{"id":77790,"date":"2010-03-12T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T08:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=77790"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:17","slug":"z1000mk2-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20100312\/everyday-events\/z1000mk2-inspection","title":{"rendered":"Z1000 MK2 Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61027003_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61027003_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_61027003_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Whether you push, pull, grip, or open it, everything is heavy.<br \/>\nEverything is stiff.<br \/>\nSince I wasn&#8217;t really asked to do a full job, I&#8217;m just checking the dangerous spots and leaving the rest alone.<br \/>\nSomeone put grease on the throttle sleeve, so&#8230; ugh.<br \/>\nThe clutch is mushy and heavy too.<br \/>\nI cleaned out the release, oiled the cable, and adjusted the routing.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;ll get lighter, but it&#8217;s too early to go all the way, so I&#8217;m keeping it basic and buttoning it up.<br \/>\nThe steering really should be taken apart once too.<br \/>\nSince they&#8217;re heading out this weekend, I just did an adjustment for now.<br \/>\nI also made sure the master cylinder tank won&#8217;t slip out.<br \/>\nThe rear brass collar is custom-made.<br \/>\nThe lights work too.<br \/>\n\u3000<br \/>\nAnd various other bits and pieces.<br \/>\nI took it for a test ride after a long time.<br \/>\nThe constant-vacuum carburettor really is nice.<br \/>\nAnd the front end is bent, huh.<br \/>\nYum yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Whether you push, pull, grip, or open it, everything is heavy. Everything is stiff. Since I wasn&#8217;t really asked to do a full job, I&#8217;m just checking the dangerous spots and leaving the rest alone. Someone put grease on the throttle sleeve, so&#8230; ugh. The clutch is mushy and heavy too. I cleaned out the release, oiled the cable, and adjusted the routing. It&#8217;ll get lighter, but it&#8217;s too early to go all the way, so I&#8217;m keeping it basic and buttoning it up. The steering really should be taken apart once too. Since they&#8217;re heading out this weekend, I just did an adjustment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,115],"class_list":["post-77790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-z-aircooled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}