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Really sorry for your loss. Her health in her final years probably caused the change in her personality. Don't the airlines give you a break on the tickets for bereavement? I thought they did. But, I haven't flown as much since my last contract job in FL that ended in Aug 2013.

I went back to windows 7 after one day and it works great!

Keep the tank full with stabil added. Turn the fuel off and drain the carbs if it sits a good while. Do your carbs have overflow lines? If not, leaving the fuel valve open only needs one leaky carb needle and seat to hydrolock the engine and destroy it. Keep the battery charged or disconnect the ground.

skydoc sells a rear caliper that has the bleed valve in the correct position, I think.

If the engine was hydrolocked, you may want to do a compression check to make sure the connecting rod isn"t bent.

Looks to me like a 2x4 on its side might break if you pushed very hard.

Spark plugs foul really quickly when you put cleaner in the fuel. You may need to change them once or twice as you work on it as it is burning all the funky old fuel that has the crud in it that the cleaner removed and put in the fuel.

How about the Vmax rear gear? Lots of demand for those among Venture riders.

Check boats.net and partzilla.com. They are the same company but have different web sites and one sometimes have more or less parts than the other. Sometimes parts are leftovers and some dealers might have stuff that others don't.

Nothing like dogs and kids to pizzoff the neighbors!

A friend said he ran over a raccoon one night with his 78 CB750 Honda and it started weaving. He pushed as hard as he could on the handlebars and regained control. He said that if he had been riding his wing with its longer rake and trail, he would have lost it.

This may help. There is a part 2 also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjODd4CDXec

Many years ago, I was getting a routine physical and when it came time to check my prostate I said. "I guess now is when you earn your money." He responded. "No, Now is when you get your money's worth!" Had to laugh!

That's great news! Glad things are better.

Yep, it's next to impossible to eliminate a government bureaucracy once it gets started.

They also look for other things in the urine such as blood. Tells them something about your kidney function. If you are taking a statin, they sometimes affect kidneys and liver. In fact if you do research on the drugs that lots of people take, there seems to be a risk of kidney and/or liver damage from many of them. I've read that organ failure is at a record high.

Just re-read your post. 50 miles you rode on that tire to get back home! That's Evil Knievel daring! Not just the danger of the tire blowing but cars running over you because you are going slow! I push my luck way too often, but I don't think I would have done it.

Glad you made it back home safely!

Today Sam's Club had reduced the GoPro Black hero 4 to $349

My sister's home located 45 miles north of Greenville NC was flooded again, the 4th time in the last 16 years. The first time was in 2000 and they said it was a 500 year flood. I think the Army Corp of Engineers must have done something farther inland to cause the flooding to worsen. I grew up there and the area where her home is located never flooded.

The auto dealers in my area used to ask their fantasy price for their autos and the first thing they wanted to know is if you had a trade. If so, they wouldn't talk about reducing their price, just trade difference. For example, if their fantasy price was $20k for an auto and they really wanted $17k for it they would offer you $3k more than their wholesale price that they were willing to pay for your car. Buyer went away happy that he got a good price for his tradein and the dealer got the tradein at wholesale. They don't do that any more maybe because of NADA that gives an average tradein value. The tradein value was inflated under that method. Now, they offer you their wholesale or usually less than wholesale for your tradein against whatever they really want for their auto. Most of the time, I don't like the process. When I bought a used Miata for my son from the local Ford dealer's used lot, the sales manager deserved an academy award for his acting and his lies that I had to deal with before I got him to his minimum price. I felt like I needed a bath after I left he was so sleazy. On the plus side it was a fantastic and reliable used car for my son.

Yeah, I agree. That's typical for a dealer. Sell it yourself. But, it may take a while. Just be patient. The sales tax savings works in NC too, except it is 3% on vehicles.

If you google crisis map weather and events, you can see the roads that are closed.

3:10 PM Saturday in Wilmington NC on the coast. The eye of the storm is over my home at this time but the wind and rain from the storm passed mostly to our west dumping a lot of rain. I'm sure there will be lots of flooding in some places. The wind never got above about 40mph at my location. Got a lot of pine tree debris in the yard but got off lucky. I keep threatening to cut down all 9 of my pine trees so they can't fall on the house.

It is fuel injected so there won't be any carbs to clean because it sat forever and a day. That's a huge plus in my book.