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Condor
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I didn't get moosed.... I think??
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Yeah it's old but just like me it should still fire. Lotsa calibers. 7x57, 25-06, 243, 270, 264 mag, 300 savage, 44mag, 222rem, 5.56 ball, Western X Shot shells... etc. Also a couple of Remington Mod.742 270 4 round clips. Only 2 rounds of '06... I'm going to put it on The Cal Gun board and see if I can get rid of it to a collector maybe?? I used to own a custom 264mag but it got legs when I wasn't paying attention. There's about 3 boxes of the 264... Dang!! Pretty cheap gas....
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Which reminds me, I gotta service the '99 final. I was going to do it right before leaving for Wyoming but couldn't get the plug to budge, and it showed slight signs of leaking around the threads. Cross threaded?? So.... rather than force it out and end up with a final with stripped threads, the day before leaving on the trip, I left it alone and hoped it still had enough oil to go the 3000 miles. It did. Now it's been outta sight..outta mind. Gotta get'r done.... Plan on putting a V-Max final in anyway so if it's buggered up I do have a back up.
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Lubed your throttle cables and carb linkage lately??
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Hope it does... I'll give it a try the next time I get out and about... It's a PITA holding the ACC in and the throttle steady until I feel a slight increase in speed....
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I found a cardboard box full of ammo laying in the back of the closet that I don't even remember buying, it had been so long ago. While poking thru all the different calibers I ran across this Mobile Oil gas receipt dated 11/6/65 where the customer bought 11.4 gallons of fuel for the grand total of $3.40. Works out to around .29/gal. We've come a long way baby!!!
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I'll have to try that. Mine holds fine, but it takes forever for the thing to engage. It won't engage at all when I hit set... but will when holding in the accelerate button for 10 to 15 seconds... Or something like that??.. Hey it's been a month since the last long trip....
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OK I'm always going against the general flow. I like the new way because I'm always using the 'New Posts' feature, and any new ad will appear when I check in. And if it hasn't sold in 60 days... it ain't..... My
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Who said anything about around town.... The Dairy Queen's just up the block.... Need my exercise ya know..... Eh??
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This is getting better all the time....
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Very cool!! Thanks for the YouTube. I guess it's off to the dealer for a smart pump...and a couple of caps.. I have never seen one of these before. The bike is cleaning up very nice. One thing I really like is it's 'Handbuilt in the USA'
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I picked up a TREK 7000 mountain bike at an auction yesterday and it has the goofiest looking valve stems on the tires. I've never seen anything like these.... ever. They kinda have a double threaded stem, and the larger size looks smaller than what you normally find on a bike tire. Anyone know what these things are, and what kind of pump they take?? Pic attached...
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Thanks for the posting.... in a way... Went to the Sea Foam site and noticed that the company my daughter works for was listed as carrying the stuff. So.... gave her a call and she can get it for $5.22 a can. Close enough for government work. So I ordered 5 cans...seemed like a nice round number....
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The part # is right for the '83, but I don't know any store that has them on the shelf... It can be done without the speeds but they just make it a lot easier... If you can put the bleed off for a few days Speed-Bleeder ships fairly fast and if you order them tomorrow I bet you'll get them by Friday...
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I have a question. It takes a code to get the 5 fer $25 price, but it's store pick up only. Do they have some sort of entry key in the store where you can enter a code??? Wish we had an Advance around Sacramento.....
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I put one of those tilting balls on mine. It pulls great, and it won't go all the way over like a swivel hitch.... which might be a good thing.... I cut a corner a little too much coming out of a reststop last month and hit the curb. She bounced pretty high but settled right back down... Might have flipped if it had been a hitch...
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The fluid on my '99 brakes looked sorta OK, but bled them anyway. The clutch fluid had 'ZERO' visibility. You might want to take a look at yours too....
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And tucked back in a ways under the 'in your face' fuse box to make it hard to find unless you're looking up... There is a spare fuse in the holder....
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Milky is a term I've never heard before when discribing clutch fluid?? Discolored, black, inky, but never milky... When bleeding the clutch are you using a Speed Bleeder?? When flushing the clutch it's the only way to keep your sanity.... Was any work ever done on the mechanical side... clutch basket etc.?? If not, the problem could be a bad slave where the piston isn't returning all the way due to rusted cylinder walls, but I doubt this due to the bike's age?? OR the clutch spring needs to be beefed up... There's lots of things that could be amiss, but basically you have too much fluid in the hydralic lines for one reason or the other, keeping the clutch pack almost disengaged, and yes it will cause slipping.
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Just for the heck of it take the top off the reserve and 'gently' pull the lever in a quarter inch or so. If you should see a slight deformation of the fluid surface, and that means the expansion hole at the bottom of the reserve is clear, and that's good... Also what color was the fluid when you first bled it? And when the dealer bled it?? It should be crystal clear, and if it was, the problem wasn't the fluid. Let us know what you find...
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Condor replied to tz89's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
The next time you're in Harbor Freight... hope they have them in Salem... pick up a set of 1/4 drive torx bits. Usually around 6-7 bucks. You will need them in the future.... Glad you found a way.... -
You could call it a BOSS HAUSH.... Wonder what the mpg is??
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What you might give some thought to is installing a DEKA AGM battery, and forget about a tender. They hold a charge for months. They're probably the best bang for the buck in an MC battery.... http://www.bohannonbattery.com/html/deka/etx18l.html
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Didn't refer to them as chargers...just panels... Didn't say he was asking about a big watt panel. His original post refered to a small maintainer... With a 5 watt panel you're only putting out .22 amps for a very short period of the day. I doubt it's making that much of a difference in even maintaining the charge. And..... a small 5 watt panel will charge a battery... it just depends on the size of the battery... But it's a moot point as we're talking 12 volts here.
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Didn't say it wouldn't work. Don't have a clue where you got that from?? All I said is they aren't very efficient and higher latitudes and sun challenged areas. You're blessed with lots of sun. Take a look at where the poster is from. Think it might rain there a little?? Your 5 watt panal probably puts out less than 1 amp at best, and not knowing what you paracitic draw is on the truck... clock.. radio presets??... it's probably just barely keeping up with the loss. Do you need the panel? It all depends on what you mean by occasionally, but I seriously doubt it.?? I sometimes leave my truck sit for 1 to 2 months and never have a problem with it starting, and it pulls a lot of amps.. it's a diesel. With a 91amp alternator it recovers very quickly. This is an old thread, but the post I responded to is recent, and he'd be better off using a battery tender. BTW I run a 75watt panel on the boat and it will charge a battery. So much so that it needs a rectifier to controll the output.