Flyinfool
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I bought a "demo" stove It had a big chip in the front top left corner. THE most noticeable spot. I was really poor at the time so I bought it at a really good price because of the damage. It is almond colored, the local hardware store had porcelain repair kits in all kinds of colors. It took like ten coats to build the chip up to the original thickness but you would be hard pressed to find that repair now even 20+ years later.
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I had it right. Do I win the ice cream? Next question is who did he pi$$ off that bad. If someone will go that far would they nick a tire or brake line and wait for it to blow. With just that vandalism I would give the bike a very thorough going over before riding it again.
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Got my new baby home!
Flyinfool replied to PBJ's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
Sure looks good from a distance. Its cleaner than mine. -
:rotfl: If there is that much in the carb, It would have plugged up a filter if there had been one. Either someone added a present to his gas tank or there should be a bunch of vehicles around with plugged fuel filters in the area. My Bro in law owns a service station and had cases where a local gas station had a bad load of gas. He had a sudden spike in clogged fuel filters and after questioning all of the customers, they all bought gas at the same place on the same day. The gas station paid all of the repair bills rather than taking dozens of people to court and getting it out in the news that they sold bad gas.
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Your getting there, 1 outa 3 is good At least the other 2 don't need more acid.
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I would have paid to see it to. I was told it was funniest thing ever when I jumped in the Wisconsin river to go chase a fish on. At the time I didn't even know what I had on, just that it could pull drag at will.
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I think you missed the part about HER and "well built". Some people just cant follow simple instructions. Now I need to go and wash my eyes and brain with sulfuric acid. NO MORE SELF PORTRAITS ALLOWED FOR YOU!!!! Some one go break his camera........PLEASE
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I have a very unique accessory for my Venture. I am sure no one has anything like it. But then I doubt anyone would want anything like it. That accessory is ME!!!
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R/R---Again!
Flyinfool replied to Harmonicashawn's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
If the voltage is dropping under your load, you may need a bigger stator and a bigger R/R. Just putting in a R/R rated for more amps will not give any more power by itself. Just hooking up a bigger R/R will not make the stator put out any more power. The stator generates around 20 - 30 volts AC. The R/R just converts it from AC to DC (rectifier) and then controls the voltage to the 13.8VDC that you need (regulator). When your load is asking for more power than the stator can deliver the voltage drops as the amps go up. The type of regulator on our bikes can not increase voltage, it can only reduce a higher voltage to a lower one. So if the regulator output voltage falls to less than about 15 volts due to lots of amps being used, there is nothing the regulator can do to bring the voltage back up. There is also a limit to how many amps a regulator can handle. The stock regulator is sized to work with the stock stator. If you go to a more powerful stator, then you may also have to go with a more powerful R/R to handle the extra amps. A bigger R/R will do nothing by its self. -
But only if you have the pics to back it up. I will need a set immediately to see if they meet the requirements.
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Paybacks a bi........
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Start something interesting is the best way. Of course it helps if you can take some ribbing so that people will keep putting in their own snide comments.
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FWIW. Lately when I place a Craigslist add I have been adding a line at the bottom. "Scammers, don't waist yours or my time, I'm not stupid." I now rarely get the scam offers to my adds, and If I do get one, I waste as much of their time as I possibly can. Go HERE for lots of good reading on messing with scammers. Years back there was a screen saver program that would just keep pinging the websites of scammers to totally fill there mailboxes with crap to make it hard to find the potential victims, or it would eat up all of their bandwidth so that victims would have a hard time logging in. Get this, the scammers took the company to court and got them shut down because they were interfering with the scammers livelihood. I sure wish I had a copy of that program.
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About the only thing I ever put on my FB account is my name, I never gave them any of my personal info I think I am all the way up to 3 friends now. I suppose I should just make it go away altogether.
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But it is a riot. After a 1.5 hour plus battle with an approx 30 inch musky in a river on the 12 footer with 2 lb line, and no one had a camera around the DNR warden that was there told me just after I released the fish that I probably just threw a line weight record back in the river. But it happened to be near 100° day and I just tossed my wallet to my buddy and jumped in the river and chased that fish a good half mile up and down the river, my tiny reel only had 100 yards of line. There was a lot of cheering when I finally landed it. I had a 1/64oz jig with a quarter of a night crawler. it was just the snack that fish wanted at that moment. I have caught more muskies with a night crawler than any other bait. That was by far the biggest fish I have landed with that setup. I had bragging rites in camp for quite a while after that one.
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Ok I think it time for a carb rebuild. I have never had much luck with rebuilding carbs on anything. But here is whats happening. First there was all of the above issues. Ever since ten I have noticed that the starting procedure has changed. It was always, half to full choke depending on temp hit the starter and it was running, wait a minute or so for it to warm up, open the choke and go. This year if I use the choke at all it will instantly flood. This I determine by a strong gas smell and the only way it will start is with the choke open, full throttle, hit the starter and in about 10-15 seconds of cranking it will fire, I must then immediately close the choke for the normal warm up. Today on the way home from work I made a stop, when I came back to the bike there was a very strong gas odor around it. I was only gone 15 minutes so it was still hot. I made a quick check for any obvious leaks and found none. But it would not start, It smelled and acted flooded, after nearly killing the battery and cranking at full throttle it finally coughed, spit and sputtered its way to life. After that it ran fine for the rest of the way home. SOooooo.......... I am agreeing with some kind of float issue. I do have a new set of diaphragms that I bought this winter. What else should I plan to have on hand before I start tearing stuff apart. I will be asking a lot of questions and be needing some hand holding to get thru this. I am assuming everything in the carbs and fuel system is original from 87. I plan to replace all lines and the filter "while I am there". (4 words that ALWAYS get me in trouble). I hate carb work. Earl, I may need to add to that order I just placed.
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All the more reason to be using the 12' crappie pole. The 12' pole will outcast any 5.5 foot rod and is even more of a blast when that big smally shows up, or even better yet a musky or northern and you are loaded with 2lb line.
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It aint the ethanol. You can call BS. Here in Milwaukee the home of the rattlecan we have only ethanol gas. If it was making the hardly just stop they would be piled so high on all the roads that nothing but a rock climber would be able to get thru town. I agree on most likely electrical. Electrical is about the only think that will make it just shut off other than a catastrophic internal failure.
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That is correct, But you want to paint inside and out so 800 sq ft. I am hoping you have more than one wall............ New block will soak up paint like a sponge, so it will need more still. Talk to the contractor and read your paint can about how long the mortar must cure and dry before painting.
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You should not have to fill the vacuum reservoir, you should have to fill the master and empty the vacuum reservoir. Yes you should crack the bleeder about a half to a full turn while using the vacuum, once there are no more bubbles you then must close the bleeder before testing the clutch. as far as "So why can't I get more clutch??" what exactly do you mean by more clutch? Is the clutch not holding? Not releasing? If you have a leak, you really want to find it because brake fluid will damage most things it drips on.
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I dunt know. It sure looks small. Maybe you should rethink the size again..........
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Gee maybe you should set up a web cam so that we can watch it go up in real time. Oh wait, you have issues just posting pics, never mind.....
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Thats too bad. I was looking to make my first MD this year and was looking forward to meeting you. You behave and do what you have to do so you are allowed to come next year.
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Does this mean that we are so naughty that Don needed more help to keep up with us? I guess I'll have to start behaving now......................NOT!
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Way to go......... Hmmmmmm She got a sister??