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    We all complain about the amount of boolsheet that is out there on the highways today. We have all seen it and had to deal with it. I have found the problem! If we can find this guy we can stop it today! Stand together and fight the boolsheet on our American Highways TODAY!
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    I made a standup scarecrow a few years back. I used a hammer drill with an auger bit and made two holes in the lawn and then drove pieces of conduit into them for the legs. Using bailing wire and more pieces of conduit I formed the figure I wanted. Then I took it apart (duh) and put the boots (drill a hole in the sole for the conduit) and the pants, and shirt on it and stuffed it with straw. Pumpkin for the head and you are done. To hold the weight of the pumpkins in that pic rebar might be a better choice. Or 2x2 wood frame work. Love that pic though! New meaning to Harvest Moon. LOL! P.S. Use old boots, they tend to leak a bit after you drill them. Just FYI LOL! Oh, and know where your underground sprinlker lines are.
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    How about the heads and cams? Or you looking to sell the engine complete?
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    I can't beleive it but I'm going to walk away from this one. I'll come back later when I quit laughing. There must be a hundred 1 liners about dead bugs in speedos.
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    We all complain about not enough power, not enough leg room, too cramped...etc., etc. This might be the answer. The Gunbus 410 cubic inch V-Twin motorcycles complete. The monster engine placed in a motorcycle frame of comparable size looked impossible and many who saw the photos were skeptical of the bike ever being finished but I guess Clemens F. Leonhardt is one of those persistent guys who ignores the naysayers and keeps at his work. The fuel injected, 45 degree 6728 cc / 410 cubic inch V-Twin runs through a 3-speed transmission with reverse and actually looks pretty good in its finished state compared to the initial photos. In fact, everything looks good. It puts out 523 foot pounds of torque. Seat height is 31.5 inches and overall length is 136 inches. It is a little heavy at 1433 pounds so high-speed corner carving might be an issue and there aren't any photos of the big bike on the road so I guess we'll have to wait for the road test; that is if someone can actually road test this monster. This is actually going to go into limited series production and a sidecar will be available as well which might help with balance when waiting at a light. I don't even want to think about a driveway tip-over. I think this is great! Now, where's the video? What can I say? Bragging rights? You bet! Grin factor? 100%! Pucker factor? Off the charts!!!! LOL! I want one!!
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    Squid, you're starting to sound like Wally World! Home of the price drop! Still love mine no matter what the costs is. I mounted the round chrome lights from WW on mine also and dropped them to the 35W set to keep the drain down. I can't tell a lot of difference between the 55 and the 35 anyway as far as the lighting goes. They area a huge improvement on the bike. Thanks for setting us up with them. Snaggletooth
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    Thanks for the idea igya. Been going to take mine out and look at them. It's been dropping down into the 40's here at night and I have a couple that won't stay closed. Kind of chilly on the legs early in the morning. One of my co-workers asked me the other day when it was 55 out if I was getting ready to put the bike up for the winter. He couldn't figure out why I was laughing. He's already put his up on blocks! I was riding mine when it got down to 17 degrees a couple of times last year.
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    This isn't meant to be political........but to Freebird and Squidley.......are you guys interested in running this country? I'm a huge supporter of shut up and or get out and as well as this board is run, I'm all for you guys taking the helm of the Good Old U.S. of A. All in favor....say aye! Thanks for all your effort and good work guys. Hope to see your names on the ballot. Snaggletooth:ignore:
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    Thanks for the update Condor. That's good news.
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    Did the cables on mine in the spring along with pulling the starter to clean it, which it needed, and install new brushes. What a difference! No drag at all anymore. Just cranks clean and hard no matter how hot the bike gets. Worth the effort.
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    Congrats guys! Scuba is an experience you will enjoy for many years. I was certified many years ago and dove for years off both coasts. Now it's been a few years and the last time I tried to get into my dive suit..........well, I'm going to need more baby powder! LOL! One must expand the equipment to keep current ya know. Oh Look! And orca! Beware kids with spearguns. Dive safe.
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    I wonder if he'll throw in the handicap tag in the bargin?
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    Hey Brian, Thanks for mentioning the company Fibrenew. I've been putting off having my seat recovered until winter but it sounds like this company may be able to help. They have a location about 50 miles from me so that might be workable. Just sent off an e-mail and a couple of pics to them and waiting to see if they are interested in doing the work or if they can even help with this problem. My seat and backrest started getting that tacky feel a couple of months ago and it's a PIA. (pun intended) I told my daughter it's a safety feature to keep her from sliding off but she's not buying it. I'll post any response I receive from them. Hope it works. Mike
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    Great. Just great! First I'm missing the reset buttom cover and now I can't find a Coleman flashlight anywhere. There were 35 Yamahas parked in front of Wally World yesterday and the sporting goods and camping sections were packed solid. See what ya started Saddle_Bag. These guys.........give them an inch and they will glue it to their bikes! Good idea though Bags. Mike
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    Tanked up the bike and the cage today in C.B., Iowa at $3.52 per gallon. Still sucks bit it's better than the $4.00 we've been paying.
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    Sounds normal to me. My '84 runs about the same. I changed out the OEM thermo to a NAPA 149 (?) and it didn't make a lick of difference. My fan don't kick on until I'm brushing past the red and that is only when I'm doing a lot of in town stop-and-go traffic on a hot day. And I mean 90 degrees or better. Running down the high way at speed in 90 degree plus heat and even for a couple of hours straight she still stays just below the break off line on the green/red zones. You should be fine. Mike
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    Snaggletooth replied to TEW47's topic in Watering Hole

    Don't sound like that neighborhood has changed a lot in the last 50 years or so.
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    Hey Saddlebag, As for that diaphragm, ya gotta try this. I had rear brake problem when I bought my '84 and the diaphragm was a messed up ball. I bought a master off ebay and it wasn't much better. I took some parts down to a friend of mines auto shop to use his solvent tank to clean them up and he just laughed at me. He had a new toy. He had a high pressure, heated solvent cleaner system. It sprays heated solvent at pressure in a closed tank and it really does a nice job. We tossed all my stuff into the basket and at a whim I tossed both diaphragms in with everything else. What the hell, what could I lose? When the system shut down all the parts were spotless and dry. I dug through the parts expecting the diapragms to be toast. Not so. They both had recovered their original shape and looked like they just came of a factory bag. Soft and flexable. I've had one in my rebuilt master now since early last season and it's doing fine. If you can find a local shop with a sytem like this, and they are comon these days, it's worth a shot to ask if they can throw it in and see what happens. It sure doesn't seem to hurt them. Mike
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    Oh! Geesh it moved! Are we smelling hot chrome yet there my feathered friend?
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    Just went through this on my '84. I was having charging problems on mine with volt reading hitting the red line at up to 16.50 volts. Got to digging and found I had tied into the brown wire for power to my running lights. It's apparently is a feed wire to the reg/rec that tells the unit how much to charge. I removed the spliced in wire for the lights and things returned to a normal charge, except when it got hot. Then the readings were all over the place. I ordered an aftermarket unit from RickH and it does not have a brown wire connection. Neither does the replacement OEM. Looks like they are not a critical issue these days. The aftermarket unit works fine but had a different mounting configuration so I had to fab up a backing plate to get it to sit in the roughly the same spot. I don't know if the wiring I did caused the problem or if the reg/rec was bad when I bought the bike but I know the brown wire is NOT the one to draw power off of. Now. Doh!
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    Yeppers. Wally World here is selling SF for $5.89. NAPA is asking $11 and change. I noticed NAPA was getting $10.79 for a can of liquid electrical tape. Wallys had the same for $4.99. Lucas doesn't seem to be cheap anywhere but it does wonders for the fork seals.
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    I really don't know what I'd do with it when I got home but I'm having fits just thinking of towing that missile back to Omaha behind the bike. Honest officer. It's not concealed so what's the problem? But the Roadmaster is the piece to grab. I had a '55 Century when I was 16 that a woman paid me $25.00 to remove from her yard. Not a Roadmaster, but as close as you can come to a personell carrier as a civilian. It would make a great custom project.
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    Now that is entertainment!
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    If your gas was basty you're probably finding elephant snot in the masters also or did you get lucky on that?
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    For now forget the pump. It will click everytime you turn the key on for maybe 3 or 4 seconds. That's priming the lines and the carbs with fuel. It won't click anymore until the bike is using fuel or you open the drain lines up to release fuel. The SeaFoam works best if you just let it sit and work. A good soaking does more than burning it through the carbs. Fill the bowls and let her sit overnight. Tomorrow drain again refill and let it sit again overnight. I'd did this for like 3 or four days before the bike would catch and run. And it proablably will run even if it's only a couple of cylinders. Have you pulled the diaphragm covers yet to check them out? Be a good time to do it. They are critical in the operation of the carbs. And make sure that battey is kept fully charged. You'll need every amp up can get during this process. These bikes are not known for a running a hot spark. As I said before, and I think you mentioned that you understand what is to come later, that the carbs are going to have to come off sooner or later. I did put about 4,000 miles on my '84 before I pulled mine. My floats were sinking and it was flooding the carbs when it sat overnight and fouling the plugs. It ran ok on the road but you could always smell the gas and everynow and then she's start puking gas out of the overflow lines. If you are handy with the tool box read up in the tech section on Carb rebuilding 101. Excellent article. It convinced me to do it myself and it worked out fine. There things to do and not to do that need to be addressed before you decide what to do. It is not a cheap process rather you do it youself or farm it out. I think I spent a bit over and $200 on parts and still need to invest in new floats. So they will come off again in the fall. A lot of folks jump to eBay, myself included, and buy a set of carbs off a "running" bike. Love that term! You need to know what year it actually ran in. Some folks lack the principles of telling the full story on what they sell. I ended up with a set that was in fair shape but not good enough to drop on and run with. I was disapointed but.......it turned out well as I was able to salvage over $400.00 bucks worth of useable parts off that $100.00 investment during the rebuild. So I still have a lot spare parts for the future. And on another note. I assume you may have the air box open or all the way off. The bike will run rough and chuff a bit with it open. The bike need a bit of restriction to make it work right. If you have it open, keep your face clear of the intakes or you may be wearing a full face helmet for a while until you eyebrows grow back. They like to back fire through the carbs when the box is open. So let her soak and keep us posted. Mike
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