Flyinfool

You needed an excuse to go somewhere anyhow.......

Glad you are going again. Your wife sounds like a keeper.

I painted a 68 Buick Wildcat with Rustolium and a roller, not to bad.

This may take some work to unhack the wire harness. I would start by going to the 1st gen library and downloading and printing the wiring diagram for your bike. We can then take some educated guesses as to what the PO may have done. My first guess is that he took out the RLU (Reserve Lighting Unit) he may have even cut out and bypassed the Hi/Lo switch. But we will get you thru this.

When was the last ime you greased the splins and pins in the rear wheel. They can do weird things when dry too.

Thread locker is an insulator. I added a lock washer.

Ouch, the site and chat went down again at 8:40 CDT, just for a few minutes. It went down hard and had to reboot my puter to get back.

Why use a brush, a roller is much faster.

Figures that if you had to get WI involved it would be a couple extra hundred. But WI don't care as long as it is money coming in. Is it still to good to be true?

Good thing you warned us and I was able to see the warning before it went down, otherwise I might have had a heart attack. So far all seems to be as it was.

It is not just the rubber parts that are destroyed. Ethanol needs a air to fuel ratio of about 7:1 and gas needs about 14:1. So if you put ethanol into an engine that has a fueling system (carbs or EFI) that is expecting gas and will mix it 14:1 with air. you will be running the engine WAY lean and burn holes in the pistons. This is also why gas containing ethanol gets worse miles per gallon than straight gas. Modern Flex Fuel cars the computer is able to determine the ethanol content of the fuel to keep the air : Fuel ratio correct for whatever it is being fed. Carburetors can not do this magic.

Now that you describe it, I do remember that there are HIDs that do move the shield and some that move the bulb. I have not seen one that moves both. I have never looked close at a HID that moves the shield. There is no discernible (to me) interruption in light with mine that moves just the bulb. I do know that the time it takes my bulb to move is less than the time it takes a filament to come to temperature and make light or to cool off to stop making light. I guess some night we will need to line a bunch of bikes up side by side, facing a wall, with all the different headlight technologies represented, and do a comparison.

Maybe you had a trapped air bubble that has worked its way out.

At idle it is normal to have a low output. You need to check the battery voltage with the engine at around 3,000 RPM.

When the E85 fuel came out what was left in the hose was a big issue. That is why E85 must be in a pump with a dedicated hose. At the time they sere saying that between the switching valve, the pump, the meter the filters and the hoses to connect it all up was almost 3 gallons. So if you went in with a gas can for your mowers, snow blowers or what ever you could get all E85 and destroy your engine that was not designed for it. Same for some of the real small econobox cars with 8-10 gallon tanks, you could end up with a half tank of E85 and destroy the engine. When I get my premium ethanol free gas I only buy from pumps that have a dedicated hose, otherwise you are just buying some of the good stuff for the next guy in line and you are getting whatever the last guy got.

I found this that may help a bit. http://www.justanswer.com/small-engine/3q7n9-bought-pro-user-g2300-generator-engine-works.html I could not find a schematic or parts diagram online to see what its internal circuits are. If the capacitor looks like it may be damaged, it is easy to replace and not very expensive. There are other things that can cause the cap to fail. If you replace the cap, what is important is the 19uF and the 450V AC. The voltage can be higher but never lower. Most of those type capacitors are round metal cans, it may be tricky mounting it.

She won't be slow if you keep getting on the 2nd gen and leaving her a garage full of 1st gens.

I guess I do not know how it is possible for the switch between Hi and Lo to be slower than the halogen. Since the bulb never turns off there is zero start time for HID. Halogen takes a fraction of a second for the other element to heat up to a temperature that produces light. The physics says that the stock halogen must be slower to switch. Flicking between Hi and Lo with a Bi-xenon HID does NOT cause any extra wear on the ballast. The Hi and Lo both use the same bulb so it never turns off and reignites. Hi/Lo is achieved by having a solenoid that physically moves the bulb to the proper positions for the Hi or Lo filament.

We also had a great time. Our most hearty thanks to Don and Eileen for their hospitality. There are still some folks that I did not get a chance to meet. Guess we will have to come back again...........

I once ran a test in my big red truck. I kept a gas log where I recorded the date, odometer, gallons, obtain, brand and cost of every fill up. I did all fillups with premium, mostly with ethanol, for a full year. I then compared this log to a log of a full year with regular gas. My conclusions were that with the premium gas I did see an improvement in gas mileage, BUT the dollars per mile went down. I also did see a measurable difference in my 0-60 time with premium showing a measurable increase in acceleration capability. Due to the truck having a max speed limiter built into the computer I could not test for a difference in top speed. The biggest difference was when pulling the 6,000 lb RV. I got much better gas mileage and acceleration with the premium, enough that the dollars per mile actually favored the premium. so for towing the heavy load I will still run the premium. Through all of this I never noticed any difference in normal daily driving, only difference was the performance extremes. So I am another that will run regular unless I have a really heavy load. As for my bike, it only gets premium if there is an option of ethanol free. The lack of ethanol makes a lot more of a difference that the octane. For the last tank of the year I always bring a couple of fuel jugs deer hunting to get some ethanol free gas (happens to be premium) to store all of my summer engines. There is no ethanol free gas available in SE Wisconsin. the nearest station is 100 miles away and there is only premium available in ethanol free. Up here wee have enough boats, snowmobiles, and other 2 stroke engines around that there are a few gas stations that even have a gas pump of 2 cycle premix.

Only gave da Ferd a 3 hour and 250 mile head start, to make it close.

That ain't the same bike you pulled in on is it????

AS always It was a wonderful time by you wonderful hosts. Just made it in at 8:30 your time.

Thats OK Dan, I'll even let you park your little Ford next to my big ol Chevy................. Looking forward to seeing you there.

I guess I need to stock up on red and green duck tape first.