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Gorgeous rig there ghost! We are close to big bend np waiting for the temps to drop a little before hitting the park. High winds here to all day too, kinda reminds tippy of wyoming, close but no cigar really... I like the wind for that feeling of flight.. You folks hitting The Dalles rally? Would love to me you folks. Will keep an eye out for your bike, please do the same with ours.. real easy to spot now cause the stator cover is signed SQUIDLEY in blue ink, if you see one signed by him in anyother color its not us, Puc

Indeed, welcome home rj! And thanks for your service to the cause of freedom. Hope to see you on the road in the future. Ride safe out there my friend,, its a different kind of war zone but, non the less,, it is one.. puc

Yea that.. Guess this means we gotta park our bikes on the 16th n walk bongo.... think I will ride a few xtras miles over the next few days and stick em in escrow....

Oppps,,, sorry never was much good with directions, more a ride by feel kinda guy... makes it hard too cause when someone asks how to get to something cool we saw while out chasing the wind, most of the time I haveno idea how to find it again... anyway,,, thatshould have read,,, north 50 miles, west 41 miles, north 82 miles west 41miles and so on,,,, kinda forming a zig zag line west by n8rth by northwest... whereever this little southwest texas town is that we arein right now it is 110 and beautiful riding,,,, in small doses...

I have used autozone a number of times too like mentioned about wally world. We are south of ya ghost, down near big bend np in texas. 110 right now, taking a break from the heat. I am very fortunate that tweeks, our 83 is so tired. It averages 1000 miles to a quart of oil so every 4k I have an oil change, never have to drain it..... wish i were closer....... puc

Beautiful texas nite here, gotta be 85, very dry air about 250 due west of san antone. Those are under left body side cover on 1st gens. The connector with 3 white wires going into it are the stator wires. Stock Connector is two blades side by side and one across. You look and see the terminal box getting brown from heat its time to replace. I should have hardwired those three wires instead of using a new connector back when I replaced it, hindsite 20 20. When squidley and I were putting it back together he offered to hardwire this time and I agreed. The connector that melted was not that old. Tweeks, my bike, has very minimal amp draw, use dialelectric spareingly on all my connectors, still failed. I am not sure on the second gens where the stator wires are in the harness. Squidley, or others will have two answer that, never worked on one. I am sure though that they do have a 3 phase system so it should be a simple matter of following the harness coming out from under the forward bevelgear bearing housing, probably be two harness sets there, trace the one you can feel 3 larger wires inside of.. it dont take much corrsion on that connector for heat to start.. I looked at mine before I left and it was fine, but,,, I believe I used to soft of a connector plastic wise when I put it together.. it was rated properly but some of these connectors coming from offshoremake me wonder.. tell ya one thing, if it fails again it wont be from 2 phase wires making contact,, that squidly,,,, he can wire ! mans its nice here, amazing how much drier the night air is than in san antone..... puc

Mine appeared to have been the result of using resistance at one spade on the stator harness terminal gettin hot n melting thru enough tocontact one of the other two wires. Stator was toast. Between bikerjohns and his wifes kindness and assistance and squidley and his wifes kindness and assistance tweeks is back on the road and doing greatl I have much more to write about the whole deal but it is hard on this tab... will say this, there are 4 texans out there now that I cant thank enough,, on my heros list! puc

Hot n sweaty but still sendin em up!

Problem is, tippy has made it clear,,,, if we have a trailer we have to get a second gen.. now i am not opposed to getting one, my problem is I am not sure whether or not tweeks can handle a trailer with the 2nd gen on it as well as all the xtra clutch plates I will need to drag it all on a tour out in this heat.. not sayin,, just sayin:whistling:

:ice_congrats-vi6886:ice_congrats-vi6886:Happy Birthday::Happy Birthday::group cheers::group cheers::beer:

:group cheers::clap2::clap2: congrats to the two of you!

Hey sunn, good on ya bro for not letting that gorgeous v4 slip out of the fam. Welcome to VR, a great place to visit and now,, as you are finding out, an even better place to belong. Puc

Hmmm,, you have no idea how accurate your obsevation is brian,,,, I thought I had everything covered, maybe even over packed a little. Then we dropped the landing gear in round rock texas, noticed my blinker was slow. Than noticed my volt read 11 volts. Coast ed into bk, ol tweeks died under the shade of a texas burger king. seems I should not have packed so lean and should have stuck a new stator in my maintenance department.. take that back,,,,,, if I would have I may not have had the honor of meeting up with and being helped by 4 more of ventureriders finest. wont spoil my future ride report with full details here but, will say that tippy and i got treated like royality! Heres a quick riddle for anyone who cares,,,,,, tweeks broke down and needed the touch, riding packed lean I had not that much, just when itlooked like we ran out of luck, here came a local texan with a big truck. Made a quick phone call to someone 3 hours away, now we are all friends and for sure will stay! 25 miles to the alamo! puc

On this tablet, hard to type with this little pen . I have fat fingers... got lost in windy city, looked for a carlsburg, couldnt find no help from marcarl, he must have been sleepln. rode 57 down to avoid problems mentioned on 55. made down to to a small town in missouri called newburg on edge of mark twain national forest. Drove 2 tracks 8 miles into national forest. Found perfect camp spot over valley. 1 4x4 truck went by at 2am, gorgeous nites. Sleep. Rode bunch of route 66 out of missouri. Hopped on 44, toll road into okie was terrible boring so jumped on 69 down thru indian res. Muskogee is cool, mid okie has huge lake area for miles, indians loved the horns on tweeks. Met guy with blonde 83 on trailer. Looked like new. Told him of vr. He signed tweeks. Finally made it to texas, now in dennison. Folks are very nice here, most arefraid of tweeks. Hope I got road names right an in proper order, gettin tired:rotf: Its warm here, actually gettin my riding tan back, tippysdoing great. Bike loves the carb needle drop. Went to .068 on shim height, stock is .122. Perfect results for old tweeks. Getting kicked out of mcdonalds so must go. More in future.

I had heard rumors (probably based on the warm weather we are having) that Flyingfool moved but had no idea he was so eager to crank things back up:stirthepot: Sorry you guys gotta put up with em! Wow, THAT is awesome!! Puc

BEAUTIFUL!! I have always appreciated the kind of folks who create stuff like that.... I have often thought about building a bike around a Diesel engine from the generator out of a Semi for a power plant.. For a moment I thought I was seeing that idea come true... THAT is a work of art Silvr, thanks for posting it up! Puc

Indeed Carl,, if you see me headed away from some gorgeous riding op that you know of PLEASE redirect me - this is what I consider lost.. Otherwise,, if you KNOW I am lost ya might wanna follow me cause historically,, thats how the best riding happens to us.. YA CANT HAVE TIPPY - SHE"S MINE And PLEASE,, pretty please - FEED ME IF YA SEE ME,, I think I gotta tape worm.. I WANT A CARL BURGER!!! :backinmyday::backinmyday:

:rotf:Those arent stickers,, those are precious memories and glass repair kits = LOTS of room for more.. Now I am in the process of stitching them all together with VIP Signatures.... Please sign the old girl if you ever get the chance Evan.. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT PRAIRIE - I WILL BE WATCHING FOR THE OTHER GUY!! THANK YOU MONEY!!! WE WILL AVOID IT!! THE INFO IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED!! Hmmmmm Randy,, cant say I have.. Is it a good one?? I do sing "Blue Shadows On The Trail" by the Sons of the Pioneers a lot though... COOL,,,,,,,, let me pull some road names for you from memory and see if you recognize them EasyRider,, Alta Mesa, Woods, Tavernor, Grant Line, Dillard,, "99" I will definitly let you know when we are in the area - at least get a pre Dalles HOWDY in my friend!!!!

Was a longgg hard winter (thanks again Fool) and a wet wet spring,, after all the hard work of snow removal and installing sump pumps (glad thats over) it is now time to go tear along the dotted line.. General plan is to leave in the morning. Intending to slip down 55 under The Windy City, plow thru all those storms going on down there and catch 44 down to Oklahoma City.. Gonna slip down 35 out of O. City to the Alamo, than 10 to 285 up to Carlsbad, down to Guatalupe and the Caverns NP, back up 285 to Roswell and so on and so forth.. Certainly not written in stone,, never really know where we may end up but its a generality anyway.. I think I have the Tablet figured out that the kids gave us for Christmas and plan to try and keep a short ride log going on here (did a test in the VR test booth and even got pics from it to work:cool10:).. PLEASE feel free to post weather warnings, sites to see, road problems for us if you happen to be along our general path or hear something we should be aware of, info and hearing from friends is always appreciated.. If you see the bike in the pic below PLEASE flag us down and say howdy!! Tippy and I are generally pretty good folks and would love to touch base with anyone thats willing to do the same!! Got the war bike at the museum in storage, son and daughter staying at the house so no need to turn off the mail, basement dried up nicely, grass is cut.. Bike is as ready as possible and so are we!! Hope to see a BUNCH of you on the road - folks headed to "The Dalles" Rally,,,,, prepare to defend yourselves:stickpoke: Happy Trails Puc n Tippy

You can count on it Vic!! I am not only gonna rip up a Burger there BUT brother,,,,, those deep fried Asparagus's and Strawberry Shakes are in a LOT of trouble too Good chance we will be heading out in the a.m.!! We want to have ample time to help Bowie and Crockett send Santa Anna packin at the Alamo, see how old Tweeks runs against some Alien space craft at Roswell, find out what the Guatalupe National Park looks like, toss a rock or two over the edge of the Grand Canyon and so on before meeting all you West Coast troublemakers... Thanks again for all your hard work in making "The Dalles" happen Lone Eagle!! Tippy and I cannot WAIT to put faces with names and smell that sweet Oregon air!! Puc

Hey Snag,, I had that happen to me twice out in Wyoming before I figured out to park with the wind blowing against the side stand,,, then it happened again cause I forgot to find a big ol rock to put under the stand,,,,,, man I hate when that happens:confused24: Looks like you got off pretty easy having only takin out a windshield.. Dont take much to snap off mirrors, crack bags and fracture fairings with the tonnage impact of one our big ol heavy Ventures... GOOD LOOKIN MK1 there buddy!! Were those pics recent and where at?

Indeed!! I keep a few of them and old couch cushions to lay on top of them around just for doing stuff like this too Oldgoat!!

Bikenut,, here is another one you might find useful.. http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=37.78134&lon=-78.88625&zoom=3&type=lightmap&units=english&eyedropper=0&rad=1&rad.num=1&rad.spd=50&rad.opa=70&rad.type=00Q&rad.type2=&rad.smo=1&rad.noc=1&rad.stm=0&sat=0&cams=0&undefined=0

Find a tree branch low enough to toss a rope over, make a loop and attach a comealong, take two bike straps attach one to the rear grab hand on the side that is gonna be pointing up ward. Make a wrap around the handlebar that is gonna be pointing downward toward the bottom of the bar.. Attach the hoods of ratcheting end of the straps into the hook on the comealong, tighten the straps up with the ratchets. Lower the bike down with the comealong.. do your work and lift it back up with the comealong... Use to do it all the time,, until I bought my lift from Harbor Freight

Got some in today while packing the maintenance department on the bike!! Hoping to be out of these moskeetoes this weekend headed in a southwesterly direction.. Any thoughts/prayers for us as we travel will be greatly appreciated.. Also, Skid,, just want you to know,, may get slim on here with my touching base on this thread for a month or so BUT I am continually praying and thinking of you and your situation brother!! Love ya man!! Puc