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They were very solid bikes back in the day, you got a nice deal on that one.

I've always like Keanu, it's good to see he's a rider like us.

71 Hemi Cuda is my bucket list car. Had a 67 formula S model 340 6 pack 4 speed with a 4:11 rearend. That car was a rocket, pull the front tire off the ground.

Organ donors, I was waiting for the Wiley Coyote splat 👀

I have 777s on my 02 and I've been very happy with how they perform.

Puc, There is always room for you and any car you find down here. We are about 45 miles north of Houstons northern limit. We live in Shepherd now, about 15 miles northeast of the house we used to live at. Come on down and we'll show you the real southern hospitality brother!

The paints we used when I was in back in the late 80s early 90s was a 2 part epoxy polymide. This is when they started with the new tactical paint schemes. Our bird was still the gloss color and while on my Desert Storm cruise I ended up repainting the entire aircraft 1 section at a time. I have dabbled in some of the newer basecoat clear coats out there. I would love to make a living at doing custom painting, but that's not a realistic goal at this point in my life. Perhaps in the next life I'll get to be a custom paint guy 🤷‍♂️ Now that I've thought about it for a little bit, I wonder if Honda back in the 60's was painting with lacquer. Back in the day a lacquer paint job was one you did if you wanted a super deep look. As I understand the cure times between coats was very minimal and what they would do is paint it, wet sand it and paint over it again. They might have 10 coats of paint over it and the wet sanding inbetween would create the depth. Another trick I have used as well as some brothers who custom painted was put metal flake in with the pain and put a marble in the paint gun can to keep the metal flake suspended in the paint by swishing the marble around between spraying lines.

Git after it son! Ask all the questions you want, we'll leave the lights on for ya 👍

I've never been up close and personal with a Warthog, they are a very impressive plane. They can fly very slow and are perfect for ground support missions. Those guns are awesome, if you're targeted, you're done for. I worked the McDonnell Douglass DC9B in the reserves and the Kaman SH2F anti submarine warfare helicopter while I was in the yacht club.

Just to fill you in a little better on the Navy vernacular about what I did in Uncle Sam's yacht club. An aviation structural mechanic, better know as a metal mauler (hence the 2 crossed hammers), the job duties were the repair of all the exterior flight surfaces of aircraft. All the interior subframe structures, and on helicopters, which I repaired for 4 years, all the blades and flight control cables and that sorts. Here is what my rate badge looked like. I also learned how to professionally paint compliments of Uncle Sam and the American taxpayer.

A mind like a rusty steel trap, never know when it's gonna snap! Aviation Mechanic Structures (AMS) 3rd class petty officer (AMS3)

Vogel is a great time, Lonna and I have been to 3 of them. I would love to do it again.

Hey Ron, prior Navy here as well AMS3, it's ironic, I like riding too. Welcome to the site.

You are correct, Dennis was a serious gearhead. Very meticulous with any maintenance he did on any machine. If he did the work, it was done correct to perfection.

I'll 2nd that, I have witness the results of a hydrolocked Tour Deluxe. Pull the plugs and clear the cylinders, reassemble the plugs and start it back up. I would take the handle end of a screwdriver and tap the bottom of the float bowls on the same side of the bike you found the fuel and see if that clears it up. Could be a little speck of dirt in the float and once it dislodges it could very well go away.

I'm glad y'all got away, just the 2 of you 👍

Swung a leg over it and rode it to work this morning.

We have a shim kit that gets used down here in Texas from time to time. Thanks for always being about helping out your brothers and sisters here my friend. Hope to be able to catch up with you soon.

Yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah, signature smignature, whatever! You do pretty good for an OLD schmuck, that's why we stick around. (This is sarcasm for those who aren't privvy to know who I am) Nice work on the site buddy 👍

Wasn't Steve Wagner a member here, SteveW I think was his screen name.

MasterGuns name was Herb Giles

The one with the same picture is Mike Bland-Deltoid Al Johnson King of squirrels

As a general rule of thumb, you get what you pay for. Ricks performance sells a decent performance stator, slightly higher output. There's not enough room in the case to put a HO stator as you need more windings to accomplish that. Personally I would go with the factory Yamaha reg/rec as it does just fine. One of the main culprits of the reg/rec failing is a dirty connector where it plugs into the wire harness. If the ground wire is dirty it wont shunt properly and builds up heat snd melts the connecter causing the unit to fail. I always use dielectric grease in those types of connections to help seal them keeping the corrosion away. Hope this helps you out a bit.

They're made for doing precisely that, so I'd be all for using them for stator and reg/rec replacements.

It's fine brother, if they don't like it, they're welcome to leave. I know how much time, effort and money you put into the site, both past and present. Thank you for all you do to keep us connected.