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    I used to work as design engineer for a place that designed and manufactured A/C equipment. None of the refrigeration engineers liked R410a or R134a. They both give less cooling per watt of of input power than the R22 and R12 that they replace. So if you convert a car from R12 to R134a it will never get cold like it once did and it will burn more gas to turn the compressor. Same in your house when you go from R22 to R410a (assuming your system can handle it) the amp draw on the compressor will be higher. Thats a lot of CO2 that needs to be offset.
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    I sure wish it were legal to sell or buy freon in Wisconsin. You need a license here. Even the mail order places all have a note, "Can not be shipped to Wisconsin"
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    Glad it got sorted out. If you are going to record a phone call, you must make the person on the other end aware that the call is being recorded or it is not admissable in court. That is why so many places you call have the disclaimer that the call will be recorded as part of there answering machine greeting before you even get to talk to a person.
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    Looks good. Cant wait to see it all together. That's what we use when we need to say something to a 2nd genner.......
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    at 34 deg the pond monsters might still be hibernating.
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    I have seen people on airplanes with some kind of a pillow/collar thing to hold their head up while sleeping. Don't know if it would work with a helmet or not. Unless you get an extra tall windshield and or really lower your head, she will get a lot of wind buffeting on her head if she gets high enough to see over your helmet. Besides, do you really want a backseat driver????
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    I sure hope it goes smoother than Yammer Dans garage did/is....... I would insulate and do wood. Wood is easier to attach things to later on that sheet metal would be. Wood will absorb sound a little better than metal. Wood might rot but steel will rust. These are just my uneducated opinions. I still only wish I had a garage.....
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    But it has to be 20 years old first so that I can put my collector plate on it and afford it.......
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    My option 2 requires NO cutting into the wire harness. Option 1 requires tapping 1 existing wire.
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    What you are describing is exactly how the factory wiring on a 1st gen is. Turn the key on the bulb lights. Hit the starter the bulb turns off. release the start button and the bulb comes back on. I added a switch so that the ballast would not have to light the HID turn it off and have to light it up again. It is the lighting of the HID bulb that is hard on the ballast, keeping the bulb lit is easy. I had come up with 2 different circuits for the headlight. One was fully automatic and the HID would turn on as soon as the neutral light went off and would then stay on till the engine was shut off. The other one used a relay and a push button switch so that there was a blinking red light to tell you the light is off and once turned on the blinking red light would go out and the headlight would stay on till the engine was shut off. I ended up going with option 2.
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    I have to stay optimistic...... It really could still be SNOW!!!!:snow2::snow2: Better you than me...........
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    It could be SNOW!!
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    OK this sounds like a good story that needs to be shared.
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    Yup, even a 1st gen that missed the spline will have the same performance as a 2nd gen that missed the spline. Yes it is easy to get it all bolted back together with the end of the drive shaft NEXT to the spline coming out of the trans. When you get it together and have the 4 acorn nuts started give the rear a spin by hand to see if you really do have the spline engaged before you button it all up again. It should spin when in neutral and not spin if in gear. And yes it is required to get a 1st gen vs 2nd gen stab in there.......
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    There might be nothing wrong. Below 3000 you are lugging the engine. I do not even cruise below 3000 let alone even try to accelerate from there. I don't start getting "good" power till 4500. I try to cruise at around 4000 +/-500.
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    M8 x 1.25P is the thread that I remember. But that was years ago. Length will depend on which style puller you have. You will want at least class 10.9 bolts. (metric equal to SAE Grade 8) Preferably a flange head but they are real hard to find. If you can not find flanged high strength bolts, then use a high strength washer under the head. You want to keep the bolts as short as possible. The 3 bolts should be screwed in as far as they will go. They bottom out quickly, its a shallow hole. They should only be finger tight. If you tighten them with a wrench you already have pressure on the threads before you even start pulling. Make sure that your puller has a button on the end of the jack screw that is bigger than the threaded hole in the end of the crankshaft, or you will be looking for a special 12mm tap to try to fix the threads later like a couple of members had to recently. The type of puller that just has the end of the jack screw pressing on the end of the crank will damage the threads in the crank. You do not want to replace a crank. Once upon a time I had designed and drawn up a puller just for the flywheel on this bike. It was plenty strong to do the job but was going to be expensive to make.
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    I once hooked and landed a 45 lb Springer Spaniel on a micro light rod with 2 lb line, while fishing for bluegills in a river. She put up a pretty good fight and had no problem pulling drag with the 2 lb line I had on, but I still landed her. Then came the issue of trying to keep my fingers attached to my hand while getting the hook out....... .........all it took was tossing a stick into the river for her to chase, for it all to be forgotten and forgiven.
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    Pop off is an understatement. It can come off with a bang and you better be ready to catch it or be out of the way. It can cover some distance. The rope you tie on should have very little slack so that the flywheel will not go far. But still put something for a soft landing all the way out to 3 or 4 feet just in case the rope does not catch it. If you get to the point where you are not comfortable putting any more pressure on the puller cuz you are sure something is gonna break then you are getting close. There have been a bunch of pullers broken getting these flywheels off. Like Dano said leave it over night with all of that pressure on the puller and it may be off by morning. I don't know if it is something they do at the factory or just that it has been on for so long, but is is never nearly as hard to get the flywheel off the second time.
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    In town I never bother to stop for gas till the red light comes on when the last bar goes away it takes 4.0 gallons to refill. It is a 5 gal tank so that means that I have 1 gal of gas left. Since the last bar goes away right at 160 miles give or take a couple, I am getting 40MPG. Best thing to do is to pack a gallon or two of gas and go for a long ride and make note of the mileage where each bar disappears and how far till you run out of gas. I start walking right at 200 miles. Or less if I was having fun.......
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    It is what the 2nd geners do to TRY to catch up with a 1st gen......... It is taking the rear end from a V-Max and putting it into your RSV. The V-Max has different gears with a numerically higher gear ratio to let the engine rev a little higher so it is like you are always in a slightly lower gear.
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    I closed one eye and squinted real hard, and covered the other eye........ And made some really good guesses at the letters.
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    I never thought I was good looking before, But I now know the truth......
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    OK, I'll admit it I'm guilty of this one big time. On a whim I went to the eye doctor for the first time in 25 years. At my last visit the doc asked me why I was there. I told him that I felt my eyesight was deteriorating because I had to get closer to highway signs before I could read them than what it used to be. so he tested my eyes and said that I have perfect 20-20 vision. Fast forward 25 years. I went to the eye doc cuz the company I work for just added eye care insurance. After the eye exam the doc ordered me a nice pair of trifocals. so I went from better than 20-20 to darn near blind without even noticing it. In doing some experimenting with these new glasses I would sit a a stop sign and see a bike coming, lift up the glasses and the bike was gone, just a kind of bright spot from the headlight. A Gold Wing or full dress Harley was completely invisible to me at 2 city blocks away, and just starting get noticeable at 1 city block. Now with my glasses I can see a bike more than a mile away. I really thought that what I was seeing was just how the world really looked. I was on the verge of going out to buy a new TV cuz I could not read any text on the screen like the scores of a sporting event. I figured the TV was 20 years old and just getting blurry. The moral is, how many other drivers out there have eyes that are as bad or worse than mine and still driving not even realizing that their eyes had gotten so bad over time. It brings new understanding to the "I didn't see the bike coming". What is really scarey is that I just passed the drivers license vision test without the glasses on. So there can be a lot of us blind people out there driving. I even passed the vision test for my pilots license. So dont forget to look up, theres blind people flying those airplanes. This has all been an eye opening experience for me, and really makes me wonder about the person driving that car waiting for me to pass at an intersection.
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    Big Tom will love it, looks just like Ice Cream.....
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    Looks delicious.....
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