Flyinfool

So its been a little over a month. Did you try one of the suggested methods or come up with another one of your own? Curious minds need to know.

There is a thread showing pics of exactly what was done.

To me riding once every 3/4 weeks is not stored. Run some Seafoam in the gas. Use ethanol free gas if possible. Keep tank full to avoid condensation. IF everything is working correctly you do not need to turn off the fuel petcock, but turning it off and on is no big deal for peace of mind. If you are storing it for more than a month, then you need to look at more of the proper storage options.

Sounds like a problem of old age and lack of use. It did not look like he ever got the nut hot enough to melt the wax. The heat traveling around the nut from the flame was enough to melt the wax that then dripped onto the threads and solidified almost instantly. Just the fact that he mentions that he broke his torque wrench trying to loosen the nut tells me he is not a wise mechanic, AND if he did actually break a breaker bar trying to loosen that nut, then he was doing something wrong, a 1/2 inch breaker bar should have easily snapped off that little stud long before the wrench broke. I have snapped 3/4 inch grade 5 bolts that had welded into the hole using a 1/2 drive breaker bar (and some pipe).

TMI!!! Pics?

Oh I so love a challenge...........................

I found a grommet close enough at the hardware store. I never looked at what size it was.

Why did Cowpuc duck when I launched SNOW balls at him? Why did they go so far and land out east?

Still guessing this might be pretty close. http://www.mcmaster.com/#9512k98/=14s5idm I made my own out of aluminum.

Because WHY?

Yellow SNOW!

Yes WHY are you wasting time on this thread when there is a Wasting Time thread for that purpose.

Well it is on a full 360° turret with a full 90° of elevation adjustment. So there is not telling where it might get pointed.................... Sooooooo When I go to the chat room and there is no one there to chat with, I could easily get bored and have to go outside and play.................

Since it is an 83 with the known possible frame issues, it might be a great time to weld in the braces to prevent future cracking of the frame.

I might have kind of over shot ol @cowpuc just a tad. It might take a bit to get the new elevations dialed in to get the proper range. I have a lot of new POWER on tap.

Not only did I hear that a lot as a kid, but I also said it a lot as a parent. My kids knew better that to try to see if it was a bluff or not.

This is also true and is the reason I have a mosfet style on my bike. I just hate the whole concept of always running the electrical at 100% capacity till the magic blue smoke comes out. But Mosfet is also not how the system is designed, and most people still have the stock system still in place.

I found a new way to waste time. I ripped out a perfectly good sidewalk and replaced it with a new sidewalk and blew out my back in the process. Now I get to sit around wasting more time while this old bag of bones tries to heal.

Why is the weather so miserable today? Why does it look so much like it wants to SNOW?

Ummmmm.......... Yes..................

With the way the charging system is designed on these bikes, the stator puts out way more power than what is needed by the bike. The RR takes all of the excess power that is not needed and effectively shorts it to ground. This means that no matter what you pull for a load, the stator output does not change. and the higher the load on the system the LESS heat in the RR. It is kind of counter intuitive and hard to wrap ones head around. This is all fine and good until you start to ask the system for more power than it has available to give, that is the point where things really start to get hot and fail. If you get into that point, you will be going thru stators, not batteries.

I would think that a BMW or a Porsche would suffice.

I guess that is one of the reasons I have never camped in a "campground". I prefer places that even the 2 trackin @cowpuc would not find. My favorite campsite is 22 miles from the nearest pavement, and you need more than 10 inches of ground clearance to even get in there. I can spend a week and never see or even hear another human the whole time.

It is a sad but true fact that in order to train a dog you must be smarter than the dog, other wise the dog will train you. y next door neighbor had a yapper. He could not understand why my dog does not bark, I tell him it is because I trained her, same reason mine does not run away or even leave the yard.

I have two of the Bad Boys from Harbor freight. The first one was put on the right side 5 years ago and the second was put on the left side 4 years ago. They both still sound the same as the day they were installed. As mentioned a few times, It is very important to feed horns all the power they want. Using the existing bikes wiring and switch to feed the horns will reduce volume and will also reduce life expectancy. You must use a relay and at least 14ga wire to feed the horns right from the battery. MOST of the motorcycle and car horns available as aftermarket are rated at 4 inches from the horn. A db rating with no distance is a totally meaningless number that is only good for advertising to the unenlightened masses. If someone is 4" from the horn it is to late to do anything. Sound pressure is reduced by half every time you double the distance. 3db is what it takes to double or halve the sound pressure. Do the math and you can almost yell louder than most horns. I am still working on mounting a train horn to my bike, it is rated at at least 120dba @ 100 yards. That is the minimum spec for a train horn, some are much louder. When I used to work for Prime MFG one of our products was train horns for the railroad industry. All of our horns were tested to meet 150dBa @10 feet. Testing day got really loud in the shop. That will get some serious attention, once they crawl back into the skin they just jumped out of. I have come up with 2 possible ways to do this, just have to decide which way to go.