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Most of those articles are confusing because they compare "synthetic" to regular oil without telling you what synthetic they are talking about. Almost all, if not all of the auto "synthetic" oils on the store shelves is Group III dino oil. Even Amsoil is mostly Group III now. I don't know what Motorcycle "synthetic" is. But with a price of $10 or so a bottle, maybe it is PAO. I doubt it.

I reread this entire discussion and there seems to be lots of folk comparing auto oil change intervals to bikes. Big difference because of the bike's clutch being immersed in the engine oil shortening the life of the oil. I think that in general we are wasting money buying "synthetic" oil. But, we like to waste money on our vehicles. I put "synthetic" in parenthesis because we really don't know what's in the "synthetic". Synthetic used to be PAO, polyalphaolefin. Now it's Group III dino oil or something made from dino oil or the latest, made from natural gas.

Yes, you are correct. I apologize for the incorrect info. partzilla does not list the pilot screw set for the 83, 84, or 85 carbs but does for the MkIIs. I bought some for my 89 a while back.

partzilla.com will have the mixture screw sets.

Just wild guessing here. But, 200 to 210 psig seems rather high for compression if the gauge is correct. Could the timing chain be off by one notch?

That is very true but it isn't that much different from the rest of the toy haulers. The toys are loaded in the front or the rear of all of them affecting the tongue weight in one way or the other.

I say this Toy Hauler at a gas station not too far from Sturgis. I've never seen one like it before.

I retired a couple years ago and I highly recommend it! You still won't have much leisure time though. There are just too many things that need to get done!

I just went to their web site and they list those new 2015's for $9795 now. Still a great deal!

I like what I read about those except the seat height of 33". For a 29" or 30" inseam guy, it might challenge me.

The auto tuners like Superchips claim their tunes are emission legal. Don't know about that but I have a Superchips tune in my 2002 F150 and my 2005 Dodge Magnum Hemi. It added a guesstimated 20 hp to my F150 and they had a dyno chart on the Hemi that showed a 12hp peak increase and 15 ft lbs of torque throughout the rpm range. I like what they did to both vehicles. Improved the fuel economy in both vehicles.

I checked with a couple of auto parts stores and they no longer carry spark plug wire. They only have complete sets.

Never click on any links in emails similar to that. I used to get emails about updating my paypal and credit card info. I just transfer them to junk and then block them.

It's probably a good thing. When I was in Sturgis this year, the smell of unburned gasoline was very strong in the air throughout the town. If you ride a Harley, you don't care about having the fastest bike in town anyway!

You just can't stand it if someone doesn't see things like you do. You must be a democrat.

Like I already said, it's not my dream. I respect the fact that it is yours. Neither is riding a motorcycle on the dirt my dream. I have a 4x4 F150 for that. And if it is your dream, you might be able to afford it. There aren't many buyers for a place like that.

I bet you could buy that house a lot cheaper than you think. Nope, it's not my dream. My wife and I have been looking around for several years. Our home has been paid for quite a while. We never could agree on any particular house so we stay in the house I bought new in 93. It's plenty nice and more than we need. We looked for good deals after the recession. We found a 3700 sq ft almost mansion on 5 acres in the country that I wanted. It was only about 20 minutes from Wilmington but she didn't want to live that far out. So, it's all good. We saved some money. I also wanted a home in a subdivision that had it's own marina on the inland waterway and every owner had a wet 30' boat slip. She didn't like the house. The houses she liked had terrible or expensive HOAs, typically didn't have an attic or had small garages. Never could come to terms. Frankly, I'd rather have the cash in the bank anyway.

I'm sure most of us will keep it for you. Just leave the keys!

I worked with an enterprising young engineer back in the 80's in the Raleigh area who had several rental properties. When a renter owed him money he would go to court and get a judgement against them and put a lien on anything they had such as a CAR! He had gone through the process enough that he didn't use an attorney any more. He knew all the paperwork and how the legal system worked himself. Another engineer I worked with in FL from 2010 to 2013 was from a town just south of Detroit. He had a dozen or so rental houses and he bought several more at auctions for cheap after the recession. I remember him saying he had to accept renters who had credit scores of 500 because so many people had suffered in the recession and hadn't been able to pay all their debts. His daughter was managing the properties for him while he continued to work as an engineering contractor.

Not many women would live way out there and it would be sort of lonely without a grocery store one quarter mile away, not to mention an auto parts store. I assume you would have to maintain your own generator and water supply. I worked with an engineer while in Wisconsin who was set on buying a big place in the country on lots of acreage and he showed me several places in Missouri that were very reasonably priced. Eventually, he ended up buying a huge house that was more of a lodge than a house with 80 acres of land in Missouri for pennies on the dollar. Some executive had it built and tried for a long time to sell it. And he talked another engineer we worked with to buy a place in that area. Trouble is it would have to be a retirement home because getting a job there would be tough if not impossible. My wife who is Russian has a Russian friend who married a bank president in Kentucky. He retired or was retired by the co. and the recession hit. So he sold his 6,000 sq ft home on 7 acres of land with horse stables and lots of stuff for about $275k just to get rid of it. The recession took most of his 401k too and he couldn't afford to live there any more. They moved to Jacksonville FL and picked up a nice 3 br home for about $135k and that is where they still live. You could buy a home really cheap in FL after the recession hit. When I was working in Homestead, FL, a house came on the market that was similar to that guys home, over 6k sq ft on 7 acres for $300k.

Parallel twin would be buzzy, I presume. My first bike was a CB350 Honda. Great little bike to start with but it turned up something like 6500 rpm at 60 and my hands would feel like they were asleep after an hour or so.

Looks really nice!

Kawasaki GPZ750 for sale http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mcy/5744387288.html

You many notice that the Kawasaki has a disc brake on the rear instead of the drum brake on the Yamaha. It also has an oil cooler. My 85 ZN700 has a rear disc brake. The Honda Nighthawk of that year had a drum brake. Kawasaki went the extra distance to make a better bike.

Slavery existed in Russia too. It was called serfdom. The serfs were essentially owned by their masters and had to get permission to do anything such as get married. The Tsar eliminated serfdom in 1861 thereby freeing 23 million serfs from their masters.