Flyinfool

Just getting those coils clean will up your current efficiency a bunch. The cleaner you get them the better they work. Does that unit have an air filter? Is it changed regularly? Nothing will plug up the coils faster than running with no air filter. Now that it is running again, go back up there and take a peek at the evaporator coils to see if they are still making ice, They should be wet but not frozen. If they are cold enough to make ice with good airflow then it may be indicating either a weak compressor or low refrigerant. Either one can indicate that your 27 YO unit is not healthy. Here in Wisconsin weather I found it to be much less expensive for both electric and initial purchase to have window AC instead of central AC. In FL I'm guessing that you run your AC a LOT more than I do the economics will probably work out different.

Well chat has been working so it must mean NEXT July, which has not come yet.......

My wife used to love to ride with me. Once I went through the big D, the riding alone was not as much fun. 20 years went by before I got another bike. My current gal is deathly afraid to get on a bike, she had a very bad experience the last time, back in high school. I had her convinced to give it a try this summer, then my medical issues kicked me off the bike. Poor thing, still has last years gas in it. Point is, sometimes you just need to take a break from things.

But the big question, while you traded bikes, did you determine that your noise is "normal" or a problem in the making.

Cool, glad you got it going. Did you put the TCI in the oven to bake all the moisture out? Did you seal up the holes so that moisture does not get in again? Did you move the TCI to a dry location? Did you open the TCI to check the diodes for corrosion? This is all easy to do when it is out of the bike.

Some pics would help here.

On triked Ventures they just flip the rear end upside down to get correct rotation. It is the equivalent of always driving in reverse as far as the loading on the gear teeth. But a trike is not that heavy compared to the car the rear end came out of so there is not a wear issue. Now in that T bucket, you might not want to run the rear end backwards. But 7 grand to change the bikes output direction, I think I would have used a simple in/out box to reverse the rotation.

@Golf&Venture is not a company, he is a member on this board. Here is a link to the tool. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?67849-2nd-Group-Order-4-Speedo-Bearing-Coupling-Greaser

Its not the end of July yet..... I hope the chat is not to much of a bill. I have no clue what it might cost or is worth.

Ahh the good old days. First job in high school was working a couple evenings a week at the local hobby shop. But with my flying addiction (that I still suffer from) it was pretty much just sign my check and hand it back to the boss. After a while I got a job at a local hall as a buss boy / setup man. Would go in at 3 on a Saturday, the hall was rented out to a church, all the chairs were in rows for the mass service. as soon as mass ended between 3 and 3:30 we had to take down all the chairs from mass and reset the hall for a wedding at 5. I would then buss the wedding, after the wedding meal we had to knock down the catering lines and reset the hall for the rest of the reception, head back to the kitchen to do all the dishes, then head home for a nap. Come back at 1am to clean up the wedding and reset the 500 chairs for morning mass at 6 am. after a few years of that I graduated high school and tried to join the air force. That flying thing again...... but I was unable to pass the physical. So I found my first full time job, paid $1.05 per hour and man I was rollin in dough. I lasted 3 years there doing everything there was to do relating to packaging products. I ran the machine that put that infernal plastic on stuff, the good stuff that is nearly impossible to get off with out destroying the product. I'll bet there are a few on this forum that have cussed me out royally. Then I managed to land a job as a draftsman for a military contractor, I got to help with designing the tool of the trade to make war. That was fun. I was there for 18 years, and had worked my way up to Engineering Manager. A lot of what I worked on was classified all the way up to top secret. You want to see a bunch of BS for that security check. Since then I have worked as an engineer designing HVAC equipment, Train locomotive parts,heavy structural ironwork, and now commercial carpet cleaning equipment. I should be able to retire in another 50 or 60 years......

Check to see if your new weights fell off the rear wheel

I use the same grease that I use on the ball joints and tie rods of my cages. Mainly cuz that is what is in my grease gun. With that neat little tool greasing is a snap and you do not even have to pull the cluster out of the bike to do it. I hit mine with a small shot of grease every time I put on a new front tire.

Wonderful. Just wonderful.

Poor airflow is either a plugged up coil or a blower problem. Have you ever changed the filter? All easy to fix, and a LOT cheaper than replacing an AC that is really working fine.

I would think that a person could find something in a Walmart easier and more valuable than ripping out copper for scrap. But then I would not get to read the dumb criminal stories in the mags.

What Randy said. Penetrating oil will do more harm than good, you need grease in there. I think it was Golf&Venture was making a tool for greasing the speedo. You take off the cable, screw on the tool and it has a Zerk for your grease gun. Easy clean and quick.

Gee your gaining on me. My 88 has 55K, BUT even worse is that it still has last years gas in it.

It must be really bad that they have to give it away free to get people to try it.

Very unlikely to have caused any damage. But there is a slight possibility IF the "dead" cylinder was actually running but very lean.

Just idling in the driveway should get it hot enough to show the leak. That way you can be sitting there ready to spot that first drip wherever its coming from.

Just needs a bit of 12ga tenderizer, thats all......

At least wave when you go zippin past Wisconsin.......

Rooster chili????

The fuel pump will not run if the carbs float bowls are full. Open the drain on one of the carbs (use a small jar or can to catch the gas) and turn the key on, the pump should now run and more gas should come out of the drain.

Are you getting a puddle anywhere? The AF has to be going somewhere. Check to be sure it is not going into the oil. Also there is the possibility that there was some air in the system that has been getting purged out.