luvmy40

Most likely, the battery has been replaced with an AGM and the battery water sensor is not bypassed. A picture of the Atari display will be helpful.

Message dfitzbiz. He rebuild the rear shocks. Send him yours, hell send you a rebuilt. I don't remember what the charge is, but I do r4emember it was more than reasonable.

Earl @skydoc_17 is still active on this forum and still, as far as know producing his excellent delinking kits on demand. I would message him again. He's probably just taking a break or otherwise busy right now.

I'm sure you already know this but, make sure to bench sync the carbs before reinstalling them.

Kris and I have been talking about doing some landscaping clean up on the back side of our small, park like back yard. We got a couple estimates to remove some over grown and/or out of place pine trees and just generally clean up the layout. I was amazed at the $10,000.00+ prices! Today I decided to start on the job myself. I tackled one of the smaller, out of place blue spruce trees at the back of the lot. It was about 8" di. at the base and 25 feet or so tall. My Bauer(Harbor Freight) 18V 10" chain saw made short work of felling, limbing, and sectioning the evergreen. One 5Ahr battery still had 2/3 charge after it was all said and done. I'm thoroughly impressed with this inexpensive tool that I bought as a onetime use item for pruning a 40 year old apple tree last spring.

The valve cover bolts are indeed shouldered. I had badly leaking cover gaskets on my '83 and did did the shims when I replaced the gaskets. None of them were very bad, but a couple exhaust shims were just slightly out of spec. I have no idea what the odometer said at that time. My '86 had 75k+ miles on it when I sold it and it had never had the valves adjusted. The valve cover gaskets were just starting to seep a bit 2 years ago. My'06 has 120K on the clock and has never had the valves adjusted and the gaskets are tight as a drum. No seepage at all. It runs great.

At least one local Yamaha dealership near me will exchange shims for free. One For One. It does mean nearly double the work, but it is nice that they do this.

I had a set of studs fabricated to replace the handle bar mounting nuts that extended inward and provide a couple places for bar mounted accessories. I found them to be well worth the effort.

Kris was reading yesterday that the Red Cross was trying stop private aid in the form of food and water from being provided. She also read that FEMA has not responded in any way yet. Though that may be because, evidently, the governors involved had not declared a state of emergency at that point. ???

Looks like you did a great job! Now get to CTFW!

Congratulations!

Is that a Trike body? That lighter blue panel will definitely get in the way of the mounts I have. There may be different mounts available.

Ignitech makes a programable replacement TCI/CDI. I ran one on my '83. https://www.ignitech.cz/en/

Use a soldering iron to heat the nut.

I'll second the Kuryakyn Long Horns.