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If a cracked sidewall rips and blows out, the tube will just bulge out of the hole and pop. Either way when the sidewall lets go you will be buying a new tire. I would get the new tire and they will outlive you and can be someone else problem some day when you are gone. So it kind of depends on just how bad are the cracks, light surface cracking, don't worry about it, deep cracks where you can see cord at the bottom of the crack, the tube will not help or delay the inevitable.

When you say a NO START CONDITION, is it cranking but will not fire, or does it do nothing at all?

And if you want to get fancy. There are others too. Ctrl-Y = Redo last Undo Ctrl-B = Bold Ctrl-F = Find Ctrl-U = Underline Ctrl-I = Italics And in most other programs Ctrl-N = Create a new file Ctrl-O = Open an existing file Ctrl-P = Print

It sounds like you are running on 3 cylinders. From cold, start the engine and see if one exhaust pipe does not heat up as fast as the others. The cold one is the cylinder with the issue.

If you delete the text by accident then the control Z will usually bring it back. If the text is gone cuz you left the page without hitting the Post button then Control Z will not help but these other methods can.

I found it. I found the guy you can buy this bracket from. http://www.v-max-f-maerz.de/vmaxkatalog/990/993e_en.html It comes with an oil pan gasket. I am not sure if it includes a new O-ring. It would be coming from Germany. He is very proud of his work. I have no idea why he is making it out of stainle$$ Steel, it is in the oil pan it better not rust.

Cool. I been watching this close. COPs is the route that I will go IF/when one of my coils die.

Young Man????? Who is this young man you are referring to? Must be my grandson or his son that you are thinking of. I still got enough hair to cover a few heads. It may be gray but it is still all there.

OOpie!

Pics all look good since you reposted them. Thanks. That 18mm is the dimension that I needed, I was close guessing at 20 mm, simple change to my drawing. Your cross hatch pattern looks pretty good. Now I just have to figure out how to actually make that fancy bend at the top with the tools that I have to work with. OR maybe this will be a good reason to go and get that 20 ton shop press.............. Now where is that 25% off HF coupon.................

Do 2nd gens have the same rear brake issues as 1st gens where if the brake fluid in the master is overfilled there is no room for expansion which causes the rear to tighten up as heat builds? The easy test for this is when you feel the drag, stop and crack the bleeder to relieve the pressure. If brakes return to normal then it is not a sticking piston but an over filled rear master.

Your attachments are coming up as bad links................

I think some are already there and will not see this post. I know that some have left home already.

A fuse that has its rated current flowing thru it will get warm, sometimes they get warm enough to melt either the fuse or the fuse holder. A poor contact between the fuse and fuse holder can also generate enough heat to melt plastic. Since you had a bare spot on the wire it is also possible that it was getting short momentary shorts to ground but not long enough or with a good enough connection to blow the fuse. I would put in a new fuse but keep a close eye on it for a while. Any more signs of heat and you need to spend some time figuring out what is going on.

And rather than rely on the auto save feature that works only most of the time. If I need to leave to look something up before I am ready to save, I just hit Ctrl + A (Select All) then Ctrl + C (Copy). When I come back to the post, if my work is gone I just type Ctrl + V (Paste) and it is back. If you want to use the Auto save feature, If you watch the lower right corner of the typing area you will see a small yellow Window Saying "Auto-Saved" pop up to let you know that the content has bee saved to the Auto Save. Depending on how you get back to the typing screen, sometimes the restore auto saved content button will not be present in the gray bottom bar of the window. IF it does not appear you may have to go back one more screen and reopen the thread to get that button to appear. NOT that I have EVER needed any of these features for myself......

Ok then, I'll make sure I have room to put the parts I pick up along the way, Good thing I have a big truck.

It could be done with diodes but the resistor is cheaper and easier. If you have just a diode in the circuit, disconnect it right away, you could end up blowing the CMU. As far as the tail lights, What @cowpuc said. Also check the voltage across the battery with the engine running at around 3,000 rpm. You should have around 14V even if the battery is drained a bit, if you don't, you may have the beginnings of a charging system problem.

Since it uses an always hot wire to maintain time when the key is off and a separate switched power wire, My guess is that it should turn off. But on the other hand I am betting that it does not draw enough power to really matter. Take your Multi meter and measure the amp draw with the bike turned off. It is then simple math to see how long it would take to drain the battery. I used to have a similar one that used a single AA battery that lasted a year of it being on 24/7. Your bike battery has a lot more power than a AA.

This thread has 621 views so someone other than you and I are looking at it.

I have a 3,000W geny and it has no problem starting my 13,500 rooftop AC even with the microwave running and all the lights on in the camper. Part of that tonnage in the Yamaha and Honda generators is the insulation and huge muffler to make them so quiet. Mine is a Baldor that is just a bit louder but still weighs about 135 lbs. It is a HD commercial grade Generator. A lot of the volume of the generator is a huge muffler. 600 lbs is a lot of weight behind a bike. The clutch will not care as long as it is working correctly. stopping the electric brakes will help. I am still thinking of adding electric brakes to my trailer. Tongue weight will your critical issue. The rule of thumb is 10% of the total trailer weight on the tongue. 60Lbs is way to much tongue weight for the bike, especially if 2 up with the bikes luggage full to. The number I have always heard was no more that 30 lbs on the tongue to avoid handling issues. It is going to be a close balance of tongue weight, between bike handling and trailer sway. A longer tongue will help both issues. Due to your higher total weight, I would shoot for the distance from trailer axle to ball of 2 times the track width of the trailer. the normal is 1.5 times. Don't forget progress pics..................

If you get a few 2nd gens show up for the rides then there will be no issues with my truck keeping up................

Just watch out for the first time you go from a stop real hard and the front wheel come off the ground as you hit 2nd. That can be addictive also. :bikersmilie: :bikersmilie:

See now this is where I get into trouble all the time. I would take the heads down into my man cave and mill them a bit, a little more compression never hurts in a high performance engine. You just might have to run premium gas if you mill the heads. But sanding the scratches out would work to. Just not as much fun................ The dimension that I need is the diameter of the tube that the clamp goes over. So it is not the end that goes into the block, I need the diameter of the tube that is welded to the one that goes into the block. Did that make sense? Its early in the morning and I have not had my chocolate milk yet..............

There are a few places that make an oil pressure gauge for our engines just for this purpose. I still have not found where to actually buy this bracket. BUt since the drawings were provided I may try to make one or more. since you are already in there, you may get to be the guinea pig. I Will need a couple dimensions from Maxine for the couple of key dimensions that were omitted from the drawings. There was also info on how to modify your existing pipe if you are to cheap to buy one.

I have been wasting hours almost every night waiting and waiting and waiting for some one to pop into chat. So today I wasted some gas and time by mowing the parched brown lawn That really did not need it it has not grown at all in the last month. BUT I keep watching the grass not grow.