Flyinfool
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Unfortunately I have to agree with Ace. The "Cliff" has already come and gone, it is the sudden stop at the bottom that is coming quickly.
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That is not a reason, it is an excuse. I have still not heard a good reason for loud pipes. There are a lot of things I would like to do but don't. Decibel level is how loud gets measured. The feds do have a decibel level that all new vehicles must meet. Even a Harley is quiet when it leaves the factory. If you make any mods to get louder (higher DB level) then you are doing something illegal and I hope that you would get a ticket for it. I just wish that more communities had the balls to enforce the current decibel laws, they are ignoring a potential cash generator. Around here you get an equipment violation for loud exhaust, you have 30 days to get it fixed or pay about a $150 fine for most it is cheaper to pay the fine than to get a new exhaust, and some just don't want to bother swapping exhaust back and forth if they still have a set of legal pipes.
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There is no reason to piss off everyone all the time for those rare occasions when you need to let someone know you are there, that is what a horn is for, if you have time to rev the engine then you certainly have time to hit the horn button. I have yet to hear a single good reason to have loud pipes.
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Wooo Hoooo It just started SNOWING here. it is those great big winter wonderland kind of flakes.
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I like it. I sure wish they would pass and enforce that here. One reason that motorcycles are targeted is because the county buses and city trucks do not pass the noise ordinance. It is not just the Hardleys that are loud the high revving crotch rockets can also be heard for miles. then there's the cars with the loud fart pipes ........... none of which are bothered by the LEOs. I drive my car from the shop that put on the catalytic converter to the shop that was going to make a custom pipe to connect it to the exhaust and I got stopped, it was only 1.5 mile trip. Granted I may have been playing with the V8 and the open exhaust just a little. But still.......
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No young children, even the grand kids are getting old, but I do have a young Springer Spaniel.........
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One other important point that no one has mentioned yet. With infrared (IR) heat most of the energy goes into the the infrared radiation and much less goes toward directly heating the air. The infrared radiation then heats the objects that it hits. If that is you, then you will feel the heat. If it is an object in the room then that object will warm up. that warm object will still heat the air. Because of this, none of the energy is wasted, it all still turns to heat in the room somewhere and the net effect is the same. BUT, and there is always a BUT. Some things do not heat well with IR, like a mirror, or glass to name a couple, the mirror will reflect the heat and that reflection will then get the heat, so all is still good. Glass on the other hand is transparent to IR, this means that all of your IR energy that finds a window will be perfectly happy to go right thru the glass and heat whatever it hits outside. This is now wasted energy. With IR you need to be sure that it is not able to look out any windows. (unless of course you are trying to warm up your neighborhood) Energy is an interesting thing, it is always there, everywhere, it can not be created nor can it be destroyed. You can change the form of energy, you can direct it, you can move it, you can store it. But you can not create it, or destroy it, its still always there.
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Lucky you. I'm still waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting..........for Our last measurable snow (0.1 inch or more) was MARCH 4th. We smashed the old record of consecutive days without snow back on Dec 9. But that should change over the next 3 days... My bike is dead so let it SNOW!!!!
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OUCH!! Glad you can tell us about it.
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Yes that cover is hard to pull off. First be absolutely certain that you have all of the bolts out and not just loosened. You also have to remove the middle gear cover before the crankcase cover will come off. Once you have done this and the cover is loose, it takes a pretty strong pull to get it off. It is being held on by the very strong magnets in the flywheel grabbing on to the stator. There are 3 gears that may stay with the engine or come out with the cover, their choice not yours. It is no big deal to put them back in. Once you have it apart it is obvious where the gears go back in. Just put them into the holes in the side of the engine for reassembly. You must use a gasket to get the proper gear clearance, I you try to use just a sealant the gears will bind.
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That sure sounded like the perfect moment to me.:confused24:
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It is always easier to ask for forgiveness than to beg for permission.......... It sounds like you already missed your opening.
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If all you are after is a delay for the HID. http://www.wolstentech.com/products/timedelayrelay/tdr-s.php
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Sounds like you are getting close. Send KIC a pm on the hoses you need. Good thing for you that you found this site and the PO did not.
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You need to somehow document their unwillingness and flat out refusal to honor the warranty that they gave you.You can get those camera pens all over on line, just have it in you pocket and turned on the next time you talk to them. Being a caddy dealer, get the local news media involved, the last thing that they will want is it going out on the 6:00 news that the refuse to honor warranty work. You tried to be nice and they told you where to stick it, you do not have much time left on your warranty to get this handled. Do you really believe the used car salesman as to why the PO traded the car in? I always ask the PO myself. The PO will never tell the dealer about any issues the trade in has, that would lower its value.
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But the warranty should be good at any dealer, not just the one you buy the bike from. Although you may some looks when you come in with a '79 bike and ask for warranty work. I got some interesting looks a couple of years ago when I took my 91 Firechicken in for warranty work.
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How often do people really blow fuses. and to reset the line you have to turn the bike of and then back on. For when I am trouble shooting a circuit, I replace the fuse with a resettable circuit breaker. once the circuit is repaired the fuse goes back in. Electronic circuits can go bad, transistors can fail open or closed. Fuses only fail open. I guess that I am just old school and do not like to put all of my trust in a transistor.
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New in crate from a dealer. Does that mean it still has the full factory warranty? I'll bet it needs a lot of work.
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Compression Check
Flyinfool replied to MasterGuns's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
When hot the engine was just splashing oil onto the cylinder walls. This will always give a higher reading do to the extra seal provided by the oil. While testing cold there will be less oil on the walls and you will get a better indication of the mechanical condition of the rings. This is why if you get a low reading you then squirt some oil into the cylinder to determine if the leak is rings or valves. -
I would start by seeing if you can find your rear air leak. It might be simple like a loose connection or when the tube was added it had the wrong fitting and did not seal. running no rear air is not good for the shock either.
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Enough can not be said for a loud horn on a bike. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=72811
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What air pressures are you running in the front and rear shock? My 88 is a standard not a Royal so it never had the Class system. I have no issues with adding or removing a little air in the shocks as needed. In the 4 years that I have had mine I have yet to have a passenger. But I do carry a small hand pump to adjust the pressures just in case.
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Who you callin OLD???? oh wait, that would be me.........
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Hmmmmmm........ The wheels are grinding now. At least if we had a respectable amount of snow I could understand the salt trucks out playing. But just a trace? Not even 0.1 inches? If you can deliver 10 inches of your snow to here, I'll buy the ice cream, heck I'll even buy the pizza.
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Well the pinheads have gone and done it now. In their infinite wisdom they officially started my PMS for the season. We had a trace of snow over night, not even a measurable amount, (to be considered measurable it must be at least 0.1 inches) and the salt trucks were out in force. The roads have salt everywhere. Dry salt on dry asphalt is almost as slick as the ice it was intended to melt. So for me PMS has officially started until we get a couple of good heavy rains to wash the salt off the roads. Maybe I'll actually get some of the things on my todo list done this winter........... I'd rather still be riding......... . . Is it spring yet? . . Now is it? . . How much longer???? From this point forward I can take no responsibility for my actions. I am not in a correct state of mind. WHY did they do it?