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If you change your mind on painting the cases, years ago I hammered out a VERY close combination paint/clear coat application that is/was very close to OEM on Mini-Trail restores (show bikes).. Be glad to look back in shop notes and let you know what I came up with back then if you want to try some testing with the combo of your own.. LOOKING GR8 there Maddy,, JUST AWESOME!! she's gonna be a DANDY!!

Yep,, Honda actually "specked" ATF for fork oil back in the 80's on their ATC's/ATV's.. Went thru gallons of it in fork rebuilds and it worked GREAT! Personally I have found 12.5 weight Belray behind Progressives set at 1" preload and no air to be the perfect setup on my 1st Gens for hauling two up/loaded in both on road and some off roading.. A little bit tight in the dampening for some but I like the way it handles in the twisties and definitely an advantage on off road bumps and bruises...

Interesting applicable tests, this guys testing of seafoam shows results similar to that of my own in working on carbs. For head/valve cleaning thru injection - Hyundia/Kia has some new product that I will be checking out in the future and am curious to see its result. Our Ioniq has an Atkinson engine and I have been using Top Tier fuel (most name brand fuels have that rating) for exactly the reason of keeping carbon build on valves low. I plan on scoping Troopers valve train at 100k and testing the new Hyundia cleaner at that time. By the way, many years ago I posted about purchasing CHEAP Chinese made bore scopes with links to the same. Have been successfully using my 11 dollar unit that I purchased at that time exactly like the one this guy uses in vid #2 = still working awesome!! IMHO, there should be one in every toolbox = the uses are endless!! If you grab one, also IMHO, getting the +10 foot of lead will work in your advantage,, IMHO of course! Here's the test vids of Seafoam, Water and ATF, pretty interesting. Notice the borescope in vid two = WAYYY cool and WAYYY inexpensive!!

OUTSTANDING ROLLER!!:clap2::dancefool: My money's on they will enjoy that fact that cha can't out run em all (see vid) but will be blessed with the endless opportunities to discover neat places to avoid catastrophy and enjoy the moments of advanced adrenalin pump and calm conversations between each other as they bond around the priceless moments of excitement:thumbsup2: But then,, after getting caught in the opportunities that some of those monsters offer sometimes ya get blessed with a beauty beyond compare,,, gotta take the good with the bad I reckon brother (see the following two vids).. Hope those son's of yours are safe and having a GREAT trip with endless adVenture beyond compare!! Prayers Up for the two of em to that end!!

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW :scared:,,,, so thats where you disappeared to when you left home,,, Mom and I always wondered about that Son-Shine:big-grin-emoticon:!! !! AMAZING!!:clap2::clap2::dancefool::thumbsup: Your ol Dad can almost smell the adVenture while sitting here typing this!! OUTSTANDING @divey! And Patch,, I say GO FOR IT!!!!

I used to LOVE skirting huge western storms (talk about awesome fireworks displays!!) when CTFW out there.. Many times we would go thunderstorm hunting just to watch the shows in the distance = WOWZY WOW WOW WOW = there is NOTHING like em!! Now,, after seeing this,, I find some of those memories tainted.. THAT IS HORRIBLE!! Prayers Up for all those involved in the clean up and recovery from that mess!

Good solid machines IMHO Roller.. Never were a high dollar machine in my retail experience but good riders/runners and tough bikes. The "Water Buffalo" (750 triple two stroke) held a solid x5 and up in value on retail for me.. If you get it and it has not been run in a long time (+4 years) I would strongly suggest prelubing the cam journals in it before firing it up so you dont smudge the journals by spinning em dry on start up.. Also make sure it has a good battery for start up as low voltage/weak batteries are the #1 cause of future starter issues.. Make sense?

I made a simple cross over for my dirt bikes that worked great.. All I did was take an air chuck , put a short hose on it with a shrader valve cap on the end, push the cap onto one air valve on a fork and touched the other valve with the air chuck and bingo = instant equalizer.. I know, a simple mind producing a simple contraption that probably shoudnt work but it did for me....

WAYYYYYYY COOL @Condor,,, WAYYYYY COOL!!! This is gonna be REALLY interesting (C PIC)!! THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT ON THE ARBOR BROTHER!

YOU DA MAN SKY!! :clap2::dancefool: I have been swappin my own bike tires on both tubed and tubeless shoes since I was a kid and gotta say, if I had to do it all over again, of the three methods shown in the vids below, I would have purchased the Bead Buster that @VanRiver sent me (I think cause he loves me and felt sorry for me) shown in Vid 3 right from the start (if they would have been available back in the 60's and I coulda afforded one.. Just an opinion of course but one formed around many scraped knuckles and sore backs ) as a Christmas present (THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH AGAIN BROTHER!! IT IS AWESOME!! It works on EVERY type of tubeless tire IMAGINABLE!! From trucks to quads = PERFECT!!).. and if your gonna attempt your own balancing,, here is another shot of something I have done successfully for years.. IMHO, its a great skill to have cause this can be done anywhere that you have a place to hang a tire from... All ya need is a tree branch and BINGO,, instant balance stand Also,,, its a REALLY good idea (again, IMHO) to clean the wheel real well when apart but also check the base of the valve stem closely at the rubber seal it sets on.. Worth the xtra effort to not have to do it all over again once ya got er together

A Puc Poem to those who gave it all: My mind was filled with thoughts of you as I placed each flag in my yard. The neighbors watched and nodded in respect of how you had it so hard. Those flags are placed in such a way to remind myself of National Cemetery honor. Though my little flags in that alternating formation dont show such patriotic splender. The brand new "Old Glory" I hung on the garage was made in the "USA". I felt it befitting to honor you by choosing HER to display. Over my door I hung a rope light wrapped in Red, White and Blue. The light behind those Colors of Freedom is shining because of you. No words can say how thankful I am of all you gave and done. So we could live in the land of the free, I am thankful that I am one. THANK YOU! Puc

I can't speak for my neighbors to the North in Canada (and quite frankly wont cause it's none of my business how you folks choose to live) but if that were happening back here in my home country of America I would have to say that IMHO, the ban would have very little to do with people getting killed/injured by gangs/criminals with guns (there are wayyyyyyyyy more people killed due to alcohol abuse and driving under the influence here in the U.S. than deaths involving guns = solve this first and then lets talk about guns hurting people) and more to do with the underlying theme/point presented in this song by Johnny Horton (the tune is about a British attempt at changing our way of life but can be applied directly to Domestic tyranny too,, IMHO).

All IMHO and just that,, opinion here.. All 4 stroke engines have to vent the crankcase. The amount of oil "gases" being caught up in the vented can change for many reasons and HEAT causing vaporization is very common. Having answered the question of what level you are filling the case to has been answered so no since in doubling back on that = as long as your filling on the site glass while the bike is upright and level. Years ago I sold numerous Chinese Scooters and had a couple catastrohpic failures come back due to long distance running at speed without checking oil consumption at each fuel fill = the case held less then 1 quart of oil and, under certain conditions (heat being one) the little 150cc 4 stroke would ventilate/aspirate the oil to the point the bike would burn down. After learning that some of my customers found checking the oil to be to much of an issue, I started experimenting with variety of oils to see if one brand/weight of oil would vaporize less then others and ended up scoring big time.. I am in the middle of putting together a huge wedding right now and dont have time to dig into shop notes from years ago to figure out which oil(s) proved the best results but can tell you that the answer to the issue may very well be found in just switching to a different oil platform. On my 1st Gens I always noticed a HUGE difference in this just by going to 20/50 weight when chasing the desert regions.. I would try this before defaulting to the thought that the engine needs a rebuild.. Hope ya figure it out Puc

Yep,, I am thinking its the angle/tip of the bars/master Vaz.. I used to cut my bleed time down substantially simply by laying the bike over and getting the banjo below lower the master and pulling the lever a couple times = air bubble bleeds back thru the return hole.. Another spot that I have seen cause LOTS of people issue when trying to bleed the rear brakes on the 1st Gen Mk1's is the metering valve on the neck for the same reason.. As you know, your MK2 has a bleeder there but our MK1's do not. The secret to cutting out hours and hours of bleeding on the MK1 is to loosen the connector at the valve (just like loosening the bango at the master and bleeding there = same results cause the metering valve creates a high spot in the system) and bleed the system there.. I am also amazed at how time consuming it can be to gently move the lever in and out to chase out those tiny little air bubbles that can gather in hydraulic fluid as the fluid sloshes around or if someone fills a res to quickly cause airation of the fluid..

You checking it with a digital volt/ohm meter or analog 40? My guess is digital as they are the easiest to fool (no pun intended Flyinfool) with a residual reading. I'd check main fuse on the output side for the headlight first just to make sure Murph didnt figure out a way to pop in a funky fuse on ya. Perhaps the ground you are reading thru the connector is not valid enough to carry the load of the lights. I would just take a test wire and frame ground it and then touch the ground terminal side of the connector and see if the light comes on.. If you do this and the lights still dont come on, take a peek at the white RLU light on your dash and see if it changes (comes on when you test the ground). Another possibility would be a bad relay whose contacts are burned to the point that they are only able to carry residual 12vdc. You could test 12vdc at the relay input with a light and what cha get, maybe jumper the relay and see if that does it. Last but definitely not least,, I'd jumper the RLU out and see what happens.. I'd do this last though cause I am one lazy lop eared varmint and that RLU is hardest to get at of all the above plus it just makes no sense to me that the RLU would be sourcing the blinkers as it would be to easy for a failed blinker to confuse the RLU any more than it is already confused LOL.. Any of that make sense? Probably not but it was fun to write something and may give you a smile while your waiting for the Electro guru's to chime in All the best in getting her shining brightly again! Puc

Or this one,,, sheesh am I getting geezerly or what here.. WELL PUT Corporal Newkirk,, WELL PUT!!

Typed that last post BEFORE seeing this Vaz ,, YOU are SPOT ON HERE BROTHER!!

Also for many years I would lay the bike down and point the master upwardly so the banjo joint at the master was no longer the high point in the system,, then I got old and could no longer upright the bike easily so I started bleeding from the banjo itself which works just as good.. Couple little teany weany specks of air at that banjo and bingo,, no clutch as that is the high point of the system,,, IMHO of course..

I was thinking 20 minutes to get the back wheel off the scoot including unpacking time so I am able to lift that great big heavy sticker covered mudsucker of a varmint up on er center stand with the flat back tire making doing so x10 harder to do then with a fully inflated shoe All but a couple different times when encountering a flat while CTFW cross country, I have found that just having done that (removing the rear wheel) is enough to almost guarentee a ride into town for a new tire and that most shops will gladly do a quick bead breaker for you for free if ya by the tire from them and spoon em on yourself in their parking lot.. I did bump into a shop out in Moab once that this rule didnt apply.. All he had for tires were 404's and he wanted 220 bucks a pop for em even though I told him the 404 that I had on my bike only cost me 80 bucks,, to bad so sad was his approach.. He also loaned NO tools and wanted a bill for a swap job, wheel in hand.. I/we passed and headed cross country to the nearest town with a Yam Shop (Richfield,, or Richland or something like that,,,, west bound over the mountain passes and sleeping in Trail Hikers Trail Head @28 degrees was fun ) where they too only had the 404's but were only 120 bucks there and they did let my do my own spoonin in their parking lot cause I didnt wanna pay em the 50 bucks they wanted to mount the confounded thing:missingtooth:

Seee,, see why I got Maggie my bucket list R1 when I did? I simply asked myself the question of if the mid 60's was gonna hurt so much, I wonder what crossing into the 70's was gonna be like and BINGO,, instant R1 time!!

TAHHH DAHHHHH!!!! :dancefool: Now it's on to mounting a clay pigeon tosser onto the back of Clyde (my brand new 82 truck) just in case my plans/hopes for taking my 14 year old Grandson and his dad and my future son in law (all from Comifornia as @Condor would say it ) out for a lop eared Michigan State Land loving varmint Puc style bachelor party.. ,, wonder if those varmints have ever shot clay pigeons from the hind end of a moving Utility truck missed me,,, :duck: missed me again:rasberry:,,, better practice hitting the singles before trying those doubles ya bunch of gotta practice practice practice if your gonna hit anything with the 50 Cal mounted on Grandpa's Sherman tank when he finds it varmints!!

I hear that Dunk,, kinda crazy.. Maybe there was a mistake and the 147 labor was suppose to be for pulling the wheel off the bike and then mount and balance and reinstall.. Speaking of that,, it wasn't to long ago that I read on a Polaris Indian site where one of the members got charged 1250 bucks for a new rear tire with install on a Chief.. No idea of how true it was but just reading that made me look like this: That would make a typical CTFW 2 monther for an old has been biker run close to 4 grand just for rear tires and make the western grasshopper kind of a rare insect cause a lot of bikers I know would have to be living on em if that were the case

That and you cant carry him and his shop in your back pocket when your out CTFW across the Bad Lands of South Dakota or up into the mountains of Utah where Murph seemingly hides tire poppers on the roadways and trails like the Easter Bunny hides Easter eggs ..

Here in Michigan it's a crime to privately sell/trade/give away a handgun without going thru the background registration process (very easy to do thru any FFL Gun shop/Pawn Shop and/or a local Sheriffs Office). In the case of a handgun an individual can buy/sell/trade person to person if the buyer has a purchase permit = this gives you the owner the legal right to transfer the shooter to his hand. Long guns do not fall into this category though and there is actually no process for doing so,, back ground checking on long guns only happens when buying new (from a dealer) or shipping thru a mail service,, in that case, it has to be shipped FFL to FFL and a background is done at that time. Thus leaving scads of unregistered, unaccounted for long guns tucked away in houses all over Michigan giving credence to the suggestion that only 12% of all Michigan homes are setting there with the inhabitants unable to protect themselves if that day should ever come = leaving it up to the bad guys - foreign or domestic - to figure out whether the Michigan home they are about to assault happens to be one of those 12%