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    They are sweet aren't they. Got mine through Condors group buy when it all started. Be glad you mised that! Bet Condor wishes he had missed it. (Am I right Jack?) LOL! Anyway that's a long story. As a little time passes they will open up a bit and the rumble gets better. Not so much louder, just deeper. I was a bit surprised a while back when I came out of a store and found 3 guys looking at my bike. All three were riders and all three had HD's parked close by. I prepared myself for the usual banter by the HD crowd but the first thing they said was they pulled up and noticed my pipes. They thought they were odd for a bike like mine. Told them the story of the ordeal that Condor went through and how long it took to get them and when I told them what I paid for them they were stunned. (seeing what they paid for their pipes I suppose they would be) I fired the bike up and they liked the sound. Then I had to go an ruin it by saying if I pulled two plug wires off it sounded like a Harley. So much for any new friends that day. LOL! So enjoy. And keep that grin off your face when you hear that nice snarl when you shift at about 6,500 rpm. Sweet! Ah yes! I remember the pine cone story! The wife been mowing the yard since then? It's a battle scar my friend. You can always tell the story about the pine sapp addicted tree rodent that hates bikers to liven it up a bit. Mike
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    Check out this thread for a good discussion on batteries. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33375&highlight=deka But I'm gonna tell you THE battery to get is the DEKA ETX18L. It's an AGM and the same foot print as the orginal battery and out performs the PC680. This post was from Josh at Bohannon Battery, a member here. "I put a load test on 2 different PC680 and ETX18L. First test: 1. PC680 drawn down to 9.5V with Carbon Pile Load Tester, 390CCA 2. ETX18L drawn down to 9.5V with Carbon Pile Load Tester, 650 CCA Second test: 1. PC680 drawn down to 9.5V with Carbon Pile Load Tester, 400CCA 2. ETX18L drawn down to 9.5V with Carbon Pile Load Tester, 700 CCA The first and second test were performed using different batteries. Both sets of batteries were initially charged with a 500mAH automatic charger, then left to sit for 14 days, not connected to the charger. Given this information I would without a doubt choose the ETX18L over the PC680." Condor bought one, then myself and I think Ozark did to. Maybe more of the guys here did to. I've got to tell you, the battery shipped was $82.95. By far the cheapest battery I ever bought and by far the best performing battery I have ever owned. Time comes for a new one, I don't expect that to be anytime soon, I'll buy a DEKA ETX18L again. This battery has solved ALL my starting problems, hot or cold. Always 12.8 volts on the digital meter EVERYTIME I hit the switch. It's been 6 months since I installed mine and I ride everyday. Everytime I check the battery it show at 100% charge. Check out Joshs web site and tell him Snaggletooth sent ya. http://www.bohannonbattery.com/html/deka.html Mike
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    Yepper guys I got past all that already. To treat the tank the petcock and the fuel sender had to come out anyway. Just a reminder to anyone doing this in the future make sure ALL the screws you put in the tank are STEEL! I had a few mixed in that were nonmagnetic and man was it fun fishing those lil buggers out with a grabber. Always the lil guys! But anyway I just finished the epoxy treatment about a hour ago. Went well. The epoxy comes in a two part system. The part "A" is 16 oz and part "B" is 8 oz. According the the info that should treat a 10 gallon tank or two, 5 gallon tanks. As our 1st gens are about 5.3 if I remember right I decided to mix the whole batch rather than try for two coats. I figured if I missed a spot the first time I'd probably miss it the second time also. So I shot both cans into my mixing container and gave them a nice stir for about 4 minutes. Gotta go slow with this stuff as it does develope bubbles pretty easy. I had the sender and petcock holes closed off and poured in the 16 oz's of epoxy and banded the filler neck closed with a freezer bag. Spent the next 15 minutes rotating the tank to cover the interior as this stuff is thick. At 20 minutes I removed the cover plate from the petcock hole and let the remainder drain out. I made a good call on using the entire 16 oz's as I only recovered a little less than 3 oz's of leftover epoxy. So now I let it cure for a couple of days. The leftover epoxy is already set up and getting hard. The tank looks like I got full coverage as best I can tell with an inspection mirror. Got the carbs and fuel pump cleaned out of the rust that got through the filter and all new lines going on the fuel system. Installing a better filter and going to try to relocate it or modify the mounting bracket for easier access. Get that screw facing the outside of the bike so you can reach it. With the holiday weekend coming up I'm hoping to be riding again by Thursday. Now we shall see if it holds up better than the latex treament. Gotta go.
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    I wouldn't worry about having someone rebuild the starter. I tore the one off my '84 down and cleaned the insides up, installed a new set of brushes, added an extra ground wire to the brush plate and cleaned up the armature and made sure the grooves were clear if a small jewelers saw. Put it back together with a little lube on the bushings. It's been performing better than ever over the last year. I did add the heavier cables and just changed out the lead/acid battery for a DEKA AGM this spring. The bike now has NO starting problems at all and the old hot start issue is long gone. Hot or cold.....no problem. Believe me, if you can bend a wrench well enough to get the thing out of the bike........you can do the starter yourself. It's a pretty simple device. The bear is getting it off the bike onto the bench.
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    One of my coworkers just called and asked about the warrenty on a Star bike. He knew I try to keep up on stuff and we had talked in the past about the RSV and the 5 year coverage on it. He's looking at the 900cc to 950cc range models and is getting two different stories on them from two different dealers. One said one year and the other said two years. And of course they were both pushing the extended coverage. I'm not up to date on the other models and I can't find what I'm looking for on the net yet. Anybody got an answer?
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    Thanks Squidley. Just kind of wondering. Couldn't see any indication of welds on the outside of the neck that there might be anything welded inside. Gotta go get the IcyHot now. Spent the afternoon preping the tank for tomorrow. After shaking that thing several times with a pound of hardware inside and a 1/2 gallon of Acetone I know where the muscules are in my shoulders. LOL! Might need to pick up a new blow dryer tomorrow to. My High Tech Tank Drying System may have met its match today.
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    Ok.....I'm down to the tricky part. After dealing with the rust in my tank I'm down to applying the epoxy resin tomorrow. The tank looks a lot better than it did and the epoxy should solve any future rust issues. My question is, are there any interior baffles in the neck of the tank? I noticed while I was shaking the tank with a handful of grabber screws and a tube of BB's that very few made it into the filler neck. Using an inspection mirror I could not see anything in the upper neck but couldn't get that good of a look up inside. The only "baffle" I can see is the neck of the filler tube going down into the neck a few inches. Anything other than that? Just trying to figure the surface area so I mix enough epoxy to cover EVERYTHING! Thanks
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    Here are some shots of the axle and swing arm off mine.
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    This is a shot of a 2nd gen but it shows the correct placement of the parts. I have my '84 with rear subframe off right now so I'll take a few pics and post them for you to compare to yours. Give me a few and I'll be back. But that swing arm looks like toast to me.
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    Hey Autopilot. No such thing as too much information. And that is why I asked. I have some basic background on hydraulic systems from my youth while working as a mechanic for MF on construction equipment but this is a different animal. I have been looking this thing over in my spare time the last couple of days and found some more parts he chopped off. Looks like a relay mounting board that was fried and the wires were just cut off. No new relay was installed. Just eliminated the old one. So I know the coil melted and a relay burned to a crisp. As to what caused it......only a wild guess would do at this point. I know for a fact the lift had not been used for over an hour as the pump has a distinct whine when it is running and it didn't make a sound before the smoke rolled. We are on the same track as far as the function and the purpose but the guy that did the work removed so much of the wiring I'm having a hard time backtracking the cause of the problem. My best guess at this point is the internal rectifier in the coil failed and caused the melt down and that shorted the relay. I'm going to disect the coil to take a look at the guts. It's more than a safety issue at this point.......curiosity kicked in and that always screws up my spare time.
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    Thanks for the imput guys. Gettin the ID on the lift is a no go. Been there since the building went up 20 some years ago and all the tags, labels or ID plate are long gone. We took over the building 5 years ago so no way to find any records. The lift is working as is and stays up in the raised position after the er....repair and don't bleed down. I'm looking at the coil as maybe a safety lock that holds the armature in place when the controls are not being used or in case of a failure it won't drop down unexpectedly. I had a delivery driver come in today and asked if the the lift was repaired yet. I answered "I hope so" and handed him my helmet, gloves and the first aide kit. He broke the load down and carried it up the stairs on a two wheeler. Oh those of little faith. LOL! But we shall see. Thanks again Mike
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    Got a question. The company I work for has a hydraulic lift on our dock. The tank and pump for it is inside in a cabinet next to my work area. The other day smoke came rolling out of the cabinet so I killed the power and opened it up. On the pump assembly there is a shaft that sticks out and there is a coil on it. That was fried and the cause of the smoke. The lift will still work but it will drop back down to ground level when you release the button on the control. They had a company repair guy (shade tree) come in and he spent three days working on it. This morning the lift was working but when I inspected the pump I saw he had removed the coil and not replaced it. He did some rewiring (hack job) and left it at that. The "repair" work he did it sloppy and left bare wires. So with that info can anybody tell me what this coil does? It's a Delta Power Company DOL25 24 VAC. Fits a 1/2 shaft. I have some safety concerns about this repair and want to know how this works and what it does.
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    Wow! I had one of them! I've been divorced for 17 year now and she still pulls stuff that is absolutely nuts. At the divorce I was awarded full custody of our daughter, then only 11 months old. I've had full custody ever since. At the time of final settlement all the financials were split in a decent manner, in my eyes anyway it seemed fair. She paid her part of the debts and I paid mine. Right after the divorce I started getting bills and phone calls from credit card companies and businesses about unpaid bills. I then found out she had 23 credit cards I didn't know about and she never listed them on the settlements. Over $26,000 on the cards and she never made a purchase, just cash transactions. Best part was I was shown to be the second party on the cards and I had never seen or signed anything as such. I had my lawyer take care of that. But she continued to open new accounts and they were signed with my name long after the divorce, even up to 3 years ago. The best one that I received a call two years ago from my bank wanting to know when I was going to come in and sign the papers to transfer my savings into my "new" business account. I said I'd be right there. The officer was confused as I was not the guy that he had met with earlier in the week. She had gone in and had some guy with her claiming to be me and attempted to move all my funds to another account. Nice try. Still fraud charges involved today. And she had her shot at the IRS to. She filed her taxes as the custodial parent and was getting a pretty nice refund. It took two years to clean that up and she wasn't happy when the IRS withheld her refunds for two years and I ended up with the money from that. So with that said.........DEAL WITH HER NOW!!! If she has put herself in a position where she doing a criminal act.....take her out with the law on your side. A little jail time will do her good. Or at least prove that you are willing to make a point with a sharp stick. No mercy.....no prisoners.
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    Cheaper than a wax job I'm sure!
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    Yep. Sounds like a bubble to me to. I find the worst place for air to get trapped when vacing out a sytem is right at the union to the master. Crack the union bolt a bit and give the lever a squeeze. Works for me.
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    Yeppers, much simpler. I hate having to pull the lightbar and all the little pieces to get to the stuff I need to work on. This way, pull a few bolts and walla! There it is. So this is what I got out of my fuel filter and the inside of the tank. I've had this bike for two years and nothing in the filter until the last 2,000 miles. Nasty. The filter screens on the pickup on the petcock were basically gone so everything ran through into the line filter so they must have let go recently. Just heard from Rick at Buckeye on a new petcock. Ouch! Oh well! What's a fella gonna do? Got my epoxy sealer coming from Caswells so it will have time to cure by the time the petcock gets here. So back to the garage.
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    It was surprisingly easy to get to that point. Instead of removing EVERYTHING on the back of the bike I just unbolted the sub frame and took it all off as an assembly. Took about 30 minutes to get the fuel tank out.
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    Hey Dano! Tell the rust in my fuel tank that! Somethings just won't wait for the snow to fall. But at the outside this should only be a 3 or 4 day job and that's counting the cure time for the epoxy tank liner. Like I said two years ago.....I'm not rebuilding my bike......I'm building a new one. Little did I know how true that would turn out to be.
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    Very creative! Nice job!
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    I finally found an easy way to get the breather hose from the crankcase back onto the air box. Just reached in and slipped it on! No hassle! Tooks seconds! No 11" pliers! Really! All you have to do is remove the rear subframe and fuel tank and there it is! And no, I haven't been into the beer.......yet.
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    Hey Bill. I've only seen a few 1st gens around here. A couple of burgundys, another blonde and a couple of weeks ago I ran across a black one going the other way on "Q" street. Not a glimpse of a brown. If ya see me around on mine throw a rock at me. Like to meet ya. Mike
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    You want a sticky tire? Go Avon Venom X! Had mine for 2 seasons now and going strong. Great rain tire and holds well on all roads. Quiet to! What is it with the blondes around here lately?
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    Hey Jack. I discovered this by accident but is seems to work. I had some odds and ends of master cylinder diaphrams and a couple of carb diaphrams that were wrinkled up and looked like they were headed for the trash. I had a few parts I took to a buddies shop for cleaning and he had a high pressure parts washer that's heated to clean and dry the parts. I loaded the basket with the metal parts and then as an afterthought I threw in the rubber parts to. When they came out they looked like new and were supple again and in their orginal shape. I ended up using two of the carb diaphrams until I go my new ones. If ya got a buddy in a shop around there that has one of these types of parts washers you might give it a try.
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    Sounds like a plan Daryl. Want to have something to practice on before I start on repairing cracks on my bodywork. I don't need any mounting hardware, just the ABS body and the edge trim. Shoot me a PM when you are ready. Thanks Mike
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    If Daryl changes his mind let me know. Been looking for a spare that needs some work to practice repair and paint on for my '84. I've got to run into you eventually as you are just across the creek and I'm over there 5 days a week for work. What color is your '85?
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