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    Sure, go ahead and do it. VMX cams are about the same size as the cams that were used in the XS1100s. You wouldn't want to be outrun by a 2nd gen with VMX cams making 20 more hp than you, would you? I've always been a bottom-of-the-page cam kind of a guy. VMX cams are a long ways from the bottom of the page though.
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    At the time, I did not need to lose any weight. But I did anyway. The hospital's food portions were not large enough to get me full. (I sure could stand to lose some weight now though.) Once I got home, I did a lot of model cars to pass time. I'd get myself propped up at a table and sit there all day. People would come for a visit and bring a model for me. I have a closet full of them.
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    Is this issue why the text now wraps to the next line at only 2/3 the way across the page, wasting a bunch of space? I'd appreciate it if you'd put it back the way it was.
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    Squeeze does not have a 2nd gen. VMX cams are a drop in fit in any of these V4 engines. I have them in mine. Bigger valves would be nice, but the cams will give a good boost without them.
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    No, they do not. Check Y parts website for proof of that. First gens are not faster. Sorry to burst your bubble.
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    Wow bud, sorry to hear about it. Rest up and just let the time pass and get better. Now isn't the time to answer for yourself whether to keep riding or hang it up. In the middle of the pain isn't the time to answer such a question. Since you asked for others' experiences, here you go. Twenty-two years ago right before Thanksgiving, I was in a wreck that tore my right knee up badly. It required screws to put it back together. I was in the hospital for two weeks (I spent Thanksgiving in the hospital that year). Coming out of the surgery was excruciating, and the following months of physical therapy were painful and discouraging. My knee froze up and would not bend. At one point I virtually gave up on it, but the physical therapists did not. About that time they put me in for more surgery to break things loose. And they finally did, but was six months all told before I could walk again. Ever since that I have a real slow gait and walk with a limp that varies from not noticeable to some days pretty bad. But if I walk slow, usually it's not noticeable. In the time it took me to get better, I can't recall that I ever pondered the question of whether to get back on a bike again or not. I just didn't think about it. By the following spring when I was released to walk, I was going stir crazy and couldn't wait to get out and just walk around the neighborhood. The bike hadn't been fixed yet, and it didn't need very much. But there was this dirt bike also setting there. It wasn't very long at all and I was out riding that around the neighborhood. The first time out on it, I came back and the smile on my face was so big that I knew I would never quit.
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    I went for a nice ride today. In the country. Nowhere near any stores. It's sunny and 35* here today. I have a heated jacket this year, which is just fabulous. I was toasty warm. I don't have heated gloves yet though, so my hands got chilly. But if it wasn't for my hands being cold, I would have had no idea it was only 35* outside. It felt more like 65*. I had a very nice ride.
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    Because for simple maintenance, doing it yourself is much easier than dragging it to the dealer and wasting time waiting around, or having another ride so you can leave and then have to come back and pick it up, and all the hassling around. Do it yourself in a few minutes and be done with it.
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    Do you mean the cap on the side of the carb? On our Ventures these are on the sides. If the springs get soft, the slides will open earlier than usual. That translates into quicker throttle response and possibly but not necessarily reduced gas mileage.
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    As mentioned, fifth gear is already an overdrive, with a ratio of .786:1. If it sounds like the engine is revving too high, basically you just need to recalibrate your ear. With gears like this the engine is actually running too slow. Anything slower than 60 mph in fifth gear is lugging the engine. At 80, the engine is running just about right.
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    Didn't the first few years of VMX also have second gear trouble? I thought sure they did.
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    The guy doesn't know which end of a screwdriver to grab ahold of. The cry of a rising river might be no more than someone peeing in your boot. (Applies particularly well to the global warming nonsense.) Here's a favorite, said slowly and thoughtfully, as if making it up on the fly - you could put all he knows about ***, put it in a thimble, then insert your thumb, and feel no discomfort due to tightness.
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    If he gets a later engine with the single pickup coil, along with the stator cover and pickup coil, he would need to change the rotor too, wouldn't he? The trigger point pattern won't be the same thing. Other than that though, that should do it. At this point, you and I both know quite a bit about these trigger point patterns, don't we. What year was the break point where Y upgraded the second gear parts in the transmission in the VMX? I halfway wouldn't mind coming up with a VMX transmission myself.
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    You'll pretty well have to pull the carburetors to get to those bolts and remove the intakes. Much easier then.
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    It's the other way around. The wheel and rear gear housing have to be removed to get the driveshaft out.
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    My wife has a facebook profile. I don't. So I signed in under her name, but I don't know enough about it to make any real use of it. So what is there to do while you're in there? I'm really failing to see the point of it.
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    Probably my favorite chrome part is the carburetor covers. When I see a bike that doesn't have them, it truly looks like something is missing there.
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    Yep. Billet means virtually nothing as far as a finished product goes, especially for a part that doesn't need to have any physical strength to it at all but just hangs there and looks pretty. And once a part is chromed you don't even see any of the billet. But it sure sounds cool though.
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    Others of us think those people are absolutely crazy and no special is worth sleeping outside in 20* weather and fighting crowds to get in the door. Some places are opening at 4AM. Poor employees to have to be there at that hour. I stay as far away from all this as I can. My Christmas shopping is done long before the Christmas rush.
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    I thought that didn't sound right. I see you got your L and R straightened out. And that set screw and allen wrench are spare parts for what? That must be the Canadian version of the manual. Half of it is in French. But I'd rather be looking at French than at Spanish.
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    Wrap it in foil. Oh. No. There isn't much option here. You can buy the chrome ones, or chrome the stock ones, or polish the stock ones. Aluminum can be buffed out to look pretty decent.
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    Interesting idea. As always, show some pics when you get it done.
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    You despise and hate it so much you decided to put some in your trailer where you can look at it all the time. Nothing like going green, eh?
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    So can you fabricate stuff and make your own brackets for some pegs?
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    Solder (don't rely on crimp connections) some ring terminals to the wires and attach them under the screws of the battery, on top of the main cable terminals. Or else bolt them down to the other ends of the main cables. The negative one goes to a place on the engine, and the positive goes to the starter solenoid. I've used inline fuses for add ons like these. Or you might get an extra fuse box from a parts bike and mount that somewhere. Run wires down a frame rail or something right beside other wiring harnesses and attach them with electric tape. If you get a few of them going to the same place, wrap the whole bunch up in tape.
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