Flyinfool

Well I am feeling better today, The insertion site is still really tender but at least I can move my left arm around. For the next 4 weeks i can not rise my left elbow above my shoulder or lift more than 10 lbs but at least I can move it. The last 2 days I could barley move it at all. Sylvester, The nozzles are pretty heavy and high up, with being unable to raise my arm and the 10 lb limit I do not know if I can turn them away from due east. I am not sure if @cowpuc will like just firing up the www and forgetting about it.

My SKS also came with a 1000 meter sight, It may be able to lob a bullet that far, but I would be surprised if you could hit the broad side of a barn literally. and if it did hit the barn, there would not be much energy left in the bullet. Kind of like my 22LR will only make dents in a cardboard box at 300 yards.

My bracket is still perfect. Or is that just cuz I never filled one out????

I am back home now. Still quite sore. The whole procedure was done only under local anesthetic, I was wide awake thru the whole thing. There was a few times that I had to tell them that the local was wearing off. DANG THOSE SCALPELS ARE SHARP!!! This morning they came in to take a download of the first night on the new tuner. It was having to pace me 98% of the time.

If it is already broke you're off the hook somebody else already got it

no one won the big part because I've been a little bit preoccupied the last few days, lots of counting the holes in the accustic ceiling tile in my hospital room. That jackpot is waiting for me to get out.

if you don't miss so often the gas won't have time to melt the plastic bag

Well I seem to have survived the surgery with only a few minor complications but at least I'm still around to harass you guys and keep the infamous www running.

If the gas is to bad to dump into my truck, then I fill ziploc baggies with the gas and place a small container of Tannerite in it. and take it to the rifle range for spectacular disposal.

I don't know what size you need, but here is one size. https://www.jbugs.com/product/N203501.html?utm_content=shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI87z4jJmS4QIVCAVpCh2Sag4IEAQYBCABEgIRGPD_BwE

C'mon now Puc, You don't want all the goodies all at once do ya? I has gots fer ta spread them out a bit, I don't have an unlimited number of unusual toys appropriate to share in this thread.

I see what looks like it would be a sight glass, but if it is a sight glass it is located below where the hose is connected so it would not do much sighting.

That made my poor eyes hurt........

I also am not a mil surp guy, this one just looked like fun to play with, it was cheap, and ammo was cheap (at the time) so I had some fun with it over a cold snowy winter back 15 years or so ago. I figure that if I burn it up doing a lot of rapid fire out of it, who cares. I am surprised at just how well that chromed bore is holding up. Many cases of ammo thru it and it still looks like a brand new bore. Back when I first got this gun it was a period in my life where I was single and so I had everything delivered to my place of work so it would not get stolen off my front porch. It just so happened that I just had 2 cases of ammo delivered for this gun when my job was getting downsized out of existence. The company upper management knew that I brought home a deer every time I went hunting and knew that I spent a lot of time at the range honing my skills. All of upper management was in the front office drawing straws for who would have to tell me I was being laid off permanently. I was also always the one at almost every place I worked at that was always voted most likely to go postal. Because everyone knew that I had the skills and the equipment to do so. AHHHhhhhhh........ The good old days.......... Wait till you see the next one from my collection of unusual guns waiting for me to do a wright up about. It is also treading on the edge of fun and Mil.

But it is not an AK, it is an SKS. I do not yet have an AK or an AR.

I do not buy guns as collection pieces, all of my guns get out to play regularly. This SKS is no exception, It regularly gets out, it was set up for fun and the paint was part of the fun, I had just bought my first airbrush and this was the first thing I ever painted. No it is not great and has a lot of flaws, but it was fun and I still have fun when I pull it out at the range. It had to have some kind of a paint finish since I added about 2.5 inches the butt of the stock to make it fit me better. I am a bit bigger than the average Chinese kid that it was designed to fit. The wood that I added of course did not match the wood that was already there so it did require an opaque finish. The bayonet mount was also permanently removed to make the removable mag mod legal at the time. Fortunately those laws have gone away, but I do not think I will ever have a need for a bayonet so I have no plans of putting the mount back to functional. I also do have a scope mount that fits this gun, but it really did not help accuracy at all so I took it off. The gun its self is just not real accurate. But it will make a lot of bangs in a hurry which is fun too. If you hold the gun just right you can simulate full auto with no attachments, cranks or bump stocks or any other weird stuff needed.

As long as that rubber hose is brake line hose, and none of the joints are leaking, and the reservoir seals air tight, it should be fine. That said it looks like rubber fuel line that will break down in contact with brake fluid. That metal joint looks like a threaded electrical conduit fitting with the rubber hose trying to seal on the threads. The reservoir looks to be all metal, but I doubt if it has a bladder in it to stay air tight while still allowing for expansion and contraction of the fluid.

I do not know about using a 2nd gen starter clutch on a 1st gen, or if it is even any better. The bullet proof starter clutch upgrade is to contact @Dano and send him your flywheel to mod.

I don't think that is the part that is broke?????? This is the part that usually breaks https://www.ebay.com/itm/83-85-YAMAHA-VENTURE-ROYALE-XVZ1200-XVZ-1200-FRAME-CHASSIS-CLN-EZ-REG/153221235757?hash=item23acb2842d:g:KoUAAOSwxG9bxihP This one is from an 83 so it can still have the frame issue. When the frame breaks it is because it rusts out from the inside. A perfectly good looking frame can snap. If you do get another 83 frame just plan on welding in some reinforcements before you bolt anything to it.

Well now that you bring up the SKS. I recently acquired three 50 cal ammo cans stuffed full of 7.62 x 39 ammo for my SKS that a non shooting friend found in the basement of their newly purchased house. FREE for the hauling. I think my tires might still be smoking a little. My SKS was used in a TV news spot that was being done back when the "Assault Rifle Ban" was in the process of getting started. The reporter had taken pics of a group od "sporting" rifles, and a group of "Assault" rifles. My SKS was in the sporting group. Was he ever POed when he found out that he had fallen into the truth that the ONLY difference between a sporting rifle and an "assault" rifle was purely cosmetic. This all happened just a few days after I had completed the paint, and I just happened to be at the gun shop at that time because once I told them what I did they wanted to see it. At the time it still had a 10 round mag, now I have all 30 round. Here is that nasty little SKS now.

Which of course goes back to one of my prerequisites -

If you are in far enough to stick a feeler gauge in there to measure the clearance, why on earth would you not take the extra 5 minutes and $5 to change to an in tolerance shim and know for certain that you are good for a long long time?? There are plenty of places to get shims from ranging from free to $10. By far the getting to the valves is the worst part of the job. I had to replace a leaky valve cover gasket so I adjusted all of the valves to the high limit of the tolerance. I figured that would mean I would never have to check them again in my riding time that I had left, unfortunately, I was right. Two of my valves were at less than .001, not touching, I could still spin them in the pocket, but my .001 feeler did not fit, Those would have been burnt valves in the very near future had I not checked and changed as required. This was at 55K miles. Do you feel lucky? There was even one valve that was OVER by 3 thou. The factory must have set that one real loose or popped the shims in the wrong spots because switching the shims from the loose one to the tight one almost brought them both back in spec.

at 75-80 with a load, 30ish is about right. This engine likes to be around 4,000 rpm or more, much under that eats more gas. sustained over 70 eats more gas. It is hard to tell without seeing it if all is normal. To check for a weak cylinder when starting it cold see if all 4 pipes warm up at the same rate.

One of our members @zagger has also removed the collector on his 1st gen.

Or at least have a good exit strategy.