Rocket ride from hell

Idaho Red Rocket 3 said:

Welcome. Sorry your fun day went south. I have been doing the Test-Tune days with my Rocket for the last 5 years. It is quite a lot of fun for sure. Even to the point where I am building my Rocket with cams, valve pistons, springs, base tune, et al from Neville Lush Racing along with up-graded clutch and springs, cylinder head porting, Viking 1.75 inch Dual Exhaust made by Paul Bryant, and RamAir intake. Neville and Paul are both on this forum and you can do no better than their products. With their products I am expecting to get something just over 200 HP and 180 TQ out of it. The work has been slow as my job robs me of most of me time. But pays quite well as it was a gift from God.

Post up what you need for your repairs/rebuild. Many of us have lots of extra part stashed away and we might just have what you need.

Of course expect a ton of free advice.

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Idaho Red Rocket 3 said:

Welcome. Sorry your fun day went south. I have been doing the Test-Tune days with my Rocket for the last 5 years. It is quite a lot of fun for sure. Even to the point where I am building my Rocket with cams, valve pistons, springs, base tune, et al from Neville Lush Racing along with up-graded clutch and springs, cylinder head porting, Viking 1.75 inch Dual Exhaust made by Paul Bryant, and RamAir intake. Neville and Paul are both on this forum and you can do no better than their products. With their products I am expecting to get something just over 200 HP and 180 TQ out of it. The work has been slow as my job robs me of most of me time. But pays quite well as it was a gift from God.

Post up what you need for your repairs/rebuild. Many of us have lots of extra part stashed away and we might just have what you need.

Of course expect a ton of free advice.

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Lemieuxfan said:

lifting the tank is a mess of cable management then plenum takes up a ton of room best to leave it to the dealership unless you really know what you are doing. I was never sold on the RamAir still believe it brings in moisture through the intake but there are many here who have run them without problems issues/unintended consequences

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Kevin frazier said:

glad youre ok for the most part. the hose that busted was it original, and how long since last coolant and thermostat change. Great for learning and maybe keeping this from ever happening again because you are correct, they go fast quickly for sure and we all ride rockets and this may make us all go check stuff, look into samco hoses or oem and get back after it

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Kevin frazier said:

The dealer? i thought they did your cam cover gasket 3 times in 1.5 years, is the job we did leaking?

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Lemieuxfan said:

lifting the tank is a mess of cable management then plenum takes up a ton of room best to leave it to the dealership unless you really know what you are doing. I was never sold on the RamAir still believe it brings in moisture through the intake but there are many here who have run them without problems issues/unintended consequences

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Lemieuxfan said:

so far no leak i had them check it out the routing under the tank i.e ratnest there was some some minor re-routing (and they knew where that left over item went )but the gasket is holding kevin. (your method appears good to go with the gasket) I replaced the battery recently which has more cca than regular underpowered OEM battery. Starts right up with no issues knock on wood. The gasket is a known issue with this bike w/tractor motor i believe those of us who live in the hot and humid south will show this issue more than those up north.

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