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    A liquid inside of a spinning object will find its own balance, and it will balance an otherwise out of balance object. Go back and ask your high school physics teacher. The principle works. Dyna Beads inside a tire will operate on this principle, but I've wondered about them not moving freely enough, creating dimples inside the tire and not going where they should, and other such things. I'd like to see that youtube Dyna Beads test done with water inside the bottle instead of the beads just for comparison. Maybe I'll just rig up a way to do that myself. There are unanswered variables in MCN's test and I didn't witness it, so it's not valid. MCN's test proves nothing. Period. Who here has heard of the shade tree hot rodder's method of shortening a driveshaft for a custom built car? Cut it to length, throw two or three quarts of oil in it, weld it back together and call it done and balanced. Can't say I recommend that, but it's undoubtedly been done. Want to support yourself in retirement? Produce another stupid movie like Avatar. I could wish I had come up with that one.
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    If you need more, you can always install a higher output stator.
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    All caps are not the same thing. When these are manufactured, the caps are installed on the heads with no cams in them and then the bearing surfaces are honed out to be in a perfectly straight line. Another cap will not be honed properly to fit. That's why the caps are numbered. They are not interchangeable. The options are to fix the cap you have, or if that's not possible, then to take the head and new cap to a machine shop to have it machined and honed out to fit.
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    pegscraper replied to Gamecock's topic in Watering Hole

    What in the world is so fantastic about this movie?? At the point at which you realize that this is the gist of the movie, this is what it's about, I found my jaw hanging open at the immense stupidity of what I was watching. I thought the 3D effect was kind of neat. But it actually made my wife sick, so sick that she left at one point thinking she was going to throw up. She came back in after a while and sat there with her eyes closed most of the time only listening. She couldn't watch it. I've never seen her motion sick before. Usually that happens to me. Our daughter was not feeling well afterwards because of it either. I would have walked out of this inane movie but there was no place to go and nothing else to do anywhere near this theater, and it was our daughter's pick, so I sat there and watched it with her. I dug in my pockets hoping for an old set of earplugs that I wear while motorcycling with no luck. What a horrendous colossal waste of time and money and gas to get there.
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    I got some a couple years ago at a local Honda dealer.
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    Think of this the other way around. More torque will produce more horsepower. If you need more horsepower, make more torque.
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    Maybe when it gets a little warmer. My bike hasn't been out for a while.
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    The daily car is a '98 Cadillac Deville, a 4000 lb. car with a 4.6 liter engine with plenty of power getting 23/30 mpg. The wife says it's the most comfortable car she's ever driven in her life. I'm looking around for an S10 truck. I had one with 165,000 miles that got absolutely demolished by a deer. It was in excellent shape until that, and that was a sad sight. We had another that made it to 291,000 miles before it died beyond repairability. I want another one. Other cars ranging from presentable and drivable to needing paint all the way down to project status: 1968 Cadillac DeVille Convertible, 1968 Cadillac Coupe deVille, 1966 Buick LeSabre convertible, and a 1971 Mustang convertible currently under restoration.
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    I tried to open the picture independently and was given a sign in page. You are apparently already signed in. Anyone not signed in will not be able to see it, unless they have some other creative methods.
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    Well, do you have 10,000 words? The picture isn't showing up.
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    I can't say that I have anything you're looking for in my leftovers. But I wish you luck, and have fun. When you put these parts in and take a ride, you'll think you bought a whole different bike. I'll be interested to hear how it goes.
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    Where did you get those?
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    Well, it's not a TD but it is an RS, early model. And it has a pile of add ons and mods, some obvious, but many less so. And actually, I notice a few things missing in this picture. Not shown - I welded nuts in the ends of the handlebars so I could attach the RSTD bar weights, then I attached probably 18" long fringe from Kuryakyn into the ends of the weights, also some K highway pegs.
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    It's fairly common for these plugs to leak, especially in the colder temperatures, but it doesn't have to be cold for them to leak a little. The thing to do is tape a washer on the back side of the cylinder covers where those plugs are. Then when you tighten the covers back down, the plugs will get pushed in further. This will hold for a long time. But when they start leaking again after that, it's time for new rubber plugs.
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    And you can send the left over $100 out of that my way.
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    It's definitely an employer's market right now. "You'll take this crap and like it, and if you don't want it, there are ten guys over there at the door who would love to be working."
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    Unfortunately, neither the 1st gen nor the VMX carbs will fit in this frame. It's too bad, as the engine really needs bigger carbs than even the 32mm ones. But they're all that will fit. The information on the carb swap can be found here. Do you have a source for the adapter plates? I have made several sets for people. The drawing is also in the swap article and anyone can make them. You won't be sorry you swapped these parts out. One ride and you will want to do your other bike also, and you won't be happy on it until you do.
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    Wow, I'll bet the rim brakes on that bike (or whatever they're called) are some very serious stoppers! That whole bike looks absolutely wicked!
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    Don't know of any. My wife had the same issue with her V Star 1100. I literally bent them back a little by putting a block of wood between the lever and the bars, and pulling back on the lever forcing it to bend back. It worked for her. Y really ought to put adjustable levers on these bikes like they do the sport bikes. One size does not fit all.
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    In honor of our foreign exchange student who is from Spain, we told her that we would celebrate the new year at the same time as her family at home. Spain being six hours ahead of us, we told her that we would bring in the new year at 6 PM and go to bed. She didn't like that idea. No, we stayed up. Not doing any motorcycle riding though. It's 10º with ice and snow here today.
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    Buy some 30 gauge teflon insulated wire from mouser.com or someplace, string 33' of it through your jacket (or seat), and connect it through a 10A fuse to the battery. Use a two pin trailer style connector to plug it in to the bike. I forget how much heat it makes, maybe roughly 55W or so and draws maybe 4A or so. It's not enough that it needs regulated. Mine stays on full time. Sometimes I wish it were hotter. But it will make a 40º day feel like a 60º day. Search for "heated jacket" on here. There are piles and piles of threads with more technical information that I don't remember anymore.
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    Exide is no good anymore? I'll have to remember that. I used to have good results with them. I've noticed I don't see the stickers where you would remove the month and year circles anymore. I think they don't want you to remember how recently you replaced it. I'm still on the same battery that came with my bike when I bought it four years ago. I have no idea how old it is. I'm crossing my fingers on it. Does anyone know how to read battery date codes?
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    If you can remove and replace a seat cover from the pan, it wouldn't be difficult to make one from any seat. Several of us have made our own heated jackets.
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    Good for you Randy. I've been trying to adopt the same lifestyle attitude change, and it's just not easy. I like eating good food, and I like eating cookies and ice cream.
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    If you can do the machine work, this is the cheapest way to do this. I did this same thing too, and I also used one of the older units before I realized the later ones have a blank boss there. I used a small plate machined to take up the space. It's better to start with a later one.
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