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lol,,, just responded to ur other thread bother.. probably typing there while u were here..

typing one finger so hope u can read this brother. those hose connector brass tubes are just pressed into the petcock. if you remove the fitting from the hose, slide it back into the petcock. push it in as far as u can with your finger. now take a dowel of hardwood or even the handle of a screwdriver and place it firmley and squarely against the face of the nipple. tap on the dowel and keep tapping till the nipple stops dead in the petcock. its a very common occurence neil, should be just fine after you drive it back in place. love ya bother,,, puc ps - tip sends her love too

OUTSTANDING STAN!!!:thumbsup: Cant wait to see the light show sometime this summer!! By the way,, DONT YA JUST LOVE WHEN THAT ALL HAPPENS LIKE THAT (meaning timing for the thread) - these lop eared gearheaded, always willing to share info VR varmints are amazing!!:thumbsup:

!! Another lop eared VentureRider.org hero varmint friends of ours DanL'!!:clap2::clap2:

@Eck, Got it my friend - left you a message in the other thread.. THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH ECK - YOU DA MAN BROTHER!! your brilliant suggestion works for our new friend Sam!!

@Eck Just called and relayed your message to Sam, Eckster,, he is on his way out into their garage to give it a shot!! I read the whole message to him and when I got to the end where you said "wish I was there to help" Sam said "bless his heart"!!! I REALLY hope this works - that Sam sounds like our kind of people!! Thanks Eckster and Thanks All!! @Luvdaleather,, hope your catching all this,,, these guys are AWESOME!!

Here is a link to the thread I started over in the Gold Wing Tech about this. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?117571-Honda-Wing-stuck-in-1st-Gear-a-new-friend-needs-some-input And here is an "update" from that link from Nancy @Luvdaleather who contacted me earlier about Sam. As you can clearly see - Sam is a great guy and I KNOW he appreciates ALL of the advice guys!! Eck,, I am gonna stick your info into an email to Nanci to make sure Sam gets it.. It may not be necessary because I think he is probably already reading your instructions but I want to be sure he gets it.. THANKS Eckster!!

Here is a link to the thread I started over in the Gold Wing Tech about this. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?117571-Honda-Wing-stuck-in-1st-Gear-a-new-friend-needs-some-input And here is an "update" from that link from Nancy @Luvdaleather who contacted me earlier about Sam. As you can clearly see - Sam is a great guy and I KNOW he appreciates ALL of the advice guys!! Eck,, I am gonna stick your info into an email to Nanci to make sure Sam gets it.. It may not be necessary because I think he is probably already reading your instructions but I want to be sure he gets it.. THANKS Eckster!!

You are more than welcome Nanci - it was/is an honor and a pleasure to have gotten to meet Sam!! I am the one who should be thanking you my friend!! I hesitated putting your name, Sam's age and all that on here out of respect for both of you - THANK YOU for jumping in here and volunteering the info!! Hopefully we can somehow assist that wonderful man in getting his gorgeous scoot back on the road! Sam,, if your reading this,, we're trying brother!! Puc

If I am cornfused does it mean I have a capacitor problem in my brain Bongo? I am reluctant to answer that cause I dont want no more surgeries for a while.. I may be confused a little BUT I am thoroughly enjoying the shared knowledge!! Good discussion!!

I love discussions like this,, the only thing that would make this funner would be if we were sitting around a camp fire with our feet propped up and roasting a Hot Dog... ,,,,, if that were the case, I would probably get up, go help Mike pull the oil from his bike, put in new oil and then take his old oil, drain Tweeks oil and replace it with Mikes bikes drain oil and we would be back at the campfire before the Hot Dogs were done cookin The PERFECT Meet n Greet

Gorgeous scoot Godlover!! Sorry to hear about the bag. Wonder if there is anyway you can work the edge of the bag down enough to get the latch to unhook? Looks like it got sprung somehow. Did it come from a bike shop? If it did, maybe they would work with you on getting it repaired - never hurts to ask:fingers-crossed-emo Also glad you had a good ride home my friend! Puc

2007 Honda Wing, the owner inadvertently pushed the reverse button while the bike was in first gear. It is now locked in 1st and locked in reverse. It's a trike but the bike came with the reverse from the factory. Please click-on and respond to the linked thread below if you have any suggestions.. ALL/any input would be GREATLY appreciated you guys!! http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?117570-Attention-got-a-new-friend-in-California-with-trike-question-can-we-help#tab8

A little more update, I just googled the situation and found out that the reverse button on the Wings can become sticky.. Then it dawned on me that Sam's bike may have came from the factory with reverse - I had assumed that the reverse was part of the Trike Kit... I am soooo stuck in old school scoots that I had forgotten they actually make motorcycles with reverse nowadays Just called Sam again (sorry for buggin you folks again Sam) and verified it, the reverse is factory Honda and is NOT an aftermarket that would come as part of the trike package...

EDITED BY ECK - Please coordinate this thread with this thread: http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?117571-Honda-Wing-stuck-in-1st-Gear-a-new-friend-needs-some-input Rationale: There were two threads started on same subject, one in watering hole and one in GW tech. Eck Once again, because of our site I just had the honor and pleasure of meeting yet another GREAT young man named Sam who rides a 2007 Honda Goldwing with a California Side Car Trike conversion. Another one of our members contacted me and asked if I would be willing to contact Sam and see if I could help with a situation he is having with his Trike. Sam is located in California and I am in Michigan so all of the following info and advice has been done over the telephone. After pulling his Triked 2007 Wing into the garage, Sam inadvertently reached up and hit the reverse button on his Trike while the bike was still in 1st gear. As a result, the bike now refuses to come out of 1st Gear and the reverse light continues to flash. Sam has contacted the conversion people and has been unable to this point to figure out a way to solve the jam up.. I suggested removing the fuse for the reversing mechanism, Sam said he had tried that - it did not help and the reverse light on the bike continued to flash. I also suggested leaving the bikes key in the "off" position and rocking the bike while keeping upward pressure on the shift lever to see if he could get it to click back into neutral. I believe Sam said he had also tried this to no avail.. Thinking that the electric reverse probably works like the starter motor on a car, the thought occurred to me that perhaps it has a stuck bendix. Sam mentioned that the Trike will also not currently roll even with the clutch in so, thinking that the reverse motor is probably engaging the rear axle mechanism some how - the stuck bendix idea seems reasonable to me - how about you guys - sound reasonable? My last word to Sam was to see if he would be able to look under the machine, find the reverse "starter" motor and give it a couple raps with a rubber mallet and see if he could jar the bendix loose. That pretty much ended our conversation other than me giving Sam our web address here and directions to the Water Hole so he could follow along with any responses/suggestions that any of you lop eared mechanical genius varmints may have. Sam and I would GREATLY appreciate ANY thoughts/advice/suggestions that any of you fine folks can muster.. A HUGE Thank-You to all from both of us! Puc

:guitarist 2:Now I am actually glad you beat me to it Roller,,,, now you get to be the one to try and defend our unorthadoxed ways PS - Mike from Ohio,, if you were my neighbor and changed your oil at 700 miles I would come over and get your drain oil to use in Tweeks

,,,,:doh::doh::doh:,,,,,,:motorcyclehelmet::motorcyclehelmet::motorcyclehelmet: Me and ol Frosty are the very best of buds, like Daffy, Bugs Bunny and ol Elmer Fuds. I tease em a little but its all in great fun, I would never really shoot em with an icicle gun. I take it all back and now plead the 5th, cause thinking of snow sure makes me writh.. Lets hope this message didn't get out there to slow, if there's one thing I dont need it would sure be more

Sometimes it just SHOCKS me that folks like you and I have made it as far into life as we have brother:big-grin-emoticon: Fast forward to 1.07 on this one DanL'

Good thing I got this bad hand or I would have beat ya that time Roller!!

And I am really out in left field cause, if last seasons riding was "normal" paved road riding, I would just keep riding that puppy till I got to my 3500 miles between oil changes BUT check the site glass to make sure your oil level is good - I usually do this at very frequent intervals anyway. Thinking your looking at about 3 and 1/2 quarts (gonna have to buy 4 quarts and have some left over if you dont at least drain the filter) of oil without the filter to fill it Mike. I wouldnt go by measured quantity no how. I would drain it, fill it to half way up the glass with the scoot standing upright. Run it to temp and recheck it.. I like to run my 1st Gens at 1/2 way (maybe just a tad over) on the site window - seems like if I run em close to a full window I start getting oil aspiration back into my air box.. As far as filters go, I like to swap the filter/oil at same time too but dont always do so. LOTS of times when traveling cross country I will pull the oil in a parking lot (most oil swap places will loan ya catch pan and gladly take the old oil), do a refill like I am talking about and continue on my way. There have many times during the years that I have had filters end up not getting swapped out for a couple oil changes at a time. I gotta say though, I am also a stickler about "color" of my used oil and the environment that I have been riding in.. Dusty two tracks (or riding thru those dust storms out west) reguire more frequent oil changes and, in those circumstances - I ALWAYS swap in a filter too..

May sound nuts but I would double check the little bleed back return hole in the master cylinder to make sure that the clutch fluid is able to return into the res. Its that little tiny hair sized hole... Hmmmm,,, having released the pressure at the slave that probably isnt the issue.... Sure starting to sound like a stuck slave to me too Trader.... While is does not seem likely that a slave would stick like that from sitting there have been stranger things that have happened so I suppose its possible...

I watched a guy accidently pee on an electric fence while I was Pheasant hunting years ago.. Shoulda seen him hop around after coming in contact with that tiny little single wire Silv I still wear rubber gloves when handling live wires and always watch where I peee:cool10:

Welllll, I am no electrician BUT I have been around a few batteries in my life and experimented with other lectrical stuff.. Seems to me that danger increases more as the Voltage increases and its not so much dependent on Amperage as far as overcoming the resistance of the human body.. Not so sure I can see the danger of handling 12 Volt 800 amp car batteries UNLESS the ring on my finger with its low resistance to current flow found a way to ground itself to that + post - YAAAAAOOOOOOOZZZZZZ.. I always looked at it this way,, Voltage is the FORCE or PUSH that causes electricity to over come resistance and amperage is the amount of the flow available or flowing.. On the same token though,, if the battery bank the CEO was playing with were wired in series and it consisted of 20 - 12 volt batteries than yea,, I would be a little nervous about about touching the + lead coming out the end of that puppy...

We in West Michigan dont need it here, Point the nozzles North, South or West and we will CHEER! We want our weather warm and dry, that varmint Fool's antics will make us cry. If he keeps this up with his snowmakin fun, We will POP MD Frosty with an icicle gun!!! NO ,,,,, MOE :225::225::225: :big-grin-emoticon::big-grin-emoticon::big-grin-emoticon:

I think the Wiz left some of his special Wizard dust sprinkled on my puter cause I can see that secret message Carl