Flyinfool

Sounds like you should enjoy yourselves. Don't worry to much about us........ We can behave, well maybe sometimes, maybe just a little.

Also in the realm of the cheap and easy to check. Make sure you are running on all 4 cylinders. these bikes run amazingly well on 3 but the gas mileage drops way off. From cold start the bike and feel the headers right at the head, they should all heat up at the same rate, careful they heat up fast.

My longest was coming home from Dons MD a few years back. It is 425 miles one way by mostly interstate, that trip normally takes my marshmallow butt 9-10 hours. I still have to stop at no more than 100 mile legs. But this one time coming home, it took me 14 hours. This was mainly due to an electrical gremlin that hitched a ride with me. Twice on the way home I had the fairing off in a rest area parking lot chasing that dang gremlin around the bike. That was an incredibly exhausting ride knowing that the bike can and will just shut off at any moment. It finally died completely and I had to push it the last 250 feet home. Time wise that was my longest stretched out ride. the trip to MD is also the longest miles ride I have ever done.

That is why if it look at all like it may possibly be legit I contact the company that sent it. I do NOT use any link in the email or a reply I call them using the phone number on my bill or on the back of a CC or their real web address that I would normally use to contact them. As I mentioned I had one from ebay just this week that had scam written all over it but when I contacted them it was legit.

When I make soup you can eat it with a fork................. Therefore I must be very reasonable..........

That is them.

That may identify a bad output transistor, but that is not the common failure mode. It is usually the internal electronics that fail. it is a custom programmable IC, that can be replaced but no one knows the program to put in that IC.

Most but not all. I just got a email from ebay to update my info because I had not updated anything in over a year. It was an email with a box to click to log into my account. My scam alert immediately sounded. I forwarded the email to Spoof@ebay.com and got a reply back from ebay that it is a legit email from them. Ebay said I can tell it is legit because it was addressed to me by name. I have gotten scams that were addressed to me by name to so that is a pretty wimpy method of proving something is a scam vs legit. I deleted it anyhow out of principal.

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