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  1. pegscraper
    Hey Don, when you post the welcomes to new members, why do only some of the new members show up in the members list? Not all of them are showing up.
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    Here's another one that happened last summer. This has to worse than dropping the bike. I finished filling up with gas, went to pull away from the pump and leave, and the rear floorboard catches the pump hose and yanks it out of the pump at the emergency disconnect. I felt like an absolute freaking moron. The guy behind me wheels around to another pump. This is a place I go frequently. All the people who work there know me. The gal has to call the owner to come look at the situation; he lives only a couple blocks away. When I told him how it happened he understood a little better. He said he sure wondered how someone could forget about a pump hose still in the tank right in front of them. Well, I wasn't quite that much of a moron. I park a little farther away from the pumps now, even to where I have to lean over to reach the hose. I try to double check when I leave that I'm free of hoses, but I know I don't remember every time...
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    Here's one I posted before the crash. A year ago last fall when I got my bike I hadn't been on one for several years. The last machine I had ridden with any regularity was an '85 Honda ATC 350X, a three wheeler, meaning - no kickstand. About the second or third time I rode my new-to-me bike, I pulled into a gas station and nearly dropped it into the pump because I forgot that I couldn't just stand up off of the thing and it stays put. I was glad only one other person was around. He became aware that I was having a bit of difficulty but I don't know how much he actually saw. It only got about halfway down before I got ahold of it and picked it back up and put the kickstand down. I was relieved that I didn't cause any scratches or dents.
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    I'm not sure I quite finished my thought there last evening. I wasn't feeling real well then. My point was that for those who have had the idea of gaining a little more wattage capability by installing a switch to keep the carb heaters off, I think it's a real good idea. I've never seen any need for the carb heaters, and I'd sure rather have more capability to drive passing lamps or heated gear. If worse comes to worse and you ever have an issue with carb icing, switch them on for a while. But that's not even an option for me, as my bike doesn't have them.
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    A lot of people seem to like the drilled out stock mufflers, or stockers with the baffles removed. I tried it once on a bike and I thought they sounded like crap. It sounded to me like someone farting in a tin can. I promptly threw them out. JMO. Beauty is in the ear of the beholder, I suppose.
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    I'm one who can attest that the carb heaters aren't good for much, except maybe under the most adverse conditions. My '96 Royal Star doesn't have heated carburetors stock, and when I put the 32mm carbs on them I didn't wire them up either because there was nothing to connect them to. All I can say is that I have ridden several times in 20* weather and never had any problems with carburetor icing.
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    Custom World International also has some. http://www.cw-intl.com/en/default.asp?Currency=USD
  8. pegscraper
    Is "have fever" supposed to be "hay fever"?
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    I finally got a chance to do a compression check on my sled yesterday. I'm getting 130 psi on both cylinders. So that's not it. On to something else.
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    I don't own that model myself, but here is some information I swiped from somewhere a while back and stored for future reference. You'll have to make a simple little L bracket. Anything can be done. The impossible just takes a little longer.
  11. pegscraper
    A chuff at idle sounds like an intake boot leaking vacuum. You could spray some WD40 around the seams, and then if the idle suddenly picks up speed, you've found it.
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    I remember seeing that torch in the catalogs. But now there's no way to go in there and point to something in the catalog. Is RS even a Tandy company anymore or did Tandy unload them? I have numerous frustrating RS stories and not just from one store or even my general area, but across a few states and even Canada. But I won't bore y'all. I won't go in them anymore unless there's absolutely nowhere else to get something. And there always is.
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    I wonder how difficult it would be to wire up gloves and socks. Knowing how I typically am in cold weather, I'm thinking that's all I really need. Keep my extremeties warm and the rest of me will be fine. Radio Shack's motto: "You've got questions, we've got stupid looks on our faces."
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    Is that teflon coated wire the stuff they call magnet wire? And I'm sure the guy wasn't acting either. I haven't come across anybody in a Radio Shack for quite a while who knows JS about what they sell. Lori went with me into one once when I was looking for a strobe lamp. She stood there in amazement watching every employee in the place tripping over themselves measuring out antenna cable on the floor while a few others of us waited at the counter to be helped. These guys looked like the three stooges. I'm standing there thinking to myself how many Radio Shack employees does it take to measure out some cable. Long story short I finally got what I went in there for after arguing with the guy about whether they carried it or not. As we left, I'm trying to restrain myself from making any comments and just forget it all when Lori says that now she understands why I have nothing but complaints about those places. They must be paying those guys in rocks and leaves. Combine that with them not printing catalogs anymore and as far as I'm concerned they can go out of business.
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    How many feet of wire? Did you use a thermostat on it, or do you need one?
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    The problem is that two strokers won't run without the exhaust pipe on them. The expansion chamber in the pipe somehow greatly increases exhaust flow, which is really needed when the exhaust and intake stroke are the same thing and the engine won't generate its own exhaust flow. Without the expansion chamber keeping the exhaust flow up they won't run. If exhaust heat distorting and breaking a cylinder is an issue on a sled, I wonder why it isn't on our bikes. What's the difference?
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    I put the bike up on a stand and use SOS pads. Some will say that over time they will damage the white walls, but I don't find it to happen. Bike tires don't last long enough for it to show up. While you're doing this it is also an excellent time to check for tire trouble.
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    Don't know about sleds but I had an old 2 stroke motorcycle when I was 15 that did that. After trying everything listed here I took it to the dealer (much to my shame). They pulled the baffles out and it ran great. the baffle was totally plugged with carbon. Rode it home and it was LOUD. Heated the baffles and tapped them with a hammer to remove the carbon and ran like new. Rod I haven't had a chance to do anything with this yet. I may have to try this one. My very first thought when this thing wouldn't start was that mice had built a nest in the exhaust pipe. They had obviously been all around the engine. After two or three attempts to start it with it sputtering and stalling it will literally blow the exhaust pipe right off the engine with a loud bang (it's held on with springs, for whatever reason). To me it acts like it's having too much trouble getting rid of its exhaust. But I couldn't come up with a way to move enough air through the pipe to see if anything would blow out. I even attached it to the one inch water drain pipe on my 80 gallon air compressor and opened it wide open... nothing. The shape of this pipe is such a snake there's no way to run anything through it or try to look through it. I've been afraid to cut the thing open for fear that the metal is too thin to weld back together. I suppose replacements are going to be hard to find and expensive, and this old sled is probably not worth it anyway. But pulling the baffles out, I can't believe I didn't think of that. I'm not convinced that the pipe is or isn't plugged, either way. I may have to try this one and see what there is to see.
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    Have you checked and compared the carb setup - things like float level, jet sizes, and needle position? Having two of the same bike or car makes diagnosing things like this much easier. Shoot, try swapping the entire carb setup and see what happens.
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    The dealer touched it and now something that seems totally unrelated doesn't work. Small wonder. Have the throttle cables been removed for any reason, or the junction box taken apart? If the junction box isn't put back together just right, that could be the cause. I know, a tire change shouldn't require the throttle cables to be taken out, but I've seen some amazing things come out of a dealer's service department.
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    Thanks for all the ideas. There are some things here I didn't know about 2 strokers. I have some investigating to do. I have thought for a long time that the guy who invented the 2 stroke motor never deserved to get the thing running. I don't like them.
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    I have new plugs in it. I can also connect the plug wires and hold the plugs to a ground outside of the engine and watch them spark when I crank it. I'll check the compression just to verify it, but that doesn't really explain an instantaneous overnight change like that, does it?
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    I'm not real familiar with 2 stroke engines. I'm better with 4 strokers. I have a 1980 Yamaha snowmobile that won't start. It literally ran fine one day, and wouldn't start the next. It almost acts like it's flooding itself. It will start and sputter for a few seconds and then die. Then I have to blow out the cylinders and spark plugs to get it to sputter like that again. I've been into the carb a couple times and can't find anything wrong. This model has an oil injector, meaning I don't have to mix gas for it. It mixes oil and gas itself. How might I check to see if the oil injector is working? Will a two stroke motor run without oil in the gas? Or course I wouldn't want to do that for very long, but the question is, would that be giving me the symptoms I have? Where, oh where has manic mechanic gone so fast? I'm sure he could tell me what's wrong with it.
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    Camshaft/valve spring and carb swaps aren't all that difficult depending on how handy you are, and make a huge difference in the early Royal Stars. I'm making 90 rear wheel/106 crank hp in my '96. That 75 hp figure you mention must be crank. After cams and carbs the mods get a little more difficult.
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    Yes, my bike is a '96 Royal Star, but it's my understanding that Ventures and newer TDs have more room under the tank than I do. You have bigger tanks and wider frames. My installing the V-boost valves didn't raise the carbs at all. There wasn't room to do that anyway. I did it all without cutting the frame or the tank. My bike is making a dyno proven 90 rear wheel hp and 106 hp at the crank. Depending on whose dyno you want to believe, that's between 11 and 18 more hp than a stock Venture. That was after adding 32mm carbs (which the rest of you already have anyway), V-Max cams, and through the stock exhaust. And that was before the V-boost. I haven't done another run yet since the V-boost. I didn't use the factory's electronics to operate the V-boost valves. I have two ways I can operate them. I can set them up to open progressively as the throttle is opened, or I can set them up to open manually. At the moment I have them manual, so I can leave them open all the time, or open or close them under any operating conditions. Leaving them open all the time offers big gains all the way down to idle. Opening them up while accelerating feels like pushing a NOS button. Leaving them open at idle makes the bike sound like it has a huge cam in it. The exhaust note has quite a thump. There's nothing else on the road that sounds like a V4 with the V-boost wide open.
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