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Might try pulling the pads, clamping the pads that will move and pressing on the pedal real hard to see if you can force the stuck pistons out some. Watch em closely as you press down on the pedal, if one moves, allow it to move out about a pads width and clamp it and continue pressing to unstick the last one. Once ya get em all out a little more than the full width of a new pad, clean em up real well with brass brush or a brillo pad, smear a little brake fluid on em and push em back in again. Repeat a few times looking for scrub marks on the pads each time when ya move em out.. Sometimes you can free em up and not have to rebuild,, not always but it might be worth a try..

Good idea Carl! Only right now we are having Grand Paws famous Army Eggs ( cut up Hot Dog's, fry em and then mix in eggs and stir) and Toast cause it's a little early for dinner Sgaddetee again.. I highly doubt the results will be any different 2nd time around where he ate allll of his sgaddetee and 1/2 of mine yesterday,,, that result was 2 diaper changes and a swim in the tub BUT,, we can do it again just cause you mentioned it (I just asked him if sgaddetee sounded good for dinner and his eyes lit up so am taking that as a )..

Thanks brother FRANKY! Tip and I are totalling following your advice! Your friend in Michigan Scott LOL

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW ,,, NICE VAz,, VERY VERY NICE!!! As far as the lop eared VR varmint RVin meeting of whats left of the minds,,, "If you build it, they will come!!!":97:

Ahhhhh,,, the joys of Grand Parenting!! sleep overs at Grandma and Grandpa's are always the best!!

Probably only cause I run these poor scoots hard and into the ground @Chaharly but I can usually tell if my 1st Gens have lost that RTV seal on the rubber tubes on the bottom of the air box cause I start getting oil on the jugs from breather seepage coming out of the air box. I have tried several forms of sealant for a reseal and gotta say I have found E6000 (cheap too, especially if ya catch it at a Dollar Store) to work the best of the best! Just pull the tubes, clean everything real well with either brake or carb cleaner = clean till its is CLEAN.. Coat the groove with E6000, let it dry before using the air box. Definitely plug that hole and I would use E6000 for that too = has worked AWESOME in my squished saddlebag repair for years and is still pliable as shown in the video below!! Stuff is amazing!!

I have used a small weight scale to do the final set on my bikes for many years - scales the shooters use to measure hammer or trigger pull (have used em for double duty thru the years,, I'm a cheap bugger = multiple use of specialty tools = another flaw in my character:duck:) but the method has served me well. What have done on both my MX/Harescrambling race bikes, street bikes and even quads/three wheelers is as long as I know I have good bearings in the steer head and its lubed properly I will run the bottom spanner nut down and torque it to 5 ft pds, move the forks from lock to lock several times to displaced any grease from between the bearings/races, retorque to 6. Then put the spacer (some are rubber, some are steel) over the bottom spanner and spin on the upper. I like to hand tighten the upper as tight as I can get it and then finish it off with a nudge with a spanner so the spanner notches between top and bottom align. Reset the upper, toss on the stem nut. Center the bars so the front wheel is point straight ahead (dont have to be perfect). Take a tie wrap and zip it loosely on the end of each bar. Hook my trigger scale to the tie wrap and at a perpendicular angle to the grip lightly pull and watch for movement in the grip. I like to see movement at about 12 ozs of pull in both directions off each grip.. If its lacking I take the upper back off and tighten the upper spanner nut by one notch to realign again (hold the bottum nut with a spanner to nudge against),, if its tight I back off one notch = then check it again. I know,, all sounds really old schoolish but the above has done ok by me... Cheap Chinese Scale that would do the job? Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/50KG-5G-Hanging-Scale-Digital-Backlight-Fish-Luggage-Pocket-Weight-KG-LB-OZ-SA/283010907453?epid=2169391938&hash=item41e4c3bd3d:g:G6IAAOSwd0BVwtEo

and even if the Boss does care,,, IT WILL BE PARTY TIME IN THE PENALTY BOX FOR US LOP EARED VARMINTS!!! :guitarist 2::guitarist 2::guitarist 2::guitarist 2::guitarist 2:

Speaking of hitting the target, years ago the bar I attended fairly regularly had one of those famous "WE AIM TO PLEASE, YOU AIM TOO PLEASE" hanging over the urinals,, not sure why but your made me remember that r

and our dear and wonderful friend FlyinFool's VR "Friend" account just jumped by 1000%!!

Goofiest thread I ever did see.. Oh come on Unc,,, you know as well as all the rest of these varmints KNOW there is nothing going to happen to you no matter what you do with it... Just be careful handling it, wear gloves and saftey classes when you toss it in the dumpster and you'll be fine. Matter of fact,, if it were mine I would THROW it in the dumpster against something very hard cause I LOVE to hear the big CRASH and SMASH sounds... unless a black cat crosses your path while on the way to the dumpster,,, if that happens, carefully go back to where you found the mirror, set it down very carefully to not create any more cracks in it, walk back over to where the black cat crossed your path and step back and forth over his tracks 23 times and then carefully walk back to your bedroom, crawl in bed and cover your head and do not remove the covers for 21.12 hours exactly!!! Dont dally in doing all this if a black cat crosses your path cause the curse for not doing so, especially when dealing with a broken mirror, is that you will start turning into a dog! Oh my gosh,,, is there something wrong with the picture of you in your signature orrrr

WE MISSED YOU!!!

Definitely a HD :big-grin-emoticon:Screaming Eagle Race Tuner as that lop eared wheelin dealin Fool varmint's home is only a couple miles from the Manufacturer of that puppy!!

and I miss my brother everyday... Especially all the fun we had :stirthepot::usa::usa::usa::usa::biker::stickpoke: around the club house and then :rotf::rotf: afterwards in the penalty box.. DanL was one loved individual: (if you click on the following link, please be aware that it may take a minute or so to load - but IMHO, it is well worth the wait = LOTS OF GREAT LOP EARED VARMINTS IN THERE!!) https://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?104022-To-Yammer-Dan-From-VR-family-who-attended-Freebird-s-MD-we-love-brother!!&highlight=card

Back years ago when just a youngen, and a broke youngen at that, I did a lot of scraping cars for $$.. We had a junk yard a few miles from us who's owner loved us young gearheads and would pay us $25 cash for any vehicle we could drive, tow or drag in. It was a time and age when a youngen could knock on someones door who had a rust bucket sitting in their yard and if you asked with sad enough eyes they would almost always just give it to ya . One of the only requirements at the junk yard was the fuel had to be drained out of em. Motor oil was fine but no gas. I developed a very easy drain em method that not only took care of the no fuel rule but gave me a chance to shoot my 30-30 Deer Rifle. One shot straight down thru the trunk and the process was done. We had a 5' wide low spot in our field that I would line with plastic, pull the car over, shoot it, let it drain, drag it forward and toss a match in the gas.. It always amazed me how much smoke burning raw fuel would create. While not as bad as burning tires, in a non atomized state it is definitely not as clean burning of a fuel as one would think.

Theft is America's number one crime ,,,,,, ,,, and only you can prevent forest fires (I think I watched wayyy to many commercials on TV when I was a kid ) Such preciously priceless GREAT memories here too Vaz!!

INDEED :sign yeah that::sign yeah that: Even though my long distance CTFW days are over and Tip and I are stranded high and dry having to do our serious chasin/campin and frolickn in Trooper,, old habits do die hard = I can personally vouch for :sign67::sign67::sign67::sign67: =this cabin fever is TORTURE!!:fiddle: Come summer,, this club house will calm wayyyyy down,,,, maybe

Why is it that there HAS to be a lop eared wise butt varmint in every crowd This one probably dont like Hot Dogs either Corporal Newkirk

Back when I was running a Dealership I did a TON of business with a huge Auction House (in the new, out with the old) near the Ohio line so we got a lot of cross state business and I can tell you, Michigan is/was a breeze for title work compared to Ohio. Matter of fact, the Auction House would not/could allow sales of even old dirt bikes into Ohio without titles. This created a lot of hassle for folks from Ohio wanting to buy the older stuff as, back in the day, many Quads/Dirt Bikes and MX bikes of Vintage status never came with Titles in Michigan. Here in Mi, the process for transfering ownership is also a TON easier. Our SOS (Sec of State) used to require things like Notorization on the title, EXACT signature's as printed on title when signing off (may not sound like much BUT I guarentee ya, if your selling a car and you forget to dot an I or cross a T and end up having to apply for a new title and make the buyer wait 3 months for the State to reissue = you and your buyer will NOT be happy campers) and all kinds of crazy stuff = back in the 70's. That all changed and now, even the hassle of Notorization is a thing of the past, matter of fact, a Michigan title doesnt even have a place on it for Notorization and they dont care much about even exact sigs either. I also did several deliveries into your State of Customs I had built and can tell you first hand = WHAT A NIGHTMARE!! NO,, the States are not the same, not at all! I will also tell ya this,, there are numerous states that are also wayyyy easier than Michigan too.. South Dakota comes to mind.. You can take a vehicle like a Razor that is absolutely NOT "streetable" here in Michigan and hit up SD for an easy title. Quads/Three wheelers (talkin dirt stuff here) are not streetable here because of their undifferentialed rear ax but in places like Utah (if memory serves correctly) = totally doable. Years ago I did a TON of business with a Yamaha Shop in Canada taking advantage of the $$ strength and bought lots of left over inventory from them. I found out that California dirt bikes had to have a certain letter in their VIN that qualified them to be streetable for year around use. I also found out that all Canadians bikes (at least the Yamaha YZF enduro line did) had that matching letter. I did a TON of fairly lucrative business as a middle man in buying brand new crated "Enduro's" putting em together here out crate and then retailing them into California. Another one that you may find interesting here 40,, Michigan was (no idea if this still applies) for easy on converting actual full blown factory MX bikes for street usage. Toss on a aftermarket headlight assembly, a squeeze ball for horn, a bicycle mirror, an inline hydraulic brake light switch, a small battery (I also did numerous stator updates to give actual umph for those wanting a usable headlight or hand warmers added) and a low decible silencer and bingo,, you were riding 5 gear wheelies on your KX or CR500 with a genuine Michigan bike plate AND, the bikes title was totally tranferable and even looked like an actual, for real, no different than any other Michigan Title.. There is no comparison between States legal titling stuff IMHO 40.. It will be interesting now to hear of other varmints input here.. LOVE this thread!! Thanks for askin! Puc

Good on ya Cammy:thumbsup:,, I fixed mine too brother,,, I just never look down

OUTSTANDING Corporal Newkirk,, OUTSTANDING:dancefool:,,, it's pretty early in the mourning for a lop eared geezer of a varmint like me to be doing math but lets see here,, your 1 times my 0 = ,,,, no that, that cant be right,, think I gotta switch that around,, my 0 x your 1 =,,, oh well,,,, we're still winners brother, come on over and I'll buy ya Hot Dog and we'll keep playin that tune till we get it right:guitarist 2:

:sign yeah that::sign yeah that::sign yeah that::sign yeah that::clap2::dancefool:!!!!!! DO THIS MADDY!!!!!!!! DO EXACTLY WHAT MY FRIEND RANDY IS SAYING!! DO NOT GO TO ALLLL THE WORK OF TEARING IT DOWN WITHOUT DOING EXACTLY WHAT RANDY IS SAYING!! TAKE THE XTRA TIME AND MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN!! :dancefool::dancefool::dancefool: DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Randy,, whats your take on clutch advice for Maddy? Is there any chance that a MK2/V-Max diaphram clutch setup would work and if so, do you feel its worth the trouble? I have countless encounters with, from being ridden hard in the upper gears,, the OEM 83 clutch just not being up to the task = like they shoulda had another inch or so on the plate diametger and dropped that goofy 1/2 plate buffer idea BUT,, I am sure taking some pressure off the clutch by dropping the gearing some like your idea is all about would help there too = thoughts? EXCELLENT POINT BROTHER ON DOING THE TRANNY SWAP!!

Hmm, bummer... Dont know so much on the fuel pump,, I know on both my 1st Gen and on my R1 = I like to cycle the fuel pump by turning the kill switch on and off until I hear it slow down and finally stop clicking before I start em after they have been sitting a bit to make sure the bowls are full before I hit the start button. Not sure on yours but I got a gut feeling it should be the same,, like the fuel pump is only capable of pushing so many PSI and then it is not able to pump once the float valve closes.. You might try doing what I am talking about and see if yours does this.. Dont start it, just cycle the pump and see if its stops... I would say that if it cycles to a stop and then you try and cycle it again by going on and off with the key or the kill switch and it makes a couple "clicks" = the float valves are leaking.. No idea what the needle valves actually look like in your bike but I have replaced many of both types = the rubber tipped ones and the solid ones. Both of them are fairly easy to look at and see if they are ridged or grooved. Another possibilty would be if the seats are loose or, if o-ringed for sealing has gone bad = maybe getting fuel past the OD of the seat itself.. I had a Honda 350 drop a Valve Seat once when I was a kid and, for the life of me I could not figure out why that jug would not hold compression.. I finally noticed an odd color around the seat,, took the valve out and banged on the head and the seat fell out in my hand... CRAZY stuff does happen!!

:lightbulb: You, my brother, are just FILLED with alllll kinds of GREAT ideas!!!! I will try and get some video of this as soon as the weather breaks ,,, dont gas melt plastic?

Well,, not so much YEEEEEHAWWWW but,, we gave er alllll she had @RDawson and @made2care .... Not even one lousy number ... Ohhh well,, I guess it's the thought that counts,,,,, Back to living on Hot Dogs, Ramen Noodles and Ice Tea ... Heyyyy, wait a minute, I LOVE Hot Dogs, Ramen Noodles and Ice Tea,, what am saying,, life aint so bad,, I still got lots of Hot Dogs, Ramen Noodles and Ice Tea,,, plus I got an AWESOME 1st Gen and a very fast R1 to ride, a really good shootin 1911 45, a couple AR's to break in when the weather breaks and an amazing wife and kids who love me inspite of the fact that I am a maniac and lots of friends like you two.. ,, LIFE IS GREAT!! ,,, cant help but wonder what 550 million split 3 ways woulda been like though:hihi: