RDawson

Merry Christmas.

Still gotta take the Harley jabs when I can get em. Nice bike.

That usually comes from too much oil in the crankcase.

Did you use loctite to bolt in on? 😛

Dfitzbiz@yahoo.com. I think is correct.

And some are 10s when you take em home but 2s the next morning. 🤪🤪🤪

My sound effects are different though. I sound more like Rice Krispies when I’m moving.

I made the mistake of hosting the wife’s family dinner, a very small group. I seem to only be able to cook like it’s my family (35-40 people). There’s enough left over for a Venture rally supper. Now we get to go Saturday for the big one, at least we can leave the leftovers at my brother’s house.

Glad it’s not any worse. I watched Col Steve Austin as a kid, now I think a lot of us are becoming the new $6 million men. I’ve got the screws and anchors in my shoulder and a hardware store in my back according to the X-ray tech a couple weeks ago. This getting old stuff ain’t for sissies 😫

Hope your bellies are full and family is happy n healthy.

We went this morning and I think we bought half the store. Got one kid on the road now and the other coming tomorrow. We’ll have a small lunch Thursday and the big one Saturday, around 40 people at that one. I come from a large family.

I don’t use my saws very often so I switched to canned Tru-Fuel. 2 year shelf life. Saws sit months at a time but fire right up.

I’ve been watching since it went on the market. I knew the owner as kids but haven’t talked to him in over 40 years. I’m sure a lot of rubber parts will need replaced. It’ll have to go way lower before I even talk to him. I’ll probably not be really interested anyway.

I bought a Dewalt cordless pole saw last spring with an 8” bar and chain. The speed of limb cutting highly impressed me, I’ll probably get the chainsaw in the near future. I use a Husqvarna 22”chainsaw now but with back surgery the lighter Dewalt for small jobs looks pretty good.

Put a phone mount on the bars, speedo app?

How about a phone mount with a speedo app?

Junior told me a couple days ago that Pinwall sold out at auction. No idea who bought it or what the future is.

I used RTV at the cam recesses. I didn’t replace the rubber plugs, I didn’t know about them when I did it. My rear cover has started seeping recently (30,000 miles later)but it’s gonna have to wait til next winter, although I’ve heard of some re-torquing the bolts and having good luck. There’s always been an argument whether to do the valves but like you I plan to keep it til either it’s worn out or I am so I invested the time, I took them close to the outer limit to try not going there again.

Granted I’m in small town America but I couldn’t find a dealer around here with shims. Closest Yamaha dealer asked me what kind of antique I was working on to need 25mm shims. The RSV wasn’t even out of its 10 year service window at that time, that told me they weren’t correctly servicing the bikes they sold. I needed one that Earl’s kit didn’t have, a member here mailed me one

Not really newer but definitely not worn out. This one is for sale locally, he started out around $7k several months ago. I’m not looking for one but if the price keeps dropping I may have to. I just don’t want to start over since I’ve gone through mine and preemptively fixed all the known issues and added all the extras I wanted. And yes that is the correct mileage 6700.

I used @skydoc_17’s shim kit. He’s got the feeler gauges, picks to get the shims out easier, and the cam tool. I highly recommend having a kit like his to save tons of time. Instead of going through all 16 valves to figure out where to move shims I did each one as I went and then rolled it through again to double check each one.

I feel your pain, I finally got the hardware installed in my back last month. Maybe we can meet up and get a ride in this summer, I owe you a lunch sometime.

Idle screw is under the tank right side. At the throttle there is a cable slack adjuster.

Depends if you measure it before or after you crush it.

Pretty cool. We live in the middle of nowhere, probably not 98 kids could find my house so it gets me out of all that work🤣🤣🤣 Great job to make them happy.