Flyinfool

Unless your health issues are near a conclusion, I would hold off getting a new battery until you are ready to be riding again. Just starting and idling for a while will not put back the power that was used to start it. It takes a half hour with the engine at some speed to fully recharge from the start. If you are going to let the bike sit a lot, get a battery maintainer for it.

Don you have a tough and thankless job. I for one THANK YOU for what you do for all of us. I agree with you completely, unfortunately too many are reading what they want to see and not what is written. As Don has been trying to say. There is NO problem with posting a link to an ad that you found that may be of interest to others on this site. NO ONE ever said you could not do so. BUT there is a proper place for that, it is NOT the Watering Hole. That special place is Links to Classifieds, Craigslist and Ebay. It is the very next forum down from the Watering Hole on the home page. So it is not hard to find. There is a special forum just for those types of posts. That way if someone is actually looking for something, they have a much better chance of actually finding it, rather than trying to find it buried many pages deep in the watering hole. And the best part is that the correct forum will get cleaned up to remove old expired posts, That way when someone does a search they do not have to weed through ancient for sale adds in the watering hole of things that are no longer available because they were sold years ago. Is it really that difficult to understand?

Looked roughly at some other costs. It would be somewhere between $100 and $125 shipped to lower USA. If there is enough interest I will research it further.

Making that is well within the capabilities of my basement. I did not look into cost of it all. But there are ~$60 worth of bearings in there. Total weight would be just under 7 lbs. Just the ball and its mounting hardware is almost 2 lbs.

I tried to warn you that getting my gears grinding is dangerous........

They don't seem to be where I thought they might be. I'll have to go into a full search mode. It is possible that I already gave them away or even trashed them if they got in my way once to often. But I have a few hiding places to check out yet. If I have them you can have them, I will never go back to stock horns.

As mentioned the universal joint type is for single wheel trailers only. The purpose of the U-joint is so that the trailer will always have the same lean as the bike. This would prevent you from leaning into a corner. I have the one from MC Hitch. It has pulled with no issues for 3 years now. I even got to try out the swivel feature a couple of weeks ago at Orlins MD. It had recently rained A LOT. When I parked the bike upon arrival, before I could get my side stand plate out the stand sunk and over she went. The swivel did its job and allowed the bike to lay down with no stress to the hitch or the tongue. I am not sure if I also tried it out a couple of years ago when I dragged the foot pegs in an emergency maneuver. Seeing how it is made, It would not be very difficult to incorporate a swivel into a 1-1/4 stinger. The stinger will just end up about 6 inches longer. OK, now your in trouble, my gears are grinding..........

Are you after the stock horns? If so I think I still have the ones I took off of my 88. Stock is not near loud enough.

It is a good thing that in 12,000 pics the old Puckster did not get any of me...... I'm still safe cuz he don't know what I look like.

I am not familiar with old fords. But on my GMC it will not start with less than 60 PSI fuel pressure and will not run with less than 55 PSI. Is 40 psi the right number for your ford?

The buckets are very hard, they would break off a piece before they would raise a burr. Does that cylinder have compression? Take out all of the spark plugs except that one and turn the engine over to see if that cylinder has some compression. If it has compression then the valve is just that far out of adjustment. If it does not have compression then there is some kind of debris holding that valve open.

Highest horsepower maybe. Fastest NO. The other car makers always forget to include the Corvette as an American mussel car. A new stock corvette will beat that 10.8 with its 10.5 and does it on "only" 460 HP. Looking at the sizes of the tires and there is no way that Dodge will keep up in the corners either.

On the other hand I am still working on the design of a new product and they are still spending money on this development. That does not normally happen if they have plans to close the doors. Usually when there is a plan to close the door the engineers with their bigger salaries are the first ones out, since if they are closing there is no need to engineer new or improved stuff. I'll give it a few more weeks to see how things settle out. I am still hoping that this is just a sales slump and things will recover. Did I mention that I hate job hunting more than most of you hate SNOW?????? I also really do not want to move, If you ever saw my basement you would understand....... There is a whole machine shop down there, It would take months just to move the machines.

South is not an option, medically I do not tolerate heat well, no one has ever heard me complain about the snow or cold. I can deal with the -20F a lot better than 90+F I am just a year away from getting a third week of vacation, I really hate to start over again. I will ride this boat for a while yet. I do have an ace in the hole with a start up company that wants to hire me once they get up and running. I have done side jobs for them creating all of their patent drawings, and prototype drawings, they were very pleased with my work. They told me that if I should loose this job before they are up and running that they will put me on the payroll and find something for me to do just to not risk loosing me. But that remains to be seen should push come to shove. I figure that a start up company is no more risk than where I am right now.

No I am not talking about the recent wave of shootings in the area. While I am at the moment still currently employed as an engineer, the engineering department has shrunk from 4 people down to just me, myself and I. It sure is quiet at this end of the building all day. Last Friday there was another big layoff and the other engineer is the one that was let go. At least it shows a vote of confidence in my abilities (I hope) since I am now the mechanical engineer, the electrical engineer and the manufacturing engineer and any other type of engineer that they can think of. Hmmm but I guess that also makes me the engineering secretary, and the engineering file clerk. I have been here for 15 years now, but I think the writing is on the wall, no one will be here for very much longer. The company has shrunk from 150 employies 4 years ago to just 50 now and most of them are in management. It has been almost all production people that have been let go so far. I really hate job hunting. especially now as an old grey hair. But I fear that I must now start looiking around.

So Dan you are saying that the Hardley will always be in FRONT of Brown Sugar or even Ugly???? I just do not understand this getting old, First he gets a 2nd gen, and then thinks he can no longer stay ahead of a Hardley. I sure hope I never get that old......

Seeeee Ya should have come to the WI MD at Orlins. He might just loan you a goat........ You are lucky that you do not have a real lawn, I still have to cut mine when my 80lb dog disappears. Heck my driveway has more grass than your lawn. How can I get mine to look like that???? I like it. You are already starting (or is it still) to pick on me about some "fictitious" weather machine huh................ Records are made to be broken........

While it is common for that O-ring to leak, It is also not quite uncommon for the plastic part over the t-stat to warp. There was a post where someone made a metal clamp to keep the plastic part from warping. I just milled my plastic part flat and did not over tighten the bolts. You could flatten yours with sand paper on a flat surface if it is warped.

Another thought. The local baseball fields around here have coyote decoys set up in a way that they can move in the wind. It does a great job of keeping the geese off of the ball fields. I wonder if it would work on deer????? Found it http://www.comforthouse.com/coyotedecoy.html I still vote for turning her into steaks....

On the second gen everyone pretty much puts the horn in the same place. On the first gen I don't know if I have seen any two bikes with the horns in the same places. This makes it hard to do a plug and play wire harness. As far as mounting brackets, they will vary greatly depending on where you decide to put the new horn(s). But then the wiring is so easy that even I could do it. There are 2 wires that go to the stock horn. Just extend these 2 wires to reach your chosen location for the relay, these 2 wires connect to pins 85 and 86. Run a wire from the battery Pos to a fuse, from the fuse to pin 30 on the relay, and from pin 87 to the + terminal of your new horn. Ground the other terminal of the horn and you are done.

If I am making a post that is that big and or detailed. I will craft it in word where I have full auto save and editing features, and then cut and paste it into the forum reply box. I have only seen one other forum that has an auto save feature. It got to be annoying and I have been trying to figure out how to turn it off. I also tent to look where I am putting my fingers so as to not hit things I don't want to. Now if I can just get the letters on the keyboard lined up in alphabetical order so that I do not have to look so long to find them........

At 70 yards a high power pellet gun will still get the point across with no permanent damage. Around here everyone has a 10 foot high fence around their veggie gardens. The electric fence on my uncles farm that is there to keep the cows in does not work well on the deer. They do not see the wire and when they walk into it and get zapped, their first reaction is to jump forward and they knock the wire down or break it. Worst case a 22LR with a silencer.

I am betting that the barons tach adapter is nothing more than 2 diodes and maybe a capacitor since it claims to also smooth needle bounce. I would try it first with the 2 diodes. Cyl 1 ----|>|---| |--------Tach input Cyl 2 ----|>|---| OK its a lousy representation of a simple schematic......

I just got one from you. I recognize the format that is popular for spamers to use. Make sure that you have a strong password. A strong password will have upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols, and be at least 12 characters long. The hackers do not want to work that hard to crack it. There are plenty of emails to crack that have easy passwords.

You don't necessarily need to change your email addy, just your password to get into your email account. The hackers like yahoo and hotmail because there is no limit as to how many wrong passwords can be entered. So the find what they believe is a valid email addy and then have a computer keep sending random passwords until it hits the right one and logs in. They then spam like crazy till you catch them and change the password. In my contacts I have all of my email addresses so the spamers will endup sending me spam from myself to all of my computers at home and at work. I also have a fictitious contact of aaaaaaa@aaaaaaaa.com. this one will always bounce and since it is at the top of he list it Will be in the first batch sent. AS soon as I see that bounced email I know it is time to change the password again.