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  1. Marcarl
    If you pick up the piggie the night before and let it warm up overnight, you will cut hours off of the cooking time. Just keep it wrapped in plastic, and throw a sleeping bag over it, but it needs to be a fresh piggie. Having it done too early is no problem, it can wait for an hour or two before carving. I would come and do the roasting, but I think it wouldn't get started until about noon. Half the fun is watching the piggie roast and the eating is much better right from the roaster so I suggest that the day before is not ideal, it's ok but not what you're looking for I think. If you want someone to carve it, I should be there in time to fix that issue, I do, did a few in my time. If you use brickettes with charcoal you find the heat is better and it extends the charcoal big time, use about half and half. 200 lbs souds like a lot of charcoal.
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    Ontario is more or less flat, and that's where I'll stay.
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    I guess that means you are right after all!!!??!! Darn darn darn, thought I was catching you in a error,,,,,,,,,oh well guess I'll just have to wait it out,,,,,,some day,,,,,some where,,,,,,some one will say,,,,,,,,,,guess what?:thumbsup2:
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    Wet Feet

    Marcarl replied to FROG MAN's topic in Watering Hole

    I think you have a real problem and it's gonna take some real thinking to get a solution that works. Best get a think tank together and the best place would be on site, that way the issue can be viewed and discussed with out any delay. So you need to set up a date, probably this will be a 3 to 4 day affair, and invite the real thinkers or those who think they might be stinkers and get the job done el pronto. All meals will be provided of course and sleeping accomdations come as expected, along with an after lunch snoooze.
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    If you go to stainless steel braided lines instead of the stock rubber you'll notice a real pleasant change and you'll never go back. You're rubber lines are getting old and so soften up and give a lot more now than when they were new. Even though they may not show signs of old age, cracking etc. I suggest you change them, it's a real difference.
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    How about pepperette cheesecake??????????
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    Maybe you're getting some fumes into the the rider area, but are not aware of it, that will give the same symptoms.
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    Wet Feet

    Marcarl replied to FROG MAN's topic in Watering Hole

    What you do is make yourself a swing bridge with ropes, just for you and the scoot. That way when the floods come it will just swing with the water and will still be there when the floods reside. The only difficulty would be, learning to ride a scoot on a swing bridge, but then that would be a reason for lots of practice to get it right, and of course on the way out you can't just turn around and try again, you'll need to clean off those tires so they won't slip and that can't be done in only 2 miles, that takes a 100 or so. It's a win win.:lightbulb::happy65::whistling:
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    My first thought was, who put in the wrong oil, ordinary car oil will make it slip. Change the oil, if it improves run it for about 200 miles and then change it again. The additives in car oil make the oil tooo slippery and cause the clutch to slip. Squidley means to say: change the oil. He must have been not too much awake for there is no clutch fluid persay, it's the oil that is also the clutch fluid.
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    When you can see all of them at once, it doesn't matter where the timing mark is, what is needed is that the lobes are away from the lifters, at this point you measure and don't use the tool for this. It's really no different than doing it with rockers, but the adjustment is different, you need to replace the disc and that's where the tool comes in. So, you make a drawing (make sure you mark where the front is), number all the valves and cylinders leaving space for more important numbers, now you measure and mark down whether they are tight or loose and by how much. (When it's tight it's not always easy to figure how tight,use a thinner feeler and when it's loose you can use a thicker feeler to figure that one out). Now that you have that info you can take all the dics out that are out of speck. Each disc will have it's thickness stamped on the bottom, now mark down this number. From this info you can figure out what the new thickness needs to be and so you need to obtain these dics. If the numbers are worn off you will need a micrometer to measure them. Insert the new dics in the proper spots, turn the engine over a few times and check the clearances again. If all is well, you're done. Maybe more info than necessary, but I hope it helps.
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    Be very careful not to drop any screws down in the engine area. I drilled off a pop rivet, didn't pay attention to where the leftovers went, then later went to change the plugs and the wrench wouldn't fit on the one plug, no matter how I tried and what I used, no luck to wrench the plug out. So finally I got a small pick and poked around in there and found the pop rivet end, another 15 minutes to get it out, but the problem would have been, had I been able to take the plug out it would have dropped in the cylinder and I would not have know it until it was tooo late. OH yes, I did blow out the holes first even though I thought they were clean because I just put the engine back in. Careful, careful careful!!!!!!!!!
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    I got CLASS and I love it, but then I got Class:think:
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    No problem here, some of us are more interested in this sort of thing and tend to remember better how it all goes, or maybe it's just the age thingie, I'm not sure which. Hope you can remember the right amount of turns.
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    Wrong one old boy, that's the one for syncing #1 carb to # 2. The idle adjust is in between #1 and #2 carbs but just below and hard to see. You have to look from the bottom up and it doesn't have a screw driver fitting, it's a thumb screw adjuster. I tried to post a picture but that wouldn't work.
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    Wish we could make it. Close to the lake will be cool, advise to stay inland somewhat. Carl
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    Posted before I re read it. #2 is adjusted for idle first, then you have your base vaccum number. Also keep your RPMs around the 900 mark by adjusting the idle screw \ thumbwheel.
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    The front left is your #2 carb. The only way to adjust it is with the idle adjusting screw. So you adjust # 2 first, then the one behind it which is #1, then you go to the other side and forget about #'s 2&1 and set # 3 to #4, now you adjust #4 to #2 and you should be done. Hope this helps.
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    Carl, Perhaps you didn't torque the rear pig correctly when you reinstalled it. I know that they can get a bit out of alignment if you dont do it right. Here's what I do when reinstalling... 1 Install pig in tube and stick driveshaft, install the nuts on the studs and just snug them down. 2 Install rear rim and tire onto pig and assemble all the brake components and install rear axle. 3 Tighten the shaft bolt (12mm) so the axle bolt can be torqued, torque the nut and then release the 12mm shaft bolt, the swing arm will spring into it's proper formed shape. 4 Loosen the 4 pig nuts that are snug and then torque them down in a criss cross fashion. Everything should be where it normally sits. This is how I have done ever single one of my Ventures and I have never had any problems. Some others may chime in and add or detract from what I have mentioned, but I have never had any problems doing it this way with over 80k worth of riding.
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    There is a best method for re-aligning all this now, and I lerned it form Squidley. Just hang in there and I will find it and post it for you.
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    If I sell my place I could be rich, got almost everything that place has. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, full kitchen, driveway, outbuidings, built over 100 years ago, wood floors, mile deep sand, river nearby, trees, grass, mosquitoes, (and flys and stink bugs for extra measure) a lake in the spring and natives.
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    If you want to ride on this side of the border you are going to need the most important thing, one that nobody yet has mentioned and you cannot do without. Some have tried to get here without it but most find it a whole lot more pleasurable to to take their scoot.
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    Glad to hear that he's ok. Bet the next ride won't be quite as close behind the one in front of him.
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    I'm with Dalton Timmes in Ancaster, year before I was with Conestoga Ins. Cambridge. Both insured through Kingsway but Dalton was about $200.00 cheaper. Now I'm looking at Riders as well.
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    can you post some pictures?
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    Hate to play pool with this guy, a feller would just never get a shot.
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