Thank You DON

[Wizard765]

Well this is a great place to hang out and folks like Don (XV100SE). He volunteered to help me with some stuff I wanted to do on the New to me MM RSV.. So I went to his house one evening and we adjusted the steering head bearing.. wow it handles so much better now. We also were able to install the new light bar from M61A1MECH which by the way is a great peace of work and easy to install.. basically plug and play.. even better if it's not two I.T. guys attempting this.. :-) The headlight aim was also taken care of so I'm not seeing the tops of the trees any more.. all in all a very productive evening.

Anyhow THEN he volunteered to come to my house and do some more work.. My hwy lights were not working properly and sometimes when they did work they only worked when my headlight was on low beam. I wanted them to work all the time and be able to turn them off with the button as well as have them go off with the key. I also wanted to install my buddy rich cable and my Zumo..

So we started around 1:00 and found a bunch of wires that should not have been there. Apparently the PO had an alarm system at some point so we left that for awhile and ran new wires for everything with relays etc. The hwy lights were wired directly to something under the cowl and no relay so I'm guessing all the power was going through the ignition switch.

Don left around 5:30 and pretty much everything was working as it should be. I just had to clean up the wires and stuff from the old alarm system and then put the bike together. I'm really getting to know this thing well.

 

Anyhow all this is to say a BIG Thank you to Don and everyone else that is on this site that is willing to help or go the extra bit for otheres.. It is very much appreciated and I'm guessing it is MOST of the members here..

 

Wayne

[XV1100SE]

Glad I was able to help. Paying it forward/back for all the things you and others on this forum have done for me.

 

If we had an audience they would have been laughing...how many times did you and I discuss something and even though we were saying it differently...meant the same thing. Yeah... two IT guys !

 

Sorry we ran out of time before you had to leave. I didn't like leaving and having your bike not fully back together. (fairing off, tank off, seats off, light bar hanging.....)

 

Is the BuddyRich/Zumo working ?

 

When you get the passing light spacer, come over and we'll make sure everything is aimed properly. Bring Robin over and we can go for a ride/ice cream.