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  1. Flyinfool
    That mans all you have to do now is chop, stack and haul firewood....... Yes I'm jealous.........
  2. Flyinfool
    So where did you find the info on how this is supposed to go together? A book somewhere, or just looking at the parts till you figured it out, or the dreaded trial and error method?
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    If you let the bike sit for a couple of weeks and have it not be able to start, you have some other issues to look for. My bike sits for the whole winter in a cold steel garden shed and still fires right up in the spring. I just make sure that the water level in the battery is always correct and give it a good run if I had to add water recently before storage. The Yuasa battery in my bike is now 5 years old. I put it in new a week after I got the bike. It often sits neglected for several weeks especially in the spring and fall. During the winter I start the bike once a month and let it run at about 3,000 rpm till the cooling fan has cycled at least twice. I then top off the tank with some fresh gas + Stable + Seafoam. Yes the Deka type batteries are a better battery than the old lead acid type, some day when this battery dies I will most likely go that route just to not have to keep adding water all of the time. If you really want to have a tender of some sort on the battery and there is no power available, I use a solar tender on my RV that is used for 1 week per year. The battery is always ready to go, and is still the one that was in it when I bought it 6 years ago. The PO did not know how old the battery was at that time because it was in it when he bought it 4 years earlier. That makes that battery 10+ years old and still going strong.
  4. Flyinfool
    That will not help since the HID is pulling its power directly from the battery and not through the bikes headlight wiring. With the HID the bikes headlight circuit is now only driving a relay to select hi or low beam. If the CC light that you have works the same way as the one from HID Country then there are a couple of things you will need to do. It is not a hard job but does need to be done. Here is the writeup that I did. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=45603 If you have the bi xenon bulb that does both hi and low beam then you must disable the RLU or it WILL burn out the bulb motor.
  5. Flyinfool
    That can be arranged. Or we will all just show up at your place for ice cream and a swim.......
  6. Flyinfool
    If it is the valve cover gasket leaking then you need to replace that, If it is just leaking around the bolts then you just need to replace the bolt gasket P/N 2GH-1111G-00-00, they are around $3 each. If you are going to go thru the effort of changing the valve cover gaskets then you want to plan on also replacing the bolt gaskets at the same time. AND while you have the covers off, check the valve clearances.
  7. Flyinfool
    But when it come to cool, I thought cost was no object. If the cost of cool were an issue, there would be no such thing as CHROME or other add ons that serve no purpose other than cool. So who is going to be the first from this forum to do it????
  8. Flyinfool
    No one ever accused me of being family friendly........ ...., SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!!!!
  9. Flyinfool
    Dang it! That looks like a fun project. I think the only race cars with carbs are where the rules require carbs.
  10. Flyinfool
    Last night we had a freak blizzard We got all of a half inch......... All in one night. I think we are sneaking up on 2 inches for the season. Last I checked I was still in Wisconsin...........
  11. Flyinfool
    Chicken. I showed it to the better half........ ........ she didn't get it.
  12. Flyinfool
    Obviously the smart phone aint so smart.
  13. Flyinfool
    I'll take your word for it, I never tried it......
  14. Flyinfool
    NOPE!!
  15. Flyinfool
    I'm not OLD enough to need a 2nd gen yet. Now that I have a trailer I may get to find out just how far my butt can go. I have two long (to me) trips planned for this summer. MD and WIMD
  16. Flyinfool
    I guess you are still new here. If you did a search you would know that 2nd gens are well known to be whining all of the time. Its in there nature. The can't help it. No matter how many baskets they try.......
  17. Flyinfool
    OK winter is here now so it is back to work on things. I did extend the tongue 18 inches and it looks good. I have not had a chance to take it out for a test pull. Since the trailer lights are so close to the road I have decided that I will add a high mounted center brake light. I might even rig it to also be a running light. Now since this is a 4 wire trailer, that means I will need to make up a circuit to get the brake light to work off of the combination brake/turn signal circuit. I have looked at the modules that you can by for this but they do not work the way I want. All of the modules that I have been able to find are nothing more than 2 diodes to give 2 wires in from the trailer lights and one wire out to the brake light. This will work fine to light up the center brake light when you are actually applying the brake. BUT, with the 2 diode setup, the center brake light will also flash with either turn signal. I do not want this as it may be confusing to someone following me. Sooooo I have designed 2 different circuits, one using relays and one using all solid state components. I will build both and see which one I like better. Either one of these will handle a 10 Amp load so you do not have to use a LED center light. Yes I will post pics and details as I go. I have been reading up on how to make my own printed circuit boards using my laser printer. So I have some playing to do and that playing needed a project. This is it.
  18. Flyinfool
    Lets not rush things here....... That would be interesting since she won't ride (bad mc crash as a teen passenger). I do not know if I can ride that far on my marshmallow butt. But might be planing a M&E here soon.
  19. Flyinfool
    Well I can say the the word "YES" was heard many times...........
  20. Flyinfool
    That just means that you have brain freeze from eating your icecream to fast. Slow down and enjoy....... Or just leave the ice cream to us profesionals
  21. Flyinfool
    Or do these mean that I was setting a bad example........
  22. Flyinfool
    Well good then. That means I do not have to worry about my butter pecan or cookies and cream......... They aint on the list.
  23. Flyinfool
    BUT Sometimes when girls are bad they are really good........... Just sayin........
  24. Flyinfool
    Once you drill off the heads and get the cover out of the way, drain all of the fluid out of the reservoir and wipe it dry. Then stuff it with a rag or paper towels to keep things out of where they should not be. Apply a drop of Kroil (my favorite) or other real good penetrating oil and let it soak for an hour. Give the end of the screw a few light raps with a small hammer to help the penetrating oil do its thing, along with another drop of Kroil and let it soak some more. THEN you can try the vice grips on the remains of the screw.
  25. Flyinfool
    Here is the link to my build thread http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=52757
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