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Welcome to the circus. You’re in the right place to keep her on the road. The water pump or thermostat is usually the overheat issue but also check the bypass at the bottom of the radiator to make sure it’s turned in the right direction.

Currently waiting on new battery, the battery of course is shot and only got it started for less than a minute to make sure it turned over which it did no problem, for now checking and cleaning what I can on her. Thank you all for the advice.

Sounds like a steal. I agree with Dawson, only a few fairly easy things it might be. When it gets hot, does the fan kick on? They tend to run close to the red mark naturally.

The second is a more modern desire. Watched the pic "Quigley Down Under" I loved that rifle. Had to have one. On a local gun board a few years ago one came up for sale. I ended up dickering... hey gotta dicker... and ended up paying the price but getting about $400 bucks worth of reloading equipment with it.. I was a happy camper. The Quigley gun is supposedly a Sharps 1874, and there is a Sharps Firearms Co. that exists today, but not the same, and you need big bucks to buy one. The Quigley was probably built by them... Actually there were several. One even had an aluminum bbl. You'd know the reason if you ever tried to shot a steel 34" barreled gun weighing 14 lbs. His was also chambered in 45-110. Mine is the more common 45-70 government. And mine came from Pedersoli who makes a lot of quality pistols and rifles. Also an 1874 copy. So that's my story, and those two out of 70+ in my collection are the stand outs....

Enjoy that new ride and ride safe Steve

Not that I ever recall hearing anything like that, which may be clutch related, I doubt it has anything to do with the wire. I would be more inclined to think it is the lash between the clutch disk fingers and the the splines in the clutch hub and basket or maybe some gear lash in the transmission. To know better I would have to hear it though. its even possible to be coming from the drive line if it has a worn u-joint which again I doubt or excessive gear lash between ring gear and pinion. Finally it may be nothing at all just normal drive-line behavior. .

Contact me before you go, I am trying to work it out so that I can go too. I'm supposed to be moving my daughter in a dorm in Huntsville that Saturday but trying to get it moved to Sunday. If it works out we can ride down together if you're interested.

Last Days Motorcycle Ministry is hosting Sam Childers, aka, the Machine Gun Preacher July 10 and 11 in Shelbyville, KY. We just got it confirmed.. This should be a great event. We have a ride planned thru some beautiful KY countryside. Sam will ride with us on Saturday and share a message with us on Sunday. I will share the flyer or link HERE SOON.

Glad your back. I think we all understand that 2 wheel draw on the spirit..and sounds like God has Blessed for a reason. Prayers you wear your leather when you talk to that sister and prayers for the other. I'm up in Shelby Co.

I think he is saying that it is fresh dinosaur fat.

Or which tires 🙄 some things you’re better off not asking

I guess I also fall into the same boat as there can not be just one. II had a colt Anaconda for a couple of years, I could never get it to shoot a decent group with either hand loads or any factory ammo, I sold it to get a Desert Eagle 50AE. I loved that lil .50 cal, It put a lot of deer in the freezer and helped me sleep at night when wilderness camping in bear and wolf country. It was also my carry gun when hiking those same wo0ds.It was also a lot of fun at bowling pin shoots. For shotgunning both competition and hunting, it is my very modified Rem 1187. For rifles my first was a Rem 742 in 30-06. I shortened the barrel to make it more like a carbine and calibrated the gas system so that it would cycle correctly. That gun finally wore out the bore (wore out meant group size opened to 1.5 inch) at around 5000 rounds. The guy I sold it to said it was the most accurate gun he ever had. Now my go to rifle is a Rem 700 stainless in 7mm MAG.

I never had the .44 mag but did have a .444. That was a heck of a brush buster.

Easy choice for me. Marlin 1894 .44mag. Dad bought one new in ‘75 or 76 to deer hunt with. We hunted deep woods where a 75 yard shot was hard to do so we didn’t need high speed guns. I took my first few deer with that gun and bought its twin right after high school. I can’t even estimate the number of deer I’ve taken with it. It’s just automatic that I reach for it the 2nd Saturday in November, I go back 35-40 years when it goes bang. There’s a safe full of different rifles and calibers but the first day of season is reserved for the 44. One of my brothers has dad’s rifle, we don’t hunt together often but it sure is fun to sit in a tree and hear that distinctive boom on a frosty morning.

When I was in high school in NE Texas, I worked for a store named Gibson's Discount Center. I worked in sporting goods and sold a lot of guns. I think I was a junior or senior when I bought my grandfather a brand new 552 Speedmaster for his birthday. He loved that gun. Hoped I would get it when he passed away but have no idea what became of it.

My favorite is my Remington 552 Speedmaster .22 semi-automatic. I was 17 when I bought it in 1961 by working in a grocery store on Fridays after school for $3 and 13 hrs on Saturdays for $7. The local hardware store let me buy it for $56 and pay $3/week on the bill until it was paid for with no interest. It would fire shorts, longs, or long rifle cartridges as fast as I could pull the trigger never jamming. I still have it. When I was working in FL, I bought a Sig Sauer AR15 from the Homestead, FL Walmart. I used a M14 and then a M16 in the Army and that M16 really impressed me. My Sig Sauer P226 9mm is the best of the best in handguns in my opinion, single/double action with a hammer. I just don't like the accident prone Glocks with no visible hammer that are constantly cocked. And for a small pocket handgun, my Ruger LCP .380 is very impressive and very reliable. And I bought a used Remington 1100 12 gauge semi-auto for home protection back about 2008. It's time to go to the range and exercise them.

I always wanted a Python too....for probably 35 years now....Too pricey, and now that I don't shoot very much, I doubt I'll ever get one.

Last but not least, the one gun I have never owned but have always wanted to. The Colt Python. I had a nickel Trooper MK III but have never owned the Python. I still hope to one of these days. Even better would be the Anaconda in .44 Mag but they are no longer made and used ones are out of my range. The Python is being produced again though and I plan to have one at some point. I do have a Ruger Match Grade GP100 but it doesn't do it for me nearly as much as the Python.

For concealed carry, I don't have a picture handy but I would say it's my SIG P365. Small, high capacity, easy to conceal.

For home defense, I have a couple. My old Stevens Model 311 Double 12 gauge suffices for a shotgun though I would like to add a nice pump. For handgun, I have several but may favorite is the Kimber .45 with the crimson trace.

For handgun hunting, my favorite was the Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 mag. Mine had buffalo grips and I had a holster very similar to the same one that I have for the .22. I don't remember but I think it had the 6" barrel which was fine for my use. No pictures of it. Met the same fate as the International and the first Single Six.

Rifle was fairly easy for me. Though there are a couple others that I really liked, the International stands out as may favorite. Handguns? That's a different story. I have different favorites for different uses. I guess that may all time favorite for plinking is the Ruger Single Six with the interchangeable .22/.22 mag cylinders. I had one years ago that met the same fate as my International. I finally replaced it a few years ago. My original was blued but the new one is stainless. I love it for plinking. Cheap, accurate and just a lot of fun.

For a handgun it'd be my SIG 226. Smooth, reliable and they just seem to go where ya want 'em to. For a rifle, I've always thought the old Winchester '94 (30-30) was the one all-purpose rifle I'd want to have around. I have one of the old ones that my Dad left to me and I was thinking I'd donate it to the tiny history center (and hot dog shop) that sits right next to the hardware store where dad originally bought it in '39, when he was 17. That old rifle's taken a lot of deer. I have another one that I bought when I was 17, but not nearly the same value...but I still love it. The one I bought's taken more than a few deer as well. (Don't hunt anymore)

There are several that I could choose but for a rifle, it had to be the Ruger International chambered in .308. I've always loved the .308 caliber and absolutely loved the looks of the International. It was also a compact gun which made it easy to handle in the East Texas brush where I usually hunted. Went through a divorce in the early 90s and by the time I got everything ironed out and went back to get my gun collection, the ex-wife and sold them all. I never replaced it and though no longer made, you can find them on the used market. The fact is though, I don't deer hunter any more and have no use for it except nostalgia and will likely never buy another one. This is the gun but not the one that I had. I have no pictures of them from that time. Mine had a 2 x 7 compact Leopold on it as well as a sling and for me, was the perfect all around combination.

Marlin Model 336, 30-30. It's not like I just decided to get one and it was everything I wanted it to be. I literally grew into this rifle. It's the first large bore stick I ever shot. It's the first rifle I ever took a white tail with. It was my Grail from the beginning of my shooting life. I'd give it up in an instant to get the man back who bequeathed it to me.

This is a easy one for me, Remington 3006 BDL I have had it for 38 years. And was a few years old when I got it at the K and L sporting good store here in Viroqua. Can still see it there with all of the other guns and it just stood out and seemed to be calling out to me. Had the owner hand it to me and I put it up to my shoulder and it was the one. It fit me like it had been made just for me, It did need just a little work on the trigger pull. After that was done I am not sure you have to pull the trigger you just think it. I have put alot of deer meat in the freezer and helped get rid of some coyotes. And it has found its next one to give some great hunting memories to my daughter Hana, And she got her best buck so far last year with it.

Paul I have had really good results staying with Dino for my 1st Gens, probably so because I prefer to change my oil as it discolors and/or the shifting gets notchy. For over 1 million miles I ran Walmart Supertech 10/40 in cooler climates and 20/50 in desert regions. One of the things often overlooked on Unit motorcycles (bikes whose clutch is bathed in the same oil that lubes the engine) is the contamination that takes place as clutches wear and tear and trannies shear the oil. My Hybrid car LOVES 0/20 full synthetic with a 10,000 mile oil change and the oil after all those miles, even after chasing triple digits across the desert comes out amazingly full bodied and clean but where the bike would show dirtied in just a couple thousand miles under the same conditions.. When Walmart stopped shelving Supertech a while back I switched over to Family Dollar dino and had the same results. Be reminded to stay far away from ANY "energy conserving" oils,, your clutch wont like you should you get into that stuff..