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Tom, You are having an issue. Go eat 3 ice creams, calm down, and call me in the morning.

12?????? I guess I need more tickets.......again......

Your best bet might be to get some pizza and ice cream and post a MD at your house. Or this might be a good start http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=74431

Thanks all. I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up.

That looks like the same one that I have, Mine has been flawless for 2 years now.

A few things 12,000K will be very purple and will not make a lot of light. It is more to look cool. Your best bet is a 4,000K to 6,000K if what you want is light to see at night. 4000 is slightly yellow, similar to a halogen and 6000 is slightly blue. They are both mainly white. I how have 5 HID on my vehicles and they are all 6,000K. . You do not want a Halogen High beam. It defeats the whole purpose of having a bright HID light in the first place. You want to get a BI-Xenon so that you have HID for both hi and low beam. . You must remove or disable the RLU. There is a writeup from an 88 on how to do this, it wont be exact for your 83 but it will be close. If you do not do this mod the RLU wil keep switching between hi and low beam at a very fast rate till it burns something out. It is not hard to do, but it is time consuming. . It is a good idea to have the HID on a separate headlight switch. If you do not have a seperate switch then when you turn the key on the HID will light, as soon as you hit the starter, the HID will go off and then have to relight. The starter switch cuts out the headlight to give full battery power to the starter. All of this is well worth the effort, the difference in light output is huge.

A rectifier is just 1 or more diodes. In this case, because it is 3 phase AC it is 6 diodes. A typical rectifier diode will only drop about 0.6V each. Because in this case you are always using 2 at a time you will get a 1.2V drop from the AC to DC. There are different types of diodes that can be used with different characteristics, I am not sure which type are being used in our RRs, but the voltage drop will not be much different. So the rectifier just changes the AC into DC with just a very small voltage drop. It is the regulator part that knocks the voltage down to the 14 that we want.

I think more details are required here..........

All good things come to those who wait........ Nice JOB...... Let the parties begin

Another option is to hit one session of therapy to learn what the proper exercises are. Then go nutz at home. The big difference is that you will stop bending it when it hurts, the therapist will go a little farther than that. But they know how much farther to go without damaging anything. Sounds good so far, I wish you all the luck in whatever comes your way.

If no one ever buys a new one then there will be no used ones to buy later. If you are planning on keeping it a long time then it is not as bad to get new just so that you are not dealing with anyone else's problems. I bought my truck new 17 years ago but I know it was broken in correctly and it now has 300K miles. I could have got a 1 or 2 year old truck but I would not know if it was broke in right. the breaking does not show up till much later in a vehicals life. I know people that get a new vehicle every 3 years. They do not worry about proper break in because they will not have it long enough for it to be an issue. Sometimes you can get a better deal by financing it even if you have the cash. Some dealers get a commission on the financing some times there are other financing incentives to the dealer and will share that with you in the form of a lower purchase price. You can always pay the loan off a week later. Don't be afraid to make an offer and then turn around and walk out the door telling them that you are driving to XYZ dealership to see if they will take your offer.

Back in the day I used to stand my golf bag up on the back seat and bungee it in place. It may look funny but it got the job done. Just watch your height clearance if you go thru a drive thru.

I would start by getting rid of that old gas. Even though I store my bike with Seafoam and Stabil, my bike still runs like crap till I get all of last years gas out of it and get that first fresh tank in there. I give it another shot of Seafoam in that first tank just to help clean things up. You do not want to adjust the engine to run best on stale gas.

25V is not high, in fact it may be a little low. First check all of the new connectors to be sure that the contacts are inserted fully. Check it at above 2,000 RPM. Make sure that your volt meter is set on AC and on a high scale, I use 200VAC scale. Check each pair of wires. 1-2, 2-3, 1-3. The voltage should be very close to the same on each pair. Around 25VAC at idle is about right, It will rise to well over 50VAC at high RPMs. It is possible to be sneaking up on 100V. WARNING Be careful while doing these checks The unloaded stator at higher RPMs is outputting potentially dangerous voltage.

Because in the summer you guys have all gone to h e double hockey sticks.

I was concerned about getting this monster up on the center stand. when I was looking at on the dealers floor the salesman about 5' 6" and MAYBE 120 lbs moved the bike away from the wall and popped it up on the center stand like nuttin. I figured that if he could do it, then I would have no problem. HA! I had a hell of a time getting the bike up on center. Now that I have the proper technique down, its really no big deal. Granted I do have a fair amount of tonnage to throw at it. Some people put one or both tires up on a board to help out while learning the technique.

Just for that Annie, I just bought some MORE tickets. Your chances of winning just went down. Now you have to by more to get your chances back up:rasberry: Oh, but wait then I'll have to buy more to counter the more that you bought to counter the more that I bought to counter the more that you bought. :think: :whistling: I need an aspirin.......

Since I have converted to HID I no longer have an RLU, I put in a bright flashing red LED in that location, that is only on and flashing if the headlight is off, as my idiot light to tell me I forgot to turn on the headlight.

-10 wc this morning and we will be lucky to break 20 for a high today, 30+ wind, for that wonderful cooling effect, and some snow expected just to finish the picture. Last year at this time we were in the 80s. Last year we had the warmest March on record, This year so far is the 10th coldest on record. There has only been ONE day this month where the temperature actually made it up to "normal". I think I kind of like the concept of global warming. I'm sick of these "Alberta clippers" that keep rolling through, you folks in Alberta can just keep this stuff all for yourselves, there is really no reason to share any more.

Moving the axle back is the hard way of extending the tongue, and as mentioned it may make it difficult to get the proper tongue weight when loaded. If you have sway, and you have the correct tongue weight, it is usually easiest to extend the tongue. There are several ways of going about it.

There are a few threads about changing the dash to LED. I'll go hunting......

One can only wonder if this video will mysteriously make it back to the police chief. If I were that rider I would have not confronted the cop at that time. I would most likely have dealt with it just as that rider did. Had the rider stuck up for his rights at that time it could have gotten ugly fast. But I would certainly have pursued it afterwards, once I had a copy of my video, especially if there was any damage to my bike. I can not tell from the vid just how close behind the cop was, but it did look like the bike made a sudden stop that was not really necessary. You can see the front of the bike dip as it stopped a second before impact.

YES Acetone will dissolve ABS.

Unbend the one you have? Can you post pics?

IIRC in the article it did mention that the bolts were "scientifically rusted" to ensure repeatability.