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I am not sure why you would want or need such a thing. It may make front wheel removal on the side of the road a bit easier. It also looks like it would eliminate a couple of inches of ground clearance for going into and out of steep driveway ramps or in @cowpuc case reduced 2 trackin clearance.

Good nuts are expensive. You can clean them up and clear them but as mentioned, when you go to put them back on the clear (or powder coat) will chip and then they will end up looking even worse in a short time. The ones I have on my truck are now 4 years old and still look like the day I bought them, and they do have to deal with Wisconsin winter snow and an unlimited supply of road salt and off roading in mud, sand and dirt come summer. But they were expensive.

What is so not right about i? It sounds perfectly normal to me. Tomorrow we expect a high of 53 and drop to single digits the next day. WHY would we not want to share all this fun? I also seem to remember a LOT of southern folk claiming that they are out of range........................

6 months is not that long. Real winter lasts longer than that up north. A lot depends on what kind of gas you have available. If you have access to ethanol free gas then that is what you want to store it with. Add your Seafoam and/or Stabil to that. Tank should be completely full to avoid condensation in the take as the temperature and humidity change. If you have treated ethanol free gas in the bike and you have taken it for a long enough ride to be sure that the treated gas is all the way thru the fuel system then it is not necessary to drain the carbs. On the other hand, if you must store it with ethanol gas then still treat it but I would drain that crap gas out of the carbs. If you can, put the bike up on something so that its weight is not on the tires or suspension. IF you must store it on the wheels, make sure the tires are properly inflated, and check them every once in a while, I had a tire go down over the winter and it caused the bike to fall over on the right side.

If the gaskets are more than a couple of years old I would replace them. For as much of a PITA as it is to get to them you really do not want to go back and redo for a leak.

:hijacked: :hijacked: :sign back to topic: :sign back to topic: Sorry to see you go @rbig1, I do hope that you will at least come back to visit us once in a while. You know that we may end up having to plan a gathering at your place if you are gone to long, just to be sure that you are OK and stuff............. It will not be the same in without your personality in there. WE WILL MISS YOU!

If you put a 2" coupler on the trailer to get it started then it will not work on a bike down the road. It would be easier to get the 1-7/8 ball to put on your receiver. It might make it easier to find relay links if you start a dedicated thread?

This still sounds like a lot of fun.....................

He said the Father of Breezy Bum and Frosty Fool was old. I guess he was calling Old Man Winter Old. BUt BUt BUt...................I is old. Besides, If I swung the nozzles over to Brantford it would only encourage additional insults to get more snow. It was Slow Roll what brought up old man winter. I may be old but at least not as old as old as you old guys what can't read................... So :rasberry: :rasberry: :rasberry: :rasberry:

Last month one of our members had a new 2018 in his garage already, they ones that are getting deliverd are not for the showroom floor. they are already sold on preorder. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?133809-2018-Venture-Selling-yet&p=1024381#post1024381

I also use a Dewalt 1/2inch Drill/Driver if I have to do a lot of screws. I have tried a couple of the electric screwdrivers and none of them had enough torque to loosen a tight screw or to adequately tighten a screw being put in, I ended up having to go over every screw with a normal manual driver to either break them loose or to get final tightness. This doubles the chance of forgetting to fully tighten a screw that will fall out while going down the road. The Dewalt has more available power than most screws have strength, But it has a clutch to set just how tight you want to make them. It has the power to run 5/16 dia 8 inch long wood screws for a pole barn yet with the clutch turned down will not strip a #4 x 3/8 long wood screw going into pine. I used it to put up an 8' x 10' metal shed from drilling the holes in the concrete to over 1000 sheet metal screws holding the whole thing together all on a single charge. And of course I can use it for drilling holes too.

I think I found the issue, Yes the door is closed, BUT it is a screen door!!!! That would explain why all this nasty super cold air is blowing down from the north since Christmas. I guess I might just have to take a trip up to near the border to see what I can use to plug up the mesh in that screen.

Also takes some of the starch out of the cold weather ride thread since this one started at -25 and snowing out.

It is more normal for the exhaust to be tight, but certainly not unheard of for intake to be the tighter ones. Double check that you used the correct specs for the correct valves, intake and exhaust are different. I've seen it done. There is no telling how much effort was put into a previous valve check, did someone adjust all of the exhaust to the high limit and left the intakes alone at the low limit? No way to know now and that could also explain your somewhat unusual results. When I did my valves I set all of the valve to the upper limit so that it will not have to be done again in my life time of ownership. You said you were going to "pull the shims tomorrow" WARNING!!!! Do not turn the engine with any shim out of the bucket, things will snap into a bad position that is very difficult to recover from.

You do know that there is no such thing as to cold to snow..................

So now there are two of you that want a snomagedin............................

I think this was already done with a $250 Venture that went from eastern Canada to Cancun Mexico in Feb - March. He ended up giving the bike to someone down there and flying home. Found it http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?119387-Canada-to-Cancun-on-the-250-Venture-The-full-ride-report

I had to carry one in the back of a P/U once. I used my engine hoist to pick it up and set it in the bed and then loaded the hoist in the truck for the unloading at the destination. Very safe and uneventful. The hoist that I have is rated 4,000 lbs so the weight of a venture is no issue and it can break down or be assembled in just a few minutes. https://www.harborfreight.com/2-ton-capacity-foldable-shop-crane-69514.html

If the intermittent issue comes back you may have to go the LED monitor route. Connect an LED to the Red/White wire at the TCI and another one to the Black/White wire at the TCI. That way at the moment that the engine is quitting the LEDs will tell you if that wire is causing the problem. The LED on the Black white wire is watching for a ground, so it will light if there is a problem. The LED on the Red white wire is watching power so it will turn off with a problem. You may end up needing more LEDs to monitor other wires in the system until you find the culprit

I could sure use some of that global warming stuff they keep talking about. It has been to cold to go outside to play with my machines.......... So they have had to just sit there pointed in the same direction till it gets a bit warmer for these old bones to go out to play some more.......... I guess I will have to work on a remote control system so I can play from the comfort of my sofa............

@Golf&Venture was making the tool for greasing the speedo bearing. I do not know if he is still got any available. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?65506-Anyone-have-a-broken-1st-Gen-MKII-speedometer-cable http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?67738-Only-3-left-Speedo-Bearing-Coupling-Grease-Tool

If you go to make that ride wearing nothing but boots gloves and a helmet, you will have other things falling off.......................

Sounds good to me. I got some coke to mix with my Southern Comphort and a cheap bottle of Asti Spumante for midnitght if I/we last that long. Butt what is with the inside out diaper???