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  1. Flyinfool
    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.
  13. Flyinfool
    Big Tom will love it, looks just like Ice Cream.....
  14. Flyinfool
    Looks delicious.....
  15. Flyinfool
    1st gens are just so viral and fast that they tent to breed quickly....... 2nd gens are just to slow to catch anything to breed with and multiply, they tend to live the boring life of a loner. You knew that was coming back right ?
  16. Flyinfool
    Me Too...... But then I started pouring over the wiring diagram and typing for a few hours to warn ya. Glad my efforts were/are useful to someone. And you guys even got it to work with the typos on jumper #2 that I only fixed this morning. Now you need to add the switch so that the ballast does not have to light the bulb twice every time you start the bike.
  17. Flyinfool
    Welcome aboard. But you are actually admitting to knowing and hanging around with KIC??????? So much to learn..........
  18. Flyinfool
    #2 on the list hast to be only being able to see the back of a first gen for a short while till it disappears ahead into the distance.
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    The 4 reed switches are for; Low beam headlight High beam headlight Tail light Brake light. You need to do the 2 for the headlight in order to the HID, If you plan to change to LED Brake and Tail lights then you will need to jumper those also.
  20. Flyinfool
    Something I pretend to do while on here...... I already have that. The posts per page is for once you have opened a thread. I want to list more threads when I go up and click the "New Posts" tab.
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    Can I change the number of threads displayed? When I click on the "New Posts" link at the top of the page I always get up to 25 threads listed, is there a way to increase this number? I do have the replies per page at the max number for when I am in a thread but can not find the setting to increase the number of threads displayed in "New Posts". If I actually have to do work at work there is always pages of new posts by the time I get back here. Sometimes if there are a lot of threads that need reading and or replies the system will timeout and I will end up missing the older ones on the later pages.
  22. Flyinfool
    Or even soap and water......like I should talk. My boss wants to plow and plant corn on my trunk lid........
  23. Flyinfool
    You forgot the "YOU" part.
  24. Flyinfool
    This is starting to sound like a WI MD with all of the Jeffs. I even added a relay to my bike at the last WI MD for the second Bad Boy Horn.
  25. Flyinfool
    Speaking of Dons MD. Is this shim mod and diaphragms a realistic MD job? I have the diaphragms but still will need the shim kit. Are there gaskets or other items that will be needed as part of this, or as something else that should be done while in there. Carbs are blue smoke and mirrors to me. Hate them.
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