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    Last July the Federal rear CT with WWs was mounted. It has around 7000 miles on it so far. Today the Avon MT90HB-16 WW rear tire was mounted backwards on the front rim. The tread depth at the middle of the tire is .325". I'll be interested to see how many miles I get out of this tire. I got almost 23,000 miles out of my previous Avon front tire of the same size, and this tire has more rubber on it. Best of all, the new tire's WW width is 1 5/8" where the previous front tire's WW width was 1 1/4". I like WWs.
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    Wow, he is a big boy. I'd be afraid to handle him with poles that short. Can you find the rattler in this picture? He's circled in the second one.
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    My wife says good for you. She adds that you're welcome to ride with her. She also rides a V Star 1100. Whereabouts is New Burlington?
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    pegscraper replied to a topic in Watering Hole

    It won't hurt anything to try it. It won't do you any good either. The little 1/8" vacuum lines don't flow enough air and fuel to be anything more than a vacuum leak and make the engine idle rough. For comparison, the V boost passages on the VMX that this supposedly emulates are 32mm. An 1/8" is maybe 3mm. It's silly.
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    I just ordered a tire from Sport Tour LTD. SWMoto was always fine with me until they stopped carrying Avon WWs.
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    I truly just sit back and laugh when you guys get all worried about viruses.
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    Sorry, you'll have to pull the engine to remove the head. The bolts are long, and there's nowhere near enough room in the frame to lift the head up over the top of them. You might try just retorquing the bolts. You'll have to remove the cam covers and also the cams. The head bolts are underneath the camshafts. It's a lot of work, but least this can be done without pulling the engine out.
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    Tell him to hang it in his ear, and that you're not interested in being a part of that kind of snobbery. Tell him if you get rid of the V Star, you're getting a sport touring bike, like an FJR, which Harley doesn't even make any of that style anyway. I know of a gal on another board who rode a V Star 1100 while her husband and his buddies all rode Harleys. Her bike was customized and looked really sharp. About a year and a half ago she sold it and got a Heritage Softail. Also a very sharp looking bike, and a lot nicer of a bike than a Sportster is. It was never clear, but I suspected it was under some pressure from the husband. I had to chuckle a little bit when she showed back up on the V Star board just a few months ago with another V Star to fix up and customize. The Harley was gone. All she would say was that it just wasn't the bike for her and that the V Star fit her better.
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    We'll drag 'em kicking and screaming to the darkside whether they like it or not. I just ordered an Avon rear MT for the front of my bike a couple hours ago.
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    And if you have a Mac, you are immune.
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    I don't think you'll find anyone here who has done that. I don't know how that 16" dimension is measured or what the stock bars might be, but I did put some risers on mine that brought the bars a couple or so inches closer to me, and the stock cables and wiring harnesses fit fine. I like the '96s for some reason. Posting pictures of your bike is the only real rule we have around here. We'll let you off easy since you just showed up though.
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    Yes, a guy who's handy could probably fab up something. I've seen pictures of a couple such arrangements on other bikes. My thought about them was that they were something only a mother could love. Myself, I would have rather spent the money to have a nice looking piece. But maybe your DH can do better than that. The other side of rolling your own is that they can be made as big or small as they need to be.
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    Mine are covered up by full rotor covers, and I don't remember what kind of bolts they are. Either a 6mm allen or some size of Torx, I think. The right side cover has a damper on the inside of it. Don't be surprised if your front brakes sing without the covers/dampers whenever you use them. If it happens, you'll know what I mean. What's funny is that a lot of people who have these take them off and think it looks better. And a lot of people who don't have them put them on and think it looks better.
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    Yup. Let us know how it goes for you.
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    I had the cam covers off of mine once and reused the gaskets. Do you have the cam covers off of yours?
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    That's why it couldn't be read.
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    I saw the beginning of one such run between Al and Swifty. The end was out of sight though, so we have to take their word for what happened. The gear ratios in the 2nd gen transmission are too far apart. This is why a 1st gen is quicker than a 2nd. The weight difference might make a little difference, but not much. Rider skill is a bigger factor than this. The 1st gen not having a rev limiter means nothing to anything. With the small cams these bikes have (and they're all the same), the powerband is all done around 6500 - 7000 rpms anyway. By the time a 2nd gen hits the rev limiter, it should have already been shifted up so as to stay in the powerband for the best ET. So a 1st gen can rev higher. So what. Wind it up that high, and you're so far out of the powerband that you're actually hurting your ET. You'd be better off to upshift and get back into the powerband.
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    Membership and dues are required to read that board. Your bike must have had something more than just the shift segment wrong. Changing just the shift segment doesn't require pulling the engine. It isn't a very difficult job.
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    They look nice. I like your bike. I like these early Royal Stars for some reason.
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    This is one interesting tidbit of information. I doubt I'll ever have opportunity to use it, but interesting none the less. I'll file it away in the back of my brain.
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    So how many shims on the needles? Third time I've asked the question now. It's difficult enough to diagnose problems like this in a format like this. But having to ask questions two or three times to get answers - I gotta say this is really frustrating. And I can think of one question back on page one that I asked at least twice which you still have never answered. I give up.
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    Alright. Watcha got up your sleeve? Sorry, I don't know of any used ones available.
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    Setting the sync at anything above idle is not the way to do it. It won't really hurt much, but it won't give you the best job.
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    I think the piece to which Randy is referring is what Y calls the shift segment. I'm getting ready to look into this on my own bike. If this piece malfunctions, it can cause the loss of gears off of either end of the shift range, or just generally cause clunky and not smooth shifting. There's no real damage to the transmission itself, just that the shift drums don't get rotated properly to engage the gears. The design of these shift segment parts changed a little bit and were upgraded in the 2nd gen Ventures, but it's my understanding that the later parts will bolt right into the 1st gens too. The parts no longer have a bent over tab to hold the pins. From pictures I've seen, I think it's a solid chunk of aluminum. But nothing says that the piece still couldn't have broken or a pin fallen out. Fortunately, the parts aren't too difficult to get to, and not real expensive. But I'm at the end of my knowledge on this so far. I suggest looking into a factory shop manual for more information about it.
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    Your readings on the TPS sound good enough to me. It can be adjusted a little bit. You will need "security" torx screwdrivers for the screws though. But I doubt this is the issue. V7G will have to answer on the tight valve possibility. How about those questions above?
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