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I'm home. I only lasted till noon. Boss was happy to get that out of me. Nap time.......

I got a bum ticker, things are working strange. AND I did not hear you mention anything about SNOW. You know SNOW is my specialty. I like SNOW. SNOW is fun. Dumping SNOW on Puc is even more fun. Can't seem to get enough SNOW!!!! I don't have a rain machine. I don't have a fog machine I don't even have a lightening machine. Now I got to start designing and building some new machines just to keep ol Puc happy. If I am going to be accused of having fun, I might as well make sure I am guilty of having said fun. But first, Nap time........

Your right "Real" Motorcycles do not have the performance he was used to.....

Mama, You know that I am always good, and when I am bad I can be really good........ Still getting better every day. I am actually at work right now, I can already see that I will not last the whole day and will be headed home soon. I did get grief from some coworkers, today was the first time in 15 years they ever saw me get in the old man box (elevator).....

Hmmmmm First off welcome to the nut house. Did you have the battery load tested? With a fully charged battery, what is the battery voltage with the bike running. First thought is bad RR, But the comment you made about the stator voltage dropping so far while running sounds more like a bad battery or something on the bike pulling a high amp draw, like a pinched wire or defective accessory.

Puc I may be able to plug the Snowper Charger into the improved heart to siphon of some of the excess capacity. Lord knows there are enough holes in me now for plugging stuff into....... Besides, I had a Harley once, that was enough for this lifetime. You did notice that I am an equal opportunity I threw the same jab at a wing.

Is there a way to get some oil to the fan bearing?

I think all stands on all bikes use an "over center" mechanism to lock them down. This means that it WILL rise the left side of the bike higher than when resting on the stand. This is why it is so violent when the stand kits in a turn. So on a wing you can not have the motor running to warm up on the side stand while you gear up?

Wow, I guess I just assumed that such a simple, cheap, effective thing would be on at least all high end bikes.

That is not the development thread. But I did link to the correct one in the first post. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?55831-Help-valve-shim-tool

I have been making the shim tools for a while now. While I am sure you can make one for yourself, I did in my basement, it is not that easy. I found a member that had an original tool that would loan it to me for the purpose of copying it. I made several versions before I came up with one that worked and was not to hard to make. I am guessing Yamaha has better machine capability than my basement. I did learn that just any steel will not work. I had to use 1040 and carbide tools to cut it to make a tool that held up. When I tried cheap steel the buckets just ripped the ramps off the tool after 1 or 2 valves. I sell them to members for about half of what you found them for. There was a whole thread about it during the development.

Do the big Harleys have a safety switch on the side stand? A few weks ago, I was sitting at a red light, oncoming traffic had a green left turn arrow. I saw a bike coming toward me in the left turn lane and noticed something sticking out the left side. Just about the time I realized it was the side stand he leaned into his left turn. You guessed it, he high sided hard. Fortunately he was only going about 15 MPH and did a good job of tuck and roll and had no injuries other than some minor road rash. After a couple of tumbles he was on his feet before the bike stopped sliding, The bike had some pretty serious damage, when it slid into the curb. Bent fork, handlebar, everything on right side had rash and or was bent. He got POed at me when I said I saw his side stand down before the turn. He was blaming gravel, but intersection looked clean to me. But I was just wondering if there is supposed to be a side stand switch like we have to prevent that from happening.

I have seen 2 Harley's go down at gas pumps since I got my Venture, both cases they forgot the side stand and got off.

Fortunately my Father is still around. I am really hoping to be able to get out of the house to be able see him today.

FINALLY, a nice quiet uneventful night. Last night was the first night that I slept all night with no wake ups for anything. Even my bladder cooperated. Dang did that feel good. Hopping for an equally uneventful day today, with some quality nap time. But It still did not take more than two steps to remember that I still feel like I got run over by a bus. But at least now it feels like it was a short bus. More drugs.........

No you do not want to just buss one side of the fuse block there are some of the fuses that are bussed together to the switched power head, ignition, signal, fan (key in on), but there are separate power feeds for the parking lights (Key in park or on) backup (hot to battery), Audio (key in on or accy), Acc (key in on or accy)hazard (hot to battery), I wired my new fuse block just like the original so the fuses are the same values and locations as stock. The terminal blocks that I added are in addition to the stock wiring and only have non stock things connected to them. If you really wanted to you could connect the one whole side of the fuse block to switched power, but you will lose the ability to retain radio stations, lose the ability to turn on just parking lights, lose the ability to have hazard lights with the key off, I am not sure what the ramifications of using class while moving would be. I would/did wire it just like it was. Yes everything but acc is hot with the key in on, But when the key is in other positions (acc, park off) some stay hot and others turn off depending on key position.

So are you saying @cowpuc cut off his beard and that is why his but needs covering..........

You have no idea how much I would love to repeat the episode from post #1 right now.

So you are saying that those old slow obsolete discontinued 2nd gens are not worth fixing.

And I have heard that your butt needs a lot of covering..........

I just took a shower and removed the last bandages bandages per Drs instructions, now I need more corks. Those bandages had a permanent adhesive on them that removed skin. OUCH!!! Yes Mama, I should be in Chat tonight.

If simple is what you want I got my replacement LEDs from Super Bright LED. They are not the cheapest by far, but they are way brighter than the 1157 incandescent. The ones I got are the 45 LED towers. These come in both 1157 and 1156 types. Remember when adding LEDs to match the LED color to the lens color. I have played with some of the less expensive LEDs available the results are very disappointing. There is a huge difference in LED quality between different places.

Sounds great. But my haircut did not work out near as well.

Well I managed to wake up again today. Was an interesting night. One of the entry holes to the femoral artery opened up last night. Called the hospital to see what to do. They just said to lay still on my back and hold constant pressure on it. So Erika and I took turns holding me together last night for a couple hours. We were both exhausted once we got the bleeder stopped. She woke up quite a few times during the night to make sure I was not bleeding out. The leak seems to be all plugged up again now and everything back on track. Boy is this ugly, a lot of the bleed was internal, lots of colors down there now. Starting to wish I had gotten some of the good drugs to bring home. I feel like I got run over by a bus. Dan All 3 cars they tried to pawn off on us were worse than our beater. First they brought up a silver Honda Pilot with the side caved in. told them this ain't a Chevy. then they brought up a silver Chevy Cruise. Had to splain we had a silver Chevy Malibu. third time they finally got the right car. But I was not physically ready for the 20 minutes of standing in the sun with the heat and humidity. Hmmmmm..... Now that I am typing this I am wondering if this contributed to my bleeder........

Well I am finally home. I guess I was typing a little incoherently on that stolen phone from ICU......... I hope I did not say anything bad to anyone. The procedure took a lot longer than expected,n Doc said I was really bad. they went in through both groins, both arms and the jugular and down my throat. Have a nasty cut in my mouth. They had to use both Cryogenics and RF energy to kill all of the stuff they wanted to get to. I sure hope there is enough left. I feel like I got run over by a bus. Now the heart has to heal for 6-8 weeks to find out if this actually worked. On the plus side, I was able to get served ICE CREAM at 2:00 am when they got me out of bed for my required walk. It did not help that the valet parking managed to loose our car. and I had to stand out in the 85 degree heat with 75 deg dewpoint while they searched for it. they brought 3 different cars up before they got it right.