Flyinfool

I just have mine buried in so much junk that it is unlikely that they will find it. I will have a hard time finding it if I ever have to, and I know where to start looking.

Well wave when you go thru Milwaukee on your way to Ohio.

I used that same method for my RV trailer, but I used 4 stands and no weight on the tongue. My stands were tall enough that the tongue jack did not reach the ground, so it would not be easy to use to get the trailer off the stands. The drums might still be the low point, just hook up and pull it off the stands and worry about the tires later. But you are right, nothing will stop someone that is determined to take it, but that will stop the tempted lazy thief.

you have a 4 gallon tank plus a 1 gallon reserve. at 40 mpg you will get 160 miles and hit the reserve. you aint gonna git no 250 miles out of a tank.

Sounds good.. BUT

I might never be innocent, but I am never guilty either. I will continue to deny all knowledge and admit to less..............

You could probably mount a dozen Bad Boys on your bike and as long as they are powered from the battery through relays, they will each have full power to work with. Granted for the few seconds that the horns are blowing you might put a slight drain on the battery, but it would be less than the drain of starting the engine and the charging system will bring it right back up. Hmmmmmmm....... Where to mount a dozen Bad Boys...............................

I'll make it officially a bunch of us are waiting with baited breath.

Running a few blocks and then slowly dying out sounds like a fuel starvation issue. as in does it sound like it is running out of gas? Although it is not common to a 1st gen, check the tank vent to be sure it is not plugged, there are some insects that seem to love crawling up that vent tube to build a nest. If the tube is plugged or restricted then there will be a vacuum in the tank that will not allow fuel out. easy test is try a ride with the gas cap off. But be careful that you do not splash gas out of the tank onto a hot engine.

To bad it is not real.

The first connector you pictured I can not find on the wiring diagram, Without more info I have no idea what it is. The second one that might be a blue yellow and a black yellow in which case it could be two of the four wires that go to the clutch switch and is the starter circuit cutoff relay. Some one may have had issues with that and bypassed it. Again that switch is known to get dirty contacts. If it is bypassed then it means that you can now start the bike in gear or take off with the side stand down. Both potentially very dangerous. The computer acting weird could be an issue with the gear selector switch, there is a 6 pin connector between the switch and the computer, make sure all of the contacts are clean and you can test the switch with an ohm meter. one lead to ground and the other to each of the 6 wires. when the switch is in the position for the wire being tested ot should be near zero ohms, all the other wires should be infinite.

Yup there was another glitch tonight.

yup weak clutch spring and an easy fix.

The ins co may not sell it back to you but whomever they sell it to might sell it back to you.

Puc you know everyone just likes to pick on you............

Fortunately I am an old grey fat man and I will not live long enough to see the gas engine replaced.

If the headlight does actually switch then the wire butcher does have it all hooked up. You might just have dirty contacts in the Hi/Lo switch on the handlebar. I have to take that switch apart and clean it every other year when mine stops switching. Fuses wrapped in foil???? And I thought the pics you posted were bad..................

You needed an excuse to go somewhere anyhow.......

Glad you are going again. Your wife sounds like a keeper.

I painted a 68 Buick Wildcat with Rustolium and a roller, not to bad.

This may take some work to unhack the wire harness. I would start by going to the 1st gen library and downloading and printing the wiring diagram for your bike. We can then take some educated guesses as to what the PO may have done. My first guess is that he took out the RLU (Reserve Lighting Unit) he may have even cut out and bypassed the Hi/Lo switch. But we will get you thru this.

When was the last ime you greased the splins and pins in the rear wheel. They can do weird things when dry too.

Thread locker is an insulator. I added a lock washer.

Ouch, the site and chat went down again at 8:40 CDT, just for a few minutes. It went down hard and had to reboot my puter to get back.