Flyinfool

Unless the bearing is bad don't mess with it. You would need a bearing puller which will damage the bearing getting it off. I would start with just looking at the brushes, if the brushes and commutator look good then I doubt the bearings are worn at all. Think about how much time the starter is actually spinning, it runs 1 or 2 seconds for each normal start. At 2 seconds per start, you get 30 starts to a minute of run time, or 1800 starts to get an hour of run time on the starter motor. That is a lot of starts to get one hour of wear, The bearings should be good for many hundreds of hours. The only thing that might take them out would be water in the motor. by changing out good bearings you have a better chance of damaging the armature than you do of adding life to the motor.

Oh sure, now I have to go and find the whole bag full of tools that my basement ate.......

A very good reason to skip 2nd gear is if you don't have a second gear, in which case the hills really don't matter.

If you buy the gaskets from Skydoc_17 he has a shim kit that he loans out that includes a tool. If you wish to buy a tool, I have some left in stock ready to ship, PM me.

Try lubing the clutch lever pivot and cleaning the contacts in the clutch switch. This has been an issue for 1st gens and the 2nds are getting up there in years now.

@cowpuc has about 200K miles of hard riding with no 2nd. The problem with 2nd gear will not take out the rest of the tranny.

I am sure that if you were to come up here we can do better than just lunch, I know some awesome places for ice cream. After all this is Wisconsin and we know our dairy products. Even though the turnout was a bit low everyone still had a great time. I still have not figured this all out. Today was great riding weather, a couple of bikes did show up. Even though this was the best weather we ever had it was the lowest turn out. The time is was very cold and snowing is the time we had the biggest turnout with attendees from 3 states. :confused24:

"Its only a dumb question if you already know the answer." One of my dads favorites.

Wen to the doc today for the final sign off on my foot. She said that she has never had a patient heal as fast as I did. She said everything looks good. It will still take some time to get everything stretched out and back up to speed. I am still scheduled for more PT till April 6. I am hoping that by then It will be strong enough to move the bike around and get it up on the center stand. If I can get on the center stand and get the bike out of the shed then I am strong enough to ride it to.

Just one more day, Tomorrow (Saturday)is the day. The weather is even going to be decent for a ride. Mid 50s, partly sunny, and it rained during the week to wash most of the salt off the roads.

Well ole @cowpuc, since you are out riding around the shores of the big pond between us, just keep following that shoreline until you end up in my back yard. You can then join us for a my mid winter M&E at 1:00 Saturday afternoon to see if you can wrap yourself around a burger known as the 747 and justly named. So far I am the ONLY person that I have seen that could handle a burger of this magnitude, with all of that good Wisconsin cheese, 1 full pound of BURGER, and a pile of BACON and other fixins..........You keep saying you are always up for a great burger.

It sure looks like it was a police escorted ride. With as quick as the cop showed up he must have been right behind and watching everything. The cop went after the cage instead of the bikes. We do not see what happened before hand.

And Puc broke his puter and is now on an old computer that does not have a period button.................. Puc here are some spares for ya..........................................................................................

This sounds like a problem. fuses are all on the hot side not on the ground side. Check all of your crimped connections, I have seen it where the wire was pushed in to far and the crimp was done over the insulation instead of the stripped end of the wire.

Love the trip report while I am stuck stranded here. Please keep um comin. I have to ask the obvious question. Are those now JB Weld gaskets on the water pump?

There is another small fuse panel in front of the battery. check those fuses to.

I prefer the diaphragms from Sirius. They install just like the factory ones. The JPM ones require a minor modification to the slides that will make it difficult or impossible to use other than the JPM in the future. http://www.siriusconinc.com/search_result.php?search=search&make=2&model=xvz1300&part=1&partno=&x=45&y=12

I took 20 years off from riding, when I was last riding it was on a KZ750 that was decked out for touring. After that 20 year break I got my 1st gen, just because it can go 100 MPH in third does not mean that I did and I am still alive with most of my skin still attached. My next door neighbor got a Suzuki Hayabusa as his FIRST EVER bike. That is a seriously fast bike and he is still alive. (I am still working on a chance to take it out for a spin.) Depending on your friends attitude at a minimum get him to a big empty parking lot to work on basic handling. Better would be to take some courses over again. Since he had you take it for the test ride for him, it sounds like he may be sensible enough to realize his limitations and to accept help and suggestions. Good luck for the both of you.

Bummer. But that is actually fairly common to break that off. Ebay might be your friend here, or maybe some one has one on a parts bike. Seeing as how it is brakes which are the most important thing on a bike, I would not try to "glue" it back on. When trying to get the plug out, put a second wrench on the flats of the casting to help support it. The casting does break easy.

The new bluray payer is now in the hands of FedEX, It should be here on the 10th. The pic on this TV is so much better than my old one and I know that it is not yet hit near its full potential until i get access to better source material. But that is all in the process of upgrading all of the peripherals.

Naughty Naughty. Doc is gonna spank you till you cant sit down to keep you off the bike. Don't go pushing it and end up doing permanent damage.

TV is here, still waiting on the blu ray player to go with it. Compared to what I had this picture is amazing. AND I a\have not yet fed it i true HD or UHD signal.

SNOW!

Hibernate.

Nap