qdude
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Honda loves those cheap flames also
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If you have dsl you have to set the router to ping the user name and password, at least you do with ATT.
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I'm dealing with the same thing
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Thanks for replies, it is 2004 RSV. On page 6-5 of the repair manual I was assuming he means the #13 the jet needle. I would agree that taking it back is not a good idea. I was concerned when he came up with such a quick answer. He certainly didn't catch the fouled plug or fix the problem in the first place. I am also wondering about what he actually did or did not do when he had the carb apart. My question to you was more if you thought his idea had merit, I doubted it so I asked. I have seafoamed, but no avail. Where I first see the gas it is by the flange bolt on the base of the carb the goes into the head. The gas follows the head gasket seem over until it runs down on the crankcase breather and off the side of the bike. It is not clear exactly where the gas is originating from. Doing a search I am not finding a common issue with others. I am not certain if I tore it down myself I would recognize the problem unless it was fairly obvious. I have studied the parts manual and service manual and I'm reasonably sure I could remove the carbs without a disastrous fubar, but I don't really have a good place or lots of spare time to do this. Pinning down the probable cause would make the job much easier. I was hoping the description would bring a reply "oh yeah that happened to me too and it was...". Unfortunately for me I don't think many have seen this issue. Skydoc thanks for the suggestions I will check the o ring on the carb. I have already drained the carbs but i will more closely check. I have suspected a gasket leak but i guess until i take it apart or find a real mechanic I won't be sure. The performance does not suffer under load or at idle. The bike ran fine with the fouled plug and was getting 30 mpg, so the plug was partially firing. It runs much quicker and gets 30 mpg with the new plugs. The right front plug was definitely gas fouled and black while all others were tan.
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I have posted about this problem but I'd like your opinion. I have a gas leak. It appears to originate on the right rear carb area. The gas runs down the rear cylinder wall onto the crankcase breather. It leaks less than a teaspoon. A full tank of gas makes the leak worse and the leak disappears when the gas tank is at about 20%. Recently I changed the plugs, all were very good except for the right front cylinder which was gas fouled. Don't know if that's related to the leak. I took it in earlier to a mechanic for this issue and got it back with new jets, one was definitely corroded green, so it wasn't a complete waste. I took it to the same mechanic who says it is the needle valve/pin stuck. I looked around and found one reference to the needle valve sensitivity to alcohol and having the valve switched to stainless. Do you think he's right? I don't have much confidence in this guy because he didn't fix it the first time. The nearest certified Yamaha mechanic is 70 miles away. I should just bite the bullet and take it apart my self, but having never done it before I am not 100% confident.
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The cop was personally sued for illegal arrest and paid a $17,500 settlement, fire or medical controls a injury accident scene.
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We drive cops, the public, and especially the highway patrol nuts, we park the fire truck in the lane of traffic and completely block the lane and the accident scene. People still run into the back of the truck but they seldom run over firefighters or accident victims. I have had highway patrol yelling at me because we blocked a interstate, I didn't get arrested but other firefighters have. To a lesser degree situations like this happen daily. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LC6oqLhbr0]YouTube- Cops arrest a Fire Department Captain while on a call[/ame] The last two brother cops killed here died in traffic stops.
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Salty If I was on a jury, I'd definitely see your point.... but he looked like an inattentive idiot to me and it was a too bad for him. 99% of accidents are avoidable, by one party in the accident. I go to so many fatalities and injuries where someone ran a light or stop sign because they were distracted. He wasn't hurt, and rightly or wrongly he was entertaining.
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He had his cell phone in his hand when he got out of the car, and you can be CERTAIN the cop had his warning lights on. Sorry years of experience tells me he wasn't looking at the road, and he had the extremely bad luck to be a idiot on film. Distracted people wreck their cars everyday and keep me in business.
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I've been a fireman for 30+ years, you would not believe the number of times people run into emergency vehicles, it happens over and over and over. Its like they are hyponotised by the lights and run into them. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnldI4WiiCA]YouTube- Cop Hit By Car[/ame] Dime to donut this goof ball was texting as he pulled up, got distracted by the emergency lights and didn't even look at the road. Everybody uses a cell phone in cars and now many are texting too. So in our cars we got mp3's, dvds, gps, weather, 3g, email, phone calls, video phone calls, cappuccino, and oh yes driving too.
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Bike is leaking gas and it drains down onto the crankcase breather onto the left side clutch cover to the ground. I checked the plugs and the right front was gas fouled. Changed all the plugs and it seems like a new bike, quit backfiring also. I checked gas tank... no rust visible. Did the seafoam 25% of can in 3 different tanks of gas still have 25% left...man that is expensive stuff. Drained carbs and it was impossible to see what came out. These measures didn't stop the leak. I haven't taken the tank clear off and tapped the floats yet. Took it to a shop months ago and $300 later I have new jets and a replaced fuse for my light bar, I explained the problems and I asked to have the floats checked but I got new jets and a fuse. One jet was corrosion green so I don't feel completely bad, but I left the shop with the same problem, the undiscovered bad plug, and the backfiring also. This was the good metric shop in St Joseph, the others are even worse. This is a metropolitan area of 85,000, you would think there would be one good shop here, but noooooo. If I owned a Harley I would have 3 good service options, metric ...3 very bad service options. I still suspect the float was not set correctly or was stuck when I purchased the bike, a 2004 Midnight. It was a repossession and probably sat for many months. Any suggestions, I dread the thought of trying to take the carburetor apart to set the floats, never have done that before. Changing the the buried plugs took me 3 hours so a carburetor would be 2 day job for me, and my not so flexible back. Any other suggestions?
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Mine keeps blowing after 30-60 hours? Any ideas why? and how do you get the bottom mount bolts loose the ones that hold the lights, the angle is a bad.
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Oh give me a hell yes, I have recreated myself so many times since then... they were the best of times and the worst. Hippie, soldier, dad, fireman, union officer, chief, old dude, what a wonderful ride this has been so far. http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/soldier-vietnam-peacep119-ga.jpg
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Show Chrome, wider and shorter, but I went back to stock, better wind protection. I got used to looking through the shield now too.
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It's unlikely they were members of the American Federation of Midgets because back home they would have been thought of as real small, ... but when they saw an opportunity they acted fast. Fast criminal Hispanic elf's. Sounds scary termed like that. http://www.lajerga.com/m/i/articles/issue2/midget-bullfighting/midget-bull.jpg
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Well if your step daughter's other dad looks like a small Juan Valdez, you might ask
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Ok 100% true. I went to a discount grocery, you know, the kind with no sackers and you box your own food. I took my 1/2 cart of paid for groceries to the boxing area, but there are no boxes... so I leave the cart and go to look for boxes. I return with boxes a couple of minutes later and no cart anywhere. After a minute of "What the **ck" I realized I have been robbed and I ran into the parking lot. There is only one family with more than one cart loading groceries. I would describe the family as extremely robust midgets. The tallest was a teenage girl who towered at 4'10" ish. It wouldn't have looked much out of place if these folks had been loading groceries onto donkeys to return to the coffee plantation in the mountains. No donkeys but instead they were loading into a Fordasaurus, one of those ancient huge LTD cars. They had 3 carts with mine between theirs. They had put a 12 pack of toilet paper and huge box of sanitary napkins over my groceries as camouflage. I ran up to them and screamed "what the hell is wrong with you!". The biggest girl giggled and said her parents didn't speak English. The parents kept loading loose groceries, none had been boxed, into the trunk. The parents never looked up and were seemingly oblivious and unaware of the screaming mad gringo. I ripped my cart out from the middle of the carts and started pushing it back to the store to box the groceries. A few seconds later the dad yelled in a heavy Spanish accent, "WAIT A MINUTE." I am now thinking, I came here to get milk, hamburger and cookies and somehow I'm going to be fighting a Mexican midget. The Dad rushed up to my cart and with burning angry outraged eyes... the eyes of a man who just had his sanitary napkins hijacked. He grabbed his 12 pack of toilet paper and huge box of sanitary napkins. It may have been the first time, in America, he was the victim of theft. Ok, so I'm back inside boxing up and here comes the 2 teenage girls. I guess their parents decided they now needed boxes since rapid exit was no longer necessary. The girls got their boxes and the tallest one smiles at me, not a malicious smile, but a smile like we had shared one very odd, but apparently not embarrassing moment. I'm pretty sure I could have taken the midget if push came to shove.
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"Industry Sees Few Changes With Dicks Calling The Shots"
qdude replied to royalstarjac's topic in Watering Hole
The same Dicks is in charge of the finance/investments industry, he must be everywhere -
Darn Bummer, your story makes riding less attractive. Total coverage $210 Foremost, no tickets in the last 10 years, knock on wood. I probably shouldn't have even said that about the tickets
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Has anyone removed their exhaust, did you have to dismantle much stuff to get to the front bolts?
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Is there a trick to tighten the front lower exhaust bolts? How do you get to them?
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Dunlop 404 WWW tires, yes my wife didn't like it at all, said I was crazy, so she didn't get to go.
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Took it out today, some streets still snow covered. Good to get out for 30 minutes, although some of those minutes were a little tense. http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2009/12/25/10/ChristmasSnow083_ME_12-25-09_JFS.standalone.prod_affiliate.81.jpg
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That was abuse of power
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No raises for 5 years running, family health insurance is $900 per month, $480 for one. 56-64 hours a week and I don't qualify for any overtime because of management position .... and honest to God I am so thankful for a good job anyway. My daughter graduated with honors, degree in business, from a prestigious college this last spring. She is waiting tables because that was best she could find. None of my 3 grown kids have health insurance. It is so hard to be looking for work right now because what is out there isn't worth a tinker's d@mn.