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  1. Flyinfool
    There is a fair amount of oil held back in the transmission area. You can drain that area by removing the bottom of the 6 screws that hold that cover on the left side. That is why that screw has the copper crush washer on it. Or just change it and ride and don't worry about the couple of ounces of old oil left behind.
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    Oh deer!

    Flyinfool replied to Gary N.'s topic in Watering Hole

    Only 3 more days till its open season on dem buggers here. I have a lot of room in the freezer and plan to do my share to reduce the herd. For me, deer are deer, I don't got any good recipes for antlers (you can marinate and/or boil those antlers for days and they are still tough) so I take what ever shows up.
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    Bad bulb or a bad connection. Did you try putting the old bulb back in to see if it goes back to normal?
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    It may take a lot of man hours to enforce but it can also be a significant revenue stream if enforced. There are cities that get a major portion of their operating budget from traffic citations.
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    Loud is in the ear of the beholder. I know people with straight pips on their Harleys that claim it is not loud or obnoxious, just a "nice sound". That is why the laws had to put a number on it. MOST aftermarket pips that "sound good" are to loud, regardless of how nice you think they sound.
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    Hehehe Did we forget to mention that it comes off with a bang?
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    Glad you found a simple fix quick. BUT I would still invest the $5 and half hour of time to put an inline fuse holder on that circuit till you get home to do it right.
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    You also get a lot of weight transfer while accelerating or stopping. Taken to the extreme for a really hard stop where 100% of the weight is on the front tire, or a wheelie where 100% of the weight is on the rear tire.
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    It looks like a small block Chevy. I wonder about cornering? You have 4 wheels with most of the weight on them saying I want to go straight and 1 wheel with little weight on it saying I want to turn.
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    This is an important point, You should have anything special that you may need for any specific medical issue that you may have. Be it an epi-pen or nitro pills or any other med that you may need to take on a regular basis, and just cant live without, for those times when things do not go per plan, like an unexpected over nite. Make sure to rotate the meds that you keep on the bike so that they will be effective when needed.
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    Gas, oil and filter is more like 40 lbs. But then for the driver. If I went on a diet AND rode naked I might get in at 250 lbs........ I figured that I am at about 1150 going down the road. I never tried putting the bike on scales to see what the weight distribution was. To bad I no longer have my scale set. When I used to race stock cars it is amazing what moving 20lbs of weight on a 3,500 lb car can do to handling characteristics.
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    As the article stated there is a federal law that says you can not put loud pipes on ANY vehicle for road use. I would just love to meet a LEO that has the stones to enforce it. Here in Milwaukee the home of Harley, with the shear number of LOUD Harley's running around, the city/county could end property taxes if they would just start to ticket all loud vehicles. Well I can wish can't I.
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    I can imagine hitting a turkey. Many years ago I hit a little house sparrow at 65 MPH, caught it in the chest. It knocked the wind out of me. I have not ridden without a windshield since. Somehow I do not think the windshield would matter much for a turkey. Glad you made it through.
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    That is a nice lookin bike. But to get rid a a gun????? Will the bigger bike help you to count, or are my eyes going bad.:stickpoke:
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    Yup, Quickstep better stay clear of WV with that blue 84. Dan will be lurking.
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    I did not use an impact on it. You are so close to the strength of the metal of the puller that there is a good chance of the impact breaking something. I just used a 2 foot breaker bar and slow steady increase of pressure till it popped.
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    Did you ever double check the amp draw reading? If you are really pulling 500mA (1/2 amp) with everything turned off then you need to get that found and fixed before you start messing with the charging system. Fix one known problem at a time. Whatever electrical problem is causing that draw could give you false readings in the charging tests and send you down a bad path.
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    First; I took the bolt completely out of the crank. I do not like pushing on a thread that I will reuse under tension. I never did the over night thing, I just cranked on the puller till it came off. My puller has a button that just fits inside of the flywheel and pushes directly on the end of the crank. I had read all of the flying flywheel posts so I tied a string from the puller to the frame so that it could not go anywhere. If yours did not come off yet you haven't cranked it down enough yet, You need to crank on that puller almost a full turn beyond the point that you are sure the puller will break. Your 3 100mm screws should only be finger tight or LESS. The reason the PCW is so expensive is that they broke many different brands till they found a quality one that is strong enough, Then they make some custom parts for the specific application.
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    Cruzin down a dark country road and I hit the high beam and the headlight simply goes off. Dang it gets real dark and scary at 60 MPH and no lights with road construction all around. The first thought that entered my mind was all of the discussions about HID failures. My first reflex action is that if I just did something and did not like the result, first thing is to undo it. So I switched back to low beam the light flickered a couple of times but did not come back on. By now I am down to about 30 MPH and still hard on the brakes. While still breaking I wiggled the hi/lo switch and the headlight came back to life just as I was coming to a stop. So as long as I was stopped any how I did some quickie diagnostics, switching to hi would still cause the light to turn off, jiggling the switch I could get it to come on in hi, switching to lo would make the light go out, jiggling the switch I could get it to go back on. So I got it on in lo and hotfooted it back home, praying that a bump in the road would not make it go out again. So I guess that this weekend I get to tear the switch apart and hope that it is just a mater of cleaning and lubing the contacts. It was NOT the HIDs fault it was the bike that told it to turn off. I guess that I will be adding some driving lights so that if the big light ever goes out again, I will not be left in the dark, It could have been real bad had this happened on a curve instead of a straight.
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    It would be nice to know if it was a member from years ago or a current member. If I know it is a current member then I also know that the info is current.
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    What you are doing is grounding the LEDs through the filament of the turn signal. If you watch close you will notice that the LEDs are on when the turn signal is off, and the LEDs go off when the turn signal turns on. Having it wired this way will not hurt anything but you are getting less light out of the LEDs because of the resistance of the filament in the turn signal. It is better to have them wired up correctly to get all of the light that you paid for.
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    I simply wrapped several layers of bubble wrap around mine and tie wrapped it to the frame inside of the faring. To change the bulb I have to pull out the headlight assy anyhow and there is the spare waiting for me. This work great on a 1st gen, not sure where to store it on a 2nd gen.
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    OK so I now have the Stinger and the Cooler carrier laid out. See, there was a method to my madness of wanting a receiver hitch. The Carrier is 12 x 18 and just fits my cooler, I am thinking of making the carrier out of aluminum to save a little weight way back there. My understanding is that I do not want any more than about 30 lbs total back there. That would be carrier + cooler to be less than 30 lbs.
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    Glad the wiring worked out and you are ready to roll. Just make sure that you have some spare fuses with you at all times, just in case. You should be good, but I always err on the side of caution. You may want to start a new thread for the H.O. R/R. I can not help you with that one, mine is still stock.
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    As long as there is at least a tiny bit of flow the seafom may help but if it can not get to the blockage then there is not much it can do. I would certainaly try a heavy dose of seafom and soaking before tearing anything apart. Dan you only have the fasted 1st gen in WV, cuz you bought all the rest of them.
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