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Sounds like your loosing fluid or getting air into the system, the later generally only possible after you have lost pretty much all of your fluid. Check your reservoir level, you will probably find it is down. Look for external leaks around the lines and the slave cylinder. If there are no external leaks, than there is a good chance that it is leaking past the piston and shaft in the slave cylinder, where by the brake fluid will be leaking into your crankcase. If this is the case, you will need to either replace or rebuild the clutch slave. Being as how the slave can be a bit of PITA, I would recommend replacing. Rebuilding is easy enough and kits are available but if there is the slightest imperfection in the walls of the slave, you wasted your time and money because it will soon leak again. If you want to simplify the job a bit, get your self a middle gear cover gasket and copper washer for its lower bolt. Removal of this cover gives you better access to the slave, making it easier to get back in. Make sure you drain the engine oil both from the drain plug and the lower cover bolt before removing the cover. The slave can be removed and installed without removal but if you have the wrong set of dentures in your mouth, getting it back in can be a real PITA and instead of quick success you could come up with a new vocabulary that would impress even the most vulgar trucker.

I find myself doing much the same every spring. Bike gets a bit temperamental in the spring after being ignored all winter so I have to give her a little drink of something and spend a little one on one time up the highway with her to help get her spirits back up to her normal self.

Note also the part about how Harley managed to block there progress in the US market which cost Yamaha big. History of the Yamaha Motor Yamaha Motor Company Limited is a Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles. Originally part of Yamaha Corporation. The company also manufactures other motorized equipment: all-terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles (see also Yamaha Snowmobiles), outboard motors, and boats. In 1887, Thorakusu Yamaha founded the company Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (since 1987 - Yamaha Corporation) for the production of Western musical instruments - harmonium, and later the piano. Soon the company mastered the production of metal components for these tools, and from the 1920s it also began to produce propellers for aircraft. In 1954, the Japanese government returned to Nippon Gakki a metal factory confiscated at the end of World War II. It began the production of motorcycles. On July 1, 1955, this production was spun off into an independent company, called the Yamaha Motor Company Limited, and its president was Genichi Kawakami, who also continued to lead Nippon Gakki. The first model, the Yamaha YA-1, copied from the DKW RT 125, was nicknamed “Aka-tombo,” which means “red dragonfly” (due to its simple shapes and chestnut-red color). It was the “Red Dragonfly” Yamaha owed its first sports victories: in the very first race at the foot of Mount Fuji on the YA-1, a victory was won. In 1959, Yamaha Motor began production of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) motor boats. In 1960, a subsidiary of Yamaha International Corporation was established, which began selling Yamaha products in the United States. In 1968, the company began producing snowmobiles, in 1975 - golf cars, in 1978 - snow-removing equipment. In 1964, a subsidiary of Siam Yamaha Co. was founded. in Thailand, motorcycle production was launched in Taiwan in 1966. In 1972, the headquarters was moved to Iwata. In 1976, the first Yamaha arc welding robot was introduced. By the end of the 1970s, having mastered the US motorcycle market, the Yamaha Motor Company ranked second in the world for their production. In 1981, the company made an attempt to oust Honda from the first place, having begun mass production of new models. Competitors answered in the same way, and Harley Davidson managed to impose restrictive tariffs on imports of Japanese motorcycles in the USA. Yamaha Motor Company was not ready for this, because, unlike Honda, it did not have its own production facilities in the USA; as a result, Yamaha Motor was left with a million unsold motorcycles, a debt of $ 1 billion and a net loss of $ 126 million. For the main corporation, Nippon Gakki, this had a limited effect, since at that time it controlled only 39% of Yamaha Motor's shares, and electronic musical instruments Yamaha enjoyed great success. In 1982, Yamaha Motor began a partnership with the French scooter manufacturer Motobecane (MBK), and soon Yamaha Motor became the largest shareholder of this company. Since 1985, Yamaha Motor began operations in India. Since 2001, India Yamaha Motor (English) Russian. became the full property of Yamaha Motor. There are two factories in India. In 2013, Yamaha Motor Research and Development India Pvt was founded in India. Ltd. and marketing company Yamaha Motor India Sales Pvt. Ltd. In 1990, the Yamaha Motor Company began a partnership with the Italian motorcycle manufacturer Minarelli, in 2002 the company became part of the Yamaha Motor. In 2015, Yamaha and the Italian sports car brand Abarth entered into a partnership agreement for the 2 seasons of the MotoGP World Championship 2015 and 2016. In November 2016, two joint products were introduced as part of the EICMA show - the Yamaha XSR900 Abarth motorcycle and the Fiat 500 Abarth Tributo.

They probably charge hefty because they see it as rebuilding 4 carbs not one.

Your right that was it. Thanks!

Plus when crossing back into Canada you get invited to spend some social time with the nice Canadian customs people.

This is true but a lot of paints can be removed with lacquer thinner. the trouble is you have to be careful what type of finish is on the bike. Lacquer thinner can dissolve some paints or clear coats. As the fabric cleaning products always say "try in a inconspicuous area first"

Great now not only do I have to put up with @Marcarl's KAKA but it appears he is now developing a group of KAKA followers

As is said you will never see one of these ........outside a psychiatrists office.

I am too dutch too bribe. Smuggling is more the nature of my gene pool. Off course even there I have conflicting genes. My fathers side of the gene pool are notorious for smuggling and being successful at it, while my mothers side is more along the lines of fear of of getting caught and have the give away facial expressions to pretty much guarantee it.

This is true, in fact you will drain an additional 1/4 to 1/3 cup of oil through this bolt after having drained through the main drain plug. Not draining this additional oil when doing an oil change and I am not saying you have too, is why often after changing oil and running the bike and then shutting it down to recheck your oil level, your new oil mysteriously gets darker faster than you think it should.

This is true, we use easy off oven cleaner to remove pin stripping and painted lettering from all the used trucks we take in as trade in's. You do run into the odd stubborn one but most pin stripping is done with lettering paint. The paint used by he who I cannot remember his name, is such a paint and should come off easily. Once you remove the lettering, wash with soap and rinse well. When dry you can buff the paint with a very mild abrasive liquid polishing compound and than polish with a good wax. if your lucky and there is absolutely no shadow left, you may be able to go straight to the wax.

Not that I don't appreciate it but you do know it is a major offense to bribe a government official........Right?

there is enough room to do the job without taking the fairing apart. If you already did your forks then you will know what I am saying unless you pulled the fairing apart to do the forks which I highly doubt the only thing yo may have to remove is that lower center piece of plastic under the headlight.

or stunted growth Its ok Carl go ahead and say it your far enough out of reach

yup and the border guy was even kind enough to help me push the bike across the border and into the shade, into the handicapped section. When I questioned him about parking in the handicapped section He simply asked is you bike running, to which I replied no, to which he replied then your handicapped ...unless you prefer to park in the sun, to which I replied you win to which he replied of course I win I am the border patrol.

Point taken and fully understand the curse of big hands. Plenty useful in brawls but nowhere else.

And so it begins What amazes me is how everything that was considered wrong has now become OK and how everything that was Ok is now considered wrong

Here again by shooting the carb cleaner back into the overflow you basically just cleaning the fuel bowl which is Ok but if you were to force it in through the carbs fuel inlet you would do a better job of flushing the needle and seat.

LOL whatever works

The reason I recommenced flushing through the fuel supply line and leaving the drain plug open rather than just back filling the float bowel through the drain hole is so the flow pressure of the cleaner goes right through the needle and seat valve flushing out any debris that might be sitting in the needle and seat.

I guess There is a probability that there will always be someone or someones that crave the power to remake the human race into their version of the perfect race. Hitler attempted it through a human breeding program and I am sure he is not the only. I believe arranged marriages as well as for joining preferred family ties for wealth or power may also have to do with maintaining or improving the family bloodline. Many tribes on both continents often turned captured slaves into tribal members after a time in order to improve their blood lines. So nasty at it sounds I think this is something will always be one way or another. But viral research also has another nasty side and that is war fare and I do not put it past any power to dabble in this field even though the idea of it has been banned world wide, but then that all is only on paper agreements are always broken. At the same time someone will always come up with some theory as to why something happened just to scare the pants off us.

My mother had to practically rope and hog tie us then drag us in no matter the weather or time of day. today its all you can do to throw those kids out for even an hour.

No kidding kids today are more sophisticated but in my mind what they consider as fun does not even come close to the fun we had as kids in the 50's and 60's. When is the last time you saw a kid climb a tree grinning from ear to ear catch mice or frogs with their bare hands. or a group of kids get together and completely on their own organize an impromptu game of football, baseball, soccer or street hockey. wonder off into the bush and build forts. Someone once said I was happier being 20 in the sixties than sixty in the twenties. I one time scampered up the face of a set of storage racks to toss down eight 11R-22 truck tires. the 30 year old on the ground stunned after saying it could not be done asked how is it a 65 year old guy like you can climb like that. My simple answer was I grew up climbing real trees not virtual trees.

Not to sway opinions one way or another but I remember as a kid, in the sixties we all had to take the smallpox/polio/TB vaccines. It was also required to be taken by anyone immigrating to Canada or the US as well as people travailing from one continent to another. As a result these diseases were just about wiped out. Then in the eighties came the push against mandatory vaccinations, mostly by young mothers who thought they knew it all. As well quarantining and mandatory vaccinations for immigration were largely stopped. As a result smallpox, polio and TB are starting to make a come back as well as a host of other viruses that once did not exist here but now do. I am not a big fan of government interference either but where do you draw the line between individual freedoms and public safety? Unfortunately you can look at the whole picture from different angles combined with a mix of true facts and misinformation each and everyone of us can come up with a different perspective and still not know for sure whether each and everyone of holds the correct opinion. At the end of the day this boils down to a real conundrum and none of really knowing the true answer until its too late to do anything about it.