Amazing Job!
Well done Ryan, now go out an enjoy it, I can start driving again on 1st August so I'll be getting mine out 🙂
Thanks mate!! Yes riding it as much as I can 😎
i'll join you both, if you'll have me that is 😁
Congratulations! You should be right proud.
i drive a ace haha stil my first bike though can’t sell it and drive a newer r1 this is just u and the machine no abs or that kind of help just pure raw emotion
greetings from the netherlands
Marvellous video...great to see the old man on his old bike.
Good video mate keep up the hard work.
Thanks, will do!
Well done that man, and well done for listing the faults
That spare key scratching your top triple clamp. Great to see the thunderace
Well done on getting it back on the road. Maybe in 30 years time one of my kids will bring my current bike around to me all clean and tidy. (unlikely)
The thunderace was more or less the old FZR1000 with a new set of clothes. Always seemed like a stop gap model while Yamahe finished off the R1. Still got plenty of go though. But yes, more touring than sports. As others have said ptfe tape on your airline fittings.
It was a stop-gap model that Yamaha released while they were developing their new flagship bike. I don't think it was supposed to live so long, but it seemed to become popular.
great job shame you didn't have a picture of your Dad on it back in the day. 👍👍👍
Fantastic effort getting your dads bike back on the road for him.
a YZF 750 six speed gear cluster will fit straight in
Good on you mate, brings back memories of my old 'Ace, loved that thing!
Awesome Rye, well done!
The YZF1000 Thunderace was a mild upgrade but visual restyle of the previous FZR1000 Exup RU which I had for 4 years. Same 5V motor same power. Has a test ride on the Thunderace and felt the same. Good bikes serious power at that time and good handling and stability no need for a steering damper. Things moved on at a track day at Knockhill Circuit, Scotland got a 10 lap session on a Honda CBR 900 Fireblade. Felt less power but much lighter and more agile but matched my best times. Well done with the Thunderace rebuild enjoyed your video
Geez, it sounds like the cam chain is loose on that bike. Might just be the audio from the camera. The rust in the tank, I used white vinagar (tesco about 20p a bottle) then dried the tank with a hairdryer. After sloshed some acertone in the tank. Next, I put a cup of 2stroke oil in the tank and then filled my tank up. It's been great for over 6 months, just have to make sure I fill up on my way home from a ride to limit the rust coming back. Good luck, it was a absolute pain in the assssss😅
They call it the yamaha tick,.
Plumbers white ptfe tape when you wrap over the thread wrap it clockwise over the thread
Congratulations on getting that Ace looking so good and moving into the workshop.
Halcyon days, riding your old man’s bike, I’m so happy for you, and appreciate your craft🎉.
Very underrated bike I owned one back in the day fanatics took and the brakes are better than what are on my ktm1290
That bike has aged so well. Still looks so good
You should definitely fix tank rust issues. As it'll slowly but surely destroy the fuel pump and other parts. I was putting this job off on my GSXR for a couple of years and the end result was a failed fuel pump which cost a fortune new from Suzuki.
None of the aftermarket solutions worked, they all failed to deliver enough fuel.
I used a Por15 kit to seal the tank.
It worked magic. My tank looks new basically. I also got it painted on the outside by a professional but only after I finished sealing it.
Got a new factory fuel pump unit.
And now all the power is back😊
Old school is cool. I would say that having owned a 92 Gixxer since 92.
Lovely story! Great paintjob too
I've owned an 'Ace since new in 1999 when I was in my 20s (it's now relegated to old man semi-retired status as I replaced it with an MT10.) A bit of history... Yamaha's flagship sports bike in the mid 90s was the ageing FZR1000 EXUP. The Honda Fireblade changed the game for litre class sports bikes (smaller size and lower weight) and whilst Yamaha was developing the YZF-R1, as a stop gap, they updated the FZR with the sportier swingarm from the YZF-750, went to semi-ecu controlled ignition with EXUP value (speed, load/gear and rpm sensor based), uprated the suspension, gave it a new "posh frock" fairing and styling and called it the YZF1000R Thunderace. It was their halo model sports bike at the time (for 2 years) to try and compete with the Fireblade and Kwaka ZX9R (which IMO it did well and was a litle bit better than both). The R1 changed the game again, and the rest is history... It got reclassified at this point as a Sports Tourer, which it did fairly well as for a few years. I did about 54k on mine, doing track days (both in the UK and at the Nurburgring), rode the TT course and did 40 or 50 euro trips to the Alps/Black Forrest and places like that. It's still a great bike, if a little dated.. ;) (and the riding position isn't very good to small, older men, which I have now become (MT10 is a worthy replacement for old men who are still hooligans at heart... :D )... ;) )
Well done saving it 👍🏻
Sounds amazing. Less aggressive than mine, as the wool is my exhaust is burned away so she sounds violently angry.
Great video and well done. Dad is gonna borrow that often methinks....
oxalic acid for rust removal In a petrol tank is by far the best. I've tried other acids such as sulphuric,hydrochloric and commercial products. The inside of the tank looked like new, and needed to be done outside l found out when I opened the garage door l was met with tools with a light layer of rust on presumably from the fumes,bit of a shock to be honest, but the tank was spotless, it came off an old triumph trophy and was heavily rusted.
I'm surprised your dad didn't nick your leathers & helmet & go for a blast on it lol, looks great though & if I were you I wouldn't part with it as I feel it needs to stay in the family. I had the FZR Exup which had pretty much the same engine & I totally agree about the 5 speed gearbox a 6 would have made it a totally different animal.
As for the airline PTFE tape will cure the leaks.
Marvelous!
bike sure are actually good i was paying 1600 for a 125 and now i pay 550 full comp
Brilliant work well done
Still got mine from brand new in 1996 - £9050 at that time doesn't look like bike prices have gone up with inflation! However although it's been neglected and left in the garage at some stages I'm using it again now and what engine doesn't do is rattle like this one seems to
Tip on the tank, use a solution of citric acid, just food grade, give it 48 hours at room temperature, and use a heat gun in the filler to dry it afterwards, and you’ll nail your problem. Wouldn’t bother lining it unless it’s leaking, just a quick spray of WD40, fill and use, it’ll look after itself after that.
Very competent and underrated bikes. As a result they go for silly cheap prices. I’ve got one sitting at home but having trouble finding the time to fix it 😔
Well done! Priceless!❤
Would be great to see your dad having a blast , be like meeting an old friend. 😀
Love it . I've just put my 91 yam tdm back on the road ready for summer riding
Wot a great video and bike. Top job. Nice to see ya dad. Ptfe tape does the job for air leaks. Cheers.
Yeah PTFE plumbing tape from Screwfix and Toolstation.
Rye, you bloody legend!!!
Hardly
@@ziondanny7081it’s a metaphor.
Nice one,, look after it and enjoy.
Chase out the water with methylated spirits - then empty a can of WD40 into the tank - before use give a swill with a gallon of petrol ( keep it for the lawn mower) and you’re ready to go
So, you going to give it back to your dad. So you can go for a father and son ride 👍🏼
That made me think; what does his dad ride now, if he still rides?
You did I great job,I wish my dad could ride my fzr dat I bought back to life but sad it can not.Love the way you’re dad looks at the bike and bring back memories.
well done!!
Fantastic channel 😊
Absolutely priceless mate...........
What a personal journey for you bro 👌🏻 you need to record your dad riding it or at least taking off on it or even reverse the roles of 25 years ago you now ride it with your old cheese on the back 👌🏻👌🏻
What a journey
PTFE plumbers tape on your fitting threads and re tighten, will sort your air leak problem.
Amazing paint job
mk2 astra gte came out in 84 so A B reg
Soak the inside of the petrol tank with 20 percent strength vinegar, let it soak till rust has gone, maybe 24 hours or longer depends how bad it is. Then fill the tank with a mixture of baking soda and water to neautralise the acid from the vinegar. Then dry the inside of the tank. Get a tank liner chemical make sure it is ethanol proof.
Many radiator shops will clean your tank of rust and coat it for you at a decent price. At least over here in the US. Great job though, you completely transformed that bike!
You will have lost a bit of midrange torque getting rid of the EXUP Valve. Wonderful invention. The Bike I'm sure would ride even better with it on. The Five speed Gearbox suited the EXUP valve setup perfectly due to to Torque changing with the revs.
Keep going mate, I stumbled across a little fan group of yours on Facebook who didn’t seem to have anything positive to say… 🙄
They’re probably jealous you’re making a go of something they wouldn’t have the nuts to do 😂
I had a Y reg in blue and black. I have memories of riding it very very fast from kent to west london daily for about 5 years. Sledge hammer bike.
Good vid. Shame you missed a few items for MOT
You have made such a great job of this, well done! It looks great.👍👍👍👍
Great video, your dads cool. Good job with the bike.