hig4s
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I have always switched to synth at first oil change on all my bikes and cars, including my MX racing bikes. I doubt if 20w-50 will hurt the V-4 but it really should have 10w-40. In general V-twin oil is designed for air cooled engines and isn't really necessary in water cooled v-twins.
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What are some of your favorite I PHONE / ANDROID apps?
hig4s replied to muaymendez1's topic in Watering Hole
I apps I use are Flixter Pandora Kindle DirecTV Shazam colornote Google Sky map smart compass And Ringdroid -
Possibly, but I don't think any bike that has any engine updates in the last 10 years still uses 25mm shims.
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I believe they are 25mm shims.. Z1 enterprise has them for under $6 each.. http://www.z1enterprises.com/catalogsearch.aspx careful, the top few listed are not 25mm here is a page that shows all the bikes that use the 25mm shim http://www.sudco.com/25valveshims.html
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The first time I did my Seca 750, I pulled every shim, even if the did not need to be changed, and wrote down what size they were and what cylinder and valve they were on and filed the info away. that way I could just measure, refer to the sheet if any were off, and know what size to order before actually needing all the tools again.. This becomes even more important with newer design engines, My 03 Kaw ZR7S, had shim under bucket which requires removal of the cams to change the shims. not something you want to have to do twice each time.
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Valve check is easy,, only need feeler gauges. Once you need to make adjustments is when you need the valve tool, (I have not done it on a Venture, but did on my old Seca which uses the same shim in bucket system and same size shims) The problem comes with there is no way to know how many or what size shims you need until you take them out and read what size they are.. With any luck you can move a few around and only will need three or four total.
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I don't remember throwing my stock horn away, but I've look through my garage and cannot find it.
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Fuel pump issue?
hig4s replied to bluerstd08's topic in Royal Star and Royal Star Tour Deluxe Tech Talk
I know this is an older post, but do you have (or anyone for that matter) the part # for the replacement fuel pump? -
Seeing as all big commercial airports have runways in all different directions, why did they have to land in a crosswind?
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I replaced my rear with an air horn, I think I still have my stock one around somewhere. I'll look for it.
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I just dropped Allstate, who I had been with for 14 years because they kept raising my rates I got Progressive for $100 a month less for our cars, and less than half the Allstate rate for my motorcycles. I think insurance companies rely on the fact that most people will become complacent and don't really like change, so they all sneak the rates up. OH, and think about it. Progressive is there to make money,, they offer the snapshot with the potential to get 30% off and promise not to raise no matter how it comes out. Really!!! That means there is no way they can make more money, and lots of possibilities for them to make less money. I don't think so.. They are collecting data to raise the rates later, on individual people, which they will not be allowed to do across the board without government OK..
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I am not sure it is a bad law, I have not read it, and have only seen opinions of those that oppose it. But the internet in general is such a complicated entity I am not sure if any law, no matter how well written and intended, would actually work as intended. There may need to be a seperate national internet constitution enacted, one as comprehensive for the virtual world as the US constitution is for the real world for it to actually be useful. As far as Wikipedia being down, it wasn't if you tried to go to it, clicked on the link about SOPA it had a write up on why they thought it was bad, and info on how to bypass that page on still get to anything you wanted on Wikipedia. They weren't stopping people from using Wikipedia, they were just making people read their protest to SOPA first.
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What is strange is some years manuals say 8000mi some say 4000mi. I go with the assumption 4000 is for non-synthetic and I use full synth at 8000 mile changes. Actually with most bikes with oil bath clutch, you can tell when the oil is about done because the shifting will become clunky..
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You know they are cloning those imitation Chinese sheep now!!!!
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I doubt seriously if it had anything to do with it being synthetic. But I am not sure about the quality of Kaw oil. I have use Mobil 1 synthetic in eight motorcycles (including sport bikes and motocross bikes) without a clutch issue.. The clutch spring in a 2nd gen is one of its weak links. If you do a search here you will find quite a few people with clutches that started to slip early with or without synthetic. Most opted for stronger after market clutch spring kits, or switched to the Barnett conversion that gets rid of the flat compression spring and uses the classic multiple coil spring set up.