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  1. Squidley
    Dan....get soemone else to finish it, the snow will be flying before you know it. Cut your losses and get it done by someone else. Then you can take the puke to court and get some of your money back, take picks of what has been done thus far for evidence should it go that route
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    Cool Beans! I learned something new today...Thanks Jeff
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    I'll bet it's a pretty Blue color and I probably know who used to own it
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    Cliff, Under the passenger portion of the seat is where the connector is for the rear lighting assemblies.
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    The tightness of the bearings from the factory. I have always disassembled the hub assemblies on the HF trailers and at a minimum regreased them witrh GOOD grease. When I reassemble the bearings I have always spun the wheel while tightening the axle nut until the wheel gets harder to spin as then I am sure that all the grease has been properly forced into the bearings. I then loosen the nuts till I can spin them by hand and tighten them back up with my fingers. I get them to a spot where I can put the cotter key or whatever type of locking device on the nut. Sometimes you might have to back it off slightly to get to that point or I may tighten it, but just slightly as I dont want to over tighten them. I have never had an issue with any of my wheel bearings besides one that was just a bad bearing and came apart on me.
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    1st thing I do on any new to me bike is a complete tune up. Replace the plugs, wires and caps, the fuel filter also. The floats might be out of adjustment and that might not help with the running right. The airbox has to be installed with a filter in it for these things to even try and run right, put that back on and see how it reacts. It will be a work in progress, but keep asking questions, we'll get you pointed in the right direction
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    Black beauty

    Squidley replied to Abbe's topic in Picture Folder

    That color combo looks like what we call the tuxedo bike here in the states, fine looking machine you have there
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    Steve, Click on the classifieds link at the top of the page, click again on Member Vendors and go into their names. If you dont see what your looking for, they both only have 1 item a piece up Larry has G2 armrests and Rick has thumb nuts posted. You can go into their profile and PM them and ask whatever questions you need answered. I did the above to make sure it worked and I had no issues getting to their ads. Let me know if you need further help.
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    Absolutely you can, when I use my bearing buddies to grease the axle, I jack the side up and spin the wheel as I am greasing it. I wouldn't worry too much about plugging the rear zerks as they should stay in fine as long as you dont put a grease gun on them. Most of them are just a push in type with barb serrations on them and not an actual threaded one.
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    There you go fellas, go ahead and fill in your answers I have put a sticky on this and will keep it up top fow a few weeks so folks can see it.
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    Use it Dan, it's fine....
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    The 8" will work fine, I would suggest that you take the bearings out and replace them with a "Good" set of bearings like a Timken. Make sure you use a good quality wheel bearing grease and I always use bearing buddies on all my trailers no matter what size. Some of the HF have a grease zerk in the rear side of the hub. If yours does I would remove that one and tap it to the next size up and put a screw in zerk fitting as the factory ones will pull right out. I have made several trailers from the Hf frame kits and have never had an issue with them when I did the things I just mentioned
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    Deep breath in Dan....breathe out, and again deep breath in....breathe out. You'll get the hang of it, you have no worries, your retired right!? I even made the words in Blue to calm you down...I'm thoughtful that way
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    Little trip

    Squidley replied to orbie's topic in Watering Hole

    I'd love to get over into the mnts in Vermont and New Hampshire, very beautiful from what I have seen. Good to hear you had a nice trip of it, a little wind in the face can cure just about any ailment!
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    Yes it can be removed/replaced, it can be a bear to get at and is easier if the left side plastic is off the bike.
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    I love a successful stalking story
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    He mentioned that to us and please Thank Leslie for being a sport and taking the pic for us
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    Replace the springs and the fork oil, if they are the original springs they are shot at 116K. I just installed a set of Progressives on an '86 I have and it firmed up the front end very well. Use 10 weigtht fork oil and you'll be in good shape
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    Bubber, I wouldn't recommend getting the HH's for the rear of the RSV. The back brake caliper locks up way too easy and the HH will add to that as it is very aggressive. Put the HH's on the front and a strait organic on the rear, you'll be a lot happier not locking up the rear caliper
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    It's the rear caliper not fully releasing and the pad is dragging a bit Jeff, very common issue with that back caliper on the G2's.
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    Happy Birthday Patti!!!
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    Happy Birthday Buddy!!!
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    If you talking about the Oring that is between the intake manifold and the head you could do that, although I haven't run into a failure there. The cracking on the actualy intake boots looks ugly but many times do not go all the way through to cause a vacuum leak. Something I will mention is that make sure that all your carbs are completely seated all the way on all the intake manifolds, it's easy to not get them all the way on. Another tip is do a carb sync as many time if it's off it will be slow to come down to an idle...just some babbling on my part
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    Just recieved another call from Ray this morning, his son has been coherent and talking with him. He went in this morning for another surgery and as soon as Ray fills me in about it I'll let y'all know, thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers, it means a lot to Ray and his family
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    It's good to hear your liking it my friend, I enjoyed taking it for the ride. Unfortunately for 2 up, with Lonna at least, it wouldn't work for us. It is a great machine and I'm glad after all the manic searching that day presented you got it
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