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You may want to remove the spark plug caps and snip a half inch or so off the plug wire and reinstall. The caps screw off. The wire tends to corrode at that point and reduce the sprark intensity. It's easy to do.

Yep, I bought new ones for my 89 Venture from partzilla.

Just goes to show that we aren't eating enough venison!

Do you prefer the feet forward position of a cruiser or would a sport tourer meet your needs? Suzuki Vstrom comes to mind if you like the "adventure" bikes. BMW R 1200 RT is a great touring bike if you like the upright seating position and it isn't that heavy.

Yep, if you require a lower cog than a 1st Gen, the Goldwing or Valkyrie would be it.

If the engine is bad and you have to assume it is, $125 is maybe top dollar.

yamagrl! Long time no postee! Thought we had lost you! What's happening?

You can check the float level while on the bike. Hook a tube to the drain tube. I got a clear tube that fit tightly over the drain tube and held it up and the level is supposed to be to a certain point on the carb. Look in the manual where the details are given. You can check it with the engine running. At least you will know if the float levels are okay and if they are the floats are okay.

I remember when we switched to the M16, the instructor told us that the M14 had a maximum effective range of 460 yds and so did the M16. The muzzle velocity is much higher with the 5.56 round helping it to equalize the effectiveness. With equal sights it may be easier to hit a target at 350 yds with the M16 since it won't drop as much over that distance. I found out with my M14 sighted in for something around 200yds. I had to aim at the head of the target to drop it. Aiming at the chest wouldn't drop the target showing me that there was significant drop in the round at those distances. There is an smart phone app that will calculate this for you but I don't remember what it is.

One trick I use for getting vacuum lines off is to twist it to break the seal.

Yep, for shooting long distances, the M14 was super. I could actually hit the targets at 350 yards using the M14, the peep sight was so good. I never had to qualify at a range with the M16 even though the Army required everybody to qualify annually I believe and paperwork was produced to show that we qualified while in S. Korea. I qualified "Expert" in basic training and when they randomly assigned everybody in the fake paperwork, they put me down as "Marksman" which was the lowest category. Didn't like that! The Army is a dictatorship and like all dictatorships, it is corrupt as heck.

The NAV in my wife's Infiniti can't be programmed while driving. I understand the intent but it's annoying that she can't program it while I'm driving it on a trip.

Excellent! Sounds like you went through it right and it should give you great service. I bought my Venture in 2014 I think and it only had 5,914 miles on it. My Kawasaki in my sig I bought in 2009 with only 1,054 miles on it.

When I was in the Army in 1969 stationed at a missile site in South Korea way out in the middle of the rice paddies, we switched from M14s to M16s. We were taken outside the compound and allowed to shoot up some ammo against a hillside to familiarize ourselves with the new weapon. No gun range anywhere near us. We had nuke warheads for the missiles there and there were about 100 infantrymen there for the sole purpose of guarding those warheads. Well, the infantry guys brought out a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a tripod. They were allowing anyone who wanted to to shoot it. I watched one guy shoot it. He sat on the ground with his feet braced against two legs of the tripod with another guy sitting back to back with him with his arms wrapped around the shooter. When he fired it, the tripod with the gun and both guys were bouncing around on the ground. I passed up my golden opportunity to fire a .50 caliber machine gun!

That is one powerful weapon! I have a video on my old computer of Canadian snipers shooting the Taliban from long distances and it is unbelievable. They evidently used explosive rounds. I'll see if I can retrieve it and find a way to post it.

That bike looks too good to be a parts bike!

$5k should be enough to buy two Gen1s in good shape!

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger!

Substitute aerobic exercise. There are many forms of aerobic exercises. Do the ones you can that you prefer. Improving blood flow does all kinds of good things for you.

I feel for you. I went through that with my wife. The process was long, expensive, and frustrating but finally she and her son got their citizenship. She is from Russia, a Tartar with Mongolian heritage , living in Omsk in Siberia, with a last name of Abdoulina! This was shortly after 9/ll/01 and she passed the background check! I didn't hire an attorney to help me. I spent the necessary time on the government web sites and figured out what I needed to do and the forms I needed to submit.

Diet will help a little in reducing cholesterol. Probably if a reduction in weight accompanies the diet change it will help a lot more. But, exercise is much more effective in my experience. In 2005 I was working at the Kewaunee Nuclear Plant in Two Rivers WI. Due to the cold winters and my laziness, I didn't exercise during the winter. My chlolesterol was 238, the highest I ever remember. I started walking as fast as I could maintain and worked up to 54 minutes 3 times a week. My cholesterol dropped to 188 in 3 months. I weighed the same and ate the same during those 3 months. Weighed 255lbs, 25 more than now. A coworker at the plant said his cholesterol was 300 when checked and the Dr scared him bad enough that he started walking more than I did and he went on a as he says a "leaves and twig" diet and got his cholesterol down. Then walking after work in the dark, he twisted his ankle. He couldn't walk but he maintained his "leaves and twigs" diet and his cholesterol went right back up to where it had been. This guy was an interesting character. He said he was the Ft. Hood heavyweight boxing champ while there and he spent a tour in Viet Nam in the middle of the fighting. Tough guy who according to him grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in St. Louis.

I bought one of those from ebay. when I tried to use it, bubbles formed in the fluid no matter what I did. I called the manufacturer. They said the vendor I bought it from was not an approved vendor but suggested i buy a fluid refill kit. If the sync is out very much the fluid will be sucked into the manifold which also happened. So, I sold it for a whole lot less than I paid for it and was happy to be rid of it. A forum member bought it so if you put up with its idiosyncracies, it will do the job I suppose.

John Stossel discussed this on one of his shows. According to him, high chlolesterol alone will not clog your arteries. But, with high blood pressure and high chlolesterol it will clog the arteries. High blood pressure damages the arteries by stretching them and then the cholesterol sticks in the pockets or something like that.

Yeah, and Yamaha could have at least updated the bike with fuel injection and maybe updated the cassette player over the 14 years of production. They wouldn't spend a nickel on it updating it to get a larger market share. How many expensive bikes were on the market in 2013 that still had carburetors?

We really need to educate ourselves on possible side effects of the drugs we take so we will recognize what is causing the side efffect if it happens.