Jump to content

Flyinfool

Expired Membership
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    13,152

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    7

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Flyinfool

  1. Flyinfool
    Well since my truck blew up over memorial weekend, it has wiped out all chance of me making it to Freebirds MD. But that means that it is much more likely that I will be able to make it to the WI MD. It is still dependent on how Erika's foot is healing, but I think that she will be fine for a day. I still need to grease my pins that I never got around to at the last WI MD, If there is time available on a lift. I also have a couple of minor electrical issues to attend to, if there is the time and ambition. Is there anything that I should bring up with me? Since I did all of that work to get the bike and a trailer ready to take to Ohio maybe I'll get ambitious and pull it to Fox Lake, just so that I will at least have used it for something this year. Is there anyone heading up from the Milwaukee area? Bob, did you ever get that second brass pole mounted on the new bar???
  2. Flyinfool
    Yup, my favorite tool... That is why I said So does my skill with a hammer mean I am now fully qualified to work on anyone's bike?????
  3. Flyinfool
    I tried everywhere around town. No one ever saw anything like it. Soooooo....... I used plan 2, get a bigger hammer. I went to harbor freight and got a set of external Torx sockets, used a E4 socket and hammered it onto the screw and out it came. Repeat 4 more times. Replaced them with hex socket head cap screws. That part is all better now, and if I ever have to take it apart again, my trusty 3mm Allen wrench is now the correct tool.
  4. Flyinfool
    I am working on the steering column of my 96 GMC full size P/U. There are a bunch of screws in the steering column that look like a Torx BIT, but are 5 point instead of 6 point. So I need a nut driver that has 5 internal points. This screw head is about 1/8" OD. I have been looking at tool places and can not find anything like this. I have found the Pentasockets but they are for a screw head with 5 flat sides, This is a star shape more like what a Torx bit looks like.
  5. Flyinfool
    Too late!!!! I just bought what should be the winning tickets. With the run of bad luck that I have been having lately, these tickets just have to be winners.
  6. Flyinfool
    The differences in gauges is one reason that I only use what works for others as a starting point for tire pressure. Play with the pressure till you like the ride, and handling, then always use the same gauge to check pressure. Make a note of what YOUR preferred pressure is with YOUR gauge, both hot and cold. I think that it is the differences in gauges that accounts for the differences in pressures that some people run.
  7. Flyinfool
    I was going to do something similar but I was going to wire it hot so that I do not have to have the bike running to charge stuff. Charging cell phone type stuff draws very little power from the battery. For instance, my cell phone has a 0.200 amp hour at 3.7V battery, that means that if it is completely dead, I will use only 0.062 amp hour off of the bikes battery. Almost nothing. I was also going to put an I pod in the trunk with an FM transmitter so that I can do tunes while riding. Just set it to shuffle and it will be like listening to the radio with no commercials.
  8. Flyinfool
    Well I think I have most of the diagnostics done on the truck. Fried fuel pump and fuel level sender. Fried turn signal switch assembly. Fried brake light switch. Many many melted wires. It looks like somewhere in that big 2 inch diameter wire harness there is a short between the brake light circuit and the fuel pump circuit that caused an overload to those circuits, after the fuse, so those wires started to melt and melt adjacent wires and it snowballed from there. Looks like $500-600 in parts. And at least a week of rewiring and replacing fried stuff. None of the fried components are easy to get to. Each of the fried components is a major project by itself. It will take a miracle for me to get this all done, and get time to pack the bike for the trip, and implement my super secret plan for mamas foot (Shhhh... she don't know about it yet:duck:)
  9. Flyinfool
    Well I was going to deliver the first tool to RandyR at MD but since I will not be making the trip I will ship it to him for the first test.
  10. Flyinfool
    Well between mamas foot and my truck just blew up, the trip to Freebirds MD this year will not happen. I even had everything on the list finished just barely in time. I guess that all I can do if hope for next year. :crying: I was really looking forward to meeting a lot of you folks.:crying:
  11. Flyinfool
    My truck, in Black Creek, on the way to the UP. Not pretty.
  12. Flyinfool
    What he said. When my gps was new home was the factory where it was built.
  13. Flyinfool
    I could have really used that..........
  14. Flyinfool
    OH OH I sure hope there is no collateral damage........
  15. Flyinfool
    Still trying to get GF to even try to sit on the bike. Back in High school her BF of the time took here for her first ride, she spent the next 3 months in the hospital. Understandably, she is a little skeptical of getting back on, even now 40 years later.
  16. Flyinfool
    I sure wish I had that jug Friday and/or yesterday while stranded in Black Creek. My 260 mile planned drive ended up being a 36 hour ordeal / electrical nightmare.
  17. Flyinfool
    FWIW The chevy V8s with the plastic intake manifolds are a well known leak point. I had the same mysterious coolant disappearing act till it got bad enough to find. The factory intake gaskets leak coolant slowly on top of the engine where there is enough heat to evaporate it before it can drip. When it finally got found and fixed was when it blew all together and the coolant could pour out faster than you could put it in. My mechanic was amazed that I had 100K on the factory gasket, he said it might be a record. Make sure that you get the good Felpro gaskets for the repair. Sorry for the thread hijack.......
  18. Flyinfool
    Due to the areas where I work and the area where I live. It is a habit to not leave anything of even questionable value in sight and or unlocked. At work if you leave a quarter in the cup holder of the center consol, someone will smash a window to get at it. it don't take much perceived value to get hit.
  19. Flyinfool
    Oh my!!! This sounds serious. It could be fatal if not treated quickly. The only cure might be to lock you ALONE in a room with nothing but a credit card and a computer with an internet connection.
  20. Flyinfool
    If that is aluminum you could always have someone TIG weld it on the back side. There is a local weld shop that I take small aluminum jobs to. It does not matter which welder comes to the door it is always wait here, brings it back in 5 minutes, welded, I hand him a fiver that goes right in his pocket.......
  21. Flyinfool
    Agreed Electronic cruise that will disengage with either brake is the best. A cruise that will disengage with the front brake (mechanical lock or electronic) is the next best. A cruise that can be overpowered is the last choice that I would make. There is no way I would want a cruise that does not have some form of auto-release or can not be overpowered. (I am not sure if there really is such a thing, I personally have never seen one.) FWIW From the training that I have had, I was taught that if you are mashing the brakes in a panic stop, that since your left side has nothing better to do, it should be pulling in the clutch. Pulling the clutch has almost the same effect at the rear wheel as dropping the throttle whether or not you have a throttle lock engaged. You should also be clicking down thru the gears as is appropriate as your speed drops so that you are ready for rapid acceleration in case it is needed as the emergency stop unfolds.
  22. Flyinfool
    That is as bad as Kyle Busch doing 128mph in a 45mph in a residential area. Someone that should really know better.
  23. Flyinfool
    :sign yeah that: Every lock that I have ever had over the years could be easily overpowered to either open or close the throttle while locked.
  24. Flyinfool
    It is also birthing season right now. The moms are ready to drop their new young and are driving last years young out of the territory. That is how they keep the gene pool spread out. All of these yearling deer are looking for new homes and do not know the teritory that they are traveling through. If they were born and raised in an area with no busy roads, they have not been taught how to cross the street. This and the fall mating season are the two times of year you are most likely to find deer running blindly across the road.
  25. Flyinfool
    On the occasion that I have had to get a block of rooms, I did make every effort to keep the hotel informed as to what was happening, yes they were very appreciative of knowing. While you are correct that based on the agreement you had no legal obligation to contact the hotel, courtesy is a 2 way street. Especially in the case of a small privately owned place, a big chain can more easily absorb the loss of a couple of nights rent.
×
×
  • Create New...