saddlebum

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

I fully get your misery. I have been a Mechanic for 50 years (now they call us Automotive Technicians - sounds fancier but does nothing to change the pay scale LOL). I remember when fixing vehicles was our 1st priorty now its keeping up with puter changes and constant upgrades, making sure reports are done in several different formats so everybody and their kid sister world wide knew what we did that day and some how find enough time to fix the truck so the poor driver waiting around impatiently can get back on the road and earn a living. I mis the days when all we had to do was fix the dang truck. Thanks to the IT age many of what were straight forward jobs are getting totally stuffed up.

Sorry to hear about your loss Don. Condolences to you and your family. On a better note it sounds like he had a good life up to the end which in itself is a blessing.

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good call on coolant entering the Carb from the cylinder Puc.

Or really bad head gasket if it is both leaking internally and externally or worse a long crack in the head. Maybe it had an external leak such as a hose to start with and was then run without coolant resulting in a cracked head or block after the fact. In any case none of this sounds good. Previous owner may have run water in it and failed to replace it with coolant in the winter and it froze and cracked something. Really sorry to be only able to offer dooms day suggestions but nothing simple comes to mind given your description of symptoms.

Well He was on an HD so he would not have got far anyway

Well Hello there, Squid thought maybe since you were so far away you got stuck eating all of Lonna's delicious cheese cakes all by yourself and couldn't move anymore. Sure missed you seeing you and Lonna. Every time I cross into the states at Sarnia or Sombra I think about you folk's. This thanks giving my wife Made pumpkin cheese cake and its its the first cheese cake I have liked other than Lonna's, which of course made me think of you folk's. Yeh I know sounds like maybe I only like you because of Lonna's cheese cakes but that ain't so. You are missed as much for who you are. big slap on the back for you buddy and big Hug for Lonna.

Ok; so the transition so far seems less painful than I feared, I hate change . But so far looking manageable even for a PC illiterate ding dong like myself. Thats not to say I do not appreciate the hard work you always put into this site @Freebird because I am sure all what you do takes some doing. Since @Marcarlhas already taken up the huggi'n space I will just Give Eileen one of my world renowned prize winning hugs to pass on to you latter once that Marcarl character gets outa the way.