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Flyinfool

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  1. There are several rubber pieces in that pic, which one are you after?
  2. The Mobile 1 T4 is specifically made for motorcycles with a wet clutch so it should be fine. I am sure that there are some auto oils that will work fine with the Yamaha clutch, but not all auto oils. On the other hand, all motorcycle oils made for use with a wet clutch will work with the Yamaha clutch.
  3. Not all bikes have clutch issues with automotive oils. But it is a well document issue with our clutches. If you search clutch issues on this site, you will fund a number of cases where someone was saving money using auto oil and experienced clutch slipping, changed back to MC oil made for a wet clutch and problem went away. The article does not address this issue. The article does say that the tests were done on a V65 Magna, it is possible that its clutch system can tolerate the auto oil.
  4. The clips in the stock fuse holders are junk, if the fuse is getting hot, it has a bad connection. Put in an AGM fuse block, it will cure many electrical evils.
  5. Make sure that whatever cheap oil you put in for the flush says on the bottle that it is compatible with a wet clutch. If if has friction modifiers like most car oils it will cause your clutch to start slipping.
  6. That might have been me that you were thinking of. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=79093 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=79290 Do you still have the stock glass fuses? Did I ever mention I hate intermittent electrical problems. Good luck
  7. All an optical delusion, that was a nice trunk with just the right junk......
  8. Bow season starts tomorrow.:dancefool:
  9. One never knows, maybe now that 2nd gens are obsolete, Dan can start breeding 2nd gens in his new almost finished garage........
  10. With the exception of pulling a trailer at 80+, I seem to get 39-40 no matter how I ride. At 160 miles the warning light comes on, I stop at the next station, and it takes between 4.0 and 4.1 gallons.
  11. I got my size 13s all warmed up....... :buttkick: :buttkick: But this sounds like some back story is needed.........
  12. Some more info; http://www.superbrightleds.com/carbulb_notes.php http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=561417 http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?129246-White-LEDs-and-colored-lenses Here is the thread from my LED upgrade with comparison pics. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=77042
  13. When you have a white lite source behind a red lens, the lens will filter out everything but the red light. All of the rest of the light is wasted energy. With an LED light source, they are usually rated in mcd. If you take a red LED at 1000 mcd and a white LED at 1000 mcd they are the same brightness. But when you put them behind a red lens, all of the light from the red LED will go thru the red lens and still be visible light. BUT the white LED behind that red lens will have all of the spectrum other than the red filtered out. The white LED will look very dim behind that red lens. This holds true for any color of lens, to get maximum light out of the lens the light source should match the lens color. For reference http://www.superbrightleds.com/cb/car.lens_color.html
  14. You could use it to add all kinds of lights to the bike, or just ignore it till you get a trailer.
  15. The LED tail lights that I got from Super Bright LEDs were $25 each but they are way brighter than the stock incandescents with a very significant difference in brightness between brake and tail. Those eBay LEDs are white, You do NOT want white LEDs, you should always match the led color to the lens color. But I must agree with you, there are a lot of bad LED lights out there. I guess sometimes you get what you pay for.
  16. Here is the write up I did for my 88. Not sure what needs to change for an 83. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45603
  17. I don't put anything on my tent. The tent is 20 years old, has been used a LOT, and still does not leak.
  18. :crackup: :rotf: :rotfl: If you were touching that one we would all have to keep our distance.......
  19. Jumping the reed switches in the CMU only stops the warning light from coming on. I know there are some differences in the RLU between the MKI and the MKII like I have. The RLU is completely independent of the CMU, the RLU is what will switch to the good element if one headlight element burns out. Depending on which HID you have You may or may not have to remove the RLU. If your HID is pulling its power from the headlight connector then the RLU will probably work ok. If your HID has a separate fused power wire, then the RLU will need to be disabled. I have the separate power type Bi-Xenon HID. What it did was, because the current draw was not enough in the bikes headlight circuit it decided that the low beam was burnt out so it would switch to Hi beam, but then the hi beam current was to low so it would switch to lo beam, but then the lo beam current was to low so........................... It would just keep switching between hi and low at an extremely fast speed. the switching speed is faster than than you can see and is faster than the HID can react. so the motor that moves the bulb is going to burn out quickly. With the bike not running but the key in the run position and the HID turned on, listen to the bulb, if it is buzzing you need to work on the RLU.
  20. The bad connections are not visible to the eye. It is usually a microscopic crack in the solder. Just reflow the solder on all of the connector pins adding a little fresh solder, preferably a silver bearing solder. If you installed a HID did you also disable the RLU (Reserve Lighting Unit)?
  21. As far as sidewall load capacity, I don't think there is a tire made that could be overloaded behind a bike. In an emergency once while on a trip, someone slashed the tires on my boat trailer. All I could find locally was car radial tires. I got those off as soon as I got home. Even though the weight rating was more than adequate, the trailer was bouncing and swaying all over the place, it just did not want to follow me. As soon as the correct tires were back on, all was good again.
  22. I had to Google twerking. Never heard of it before. Butt I like it.
  23. Asking and getting are two completely different things. I have never been afraid to insult a dealer, sometimes you will end up with it, especially if the item is not their core business.
  24. I feel my bike start to get squirmy when the pressure is down just 5 lbs.
  25. I'll bet that you could find someone local to do it for Pizza and/or Ice Cream. Some might even travel quite a distance for a "free" meal. After all we seem to be an eating club with a riding disorder.....
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