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Yup I think 7-stay is the flat metal strip. From Bike bandit not available out of stock. Plus its like $130 bucks. #33 is the nut plate, but I do not know how it is attached. Have you tried running a tap thru and cleaning the threads up? Maybe, just maybe you can get lucky. I always start mine by hand before tightening them. And I start them all before tightening any of them. 4XY-28357-00-00 is part # for stay. Me I would see if I could clean the threads up, second shot would be to see about putting a nut plate in it or time zert or rivnut.

I figured battery after reading a bit. You can charge a battery up and it will read 12v, lights work and fuel pump etc. But if it has a bad plate in it (which is typicaly what happens with vibration) it shorts it out and wont carry the heavy load of starting. Glad you got it fix3d.

Just fire up pandora, and put in the search something like 50's and see what pops up and try it our. I can tell you I have a few stations saved like Stevie Ray Vaughn. I have listened to it for like 10 hours and not heard a repeat.

Yea I read a story about that a few weeks back. The thing I remember is it didnt say they were running in their own class like the HD. They were going to run in prostock.

A long ball allen is my weapon of choice. I put a piece of tape where it can contact the paint. If you have a harbor freight near by they should have one. Mine is a snap on but I was in a shop when I needed it.

Seems we have way way to much of that "hit the wrong pedal" stuff down here. I just have a real hard time with that. If they cant keep the pedals sraight maybe they shouldnt drive anymore. A lady down here "accidently" hit the wrong pedal and when the car lunged she floored it. Then made the local chamber of commerce a drive thru like 5 min before a big meeting. Glad your OK sucks your ride got clobered.

Which bolts? The couple of end ones are sort of in nut plates you could probably fix. The center ones I'm not so sure.

Need to try some contact cleaner vs the WD 40. The WD will leave a film and not allow contacts to work eventually. I have a can of CRC electrical contact cleaner. Also up under the fairing at the connectors for the cables that control may need a shot. Then add some dielectric grease on the pins when you put it back together. If all that fails its probably the little black controller on the handle bars. You should be able to pick one up used.

Think about using the tire balance beads in your new tires. They work well.

Oh the apart thing is easy......... Getting it back together and functioning, now thats a different can of worms. I did buy some generic knock off ones for substantially less. And they seem to work fine. I bought 2, one for a second on the bike and one to replace the dual trumpet one the blown front tire on the truck took out. Got both installed on bike and the truck fixed. A couple weeks later the dual trumpet on the wifes car sounded like Kermit D frog. I thinks the compressor died, so swapped on from the bike over to it.

I have on occasion thought about a shot of wd 40 or something. But dont want them to get gummy either. Its sort of like they have to get spinning. They look all press fit together, so not sure you could get it separated and back together again.

SilverT heck I didnt even think of recording the music from my "free" music channels on the cable. I am sure you would have to convert to MP3 formatt

Yup I have noticed a simular issue. Seem to get "warmed up". Also if my bike has sit for a few days and horn not used it sometimes needs to be woke up.

Yup the module was the first thing I thought of. Not a GM eficanado but I did race sbc for some years. Once I went to the HEI ignition, I learned to keep a complete spare cap and guts as they would fail at dangdest times.

We took a quick ride down to Lake Placid today to check out the country fair. Low 70s I guess and sunny. Suposed to go on a lunch ride with some folks from church tomorrow mid 70s forcast. Sorry guys but this is one of the reasons I moved down here vs staying in Oklahoma.

Yes same home network. I do have a shared folder on my PC. She can usually access it. But me saving something or finding something on her work PC is just about impossible. Guess I will have to try a couple things to maybe simplify the access troubles.

I am trying to figure out a way to have a HDD at the home office that can be accessed by different computers. I am running a gateway/router from comcast. It has only 4 cat 5 plugs on it. I have 3 computers hardwired to it and also some sort of booster thing I have to have for the cell phone to work decent at the house. So all plugs are full. It is a wireless router also, so I do have wi-fi available. The wife has her work PC which has all sorts of passwords and encryption on it and is a PIA to try to access if I am doing work for her. So what we have been doing is when I complete a file I copy to jump stick and toss it on her desk. Lately her work PC has not been recognizing the jump stick. I dunno why it works OK on my PC. So for me to access her computer and share files is password protected etc. She can access mine sometimes, but the network dont always see mine from her PC. Thought were to use a wireless HDD, but them are not exactly cheap. Over $100 for 500gb. Anybody got any ideas? I have seen some kind of dongle thing with a usb plug on one end that is supposed to like make something wireless. Could you plug this up to a "regular" external HDD and make that work? The dongle thing was $25 range and have seen external HDD for $40 or so. Might could swing that.

Hmm If it tossed the belt kind of sitting still so to speak, chances are the pistons etc are OK. I would say its worth pulling the head and take a look see.

Well earbuds dont always fit well in helmets. For me the Sony ones I got work good. Good sound and don't hurt my ear canal. For the wife she struggled all the time. Would pull them out or they would fall out on rides. SO I got here a pair of these. They fit well, conform to the ears and knock out external noise like wind. As mentioned before I run in addition to the OEM 5 pin cable an audio out 3.5mm so I can plug these in. If I am wearing the shorty solo I just plug the ear buds in. There are different styles also if you like the shooting style ear plugs. If anybody wants a cable like mine I can build you one.

Depending on how it was running at the time the belt let go is going to determine what is messed up. If it was tooling down the road @ 70 mph and the belt broke, you could have holes in the pistons, bent rods all sorts of stuff. Best case scenario you got a couple pings inthe tops of pistons you wire brush and put a reman head on. I did a job for a fellows daughter. A little Saturn sedan. She killed the motor. they arranged for me to pick up a motor, it was up to them to sort out the payment and warranty etc. I installed the motor and got the little car running great. A month or so later the fellow calls me and say its running ruff. I go pull a compression test, it had burned a valve or something. I told him to contact the yard. They would give him a motor in exchange, which if fine but it was not may fault their motor went south. I sure wasnt going to change it again for free this time. I dunno what they did.I felt bad about the deal, but I was only the labor involved. I only work for free for my family. LOL

Puc, just give them about 3 weeks. It will be right back where it was 6 weeks ago. Goes up triple whatever it came down. Ours was about 2-3 cents a week. Now it will go up 10 cents a week. I knew I should have got some 55 gallon barrels and filled them up.

Well for the 5 or so weeks we have had it the lower gas prieces have been nice. Lowest here where I live I paid was $1.98 a gallon. Been rite around $1.99-2.00 Well I bought gas yesterday @ $1.99, today I go by same station and its $2.15. Funny how when it goes down its .02 at a time. Going up its dimes.

I used a flat antenna for my 900 Vulcan when I put a fairing and radio on it. It was under the fairing like yours. Dont expect to much reception wise. Heck even the RSV dont get very good reception for the big ole stick in back. Realisticly on a trip youl probably use an MP3 player or pandora off the phone or something. I use the radio around town or once we get to an area find a station so you can get local weather. I will have to say you have a really nice looking piece there. Hope it works well for you.

Hmm I dont hear anything unusual. Other than gear drive noise.

Hope that somehow gets you name out and things going up where your at now for you.