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i am eager to know what part of it blowed up. I am not to sure about that but i was reving it and it just started making a grinding sound then a knock and seized up so i thought any way it turns out that the bike got fire hot the stupid gauge was showing half way but really it must have been hot ca...

ok that was simple enough thanks alot

hey any one know where i can get a new motor for my motorcycle?? i think i blew up mine, it is a 84 honda shadow vt500c... i need a new one!!!!
let me know
thanks

four stroke ok, but how do you know this,what makes it a four or two i am confused a little, never had a bike or anything like that before???

:laughing: yeah, i checked the oil, i know it needs a change, and i am doing that in a couple of days, but it has plenty of oil, as far as that goes, i think i got the over heating problem, i cleaned out the radiator, it had lots of rocks and dirt in it, and now it hasn't gotten hot so far. thanks t...

sounds like a good idea to me, for some reason it got pretty hot today without getting into it?? I dont know what is up with that?? anyways thanks for the info

I have a 84 honda vt 500c custom

ok, i checked the ingnition switch all was good there, well, i feel kind of stupid :laughing: , it was a fuse, i checked it, but it looked perfect, like new, well i decided after tring several other things to go back to it, and change it anyway, and well it worked. but now i have another problem, an...

no I have not checked the ignition switch I really didnt know were to start ya know I was thinking maybe some type of relay but im really not sure ill check out the ignition switch preciate the info

hey i just bought a 84 honda 500, and the headlight would burn when i got it, but two days after i got it, it quit burning. all other lights on it burn fine, but the headlight. i bought a new bulb thinking maybe it burned out, but that didn't work either. before i bought my battery, i was jumping it...