superhawk996

Better chance it'll be around for a while. I rarely click on the section I want to search, unless there are too many hits on my search words and I want to narrow it down. Some people start by clicking the section, then start searching, and miss out on misclassified deals. CL recently started charging for car ads so I see several cars in parts or other sections where it's still free. I don't think they're doing it with bikes, but maybe.

On cars the first failure point is usually the upper hose right where it connects to the engine, heat and other factors combine to degrade the hose right at the end of the nipple. I assume it should be the same on bikes, but there's lots of shit that can attack a hose, plus the possibility of a manufacturing defect. Electrical issues can fuck with hoses quite a bit. The most extreme I've seen was an air hose on a semi that caught fire because of a bad engine ground, but minor electrical issues will just attack them more subtly.

Beginning of the end....'till he finds out that the new one has different seals that are no longer compatible with the old fluid and nobody in the store knows which one it needs. 😎 Collapse of the dollar....or the fact that parts cost more due to general inflation plus tariffs, and labor prices have gone up, and the supply of usable cores diminishes every day. My local rebuilder has a huge stock of stuff, but for some older parts they're running out of rebuildable cores. He also said that the tariffs have had a noticeable impact on them.

Finding them on CL is a hassle. cbr1100xx is different than Cbr 1100 xx. Then there's blackbird, or black bird, the second will bring up a bunch of other shit. There's been a few times I found one, then couldn't find it again because I forgot what I'd used for a search term. It appears to be at the far end of Orange County, but still much closer to me than the other one was which is a bonus. It's a big bonus that he's had it for the vast majority of its life. And if you don't want the luggage I might be interested.

Hmm, look at that shit: https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/mpo/d/orange-1999-honda-cbr1100xx-blackbird/7054960243.html

I banged a Scorpio for a long while off & on, she was fun, but you fuckers are nuts.

Yup. It shouldn't even have started, then should have been over quickly. Carlos' prediction may well play out. Mike, I call for parts all the damn time whether for new stuff or warrantee replacements. Going there just to get an answer is fucking retarded dude. You're going to have to take in the failed part or pay for the new one to leave with it, then return the failed one to get your money back. And if they don't have the shocks you want when you go there you'll have to go back once they get them, VS calling and verifying stock and ordering them if they don't have them. What's the vehicle and which shocks are you looking to put on it?

Dammit. I was hoping nobody else would notice. I'll turn in my man card....if I can find it.

Other than batteries I have never seen that with an auto parts store, and I buy a fair bit of stuff. Some OEMs do it, the popular explanation is that they want to keep their parts out of circulation, but I don't know the actual reason.

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Same on my 99. And I noticed it on the way to work one morning. I pulled the tank at work and we rigged the shit out of it to get it to hold until I got home. The crazy thing is the one on the drag bike, which has been pulled far, far more times and was cut to feed the wet nitrous system has never leaked. I wonder if Honda was trying to compete with Suzuki after learning about the Hyabusa fires. Interesting that both were early FI bikes, anyone know if that hose was changed on later bikes?

That would be insane.

Do you remember which hoses failed on the bikes and what the failures were?

Thanks for the detailed report. Your guess of stressing it makes sense. It coulda failed without that but from recollection they don't have any strain relief.

Which hoses and did they actually fail or were you just afraid they would? If they did fail what was the failure?

If the receipt shows a core charge or you had to give them the old one it was most likely a rebuild.

It's already begun. I thought it would be impossible for something so simple to become complicated. I wonder what kind of fluid the new part will require.

As far as new vs. reman parts, the reman is often better unless it's a new OEM part. Both were probably assembled by monkeys, both probably have Chinese seals, but at least the reman has OEM hard parts where the new one is likely Chinesium. Something like a steering rack is questionable since the insides of the casting could have some wear, but at least it's a high quality casting. I use a local rebuilder for a lot of parts, they also sell new Chinese stuff. The only thing I've asked them about as far as new vs. reman is CV axle assemblies. He said they're so shitty that they can't be rebuilt where as OEMs can, and he's had a couple new ones come back exploded which never happens with OE unless seriously abused. Chinese tools have definitely taken a leap towards quality lately, often being as good or better than 'high end' stuff, if that extends to other manufacturing we might see better parts. The prices will go up too of course, just as they have with tools.

Your receipt or their system will tell which one you got and you'll get the same one as the replacement. Do you really think that you'll get something other than what you bought?!? As for the part number, I can't imagine there is any fucking way that they both have the same number. If they did I can't imagine how in the hell would they be able to distinguish between the $200 part and the $600 part.

Another post lead me to wonder. It seems like the hoses last forever on bikes and would like to know if you've ever had one fail. Fuel, coolant, vacuum, whatever.

The FPR is a reference type and relies on the vacuum signal for proper pressure and vacuum hose is cheap. That said, I'd put vacuum hoses on the gateway slippery slope list; why not replace all the coolant hoses, and plug wires, and fuel pump, and the million other more important parts that can actually stop the bike? They last 'forever' and are better quality than what you'll get at Auto Zone. Hoses are effected by time, but not that much. Heat does more to them and with 8k miles they haven't been worked hard. The bike I replaced the FPR on had over 50k and sat a long time before I got it. The FPR diaphragm had failed sending gas though the vacuum hose for an unknown amount of time, years later it's still fine. Nothing against changing it, but I wouldn't consider it something that it needs. But the thought leads me to wonder if anyone has had a hose failure on a Bird, or other bike, it seems to be quite rare.

85-ish miles. If you think it's a good bike I'm not opposed to going down there and raping inspecting it for you. I would want direct contact info for the seller to schedule it so it all goes smoothly. You don't know me, but I do lots of pre-purchase inspections as part of my job. As with anything there is no way to guarantee that something's perfect, but I weed out a lot of stuff people miss so I feel pretty confident in saying that if it passes my inspection it's good. I haven't had a single one that went wrong, and I weed out the majority of the crappy deals just from a phone conversation.

The FPR on any car or bike can fail at any time. I have enough experience with them and other rubber fuel system parts to say that sitting, no matter the fuel, can be worse than regular use. The one on my '01Bird shit out very quickly after it sat for an unknown amount of time under the PO's ownership. The one in my Porsche also failed very quickly after a long sit before I bought it, and I'm pretty sure it had non-E gas. I'm not a fan of suggesting unwarranted replacements of stuff and if it were just going to be put into local commuter service I'd say let it go, but in your case I vote for replacement.

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Or 5 hours depending on the time of day....fucking So. Cal. traffic. But still a possibility. Hour & a half south, guessing San Diego-ish?