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Gumout for high mileage engines does a great job of cleaning the intake valves and injectors. The latest I've read on whether to lower the tail gate is that it hurts the mileage. It's better leaving it up. A bed cover might help but I checked the mileage before and after adding a camper cover the height of the cab and it didn't help that I could tell.

One more thing you can do to improve mileage especially on the highway is draft the vehicle in front of you. Just be careful they don't end up as a hood ornament. On the interstate drafting can make a huge difference. If you lowered your truck a few inches that would help a lot too on the highway.

I have a 2002 F150 Supercab 4x4 with the 5.4L V8. I run Michelin Energy radials(265/70x17-stock size) designed for low rolling resistance. I also loaded a tune from a Superchips tuner. I run my tires at 40 psig. Mine delivered 16.0 mpg driving from Wilmington, NC to Homestead, FL running interstates and toll roads most of the time with the cruise set at 79mph. My speedometer agrees with my GPs and the miles driven was about 15 miles less than what MapQuest said the trip was. I carefully checked the mpg on every tank. It had 119k miles on it at that time. More recently I drove it 4 1/2 hours mostly on the interstate at 79mph and it also checked 16mpg. When I was working in Homestead, FL, I drove it to Key West a couple of times (about 260 miles)carefully checking the mileage. The road is a combination on 55mph and 45 mph zones with quite a few stop lights and also included driving around Key West and some 75 mph blasts on the 4 lane between Homestead and Key Largo. The two times I checked it the mpg was 17.4 for the trip So, my recommendation is to install Michelin Energy tires and load a Superchips program.

There is so much to learn when first starting to ride. When the clutch, throttle, brakes, balancing, turning, operating the turn signals, etc. all become second nature, then it's time to move up if you want. Trying to do all that while balancing a big bike at slow speeds is so much more difficult when you first start riding. It's a recipe for disaster.

I don't mean to offend you but the biggest lesson here I believe is that a beginner should start riding on a small light weight bike. After many thousand miles maybe you will be ready for an 800 lb bike.

I think the guy who wrote all that has brown eyes. Just sayin

I had a cat checked at Midas on time. They drilled a hole in the exhaust pipe in front of the cat and checked the pressure with a gauge. Then they brazed the hole up. They didn't charge much for the service either as I remember.

I bought an Everstart AGM from Walmart for my Kawasaki that cost over $80 and was made by Yuasa. It seems to be very powerful still and it has been installed a couple of years. Very pleased.

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Tweeks still has all of them beat!

If all 4 gauges are calibrated to read exactly the same and stay in calibration, the gauges should work great. But the manometer types four columns will always read the same.

The engine is running lean as might be expected.

By clutch fluid you mean hydraulic fluid? I don't know that much about these bikes yet but I seem to read a lot about the hydraulic slave cylinder leaking. Probably the lower cylinder needs rebuilding.

Congratulations on your good news and your healing process! It's amazing what eating less and exercising will do for your body, no matter how old or out of shape you are in. It's the best medicine of all. I just want to know how Cowpuc stays so lean!! Must be all that touring and camping! You can detect envy cant' you?

There are a lot of potential parts bikes out there. Somebody posted a nice 87 for $400.

Put some Gumout for high mileage engines in the gas and see what that does. It's much more powerful than Seafoam. Available at Walmart. Chevron Techron is the same stuff. When I first bought my Kawa ZN700, it had been sitting many years with only 1k miles on it. This was 5 yrs ago. It was running ragged on 3 cylinders when I fist got it. I put a full bottle of Valvoline Complete Fuel System Cleaner in a 3.5 gallon tank and ran it through. Afterwards it ran great on 3 cylinders. Changing the plugs got the 4th cylinder running. It's been running great ever since! The Valvoline stuff disappeared from the shelves but the active ingredient in it was the same as Gumout and Techron to the best of my knowledge.

North Dakota fracking

I think the prosecutor just didn't want to dismiss the case because of his own political future reasons so he dumped it off on the grand jury. No telling what a grand jury will do. I've been on several jurys and I couldn't believe some of the knuckleheads on the jury.

Couple sitting on the edge of the bed with big satisfied grins, HMMM! What just happened on that bed?

Those cars don't have differentials as I understand. Turning the steering wheel doesn't do that much to turn the car. They have to step on the gas to spin it to turn. I can't believe that Tony would intentionally run over anybody. The driver who got hit came down the track more than half way. It was a dumb thing to do and a very very sad outcome that will haunt Tony forever.

The current flows through the wires and when they are wrapped in coils like that, together they create a magnetic field that induces current in the rotor or vice versa. I'm speaking in general. I don't know much about the Ventures yet. The risk of missing insulation is that the current will arc from wire to wire and ruin the magnetic field. There is a magnetic field around any wire that has current flowing through it. When you wrap them in a coil, the magnetic field is combined. My degree is in Chem Eng but I know enough elec to make me dangerous!

I'm new to these bikes and know very little about the engines. However, I'm a long time shadetree mechanic on cars. I would check the engine venting and make sure it is working appropriately. If pressure is building up in the oil pan, it will blow oil up to the intake. Perhaps you fixed the problem if it was stuck rings on that one cylinder. On a V8 car, one valve cover is vented to the air cleaner and the other is vented to the intake mainfold through a PCV or check valve. The purpose of the PCV is to prevent a backfire in the intake from blowing the oil pan off. Intake manifold vacuum pulls on the engine base through one valve cover and gets air from the air cleaner via the other valve cover. Our bikes have some system to do the same thing, I just don't know what it is.

Add some Gumout with Regane on the label to the gasoline available at Walmart.

Wow! Beautiful!

Well, one tiny little photo of your new bike just won't do! You gotta give us more!