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I still think we need to have an open hunting season on scammers.

WOOF!

This was a big news story locally, since Harley is located here. As it was reported locally, Harley must offer to by back every single unit that they ever sold, not just what the dealers have in stock. I'm betting that in reality they will buy very few of them back. I wonder if this was just a first step by the EPA to go after a small company in a niche market (compared to the auto industry, Harley is a fly on the wall) to set a precedent before they go after all of the automotive tuners that are out there. Where the Auto market may escape is that it is not the auto makers that are selling a product that will raise emissions, it is all 3rd party devices.

Yes @Yamagrl does know her stuff. Yes what you said was not wrong, just missing the important part. And you are right again, the world is a much better place when more people agree with me. So I see your Nanny, Nanny, boo boo:rasberry: and raise you a Na Na, Na Na, Doo doo, Stick your head in poo poo.

Not that there is an interesting idea. There is supposed to be a plastic collar between the triple tree and the air collar. BUT by leaving that out it will lower the front end by about 1/4 inch and will leave the fork tubes slightly proud of the triple tree. My fork tubes with the plastic collar are slightly recessed into the triple tree. This should help to improve the low speed handling. which is exactly what I was trying to do by shortening the spring spacers. Now I wonder if I can get those plastic collars out by sliding both forks down enough to get it out without having to remove the calipers, front wheel, fender and brace. If I was sure that removal is what I want I could just cut them off fairly easy and then just push the fork tubes up till the air color hits the TT. Many people with 2nd gens raise the forks in the TT for better low speed handling. HHhmmmmmmmmmmmm...........................

Now it is just plain not nice to set me up like that on a PG website.................

Interesting, and the date of the "Notice to sell document" is 8-24-16 So the auction was closed before it was posted. There is a provision in the notice that the IRS can also bid on the property. Maybe they wanted to be sure they got it for cheap.

That was easy https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FD7VEI6?psc=1 Googled "carburetor adjusting tool".

I used the other method to adjust my needles on small gas engines. I used a thin cut off disc on my Dremel and cut a screwdriver slot across the top of the needle so I could adjust to my hearts content. Every engine I ever bought new was set to lean right out of the box. On a 2 stroke that is a guaranteed early death. Yes on every one that I have done the top of the needle was recessed into a counter bore to make it inaccessible without the special tool. I just slotted right through the sidewalls of the counter bore. I can fully understand why they do this. The vast majority of people that have no clue how to tune an engine will set it to lean and burn up the engine and expect it to be warrantied. I may have to look for that set of tool and save the grinding. The correct needle settings on these engines is constantly changing as the engine brakes in. It takes a good 2 gallons to fully break in one of these little 2 strokes before you will see maximum power available.

But you re all dreaming about that place in Colorado where they get the kind of SNOW that I can only dream about. Ten feet of snow? Must be heaven............. Yes I am a sick puppy, But IF I win the lottery that will allow me to afford to cure or at least treat my illness buy living in a place like this.

Yup what they both said. You also do not know what kind or quality of is in there. What kind of noise are you hearing? I think that the one half of the transmission is always spinning whether the clutch is in or out. that is why you get the small clunk when you put it in gear, that is the engine side suddenly coming to a complete stop.

COOL My chevy has a ruggedized MIL spec CD player because it never skips even when off road on washboard or jumps. But you say MP3 is on its way out? MP3 can't go out yet, I just got in with my first MP3 player. Music in the cloud only, Not gonna happen, at least not for me in my lifetime. Way to many people like me that will not pay for a subscription to a service to listen to music. I think it is headed in the other direction. Cars will be getting less smart once it is realized how many people are getting killed because people are to busy playing and not driving.

I know how the game works, I have a lot of projects that I am likely to not live long enough to finish. But on the other hand, if it makes you happy, and your noggin can withstand the frying pan, then go for it.

IF the air collars are tight against the snap ring that is under them then you now have unequal length forks by the thickness of the plastic ring. You could be bending the front axle or the front wheel may not be square in the forks. I do now that if the front axle were to break it would be really bad. I do not know what handling issues there may be from the front wheel not being straight up and down. Check the tops of the fork tubes to see if they are both the same height above the triple tree. If they are different then I would fix it. If they are the same then maybe just put a hose clamp or something similar under the air collar to be sure that it does not drop with a bump in the road suddenly letting all of the air out of the front. Yes it will be a PITA to put that back in there.

To bad the minimum bid is well into the dream range for me. I often toss in low ball bids on stuff. Who knows, someday I may get such a deal just because no one else put in a bid. And SNOW? I like SNOW

Do you really need another project to sit in the corner of the garage taking up space so that you can work on it someday.

This is all true for pigments. But without light there can be no color. The mixing of light to get colors is different. http://maggiesscienceconnection.weebly.com/visible-light--color.html

As you probably figured out by now the delay is normal to this bike. After all it is 30 year old electronic technology. I just press set, then hold the throttle at a couple MPH slower than what I set it for and wait till I feel the cruise pick up the throttle you can feel the throttle move in your hand as the cruise catches up. If I just hit set and let go of the throttle it will sometimes drop low enough cause the cruise to kick back out before it gets engaged. Part of the reason for this is that the cruise is designed to move the throttle slowly so that there is not a sudden burst od acceleration that could catch you off guard and dump you of the back of the bike. Even when the cruise is adjusting for hills it moves very slow which will allow it to drop speed on the incline and then over speed over the top. That is just the way it is. The faster you are going the longer it takes for the cruise to catch up because it has to move farther, and it moves slow. Once you know that that is just how it is you can develop your own preference for dealing with it.

There is also the possibility that the switch has dirty contacts, and is not turning the hardware on, therefor the OS can not see the hardware. I occasionally have to take my laptop apart to clean dirty switches. I bought this laptop back in 1999. I am cheap, I exhaust all of the free possibilities before I spend my money.

Its not really a pin, it is a squarish bump on the triple tree that goes into a squarish notch in the collar. (Or was it the other way around?) The only reason I can see for its existence is to align the two air hoses that connect to it. The collar on the left side only has one air hose and the length of that air hose pretty much determines where that collar must be. If the length of the air hose changes slightly (manufacturing tolerances,) that left collar will need to rotate slightly to accommodate the length difference. When you assembled yours not knowing that the bump and notch were there, you might have just got lucky and they landed in place. If the bump is not in the notch the fork tube will not go all the way into the triple tree, it will be sitting about 1/4 inch low. That was how I found out about the bump and notch.

I had a hunch that a little tracking would help find him. I hope you are feeling better now.

Now you tell me that I can not get Polish sausage at Home Depot, I guess I'll have to try Menards...........

I always share my stuff. Come on over. I guess I forgot to put in the "WARNING Technical content to follow"

If you are working with light then white a mix of all colors (or colours for those other few.....). When working with pigment, like a paint, then white is the absence of color so that the paint will reflect all of the colors and we will see white light which is all of the colors. If you want red paint then you add a pigment that will absorb all of the colors except for the red light so that we see the color red. Pigment does not actually have color since color is light and the paint does not emit light, it just reflects or absorbs what is there. That is why black things get so hot in the sun, black is the absence of color so that means that the black object is absorbing all of the light energy so it gets the hottest the fastest. White stays cooler because it is reflecting most of the light energy away. So how is this for being out of control?........................

Corroded terminals can do the same thing with the voltage. Check both ends of each battery cable.