Marcarl

Looks like a wonder in progress,,, keep up the good work!

I would second Gary's thoughts,,, can't think them out either,, but so I don't look stupid I'll agree.

Hey, I'm up for a ride Wednesday evening,,,,, ice-cream anyone????

Glad to hear from you, and that all is OK with you. Constant prayers for all those who are going through the natural disasters coming our way.

Line 2 has me confused.

83 to 85 will fit no problem. 86 to 93 will fit but you will have to make a few mods.

Maybe good idea to read ones post before hitting the submit button. Somehow this post gets me confused. Please help me out. Thanks.

Happy Birthday little one,,,,, make sure that big boy does nice things fo you today,,, BTW,,, are you over 40 yet?

I don't mind this idea, but the idea of my brakes lights coming on everytime I slow down a bit, would drive the driver behind me nuts and soon he/she would not pay much attention to my brake lights coming on.

Update: It's Ok to out bid somebody else, that's the idea. You don't need to wait until the last minute,,, it might not happen. Small bits are quite acceptable, even $1 US bids. or 50cent CDN bids.

Thought I said real genius,, maybe you missed that part. Already been practising on the speechie thing, they were just about ready to boo me off the stage @ MarCarl's. Somehow I managed to escape unscathed.

I thought you just got a whole lot of Citrosolve? Works wonders!

We'll miss you guys,,, really miss you guys,,,,,,,,,,, Now that Mini is out of the way........ the rest of us can get our licks in,,,,,,YAHOOO!!!!!

I'm thinking that every V-Max style bike should have one,,, this looks like a real beefy thing, something that could handle the extra torque and pressure that a hi-bred bike could put to it, of course it would take a genius to figure out how to mount it,,, but that is a different story.

Next bid is for $350.

First bid is $200

More info: George had owned a Venture, then decided to sell it. He had installed this shock, hoping for a better ride and he said he was quite happy with the results, he's a fairly big guy. When people were looking at the scoot to buy it, he was told the price was too high, so he took off the Corbin seat and this shock to lower the price. The scoot sold, the seat sold but this shock was still in his garage, so finally he decided that somebody might as well have some use out of it, so here it is. He admits he probably over paid for this shock, so please don't go by the $902 I mentioned before. It has no air. It has a re-bound adjustment It has spring pre-load, but no tool to adjust this. And it's a pretty color.

Hope this works. H.D. was by today and left me with an almost brand new 2nd gen YSS Suspension shock bought in August 2011. Model # MZ-506-255TR. George said he only had it on his bike for about 300 miles. He also showed me a bill for $902. It looks very new but that is about all that I know about it. It looks like it has a rebound adjustment and spring preload adjustment George said he no longer needed it and so wanted to give it away, so now to who???? We talked about it and decided to auction it and give the money to our SA fund (Special Assistance) which we use to help others in need when the need arises. I will be at MD with the shock in tow, so it can be picked up there, or we can ship it as well. If I missed something George, or got something wrong, jump in here and set me straight. So here's how we'll do it. If you are interested to buy this item, send me a PM with your offer, no reserve. I will post the ongoing price in this thread and announce the winner by next Wednesday eve.

While your at it and seeing as the forks are going to be out anyways, might as well take them forks apart and make sure sure that everything inside is as it's supposed to be,, you'd be surprised at what I have found inside. It only takes a bit of time and gives you piece of mind. I think what your talking about would maybe be identified as a squiggle. We had that issue some years ago, 2or3, and I was one of the worst, couldn't ride any faster than 65mph or things would start to move around, like I was bucking the wind from a trailer. So I tightened up the motor mounts, checked alignment, changed tire pressures, took off the bags and trunk, took the whole back end apart, replaced the main bolt on the swing arm, installed a super brace and progressive springs, changed from Avons to E-IIIs, finally took the front end apart again and now finally things have improved, not 100%, but much better. I would suggest it's the front end. As a side note, it would squiggle with 1 up, but put a passenger on the back seat, even a small one, and problem went away.

Yep, your stator is fried. The cooling system in place for this is a wee little pin hole in the dimple in the middle of the bolt that holds the balancer in place. You can get a very small wire to poke it to make sure it's open, or just remove the bolt to do a proper job and maybe open it up a bit. I found that the hole is soo small that it takes very little to plug it. Don't worry about the balancer falling off in the process, it would take at least until MD for you to get it to budge.

Got up this morrow with purpose in mind, Evan was coming over to change his fork springs and head bearings, Bongogbobny was coming to bring some parts and Wizard765 was coming to put his 2 cents worth in as well. So get ready,, have a coffee, check the site, weather and news, go get some Citrosolve for Ground Hugger, check things out at the butcher shop, get my wife some meat and at 10 I was ready. Lets see, drop the steering head with the two of us, pop in the new bearings and we should be waiting for Bob by 1pm,,,, not quite so fast here Carl, keep in mind that this has been done before and you might encounter some re-engineering, not by Yamaha. Steering head wasn't too bad, it was back in by 2 with lunch on the patio included, then came the fork springs. Had the forks down, cleaned and ready to go back in, no we didn't need to take them apart, so didn't,, well not yet,,,,, not until I noticed that compressed, the one was shorter than the other, not only that, the other one was longer than the shorter one,,,, well best to drop one out of there and see what it is that makes it shorter, maybe we can do the same to the longer one,,,, took it apart, noticed some different parts than what I'm used to with the mrk1s, but hey this is an 88 so is built different,, well at least that's the input from Bob, so we check it out and put things back together,, seems to work, but still not any more length so the longer one comes apart,,, yep some pieces missing, wave washer gone, flat washer not to be found, lucky I got some spares, put that back together, still not matching up those two,,,,,,,, Trader calls and needs to know which side the spring goes in the oil filter,,,, and he's asking who?????? me?????? and I'm supposed to know why,,, well I told him one way, but then my experience with springs and forks had me thinking that just maybe the book didn't agree with me so I went to search for the right book,,, but knowledgeable that was present said the spring goes on the engine side, although I always put mine on the cover side, but hey, he could be right so I tell Trader that maybe it goes wherever he's feels it might works best. He discovers that I was right and it goes on the cover side. Back to the forks, took both of them apart once more, discovered that one little part was inserted backwards so that problem was solved,, wonder why Yamaha didn't think of that,, I mean why not make it so that you could put that thingie in either way, would have saved a lot of time at this end. For now I know these forks springs inside and out, backwards and forwards, side to side and cleaned and greasy. Ok then,, they can now go in the bike, not so smooth as riding, but not bad, only forgot one crown washer, and the right seating for the right side air collar, until it was time to put that plastic bracket back that hold the lines onto the triple tree,,,, darn the brake lines ended up on the wrong side,,,, big decision,,,, drop the forks or bleed the brakes,,, supper time,,,,, so after supper it's bleed the brakes,,, yea! only took about ten minutes and worked out excellent,,,buttoned it all up, greased the speedo cable and we were on the patio having a coffee,,, Evan and I,, ya those other two left for parts unknown,,, can't say as I blamed them,, we were looking to start on the trike next. So that's one day in the life of a retired guy,,,, how did your day go??

Tomorrow between 1 and 4 or after 7 would be fine, other than that it'll be Tuesday. Yep. I think I have that right.

Congrats you two,, you know you can't do it alone eh? thank goodness you had Allen. And he had you!

Congrats to the two of you,,, even if your name is Mike, you'd find it hard to do it alone.

I'll be here all day today, but then gone until Monday sometime. Wizard765 is here, Bongobobny is here, Evan Is here.