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  • Birthday 08/16/1962

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    Doug Nordin

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    Orem, United States

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    Orem

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  • Bike Year and Model
    '05 Suzuki Vstrom 650
  1. Dmnordin
    I'll get backto you nextweek, going out of town this morning. Thanks, Doug
  2. Dmnordin
    This is weird: I've had an add in KSL.com online classifieds local here (Utah) since last fall when I disassembled my 83 Frankenbike with lots of mods & 86 engine with hardly any interest at all. A week & a half ago, several guys have called resulting in my selling a lot of parts, particularly the performance modded parts. It's great to move some of this stuff and reclaim a little bit of garage space. Now all I need to do is move the plastic big pieces, and take the frame & misc chrome piecesto the metal recycling. I guess my 2 sets of wheels will probably go too. Feel bad to take the 2 pumpkins, but, oh well. I was very happy to sell the 86 engine for $50 so the guy can us e the tranny parts to fix his 2nd gear problem. Doug
  3. Dmnordin
    Tourmaster controllers are known crap. I went through 2 of them, and then finally bought a different controller & adapter. The jacket liner & gloves are great. not the controller. Doug
  4. Dmnordin
    Well, my kisan chargeguard has apparently died. I've had it for 2 or 3 years with no problems on my Venture before it died. I've been installing stuff for the past 2months on Saturdays on my new to me, 05 vstrom, so I've had the bike in my Honda charger. I want an ammeter and voltmeter (digital), but I haven't seen anything out there. What do you guys use to monitor current draw/voltage? Doug
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    I just stripped down my 83/86 frankenbike to parts and will be selling over a bike's worth of parts. Doug
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    I spent a couple of hours visiting Paul this evening. He looked like he'd been through a ringer, which he had, but he was sitting back in a chair with all kinds of tubes going into him. He's on the ICU floor. He's very tired of the tubes, and has a pretty good sore throat from the tubes that went down there for the surgery. His pain management is doing it's job, so he's working on recovering; he's done 10 laps today around the floor! He is ready & willing to work at getting better & knows that if he works hard at it, it will happen faster. It was really great that Dave was there the other morning when the surgery time was moved up several hours. Dave was able to help him get ready to go to surgery; good on you Dave! I brought him a 1/18 scale remote controller Chopper. He got a real big kick driving it around in the hallway & showing it off to the nurses (from his room). They all said it was such a "cute" little motorcycle. I think he'll do really great. I told him about all of the posts in this thread (he hasn't had a chance to visit venturerider.org yet). He was very touched and grateful. Thank you all - I am very sure your prayers are being answered. Doug
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    yeah, I'm baffled. I may take apart the engine just for fun and pull the tranny parts anyways. All I need is time - haha, now that's a good joke! It's putting things back together that takes the real time... Doug
  8. Dmnordin
    I have a couple of '83 instrument clusters if you can't get yours working. It's not too bad swapping out the speedometer. Doug
  9. Dmnordin
    I guess that's a no: no replies. The engine (what's left of it) and the frame will be getting some rain I expect in the next few days since they've been banned from the garage.
  10. Dmnordin
    I have a great looking set of 86 engine guards off of my bike I'm parting out w/ new keryaken (sp?) Highway pegs & stirrups still attached. PM me & I can email you pictures. Doug
  11. Dmnordin
    Yesterday I tore down my '83 frankenbike with the '86 engine. I just need finish by dis-assembling the front end and pull the engine to get the solid engine mounts so I can sell them. It looks pretty interesting on the center-stand with just the triple tree down intact attached to just the main frame with engine - that's all that's left intact (I pulled everything off of the frame including sub-frames & wiring harness.) And then the engine looks funny since I pulled the performance clutch, slightly used water pump assy, aftermarket high output stator assy, like new '83 carbs (new diaphragms & floats), ingnition coils,etc., & Vboost plenum with manual linkage off the engine. I want to know if there is any interest, meaning anyone having '83-'85 2nd gear problems that would be interested in the good tranny parts out of this '86 engine. I thought I would crack the case and pull any or all tranny parts if someone wanted to buy them. Otherwise I won't waste my time and the whole engine will go to the metal salvage yard along with parts that I don't think will sell, such as the main frame, probably some chrome handle/ crash-bar parts, etc. Please PM me or email me. Thanks, Doug
  12. Dmnordin
    What I have is the bolt on butterfly manifold with a custom cable actuator that I built using a Venture choke manual activator in the normal choke position /handlebar mount for the normal manual choke . Doug
  13. Dmnordin
    Thanks Gary, I also have a vboost, gone through 1200 carbs w/ new diaphragms & floats, & custom stack intakes w/ individual filters. Doug
  14. Dmnordin
    I'm parting out my 83. I have one of condor's braces that is for sale. Email me at dougnrdn at gmail.com Doug
  15. Dmnordin
    Last evening I couldn't get the bikes out of my brain, and I started thinking about getting the engine AND a KLR650. Only, the ones I looked at were about $4grand. So then I looked and found a 2000 & a 2002 KLR for a little over $2000. Today I rode the 2000; 4Kmiles on a nice engine rebuild. My wrists & hands hurt all afternoon from the freeway vibration. In the meantime, I made an offer on the Vstrom, and the owner (on consignment) called me & was OK with it because they took it off of consignment from me & he talked about selling it directly to me. I called my wife & we talked for quite a while. Surprised the heck out of me when she finally relented and agreed to let me do the deal for $3800. Of course I made some commitments on the other side of the deal to make it happen. I'm going to part out my venture. WooHoo! no more rebuilding Ventures for me!(crazed look in my eyes as I laugh my "evil laugh") Doug
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