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Good one @KISA,, THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!! What do you think Freebird or Marcarl,, maybe move this to the read only tech library? Looks promising IMHO..

,, didn't even think about that Doug,, almost 2 for 1 !! Now I KNOW your out to empty your ol man's wallet (just like your brother and sisters have been doing for years ).. I'll have one of these,, two of those,, one of these and I just cant walk out the door without that purdy Triumph sitting there staring at me,, poor thing

IMHO, include on the cons: 1. Will need updated Progressive springs in forks if not done. 2. Will need diaphrams in carbs if not done and eventually need float valves. 3. Like you mentioned, if you are a long distance rider going thru multiple rear tires you spoon on yourself = the ease of removing furniture on the 83 to swap tires will be greatly missed. Ya know,, thinking this thru,,, I think your onto a good move 40,, these 83's are getting older by the day and the concerns you share about the frame/2nd gear/stator and even the 83's plastic water pump impellar and electrical stuff are real.. Also considering how much easier it is to find parts for the multi year MK2's if you ever needed em while out CTFW, yeah,, I'd probably do it... And then I would pick up a cheap ratted out 83 with a decent back side set of glass and make a conversion on the MK2 back to the clamshells for ease and speed of tire swaps.. Besides,, I love the looks of the smaller bags but that's just me.. Only real con I see is you'll be riding a slower bike if you go from a MK1 to a MK2 (saw that comin didnt cha? )

EXACTLY RIDER!!! And right above those bars that they will house me behind will be a banner that reads = "Definition of Clint Eastwoods - "Legend In His Own Mind" saying " :big-grin-emoticon: If I ever find that Sherman Tank buried in the dunes of our State Park with my metal detector I have been listening for, jam filled jars on cars chasing down a geezer with a shotgun will be the least of the neighborhoods concerns

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,, BEAUTIFUL OHH SWEET SON OF MINE = JUST FLAT OUT BEAUTIFUL !! And, you know you're ol Dad well,, I did in fact spin some wrench on numerous of those old scoots! Matter of fact, that little "Dirt Squirt" by Hodaka has a HUGE history with your Dad Sonshine! In 71 I helped a high school friend who I Motocrossed with and his Dad in start up a snowmobike/bike shop in Grand Haven Michigan called "Grand Haven Arctic Cat". The Hodaka line (which included the Dirt Squirt was a mainstay of my early wrenching days. They (the Hodaka's) had a particular different "shift drum" design that incorporated a series of ball bearings in leu of shift forks that were of particular interest to me cause they were "different" (you know me champ,, always intrigued by different). Definitely some fond memories chasing Dirt Squirt tranny ball bearings up and down and all around work benches back in the day. Also, those early pre-unit Norton's were another speciality = wayyyy cool and fun scoots to play with:missingtooth:.. You know me well ya lop eared varmint! I gotta ask though,, was there a secret MO to you linking me up with that sight? You trying to bankrupt your old Dad?? For some reason,, that "scoots for dollars" section on the side was an IMMEDIATE draw to these tired ol eyes ... Tip says THANKS A LOT for challenging my Pace Maker Seriously @divey,, THANKS FOR THE LINK = AWESOME STUFF RIGHT THERE!!

Heyyyyy,, wait a minute here,, according to The Code your suppose to take pi,,,,, never mind,, you said it was raining,,,, not all lop eared varmints carry an under water camera with em !! Sounds like ya took a lemon filled day and made yourself some tasty Lemonaide with it Sonshine!! GOOD ON YA!!

Thanks for sending me to post Sly! I took liberty on this batch to enlarge them to see what would happen. The original size pics are over on the pocket carry thread if anyone is interested in comparing the two sizes. I was guessing the last pic to be that of the .410 your building? And WOWZY WOW WOW WOW would I love to run a few rounds thru the derringer.. Now we need a low down on all this! Take it away @Sylvester!!!

Here is a series of pics that Sly sent me to post up for him. I will repost this series over on the other gun thread too as they apply in both areas.. Take it away @Sylvester:

A lean out bog? I just never heard of opening up an air box to create a choking or fatter or heavier fuel/air mixture = that just plays backwards in my untrained gray matter:missingtooth:.. Under normal circumstances, if an engine that I am working on is flooded (another name for being choked out), the first thing I do is remove the air box cover to get it as much air as possible then hold the throttle plates open to add in as much more air as possible into the combustion chamber and then crank er up and let er clean out from being choked out/flooded. I probably been doing that all wrong thru the years but it has worked ok..

Got that much needed testoserone boost!! Best price I could find on a 10 round traditional magazine for my clay bustin AR12 shotgun has been 50 bucks for ever. Been watching these 20 round drum feeds now since their release and 100 bucks has been the cheapest. One of the sellers that on GB offered em up for 82 dollars,, my low ebb on the testosterone needing a boost coupled with my LOVE for Drum Feed = I couldnt resist!!

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,, wouldnt an open air box cause it to run lean Patch.. It seems like closing or having a plugged airbox (like throwing a rag over the intake) would cause it to choke out = get to much fuel

Not being much of SeaFoam man myself, this is where I always go precluding a complete teardown and rebuild of the carbs and have found some fairly good success with it. Given,, its an original Puc Plan so you might wanna take it with a grain of salt so to speak I would pull the diaphram covers on the carbs, remove the slides, open the drains on the carb bowls, push carb cleaner into each carb with a syringe filled with carb cleaner (spray carb or brake cleaner from any Auto Store = I have used Chem Clean too but you REALLY got to stay on top of that stuff cause it will eat rubber seals if left in the bowls for too long) until the cleaner flows from the metering rod emulsion tubes, shut the drains for a day or so and let em soak. Rehook the syringe, open the drains, pull the cleaner from the bowls one at a time, redo until the cleaner flowed clean back into the syringe, when its clean - refill the bowls with good clean fresh fuel pushed into the bowls with the syringe and pushed in so it too flows a little from the emulsion tubes. Slip the diaphrams/slides back in and hit the starter - no choke - to see if she fires off the fuel in the throats of the carbs. If it does and burns off the fuel, choke it and see if it will stay running. I would do all of this BEFORE rebuilding the carbs in attempt to assess the bikes condition before I put a bunch of time and effort and $ into carb rebuilds = I dont like surprises... Make sense?

like this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1311.R2.TR2.TRC0.A0.H2.Xshinko+whit.TRS0&_nkw=shinko+777+white+wall&_sacat=0

Maybe check out the Shinko 777 line. I have always had good luck with the Shink 230 Tourmaster and am pretty sure that I remember seeing White Walls in their 777's. IMHO, the WW is secondary to ridabilty covering mulitiple conditions and the Shinks did great by us in all conditions. If I were faced with wanting WW's, I would exhaust the affordable Shink line first..

I hear ya Sly!! Here in Michigan a very popular ear tickler of a slitherer (didnt really expect me to refer to a snake as a "lop eared varmint" did ya:happy65:?) is the Blue Racer.. They are soooo cool! We also have LOTS of grass snakes! It's often over looked by those who have learned to fear that which slides gracefully throughout the farmlands and cities here that these reptiles serve as HUGE purpose of pest control as well as how entertaining they are to play with/watch.. Like you, I have always been intriqued by them. On the other though, if I lived in an area where the presence of such would be a threat to my family, I would consider controlling them in my family home/yard area (catch and release if possible) as well as educating my offspring about watching where they step/swim/camp and so on. Personally, I have actually gone looking for the fanged things in far off desert regions not to kill but to enjoy seeing one = I am a little weird too brother Wanna hear a short CTFW snake story? Of course you do Tip, Tweeks and I were camped in the Everglades right off Alleee Gator Alley - about midway between Miami and Marco Island.. It was beautiful back in the swamp, laying there listening to birds scream as gators chomped on em in the middle of the night,, the kind of sounds that good movies have hidden in em.. I hadnt bothered to set the tent up, just dropped it on the side of a two track a couple miles in off the main road and laid there in the warm Floridian night with Tip curled up beside me and Tweeks stickers glowing in the moonlight,, a real honey moon of a honey moon if there ever was one.. After one particular loud SQUAWK and bone snapping incident, Tip curled in close and says "are you sure them Gators aint gonna come up here and nip us?" to which I replied "naww,, why would they leave the smorgous board they are enjoying down there in the swamp to nibble on us".. Then she said something I hadnt even thought about = "isn't this the area where they are having all the problems with Python's = some over 20 feet in length?".. ,, took me less than 2 minutes to finish popping the tent up

Yeahh,, that Tim Conway was nothing short of amazing IMHO.. He was always one of the few that could make even the sourest of the sour laugh and even the best of the best comedians could not help but break down in mirth and crack up completely out of script from even just a glace at him in his purist form of funny. The world definitely lost a smile maker when we lost Mr. Conway! Godspeed and RIP Sir! Thanks Boss for posting this!

Sounds like a lop eared varmint HOOT of time Corporal Newkirk!! Wishing you nothing but the best of the best journey and very little actual sore saddle time as seek to complete your endeavor!! Hopefully the tales you spin (with a pic or two for us lop eared wannabe biker varmints) after you complete your journey and report back in will nothing short of AWESOME!! Ride safe and have fun out there Daws,, ohh,, and say howdy to your daughter for us if you do get a chance to see her!!

I am gonna be monitoring this thread with interest.. My experience with air over hydraulic shocks has been that the oil serves as a dampener and the air controls ride height by assisting the shock spring when adding weight (basic interp) which allows the shock to see full travel after adding weight. That said, it does not seem like your scoot should drop in height as long as its maintaining air pressure even if the oil escapes.. If we were talking about an 83,, I think I would be advising you to look closely at your frame (broken frames can cause similar symptons) but on these newer fangdangled 2nd Gens,, no idea.. Why is it that I have that feeling that I am about to be schooled on new techology again If the 2nd Gens rear shock has a spring that carries the weight that is assisted by air, maybe it's a spring issue? :scratchchin:,, count me clueless

Right there with ya brother :fingers-crossed-emo:fingers-crossed-emo:thumbsup:

Thanks Grubs but I assure you,, any form of wisdom about bikes has more to do WITH my years than it might appear = at least thats what my beat up, tired old worn out body keeps telling me .. IMHO (and, like any other lop eared varmint, that's all I can ever offer - no more, no less) the saturated HD market has a HUGE impact on all other breeds of iron too and is therefore a good way to monitor bike sales and predict values. When HD sales are soft, the metric market follows suit. If HD used bikes take a hit on resale, you can pretty much count on the same thing taking place in the other breeds circles,, at least thats what I have seen thru the years. I always priced my used bike sales by factoring in the ups and downs (on a %age) of HD's market and always found it amazing how good it worked. This may sound crazy but even my Honda Mini Trail restore sales were subject to this. Back in the late 90's and into the early 2000's when HD dealerships had people waiting for +1 year for an ordered bike to come in and used HD's were being sold for +MSRP of new, I was seeing 5 to 8 thousand per restored Honda Mini Trail (the early hardtails). When the bottom fell out and rallies like Sturgis started showing a huge decline in attendance (another really good indicator for the bike retail businessman to monitor and predict future sales IMHO), my profit margins on even those Mini's got thinner and thinner.. As an example of how HD's market shows up across the board,,, I have been out of the game for a while now but if I were a betting man I would say that if a person bought a brand new Polaris Indian Roadmaster and paid 32k for it, titled it and road it for 2k miles, then took it to a HD shop (or back to Polaris) and wanted to off it for cash, my money would be on him being fortunate to see 16k for it (1/2 of new). On the open market? Probably +16k, maybe more, but that would depend totally on bumping into the right person at the right time with the right $$'s burning a hole in his pocket = just like your example though, more likely than not, the person selling that "new" used bike is gonna have to play the same game you did!! It's not right, it's not fair but it sure seems like thats the way it works.. Make sense?

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Looks like somebodies been riding around with his toe resting on the shift lever

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW Happy Mom's day Eileen,, looks like your well on your way to having a DANDY!! :lightbulb:Not sure if Ohio Law permits multiple wives their bossman but if you'ld be a little more patient in my case and wait for the big motored SS,, Tip said she wouldn't mind if I scatted down there and you and I got hitched,,, as long as I came home with a big motored convertible Camaro Nice rig brother,, you gotta a lot of class brother!!

,, I know,, dont cha just LOVE IT!! It's like a great big 3D jigsaw puzzle that, when finished, and if ya get er right = ya get to go out and CTFW on it ... Life as a gearhead is indescribeably delicious You'll get er done Maddy,,, we're all rootin for ya!!!