PBJ

Sorry this is so Late Annie and Al but it was so nice to get to put faces to the names. It was so good meeting and talking with you both. Wish you both a good trip and safe riding out there on the west coast. Good luck and enjoy the rest or your time and the other venture riders that you meet on your trip. Phil PB&J:thumbsup2:

Man i drop out of sight for a few months and you go and get yer sef neart killed! Don't make me come over there and nurse ya back to health! Believe me ya won't like I make an ugly nurse! Get better big guy. Hey can they intravienous feed ice cream?

a little somethin -somethin in he snail mail for ya hope it helps. PB&J:thumbsup2:

Add my prayer to the others and know that every bad situation brings with it something good.

Lost my dad 26 years ago. My mom is 85 and her memory is going. its hard to lose them but good when you are able to show them how much you love them while they're still here. My thoughts are with you and your family.

She's not potentially evil, she's only potentially, potentially evil.There's a difference!

Hey Gang, as some know last summer i helped my friend, Tailfeather here on the forum to buy a 85 Yamaha Virago 1100. One cylinder wasn't running right and i was asking here for some advice and got a lot of good stuff. Thanks again to Clive and Mike Eusa!. So here's an update. First we had a torn diaphragm so we bought a used set of carbs we found to get one. ( It was actually cheaper than just buying a new diaphragm.) We also pulled the needles out of it and found they were also different. Along with that we found that the previous owner had bent the needle tang on the float for some reason we could not figure. So we replaced the needles and the o ring gaskets to the carbs. We put it all back together and the bike ran great. It started held idle, no flooding of the carbs, I took it out ran it problem solved. Hurrah. I couple of days later my son takes the bike out for a second test. On the way the rear cylinder floods and fails, the bike dies and we end up having to walk it home. ( luckily he wasn't too far away and it was mostly down hill from where he was.) I call Mike( EUSA1) for more advice and this time we do a complete rebuild on both carbs. Well worth we feel with the new ethanol out there. We put it all together and the bike starts belching gas out of the carbs either the front or back we can't seem to balance them. We learn that the after market kits Yamaha now sells are for the Virago's with-OUT fuel pumps. Which is odd because the Mikuni carbs models all had fuel pumps. But it seems the pump over powers the seat/needle and forces it open under pressure. I call a local dealer, Sodus Snow Sleds in Sodus NY. He had seen this before. His answer was to remove the fuel pump. It seems that the pressure from the tank above the carbs is enough to feed the carbs with out the pump. So we remove it and the bike runs great. We take it out run it around town, then out on the high way up to 80 and it runs fantastic. We've installed two additonal fuel filters into the system besides the cleanable one already on the bike because we keep finding this unknown red substance in the fuel. We suspect it might be a gas tank liner of some kind. It looks like there is also a white tank liner in there. ( I hate that stuff) . Anyway I delivered the bike to Tailfeather and found that it excelerates great nice and strong, idles good but now when I get it up over 65 I start to lose the back cylinder. I think its starving from the lack of pressure from the pump. But it holds at 60 great. I didn't check the fuel filters to make sure they aren't plugged up with crude again but i will in a couple of weeks. But the bike does run strong and can still get up to eighty or higher it just drains the bowl faster than it can refill apparently. So there we stand. Any more ideas or suggestions? I'd love to hear what you all think? PB&J

wHAT ABOUT bANANA SPLITS and BISCUITS AND GRAVY.... mMmMMMMMMM!!!! :big-grin-emoticon:Count my prayers in there too along with a good laugh to keep the pain away.

Ok! Now I WANT TO KNOW WHY DOESN'T dON PULL ONE OF THESE THREADS. OMG!!!!:rotf:

yeah never trust a woman with a machine gun!!!!!

Once again Don you reveal why you are so Loved here by this group, and Why, I think , it has been so successful. As hard as it is to restrain some of these conversations it has been imperative for making this forum feel like a safe place where many friends can come together from around the country and the globe. Yes this is a motorcycle forum primarily but as we all understand it is more about all the friendships that have been established here. keeping things respectful is also a way to help make this a place where the friendship bonds created here are strong and stay strong. It would a shame to lose any friends here but i think that if anyone can not understand how the negative energies some thread generate tear at these friendships then they are missing the larger point of what this forum is really all about. like i said its not so much about the bikes then it is the people who ride them. I just renewed my membership after letting it run out last month. I was debating whether to come back. But I realized There was too much to lose in NOT renewing my membership. I am glad to be back and this meesage you've given is is exactly the reason why I am!!! PB&J.

Butterflies ??? not bats in the belfry!

BOB what happened!

Count my prayer in with everyone else's one more can't hurt.

Welcome back Dale. glad to have you back with us.

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Well you Know I LOVE this site but then who doesn't???

Steve , please count my prayers with all these others. i hope that she is returned to you safe and sound. I know its not much but our hearts go put to you and your family. Phil PB&J