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Dear Bongobob This is Lonna, please stop tricking and teasing Cowpuc. He is a very nice person who deserves at least one ice cream cone from you when you two finally meet face to face.. His favorite ice cream is Banana Nut but, knowing Puc, he would probably settle for any flavor.. PS, Squid told me to tell you that he saw what you did to Puc and he agreed with my solution only he said you should make it a double dip cone.. This was Lonna, not Puc typing this....

Actually,, I would be more concerned if I were the guy who posted a pic of Squid with another person and said,, guess who these COUPLES are:stirthepot: Silly Rabbit,, Tricks Are For Kids and for rabbits on there way to the fry pan.. na na dee boo boo:stickinouttounge: AND ANOTHER WINNER!!!!!!!!

Dog gone it,, woke up the Snowman we did,,, and I can tell we reminded him to pull maintenance oh his Wisconsin White Wash Machine,, was a perfectly good riding day yesterday but now its cloudy, windy and cold here...

oh,, oh oh oh,,, the first couple are none other than my cowboy hero Squid and his lovely wife Lonna,,, theys the folks who rescued Tippy and I down in Texas!! NOBODY smiles like Squid!! Dont know that I have had the pleasure of meeting the second couple,,, hmmmmm,, someday I hope!! and about the trick question,, ok,, I'll give it a try,, its a trick question cause Bongo is asking it and everyone KNOWS,, if its from Bongo theres gotta be a trick to it:rotf:

Nice randy,, real nice!!!!!

Ding ding ding,, and another winner.. Lets harrass YammerDan here a little folks,, wanna? YammerDan,, you have proven now that you still have a pretty good memory,, for bonus points, could you take another look at the picture of our friend B2Dad, notice the bike sitting next to his bike in the photo? Could you identify the owner of that bike? Theme from Jepordy playing in background...........................

Andy, I have had exactly what you are describing happen to me many many times.. Especially using a power washer on my dirtbikes.. Normally the fix for the problem is as simple as removing the terminal caps from the sparkplugs and blowing the inside of the caps, the tops of the sparkplugs that the caps slide onto and the area that the plugs set into all out real well with compressed air until all components are dry.. Considering that your bike may now be in a over choked state, it may need some new spark plugs. I have found that the smaller sized plugs that our bikes use, "D" plugs, dont take to kindly to being over choked and foul pretty easily when they are.. Try starting it after blowing it dry with the choke off and throttle open for a second and see if it starts.. If it doesnt, than try throttle closed and choke on and see if it sputters to life.. Personally, I have never had a fuel pump fail me cause of water, not that it couldnt happen but I gotta hunch it would be rare.... Hope this helps! Puc PS, you can squirt a little wd-40 in those plug caps and stuff before blowing em down if ya want to,, it displaces water pretty good..

I knew it,, I just KNEW that some how, some way, someone would find a way to bring SNOW into this subject... What is it with you people? Why cant we all just sit around the perverbial campfire and have an easy, fun loving, gearhead to gearhead discussion about our bikes without someone making it personal? Take this particular saddle bum for instance. He reaches deep into his pocket filled with all kinds of perfectly useable nouns to use in his very well thought out example, so what does he do? He reaches into the depth of that pocket and has to pull out the most dreaded noun known to man, SNOW.. I mean,, really... Talk about .. If he had to use something cold and something that melts he could have used the word ice cream instead of the word snow.. I suggest we all think about the point I am trying make the next time we gather around the campfire to discuss these sensitive issues.. Oh well,, at least this winter when a truck goes by each one of us forming a vacuum around its tailgate we might pause and ask ourselves this question,, is that snow we see gathering or, is that in fact, vanilla ice cream? Heyyy, Saddlebum,, seriously, GOOD example!!!!!!!!

AND,, now that the sweet, soft spoken, lovable and gentle Tippy has a whip hangin at her side things have changed Bongo... Used to be the conversation went like this "Honeyee,, I thought we had an agreement that 100 mph was our top cruisen speed",,, now its "Honey,, thank you for being so considerate of my needs to stay under 100".... THANKS A LOT VENTUREFAR OL BUDDY,, THANKS A WHOLE LOT!!

And yet ANOTHER winner,, ding ding ding,, bling bling bling!!! and,,, speaking of classy go gettin folk with one gorgeous ex-bike,, how bout this guy..

No idea but the #4 guy in the lower left corner surrrre looks like he is having a blast!!!!!!

AND,, go get some ice cream in between,, and before,, what the heck,, an after those lunches are consumed.. May as well do it right if your gonna do it!! "EAT TO RIDE, RIDE TO EAT":cool10:

ROCK ON BROTHER!!! and this coming from a man who owns BOTH a 1st Gen (well,,, more than one actually) and a finely tuned, professionally maintained full fledged 2nd Gen... I guess the real answer of which one is faster is finally, indefinitly, unquestionably, scientifically and professionally answered... Thanks Dan for finally solving the question of the century both here on VR and even more so, upon the highways which we both love!! Puc

But,, arent you forgetting that this is one of the reasons that the system is designed to be adjustable,, or, sycronized.. Its not a perfect system in itself so by adjusting those little balance screws we are probably compensating for issues like you are pointing out Pete.. This is also why after tuning I like to run my bike up to normal running R's (careful doing this if your still using Mercury Sticks) - around 3800, just to see what my gauges look like in that range.. I usually tweek Tweeks in that range cause I hang out that alot.. If nothing else, differences in balance at those R's can be affected by a lot of things, spring weaknesses included, and I like to at least know whats happening even if I dont totally understand it.. Good thread!!!

Give it a shot Dan, YOU WILL LOVE IT!! Clean em real good with a little carb cleaner, apply Yamabond 5 to cover side of the diaphram, small smear goes a long ways - stuff is really really amazing to play with!! If only a few pinholes a light smear - let sit for 24 hours, a little larger smear over the first one, dry for another twenty four hours before use.. YOU CANNOT TELL THE PATCH FROM THE ORIGINAL RUBBER IN FLEXIBILTY OR TEXTURE!! I am dieing to try an actual patch over a complete tear out, cut a patch from an old diaphram, seal between the two pieces of rubber with #5,, I dont expect it to work perfect but far better than a dead jug on a cross country trip.. It must have been a good a epifany cause I carried some #5 and an old diaphram all over America and never had a chance to prove my theory.. You and I both know that if you conquer ol Murphy and his law you are probably onto something!!! Hows THAT for engineering thought you guys.. :rotf::rotf:

I knew Honda was making a big mistake when they starting using cheese instead of rubber to insulate their wiring.. I tried to tell em,, I tried to tell em but oh nooo,, that had to have it their way... Seriously Kieth,, sorry to hear about those damages!! Puc

You might not be off base in your thoughts Pete.. One of us should pick up a set of pin hole infested diaphrams, stick em in our bike and make a video of how they compare to good ones, on a set of vac gauges at a variety of R's and in performance.. I still think that the area inside the diaphram housing is forming its OWN vacuum, or, as mentioned earlier, is being formed by Venturi action,, either way, if this were true ambient pressures would have little affect on the diaphram vacuums and that any vacuum loss across the face of the diaphram is gonna cause issues of some sort.. It may not be as critical as an actual tear or separation but it seems like it wouldnt help in making an effecient running engine.. If it did nothing but cause an imbalance in syncronization,,, well,, we all know what a poorly sycronized 4 carbed Yam motor runs like,, icky..

Ahh ohhh,,,, I have gangster signatures on my bike,,,,,,,,, comparing the looks on their faces,, Annies = ohhh yea,,, this will work just fine to Alans = cool.. One doesnt have to think to hard to KNOW who the REAL gangster is :rotf::rotf::stirthepot::stirthepot:

:backinmyday: An old saying I heard once is befitting here,,,,, A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT

Oh,, by the way Pete,, after trying many many things to get more life out of my Venture Diaphrams thru the years I finally discovered a product that works FANTASTIC for resurfacing that rubber.. Yamabond #5 seems to be doing the trick.. Its pretty neat stuff to work with, totally a different critter!! I have one diaphram on Tweeks right now that I patched up with the stuff and its still going strong after 40k of usage.. Dont know why it works or whats in it BUT it does seem to work well... I honestly think that a tube of Yamabond #5 and an old diaphram to be used for patching material in case of an actual on the road tear wouldnt be a bad addition to anyones maintenance department on their bike, if you ever have a diaphram self destruct during a trip you will be GLAD you have this - had a buddy that had it happen and it cost him 4 days of riding while waiting for a shop to get his parts.. The Yamabond can also be used for MANY other purposes as it is rubber,, after it dries,,, I think...

You pose a very good question there Pete.. While not being an engineer of any sorts and probably not the best person to even voice an opinion on the subject I will,, just cause I dont mind being wrong and I LOVE to in these discussions and learn:cool10: I theorize that the hole in the slide works in unison with the vacuum being pulled on the rear of the diaphrams and serves as a venting device to allow them to move, maybe the area where the diaphrams are located form there own vacuum area in response to the intake vacuum environment they are sitting in and they have to have this venting action in order to operate.. Any holes, pinholes included, in the surface of the rubber diaphrams will interupt this delecate balance and cause issues.. It seems like it woudnt take much of a hole for vacuum to be lost and the diaphrams to, at least lose quick response to vacuum change... There,, I contributed,, I hope someone much more intelligent than I responds to this one

I was gonna guess that Annie but you and Alan aint gangsta's, you two are a fun lovin couple of Aussies that we all miss... Or,, maybe I didnt spend enough time with the two of you to REALLY know ya's and another rolling wonder,,, wonder who it is rolling down the road on their GORGEOUS ol 1st Genny...

Oh yea Annie,, ol Tweeks has put that signature of yours thru Delle n back,,, a couple times now.... Miss ya sis!

Ooops,, its actually another example of me overlooking maintenance and my good friends having my back and tenderly, loving and kindly reminding me to get er done.. Cant blame this one on my fingers,,, they only get me INTO trouble,, not out of...

Ooopps,, another example of me not pulling maintenance like I am suppose to.. Sorry Bob,, give er another shot when we ya getta chance compadre',,