Flyinfool

Best support you can give her is to not get in her way, and do not even think of trying to use her preferred locations in the house.

The last time I tried renting a car or a hotel room they would not take a debit cart, insisted on a CC. As mentioned there are minimal protections on a debit card if your should be compromised. CC is a LOT safer to use in todays world full of hackers and scammers.

Put a volt meter across the battery terminals, it should read around 12.6V. Turn on the key and hit the starter, if the battery stays at 12V and the bike is dark, then the problem is in the bikes wiring, if the voltage drops by more than 2 or 3 volts, then the battery is the problem.

Wonderful trip! Was glad to be able to follow along with you. Thank you.

For the rear, just take the front line off the master and plug the hole with a bolt and crush washer. Done. For the front you will need to come up with new brake lines. You can either run a single line down to a splitter and then the two lines to the front calipers. OR. Leave the right line like it is and just add a second line from the master to the left caliper, using a double banjo bolt at the front master. Since you have a MK1 you will probably want to upgrade the front master to a bigger one, Stock is 1/2 inch (12.7mm) the MK2 has a 14mm master (9/16 inch). I just picked up a 16mm master but I have not tried it yet. Most people are happy with the 14mm master. @skydoc_17 sells a delink kit with all the braided stainless lines and instructions.

:sign yeah that: The only time 85 or 86 matters is if you have a relay with a diode built in. If you have that it will be shown in the connection diagram that is printed or molded into the relay case.

OK silly idea here, are the bulbs reversed for the set and resume lights, I am trying to remember but I thought there was enough slack in the wires to put the bulbs in the wrong location. So you push the set button and the resume light comes on? If you then hit the brake by chance does the set light come on? If you hit set and the resume light comes on, did you then try hitting resume? Give the cruise some time to wake up. Mine takes 5-10 seconds to do anything, If I release the throttle right away after hitting set or resume the bike will slow down enough for it to kick out on under speed. I have to hold the speed just a couple MPH less than what I set it for until I feel the cruise take up the slack.

That pic looks like it is closer to a 2nd gen seating position but closer to 1st gen styling? The trunk looks huge. How long before there is a 20 year old one that I can afford?

I have to agree, The time and money would be well spent to delink and then the bleeding problem and proportioning valve are gone for good. Every time I go out on the bike I have to traverse pea gravel covered pavement, there were many times I lost the front wheel while using just the rear brake because with the linked brakes it locked the front wheel on the gravel. I have never had an issue with the gravel since I delinked.

The picture of that screw head is a Phillips recess, All of the cross recess screws on your bike should be JIS, Additional confermation that someone jammed a SAE screw into the metric hole. If it is indeed a clip-nut, I would try to get a new nut before trying to rethread it. jamming in a 1/4-20 and then retaping back to 6mm will leave very comprised threads.

So they are implying it will have; EFI built in AM, FM, XM and navigation with blue tooth heated seats and grips Reverse

It is common to have a plugged vent for the gas tank. Next time it quits, as soon as you are safely stopped, pop the gas cap and listen close for a hiss of air rushing into the tank, and it then it can immediately restart and run for a while until the tank has a vacuum in it again. If you have this then you just need to get that vent hose unplugged. A cheap and common fix. Insects are known to crawl up into that hose and die or build a nest.

The only thing with the 4 into 1 rubber manifold for the carb vents is if one carb is flooding, that manifold will alow it to flood all four carbs. Someone just had that issue this year. With the 4 carbs having individual vent lines all the way to the bottom there is no chance for cross talk between the carbs. Make sure that the tip over valve is still on the gas tank vent and that the vent line also runs to the back. I think the tank also vented thru the canister.

Specifically which bulbs did you get? SB has many to chose from. I helped one person chase a turn signal issue and it turned out that it was the specific LED bulbs were not compatible with a 1st gen. Now this was on a MK2 and the 83 is different so I am not sure if the same issues will apply. But the problem was that the bright and dim parts of the LED were internally connected so the running light circuit was energizing the flasher side of the bulb causing a steady on condition. I did find a fix but I will need to find that old thread with my notes. I can also do some tests to see if you can check your bulbs for the same issue. I have both good and bad bulbs laying around here somewhere.

Hog hunting here in town would be a target rich environment.......................... Especially the obnoxiously loud ones at 3AM

:rotf: :rotf::rotf: It is a fairly new thing that the feral hogs have become a problem. http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12145_55230-230093--,00.html

If it is the starter clutch that went bad, it usually sounds like someone is inside of the engine with a hammer trying to get out. It does this while cranking. You can replace all of the starter clutch parts with OEM, but you will be back in there replacing them again, and again. OR you can contact member @Dano, he replaces the stock 3 roller clutch with an 18 roller clutch and it will never fail again. Costs a bit more up front, but pays for itself by the second start clutch replacement. I have the 2nd one that Dano ever did many years ago.

My keyboard may never be the same again....................... Puc did you know that in your very own home state there are feral hogs for the taking. It is even against the law to NOT take one if you are packing a gun. I am always hoping a herd of them will come past my deer stand while I am there.

Rolling with traffic at posted speed limit + 5, 50 MPH

While I have not don much to the bike this year, I did determine that I will be rebuilding the forks real soon, the right one is suddenly leaking pretty bad. Now to start shopping for al of the parts...............

Yes I am jealous, had the nozzles parked west for the summer, Denver just got a foot of snow from this storm, may have to swing them back north just for teasing us with those scrumptious looking vittles......... @cowpuc you may just have to make more than one trip around the big pond. 2 hours north? If there is yummy food involved I can knock that down to 1.5 hours easy, I have already made Green Bay for a $100 hamburger in just 30 minutes. But it took 2+ hours to get home............... I was heavier for the return trip.

Whether merging left or right the rules say you must be sure nothing is there, the ONLY way an examiner can know if you checked is if you turn your head to look. When taking a test you will be tested to the letter of the law, logic, common sense, and accepted customs, and long held habits will get written up every time. They need to know that you know how it is supposed to be done, even if there are other ways to get it done. If you for some reason need to do something other than the letter of the law, then explain what you are doing and why so that the examiner knows you have done what is necessary. As for merging from the left lane into the left turn lane, it was just 2 weeks ago that a woman in an SUV pulled up onto the median AND had to drive up and over the curbs of the median to get to the left turn lane ahead of me, It was only my reflex look over the shoulder that caught her. Yes I have a full size truck with huge mirrors that are adjusted for maximum visibility. That is no different that coming up to a one way street, I still look both ways, it is amazing how many people go the wrong way on a one way street. People do all kinds of stupid things, you have to be looking for the unexpected. I would much rather stop and wait for the idiot than to deal with the aftermath of the crash, even if I know I am in the right. As for passing on the right, back 40 some years ago I was taught that you can pass on the right for a left turning car ONLY if you can keep all 4 tires on pavement. Gravel shoulder you can not pass. Even though everyone else does. I have seen one idiot pass a school bus with flashing red lights by running down the gravel shoulder. All I could do was cringe and hope all the kids were on the bus before he got there. I was taught way back when that all of your car must be behind the big white line at an intersection, If you look you will see that the center line of the road starts and ends at that white stop line. Sometimes that line is set back or angled because left turning traffic needs that space to safely make the turn, if the front of your car is hanging out there, there is less room to make a safe turn. If that rule was changed, it happened more than 40 years ago.

There are 3 threaded holes that you have found, use high strength bolts to attach the puller to those holes. When you put the bolts in the holes, do not tighten them just bottom them out in the holes finger tight. Crank down on the puller till you think something is gonna break, then go to bed, it will usually be off by morning. Tie a safety rope to the flywheel to hold it on or it may literally fly across the shop and break itself or anything in its way. It is a heavy chunk of metal. I do not using heat because heat is real bad for magnets, there are magnets in the flywheel for the stator and the ignition. Sometimes a good rap on the jack screw of the puller will persuade the flywheel to pop. I would not pound on the flywheel itself since shock is also bad for magnets.

FWIW I was already in the 40mpg club. Skydoc and I tried the shims and I lost torque. It was fine unloaded and had a lot more pep, but as soon as I connected the trailer, it could not get going, we had to pull the shims back out and it was back to a rocket with the trailer. As said YMMV.

And make sure there is no oil in the holes before you use the red Loctite. Even red Loctite don't stick to oil.