RDawson

Prayers up.

Points finally arrived today, a couple hours after I finished the new trailer. Got the fuel pump fixed, hooked up the trailer and went on a test ride. My first vinyl wrap results.

Hannigan uses similar scissor jacks in their shop. I believe front and rear.

Contact @eusa1 Mike Eykamp.

Glad you’re here to talk about it. In my experience things weren’t often good when we pulled out the jaws and tore cars apart.

@Freebird mentioned 2nd gear, it’s a question of when not if, it’s gonna go. The missing body parts are fairly hard to find in good shape, they’re out there but the abs plastic gets brittle with age and get damaged. The 83’s also have a history of broken frames. If you’re looking for a Venture project I would go with the 86-93 in my opinion.

Yell at me when you come to Murray, we can grab a cup if there’s time.

I saw over on the FB side that Dennis passed away, I don’t know his screen name or if we’ve met.

Be careful of the leaking fuel, sounds like floats are stuck open and can fill the cylinders with gas. Can be catastrophic. Start with checking clutch, sidestand, neutral safety switches for starting. You can short the starter relay to make it turn.

Put it on the jack🤬🤬🤬. Got the school marm on the back and set out for a long ride, made it 3 miles. Bike quit like it was out of fuel, toggled the kill switch and it fired back up. Got it home and pulled the side cover, points are fried. Looked back and found I replaced them in 2018, new ones ordered again. Been in the low 30’s all week, 80* today and we’re grounded.

If I could find one at that price it’d be hard to walk away. Been kicking myself for walking away from this 2018 a couple years ago. It was the real deal

Blowing up the pic on my phone is a little blurry but what I think you’re looking at was the oil fill on the 1st gen engines. They moved it to the clutch cover on the 2nd gens and just plugged that one instead of redesigning the casting.

I called, it’s a typo, used. I didn’t ask any more questions, priced way above low mileage RSV’s around here.

Is it the real deal?

The person I would normally say you need to talk to passed away a couple weeks ago. Next I’d say maybe talk to Hannigan Motorsports, they do a lot of sidecar business and sell raked trees.

We did 175 miles on both sides of the KY and Tenn. border looking at the fall colors yesterday.

Only because I stomped it on the dirty floor. It only burned the alcohol out of it.

Tip #2 Don’t lay your hot heat gun on your alcohol cleaning rag. Don’t ask me how I know.

Update on the vinyl wrap. Like any tradesman the guys on the videos make it look easy. After some practice runs (all the mess ups are practice pieces right?) I’ve started to get the hang of it. My trailer lid isn’t perfect but I’m ok with it for now, HINT: don’t start the learning process with the hardest panel you have. I’m almost finished with the black and waiting for some darker blue to come in, first blue was way too light. The chrome arrived damaged so I returned it, after a lot of reading and looking at the chrome I’ve decided to avoid it. Chrome wrap is fragile to heat and stretching and the parts I wanted to do need both. Once the blue gets here I’ll post some pics. If the rest of the project goes well I may strip the lid and try again to do it in one piece.

Ride both days, you’ll have it covered that way.

Probably keep it in the shop. We got back yesterday from a 6 day ride. Just a little saddle sore.

Added some miles. Still on the Gulf Coast, heading north toward KY tomorrow.

Day three. Orange beach.

This morning at Shiloh. Can’t wait to wrap the trailer. The green just doesn’t work for me.

The Philly beef and Swiss was great.