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Nice to know that you will root for ME every time even if I may be wrong. Its great to have friends in low places. Thanks Buddy.

To be honest with you Don I don't mind that you did take it out. I found if I used my cell that moon button would cover part of the text, specially when you were trying to form a reply. Not that your efforts are not appreciated because they are.

I use all forms of bleeding but I prefer vacuum bleeding as it is fastest and does a great job of flushing the system purging the system of impurity's. Back bleeding works well and probably the most effective in removing air to get rid of air pockets but is more work since to do it properly you need to remove the calipers and tip them so the the line is at the high point and the bleeder screw is at the low point. There is the risk of crap in an older system being pushed up into the master so I would recommend this only if installing all new parts. There nothing wrong with Regular bleeding it just slower and can take longer. As a rule regardless of which method I use I usually finish off with a bit of regular bleeding at the end just to make sure I have rid the calipers of any air lingering around bleeder screws.

I guess you must be right since you be the expert

@cowpuc I did not mean to imply that it was totally dependent on pressure. Pressurizing the cooling system simply speeds things up for Diagnostic purposes. For example park two identical bikes side by side with identical issues leave one to the combined forces of gravity and the specific gravity differences of the two fluids gas being lighter than water, and pressurize the cooling system of the other both will eventually end up with the same results just that the pressurized one will get there a lot faster. For the most part I was only trying to point out that there are physical paths that are available for the coolant to end up coming from the defective cylinder enter the carb float the gas out of the fuel bowl and eventually lead to actual water coming out of the over flow tubes. Not disputing that fact that if you put gas and water in a jar that the gas will rise to the top while the water will settle to the bottom as a matter of fact when I stated the water purging the gas out of the fuel bowl it was based on that exact gas and water in the jar principal. Same holds true for oil or any other petroleum . As a matter of fact If you blend the oil and water together vigorously enough such as may occur in an engine were coolant finds its way into a crankcase they will mix hence that tasty looking mocha milkshake. leave the mixture in a jar and after a time you will actually watch the mixture separate, with the water settling to the bottom and the oil floating to the top. When I worked for a tank truck outfit, we would occasionally get spills that got into the storm sewers which led into nearby rivers. We would build a floating Dam which stopped the oil floating on top of the water and allow the clean water to flow past the underside of the Dam . We would then use big sucker trucks to suck the oil off the surface.

Seems to be working on mine and I am using firefox. !st opened it this morning on my cell and it threw me for a loop. thought I accidently clicked on some other site. Shut it down and logged on again and again there was that strange looking site. Then I notice the bikes in the overhead pictures were looking pretty familiar. Studied on it a tad and came to the conclusion .....That Doggone @Freebird is a mess'n wit ma head agin. Dang Freebird. Weel once all the marbles in me head stopped a roll'n around that head a mine, and the confus'n started to drift out I taught to me self. Not bad. But Dang Freebird nice work an all but sheesh slow down a tad so's some of us less swift tinkers can keep up

All this theory sounds impressive but you are overlooking the simple points here 1) engine is not running and intake valve at some point of open position 2) rad is pressurized at 14 PSI ( that is to say 14 PSI above your atmospheric pressure) Using a pressure tester. 3) once piston fills with coolant it exits out the intake and trickles past rings into crankcase 4) connected to intake is the carb and as the coolant level rises it enters the carb venturi were it has access to 5 in total, including the cold start and coast enrichment valves, plus three air vents at the top edge of the venturi. 3 of the 5 jets are open orfices the enrichment valves sometimes stick open so that is only a possibilty but at the top of the venturi are vents leadin into the fuel bowl coolant can enter and fill the bowel through any or most of these. the bowel has a vent at the top to which a hose is connected which terminates just above the twin kick stand coolant enter the bowel purges the fuel and soon coolant appears to be leaking from the frame behind the engine.

Maybe there should have been a yellow button between the red and the green. would that have made it easier for you ......MR POOFER

anything from 86 up in other words 1st gen MKII should be the same. the earlier models 85 and older MKI is different.

I think it is cool that you can go back and see what you missed before you get on or if you accidentally get yourself signed off you can still pick up on the conversation. And you is a POOFER @cowpuc . @Flyinfooltold me so and I always believes him.

JUst give @Flyinfoolsome snow seeds for his WWW machine and he will be happy though the rest of us may despise you for it.

I checked them out a few days back and seem to prefer the first one. though the second one is OK also. The third one did not particularly appeal to me but thats just me. I do have one question though. In my signature I used to have a pic now all it shows is this I AM A DRINKER OF THE WIND [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Where would I go to fix or change this?

Hey @Freebirdmine shows an expiry Date I thought since it cost more to pay in Canadian dollars it was a LIFETIME membership!

Mine shows me in Burlington OK but at city hall where the jail is. I hope this ain't some sort of prediction "since I didn't do do it".

Boy I could sure relate to this song the past few weeks. Talk about suffering from sometimers.

There are jets and port passages, 5 in total, including the cold start and coast enrichment valves, plus three air vents at the top edge of the venturi that lead to the fuel bowl were coolant can back up into the fuel bowl once coolant flooding back from the faulty cylinder floods the venturi.

I have this thing smart things that suddenly was loaded on my samsung with one of my updates (UNASKED FOR BTW) and cannot get rid of it. The only thing it does as far as I'm concerned is use up twice as much battery power so my phone is good for a day instead of week between charges. If I try to remove or disable it, my blue tooth quits working because smart things has taken control of it. I go to my son to see if has the answers and his response is why do want to get rid of it - its great and proceeds to show me how through his cell phone he can turn lights off and on turn on his robotic vacuum control his radio or TV. I tell him I don't need all that because I got two legs that work just fine and all that crap is A just laziness and B another window for us to be spied through. He just laughs and say's Dad you need to come out of the middle ages and get with the times. Lot of help he was. Boy do I miss the so called middle ages of the 50's - 80s. When life was still fun. even though there are a few things I do admit to enjoying about technology such as this website.

Nothing like starting apprentices off before they develop bad habits.

Consider if the bike was just sitting with the coolant pressure tester attached and the defective cylinder was sitting on its intake stroke with valve open then as the cylinder filled with coolant it definitely would back up into the carb as @cowpucsuggested. Something I have come across on other engines in the past and find myself somewhat dumbfounded that it did not occur to me in this case. For some reason when he mention coolant appearing to come from the frame, My minds eye was fixated on the front of the bike.

I have never used tapatalk . If I use my cell I just use one of my web browser either Chrome or fire fox and it works fine.

@cowpucYou need to come to Kanuckian land more. we only use real butter and bread always gets buttered before anything at all goes on

I just through a cover over the bike Don't mind a nice ride in the winter can be very refreshing.

Nice looking scoot enjoy

Thanks Don. I be one of those you speak of. No interest in facebook

Looks to me @Freebird like you need a proper river pilot seeing as how you already run her aground. And I agree with @Marcarl in that if your already sitting on the water whats the point in putting a big tub on it. You could have put one in that big equipment shed of yours and saved a passel of money