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Now this has to go down into the history books. BIG TOM EVEN PUT IT IN WRITING "please send back the snowflakes......" !!!!!!!!!!! Who would have ever thought to hear those beautiful words from @BIG TOM? Thank you kind sir, you have made my day.

They are still terrible in the winter. The V6 is missing 2 cylinders which will make it less bad in the winter but worse the rest of the time.

Well Mr @BIG TOM, My foot is getting better and I may be back to work by next week. Now IF I can go to work that would seem to mean that I can also get back to play....................................... By the way I see SNOW flakes in the air right now:snow2:

#1 In many places it is mathematically not possible to have the lights synchronized in both directions of travel. I know of stretches of road like that where the lights are synced in the direction that will have the highest traffic flow and the opposite direction gets to stop at every light.

Great find, I am still in the club that you just left. The Just Dreaming About A Deal Of A Lifetime Club. It sure looks like it is in a lot better than $250 shape.

She sure do look happy.

Yes @cowpuc this will keep me occupied for a while. BUT I so love the melodious sound of the Snowpercharger whirring in the background wile I work on the scoot.......... The biggest issue that I see at first look is that the power wire of a halogen H3 comes out to the side where these wires come straight out the back of the bulb and the back of the bulb is a LOT longer than a stock H3. Just looking at it it appears that the light producing element is pretty close to the same location in both bulbs. Based on this I am optimistic about the beam pattern that I will get. The big issue will be that the back of the bulb will not fit into the housings that I have without modification. Fortunately I have the technology to make modifications to the housing. The plan is to cut a 1 inch hole in the back of the housing. Then I will turn a hollow plastic cap to fit into that hole and be deep enough to clear the back of the bulb. Then glue or plastic weld the new cap to the housing. Perhaps a splash of paint to make it purdy. The high voltage wires that go from the ballast to the bulb are only about 16 inches, with a connector in the middle. So it looks like one ballast in each side of the fairing. Sorry no pics yet but due to my foot I am only doing armchair engineering at this point. But there will eventually be more to come.

I have no idea where I will stuff the ballasts, a lot will depend on just how long the wires are. My first guess is that one will go in each side of the fairing. There is plenty of room for stuff in there. If the wires are long enough I would like to put both ballasts in the right fairing just to keep that high voltage (23,000V) farther away from my stereo and ignition box that are both in the left fairing.

Good for you. I sure wish I could have gone for a ride on Christmas day. Someone must be getting old and/or laid up and not taking care of business.

Ouch, glad that YOU are OK. First thought, when you did the brake work before did you have the front wheel off and maybe putt something back in the wrong place causing the front wheel to be off center? Same question on the calipers. push the pistons back in to see which side is actually frozen, one side should move easy and the other side not so much. Or you could VERY gently squeeze the brake to see which side moves first, the other side is the one hanging up. At this point I would take the whole caliper apart and do a complete rebuild, then rebuild the other 2 as they are likely not far behind. For the crash bar all that's left is to bolt on a different one, not much left to fix there unless you want to build it back up by welding and sand it round and then just have painted crash bars. I personally don't like chrome anyhow so I would just weld and paint. There may be more than I can see in the pic but the fairing does not look to bad. I had a local paint shop mix me a small can of that color to repaint the top of one of my side bags, they started with a Toyota color that was close and then hand matched from there. Came out perfect. I just cleared the top of both lids so that the shine would match. Good luck getting it back together.

Are you referring to a Yamaha Venture Royal also known as an XVZ13? A yvr is a completely different bike. The air ride on the Venture is called the "CLASS" system. It only works with the engine off and the key in the ACC position.

And who gave you that nice gift? Santa got me some nice HID Fog lights for the bike. All the deer will be saying "Can you see me now....?".

OUTSTANDING post.

Well this should be interesting. Santa brought me a set of 35W, H3, HID lights. Funny coincidence, My bike has a set of 55W Halogen lights with H3 bulbs. Now I can only wonder what would happen if those cute little HID bulbs were to accidentally fall into the fog light housings...........? I already have a HID H4 in the headlight and that one headlight puts out more light than the 4 halogen lights on the front of my P/U truck. The fogs that I have are a clear lens and are designed to shoot a major portion of their light to light up the ditches so that I can spot deer as soon as possible. This will be an interesting conversion for sure. Now IF I can just get back to being ambulatory so I can get out to the bike to start messing with this....................

Castle Doctrine would be iffy at best. She DID invite them into the house and onto the property. At this point they may even have a legal claim in small claims court or even to put a lean on the house since technically they did start authorized work on the house. Yes they are the scum of humanity. But under the law they did ask if they could do work on the house, were given permission, and they did start work on the house, and they did use some materials. Stealing a CC is a whole nutter matter that could/should swing the whole legal issue back into your mothers favor IF they should decide to pursue this in the courts, as there is no way that that can be made to sound legal, on the other hand it may be difficult to prove that they stole the CC unless they can get caught with it. And for that they should get life. If your MOM has more than that one CC call them all and cancel the cards as stolen. Just because they stole one physical card does not mean that they did not copy the info from the others to use online later.

Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the............ Opps that was yesterday, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Amen

See here in Wisconsin, the state passed a law that says any insurance company can not make more than 20% profit or the excess must be returned to their customers through reduced premiums. Last year there were several insurance companies got tagged by the state and had to reduce rates. Boy are there now a lot of really big fancy new insurance co. buildings going up to eat up some profits.

What? There is a full moon here every xmas. And a lot of other days too. At least Christmas will never fall on a Friday the 13th with a full moon.

Merry CHRISTmas back to you to Mama, and to everyone else too.

Take cover! Good luck.

Cool But i would replace the fuse block before troubleshooting any other electrical. The glass fuses are responsible for so many evils.

We are getting heavy rain and a few T-boomers. This SHOULD have been our Christmas snow. No white Christmas for us this year. How is Santa gonna land his sleigh.

It is the elevation part that will make the drive hard. I am not flexible enough to have my foot elevated in a car.

Love the pics. I just do not know most of the people in them. I could have sworn I posted something too, but it may have been the meds............