Hi everyone, this is my first post so here is a small introduction.
First let me apologize for my English even tough i can understand ok, my writing isn´t the best.
After riding a Honda Hornet for 15 years i had a major crash and almost took a miracle for me to survive and be able to walk again. After 2 years of fisiotherapy I was finaly able to put my leg over a bike seat and in that very same week decided to buy another bike: my beloved 97 4tx2. At the time had about 36k km on the clock.
The bike is in fair state at best, i suspect i has been abandoned for quite some time. But as in Portugal rust is not a problem and the reputation for reliabilty for the TDM is high i decided to take the risk,
since January I covered over 7k km, and only haven´t covered more due to the lockdowns. My biggest journey was a 3 day touring event: Portugal Lés a Lés where i clocked about 2000km and 2.5l of oil! I know the reputation for oil consumption, but is this too much? Other than oil consumption it has been trouble free.
As this bike needs a little bit of tlc whenever i have the time i try to tinker with it, even tough im not very mechanically inclined.
The next job will be fix the lightning in the instrument cluster, it has 1 or 2 lights not working making it dificult to read the km´s from the parcial counter for gas management, i don´t like using the reserve has the tank could do with a cleaning.
I saw in a couple of places contradicting information regarding the bulbs t5, t10, 12V 1.7W, 12V 3.4W. Does anyone know which type of bulbs should i buy to replace the busted light(s) preferably LED´s .
I woundn´t want to disassemble part of the bike just to find out i don´t have the right bulbs and need to wait for a replacement.
Cheers
Edited by srmoutinho, 21 October 2020 - 05:17 pm.