RDawson

Sorry to hear of the problems. Take care of yourself as well as her.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1178675465505536?view=permalink&id=3171963369510059 Might be a deal for somebody looking.

What works for me: start with a quality puller, run a piece of webbing thru the puller bolts and tie it off to the fame leaving a little slack. It will keep the whole assembly from taking flight. Tighten the puller TIGHT and tap on the end of the puller bolt with a hammer. DO NOT USE A BFH OR SLEDGE HAMMMER. All you're trying to do is set some vibration into it. After a few hits you should be able to tighten it a bit more and repeat. The last two I did this way took 10 minutes or so to remove. Heat and/or impact ruin magnets, something like a 16oz hammer has plenty of impact without swinging it hard. Never ruined flywheel magnets this way.

The local DQ still uses the old recipe for ice cream. My daughter's class had the owner in for a speech and he talked about the throwback location and recipe being a huge draw. Two picnic tables under the awning and a few more under some shade trees are always busy. Usually a few bikes there in the afternoon.

And 43 more until DQ is back. We have one of the few walkup DQs left in the country. It opens March 1st and closes Halloween night. I've been killing time reading old posts way back in time and it just occurred to me Big Tom couldn't make it here. No burgers or chicken, just ice cream, chili dogs, and drinks 8 months of the year. Guess our DQ season here is like the riding season up there. The difference being we can ride 20 miles to the next town with a DQ. :cry:

Thanks Bill, we are very proud of both of our daughters. The oldest is the dr to be and the youngest starts this fall in Huntsville to be an aerospace engineer. I tell everybody that with a dr and a rocket scientist we should at least have a nice nursing home in our future. They're both hard headed enough to go get what they want so they should be fine in the future.

Wow I think I like the dying in my sleep better than that reality check of what can happen. My soon to be Dr daughter has been on me and putting a bug in her momma's ear about my health and work load. She's convinced I'm gonna have a heart attack young. My eating habits aren't great but I have slowed my fab business down to a more manageable rate as bad as I hate to turn business away to reduce the load and stress. 2 more years running into burning buildings and I'll have my time in there and get rid of that stress load too. Daughter takes her boards and starts hospital rotations in 2 months so I'm sure I'll hear more about me then.

Like I said before no two are the same. Doc gave me 3 months for what I had done. I told him when we scheduled surgery for March 5th that I was riding to Don's in June and he gave me the ok. Your surgery sounds different than mine with 4-5 months. The one thing we did NOT discuss was picking up a down bike, I'm a glass half full guy. Putting mine off wasn't an option, I couldn't retire yet and couldn't work through the pain anymore. Good luck with it.

Yep, getting old ain't fer wimps.

Thanks Sky, unfortunately the snoring is just a symptom. The real problem is I stop breathing and my oxygen levels drop dangerously low and periodically stay there for over 2hours at a time. On average I stop breathing almost once per minute while asleep.

The school marm has been after me for a while to go get a sleep study, she claims I snore loudly but I don't believe her. I think she even sunk low enough to get my crew at the firehouse in on it because they claim the same thing. Doc called me today to let me know I don't have "sleep apnea"- I have "severe sleep apnea" , the kind you can wake up dead from. :shock3: I haven't felt good in quite a long time, always exhausted and not sleeping well so this is probably a big part of it. The 6 months off work last year for a couple surgeries didn't help since not working my normal physical jobs caused my other issues to worsen, the furniture disease sorta kicked in. The one where your chest drops to you drawers. I don't consider myself way overweight at 6'-2" 220 but I'm definitely not in the shape I was in a few years ago which I'm sure is making the apnea worse. I'm hoping it'll help if I drop the extra 20-25 lbs I've somehow managed to add on and rearrange a few more back where they came from. I'm gonna get back in the gym a little more to work on that. In the meantime I go back in soon to get my CPAP or BIPAP machine ( not sure which) which brings me to the point of the whole post. Anyone here have experience with certain brands they recommend or ones to stay away from? Wow, I went back to proof read this before posting and realized I wrote an essay to ask one question. Now I'm worried a little of Cowpuc is rubbing off on me. :bowdown:

Well Ben and Jim how are y'all making out now, haven't seen any updates so I hope all is well.

I did my first WNY last year, if I can get the time off I may try a southern run and make this one. After I took that last promotion getting time off got a lot harder. I'm partial to hot showers and good beds so what accommodations are recommended? I'll be running solo since the marm will be back in school.

Congrats on both the beautiful bike and lady. Take care of both of em, they'll take care of you.

In my head (which is a scary place to be) if the healer was programmed to throw the speedometer off to a faster reading you might be able to get 4th gear CC back. Just another of my crazy ideas. It wouldn't be worth it to me but I'm always thinking out of the box. I bought the DRD to get the Speedo right, it always bugged me being off.

The speedometer sensor is in the pumpkin. With only neutral and 5th gear sensors my understanding is the TCI "computes" gear by matching RPMs with speed. With the lower gearing running higher revs for the speed it computes 3rd instead of 4th. That's the explanation I've found online and since it's on the internet it must be true and that's the story I'm sticking to. If that's true I wonder if you could trick it with a speedo healer or DRD. I run the DRD to fix the true speed and probably won't test the theory. If it did work it would change the 80 mph cruise limit.

According to the ole google machine propane is 177 psi at 100* to maintain its liquid form. Upwards of 200 in the heat. That must accurate since I found it on the internet.

Use the right sealer for gas, I've seen the aftermath of a few gas leaks. We've had two houses explode around here from propane leaks and one dorm have the whole end blown out of two floors from a natural gas leak in the basement. The dorm blew bricks through the walls of another dorm 100yds away and through windows a lot further. Aaaand after all that I'm still one of the idiots going up to check on buildings that may have a leak.

In the original post you said you checked the final drive and drive shaft. If you didn't re-install those then you should be able to shine a light in the tube and see the u-joint. If you did re-install the final you have to make sure the driveshaft aligned in the u-joint, that usually takes a little work.

Thanks Don. I'm still running OEM ignition so hopefully no issues there. Wiz talked to me about the swap at WNY and I've been thinking about it since.

I remember a thread about cruise not working right for some after the pumpkin swap, maybe Freebird being one of them? After 2 hours going crosseyed looking for it I give up. For those who have done it are you seeing cruise problems? I am really thinking of ordering one now that we're pulling a trailer, but I use CC most of the time I'm on the slabs or long highways and don't want to lose it. With both shoulders giving problems setting the cruise and riding one handed is a must.

Check with Mike Eykamp- Diamond Cut Guy he had some recently.

The photos work fine, the Fluke will work better if turned on.

I've only heard of Goofy Golf as a description of my playing the game.

You said not much room for long shots so I'll throw this one out there. My favorite short range woods gun is an old Marlin lever 44 magnum. It's not much good out past 100 yards but the knock down is great. I bought it used 30 some odd years ago and couldn't even guess to the number of deer it's taken. Rarely have I ever looked for a blood trail, they don't go far enough to need it. I shoot jacketed hollow points that usually don't exit the deer, I find the bullet just under the skin on the exit side. To me it means the deer absorbs 100% of the energy from the bullet instead of a shoot thru wasting that energy. The gun store owner here tried to sell me ballistic tips last year but I want meat left on the bone. On the one farm that has some 300yd areas I switch to my 30.06. I'm not going to comment on the type of oil I use on it though, that'll spark a whole new thread.