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Have you ridden your VR much since putting in the PS fluid? I'm interested in exploring alternatives to fork oil because it is excessively expensive for what it is. I'm currently using 32 weight hydraulic oil which is inexpensive and can be found pretty much everywhere. Seems to have worked well enough over the winter although it is a bit on the firm side. Will be interesting to see if it lightens up in the heat of summer.

The connection you use is known as a Western Union splice because it is the method used to connect the telegraph wires when they were being strung across the US. At least, that's the rumour I heard. I use the same method to do inline joints.

I'm not ready for three wheels yet but your thread got me interested enough to look around at what's available. It looks to me that the lower end models with no storage would be reasonably easy to graft on the bags and trunk from a MKII which arguably have the best storage available on a motorcycle. You might not be very interested in a hybrid custom job but looks like it might save thousands. Depending, of course, on what other equipment has been left off the lower end models.

The curing of polyester resin is due to a chemical reaction and does not require air or evaporation. Temperature will advance or retard the process. The purpose of the cellophane is essentially that it acts like a portable outside mold that will not stick to the resin and creates a very smooth finished surface. It can also be stretched to some degree and fit areas that are not flat although flat surfaces are much easier to cover. Doing small areas like bubbles will require a little finesse in applying the right amount of resin. Just right will fill the area without an excess that spills over the surrounding area. Getting it right will allow finishing just with a buffer while too much will require sanding to remove the excess. Had an after-thought. You could be right about the air Condor, there are two types of gelcoat, one comes with wax in the mix and one comes without it. The one without the wax will cure but will still be somewhat sticky. It is meant to be used to coat a mold and then covered with GRP while the former is used to finish GRP that has already cured.

It might be too late to bother with this method but cellophane, gelcoat, and a squeegee fills surface holes very well. It is important to get any mold release wax off so the new gelcoat will chemically bond with the old. Finishing gelcoat usually has UV filters in it whereas Bondo type fillers don't usually.

You are quite right, nothing is free. I suspect one of the major reasons why our guvmint vehicle insurance is so high is due to the relationship with the guvmint healthcare system. Any injuries sustained in a crash will be paid by public healthcare, some of which can be recovered from the public liability part of vehicle insurance which is covered by the guvmint not third party insurance which primarily covers vehicle damage. Most of the civilized countries in the world have recognized the overall value of a healthy nation. Your "geniuses" on both sides have come up with two unworkable systems because if there is any opt out clause the cost savings that group health can provide will be lost and their plans will inevitably implode. Healthcare in Canada is federally mandated but run by the provinces. That system is not particularly efficient and is often nonsensical. Not too long ago there was a pregnant woman from Alberta visiting in northern Ontario who had a medical issue that required a mercy flight. If she had been living in Ontario her healthcare would have paid for the trip. If she had been in Alberta at the time of the emergency her healthcare would have been paid by her healthcare. Since she was out of province at the time both refused to pay. That is until there was a huge media storm which induced the two guvmints to come to an agreement about covering the cost of the flight. The same nonsensical division of power is being contemplated by the the current US healthcare proponents. It is most unfortunate that public healthcare has been turned into a political football. There are inevitable inequities in any system, for example my youngest son went abroad for 3 years. After 6 months his his healthcare was no longer valid but he was no longer paying into it so fair enough. When he got back there was a bill for the 3 years premiums he missed in order for him to get back into the system. He had to just suck it up and pay. It very much comes down to a "war" between socialism and capitalism. Unbridled capitalism supports slavery both physical and/or economic. There have been several periods in history when the rich had it all and left the barest minimum for everyone else. That is one of the main reasons why the founding of the USA was such a dramatically good thing for the world. That goodness was in danger of getting chipped away by the slavery issue that led to the civil war and later on the economic slavery in the early 19th century that was ended by the huge union movement. This is another one of those "crossroad" moments for the people of the USA. It will be interesting to see how you all manage to come out of it. Whew, that's a lot of writing. I hope it makes some sort of sense to most of you.

I never have and don't know anything about it but googled online publishing and got this: http://www.toptenreviews.com/services/home/best-online-book-publishing-companies/ Seems to have a range of useful advice. Probably find a lot more if you google it too.

Tried to take a pic yesterday but my stupid Moto G3 camera is crapping out. Seems to be an issue that has been around for a long time. Anyway, camera works in safe mode so here is a pic of the front my dusty 1990 VR. Presumably it is just the front attachment points that are in question.

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I think you are onto it. 30,000 miles on an 83 is an indication of extremely abusive neglect. Swear you will try harder to:bighug:and much more often. Kill switch??? Define nothing. No dash lights? No headlight? Gotta start somewhere.

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The two brake pins are a fairly loose fit and should be able to be rotated using pliers to get the cotter pin facing up. Since they do not have an "inside hex" and are not tightened perhaps you mean the hex bolts that hold the caliper. Getting those out will be much more difficult. WD 40, some heat and a lot of cursing may work otherwise drill off the head and replace.

I had a situation once where the sight glass appeared to be grimy enough to not see the level but it turned out that I had managed to over fill so no level could be seen. Just a possibility eh? The inside should not get grimy and of course the outside can be cleaned. If the inside of the sight glass is actually grimy then the rest of the oil system will also be grimy. Seafoam can be added to the oil and be run for a few minutes until the engine gets up to temp, leave it sit for a while then run it again and drain. That should clean out the oil galleries. As you may have seen in other threads, Rotella 15w40 is relatively inexpensive and has been the preferred choice of many folks for years.

It seems apparent, to me at least, that Rotella has changed the designation to align with the newer synthetic designations. For years I had been buying Rotella T which was straight dino oil. Then they came out with synthetic versions such as T6. Recently I noticed Rotella T was now being labeled Rotella T4. If you find Rotella T on the shelf it is likely old stock and will do perfectly for use in your Venture.

Following the manual is rarely wrong. The bigger the gap the more intense the spark which also requires more power. As components age it is possible for more resistance and less output delivered to the plug. My preference has always been .035 for no other reason than why mess with something that isn't broken.

I removed the RLU on the 90 VR when I installed HID. Didn't miss it at all. In my opinion replacing the turn signals with LED isn't worth the loss of the cancelling unit. Plus I like the bigger light source of the incandescent bulbs.

Canada has had basic universal health care since 1961 and it is affordable. I've been paying into it all my working life. Currently I pay $75 per month but the fee was much less when it started...naturally. The primary reason for affordability is that everyone must pay into it. It works just like any other group plan offered by insurance companies, the bigger the group the lower the premium. There are also a lot of group plans that offer coverage over and above what is available through the public system. This provides choices to everyone who thinks they need and can afford more coverage than what is offered by the public system. For my monthly premium I get to see the GP of my choice, surgeons and other specialists can only be seen with a referral from my GP. Prescription meds are not covered except for those on social assistance. Nor is any dental care provided. That seems short sighted to me but... To put it into real terms, I have been healthier than the average person I know when it comes to minor maladies and broken bones etc. That said, there have been times in my life though when I have had to deal with serious issues. When I was 25 I picked up a case of TB when I was traveling in Asia. Spent 6 months in hospital before being cured. When I was 38 I had to have my thyroid nuked and required medication and monitoring for about 8 years afterward. When I was 45 I needed a stent to repair a blockage in a heart vein and spent 2 weeks in the hospital before that was done. So high blood pressure and cholesterol meds were required since then. That incident caused me to reassess my diet, fortunately at no cost to the system. So I see my GP once a year for med prescriptions. It's not perfect and there are limitations particularly for the less affluent members of society. I think the system we have could be better but it beats the heck out of no system at all. Or the one in the US where the cost is so prohibitive that only the well off can manage to live through a medical emergency without incurring a huge debt load that pretty much messes with your future viability. Without public health care it is unlikely I would have managed to be a productive member of society. That is the real benefit of such a system. @ Condor: Social Security is not very different from Public Health Care since they both have similar goals. If you are OK with one then it should not be much of a stretch to be OK with the other. The cost of prescriptions in NA are ridiculously high when compared to the cost in Europe. Our guvmint is beginning to realize they should be demanding a better break for public health prescription meds. That being all the medications administered while in hospital are not charged to the patient. A federally mandated minimum healthcare service for all makes sense to me leaving the provinces or states or individuals to arrange more privately as desired. Dental and Eye Health in Canada are not covered and are expensive here. The only competition here for dental health is in Mexico where it is half price or less. I think that should change since without sight or teeth a person cannot be as productive as they might otherwise be which would be detrimental to society as a whole.

That's what happens when politics gets involved. We saw a lot of reduced qualifications in this country when the guvmint legislated acceptance of women into police forces and fire departments. I believe the biggest hurdle to overcome for gender equality is a cultural one where male and female children have different expectations laid on them by society, schools in particular, and even by their parents. Consider the current BS that is going on in the military over personal photos being displayed on the Internet. That is a cultural divide of disrespect that can only be overcome by education.

This is totally off topic but important enough for a quick response. I hear you, calories in versus calories out is still the base criteria for weight gain/loss. However I think what I said is probably correct but the digestive process is very complicated and difficult to nail down on an individual basis as is the variations in food ingredients. Probably the best comparison I have found is to google soda versus diet soda although, they are both poison. It is amazing how much junk is being sold as a healthy food option. In many cases consuming diet and low fat foods lead to an increase in daily calories so the harder you try the further you get behind.

I'm wondering the same thing. If your bike has sat for a long period of time then it is quite possible the fuel enrichment circuit (choke) is restricted if not plugged. When running Seafoam in the fuel to help finish cleaning the carbs it is also beneficial to open the choke for much longer than necessary for starting so the Seafoam can work it's way through the circuit. There have been many instances of people cleaning the carbs and not getting the pilot jets clean enough which primarily affects the idle but can also impact how it runs when starting and when cruising off the throttle. This is where Seafoam can also be the most efficient option rather than pulling the carbs for another cleaning.

Anything that tastes sweet has the same affect on the body as sugar. That means sugar replacement chemicals even though they have no calories still add major fat to the midriff. The body is tricked into thinking it has a lot of calories to handle so converts other food calories into fat for storage. It's a lose - lose situation.

I've never opened the TCI but what about cutting around the connector shroud instead of opening up the box? May be 6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other, just curious.

Part of the obvious to check is did any of the new bulbs get their position switched? Any misplacement will cause a mixed message.

Probably not. The gap is probably becoming more even as time passes but there is no acceptable reason for not requiring equal pay for equal work across the board. Of course pay rates are not the only gender issues that need to be dealt with but they are probably the simplest to correct. Anyone who thinks gender issues are imagined probably also disputes global warming as well. I'm not pointing fingers here as things are no different up here in the "51st" state. A lot of people have their heads stuck up their collective butts. Courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_States The gender pay gap in the United States is the ratio of female to male median yearly earnings among full-time, year-round (FTYR) workers. The average woman's unadjusted annual salary has been cited as 78%[2] to 82%[3] of that of the average man's. However, after adjusting for choices made by male and female workers in college major, occupation, working hours, and parental leave, multiple studies find that pay rates between males and females varied by 5–6.6% or, females earning 94 cents to every dollar earned by their male counterparts. The remaining 6% of the gap has been speculated to originate from deficiency in salary negotiation skills and gender discrimination.[4][5][6][7] The extent to which discrimination plays a role in explaining gender wage disparities is somewhat difficult to quantify, due to a number of potentially confounding variables. A 2010 research review by the majority staff of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee reported that studies have consistently found unexplained pay differences even after controlling for measurable factors that are assumed to influence earnings – suggestive of unknown/unmeasurable contributing factors of which gender discrimination may be one.[8] Other studies have found direct evidence of discrimination – for example, more jobs went to women when the applicant's sex was unknown during the hiring process.[8] A study of graduates of the University of Michigan Law School between 1972 and 1975 examined the gender wage gap while matching men and women for possible explanatory factors such as occupation, age, experience, education, time in the workforce, childcare, average hours worked, grades while in college, and other factors. After accounting for all that, women were paid 81.5% of what men "with similar demographic characteristics, family situations, work hours, and work experience" were paid. Similarly, a comprehensive study by the staff of the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the gender wage gap can only be partially explained by human capital factors and "work patterns." The GAO study, released in 2003, was based on data from 1983 through 2000 from a representative sample of Americans between the ages of 25 and 65. The researchers controlled for "work patterns," including years of work experience, education, and hours of work per year, as well as differences in industry, occupation, race, marital status, and job tenure. With controls for these variables in place, the data showed that women earned, on average, 20% less than men during the entire period 1983 to 2000. In a subsequent study, GAO found that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Labor "should better monitor their performance in enforcing anti-discrimination laws."