I’ve recently acquired a VF1000 F2 even though the side of it says F11. I don’t have many plans for it at the moment. I have a few ideas but thats the limit of the future of the bike. I want to restore it to a point where it looks really nice, so clean and new paint on almost everything, and rides in a way that I can trust it to almost always work. I’ll post some photos tomorrow when it is in the day light but right now it has all the front plastic removed and rads and I’m on my way to remove the engine for a teardown, inspection and then rebuild with painted parts. The main reason for the rebuild is because I don’t trust that when the Starter Reduction Gear blew up, which I found out after I got the bike home, that there isn’t any metal left in the engine and the paint is also pretty bad. I have a few questions at the moment but my main one is can I use a 1985 VF700 Stater Reduction gear as a replacement because I can’t seem to find one for the 1000cc?
That damage looks like a miss match of splines.
Check that the previous owner hasn’t fitted a vfr750 starter,they fit but have a different number of splines to the vf.
I will have the correct gear in the store,pm me for details
Regards Bif
So the VF700 has 81 teeth on the large side and 21 on the small side and the VF1000 that has missing teeth has 83 teeth on the large side and 20 on the small side. That is a ratio of 27 : 7 for the 700 and 83 : 20 for the 1000 obviously. This would spin the 1000 faster so do you think it would hurt anything, I only ask because I can’t seem to find any parts online for the 1000. Also I’d need a starter as its damaged as well but not as badly.
Update to all of this, I’ve done some digging and I’ve found that it is likely possible that if I get a VFR starter and then a VFR Reduction gear it might be a good fit for a replacement as the VFR gears are redly available.
So I managed to find the parts from that company Bif listed, Thanks @bif . However now I am hoping for a little help on something else if I can, I was looking at getting new oil cooler lines however I can not find any so the idea is to get them remade but my question is for the same price should I just get a Earl’s VTR 1000 Oil Kit? would it fit even though the mounting only have one screw but the VF’s have two holding them to the sump? Could I then make a little part that sits over the line and uses the blank hole that would be?
Also update on my VF Resto, Bike parts have returned from the machine shop but I have to send out my crank case for a stripped thread for a main journal bolt, then it’s off to get painted. Will update with photos later. Have a large CMSNL order coming in with new cams because the old ones either have pitting or are worn. Now up to rebuilding the carbs and waiting for paint to then put it back together finally after so long. Also I need to ask if anyone has had good luck with an oil mod for the heads? I’ve seen the chats here and have bought one but I’m just not sure.
