Marcarl

Cleaning the rotors just before pad install is always a good thing. Break-in time will greatly vary with how grooved the rotors are. It would be nice to resurface the rotors every-time but I don't think that happens all that often on bike, although on cars it seems to be the norm to install new rotors with new pads. Somethin don't make much sense there eh? So to answer your question though, I would expect braking wouldn't be the same for at least 100 miles with lots of braking and some good hard braking toward the end of the trip(s). Same goes for new tires, they need to scuff up some to be safe.

I'm thinking that Bum maybe taking us all for a long ride here, letting us think that he is soo busy getting things done and all the work he now has to do. I think that maybe I should take a ride, sneak over to Burlington and have a looksee. I bet I'll find him out walking the dog and talking to everybody he can find in the neighbour hood, spreading who knows what, about how he has it so tuff with all the things he has to do. I could help him out a bit I think,,,, park in his drive and have a snooze so he can forgo that for now. I'm really good at snozzing!!! :happy65:

SealAll is awesome stuff, don't even have to be dry to use it,, always have some on hand. Can't have grease or rust though. Fixed a 2" x 1\4" hole in my buddies oil pan once. It was one of those pans that the engine had to come out to replace it. Worked just fine it did. SealAll and a cigarette package.

I hope I read this right, but if not, you now have something to read. Make sure everything is copacetic ( I think that's the right word). Clean your battery posts and the cable ends, check voltage in the battery s\b 12.6, clean and check connections at the relay (left side of battery, stuck in hard to get at spot), clean the starter connection on the starter, make sure that the grounding points on the starter are clean. Then, if that don't work, clean the start button (it's not the first time that it would be a problem area) and if that fails, pull the starter, take it apart and see if it could use a cleaning, and if that don't work,, call Patch because he has all the solutions to all our problems,,,, well at least for Ben and me. or call me.

Saddlebum overdo it?????? Now where did that thought come from. all he has to do is make breakfast, lunch, supper, clean the floors and windows, do the laundry, get the mail,go for a snooze, make the bed, cut the grass, clean the truck,,,, and all before breakfast,,,, what's he got to do for the rest of the day huh???? Clean the garage!!!

I did not read the 'why' as to the word 'slow', so may I fill that in? Pumping the handle quickly will and can inject air bubbles into the brake fluid or break up larger bubbles and these bubbles are too small to effectively rise to the top quickly, they actually stay trapped in the fluid wherever they might be, and in the process of moving the fluid from top to the bottom, that could be anywhere in the system. Over night all these little guys will slowly congregate towards the top to be let out. So if you move the handle slow you get less of the small bubbles and an easier bleed.

Now both of you are ganging up on me,,,, I just knew this was a motorcycle gang,,, now I has to be careful and not say anything,,,,, nice.

I'm thinking he's getting older and maybe can't see so far anymore, and just wants to be ready for any interlopers that might show up. Tel him Peg, that the border is closed for now and that presently hugs are not considered essential,,,, well not yet anyways. Bum,,, you had better get to that garage,, you know how important that can be!!

Consider that the motor is pretty much worthless, except for scrap. After that, what is there that is saleable?, then you have to do the work, shipping and storage, and take a chance that there are any good parts at all. Personally, I think if you were to go into a business with more bikes like PinWall, you could come out ahead, or if you already own a bike and want to sell it but can't get a buyer, then parting it out is an option, but to buy it to part it??? I've thought about that for myself, but I thought it would use up too much of my retirement.

The first time I took them out on my 85 I decided they should go back in, so I laid them on a shelve to get er done later. Never noticed any ill effects, but there were ill effects on my person in trying to get them back in, so OUT they stayed. Bike still runs fine today so the new owner says. I agree with Patch though, if only for the fact that it's Sunday and it's a day to be nice to each other.

7.2 ft lbs in my manual. That would be 86.4 in lbs. So to me that means to bring the bolt to the stop and then snug it, no more!

Opps, you is right, I wrong-read it, hi is 71. So now I would look at the release valve to make sure it's in good shape. My thinking is there has to be a leak someplace that leaks under pressure.

Max pressure is set to be 42, so if you are getting 45 you should be good. Try using the max setting and let the unit bring it up on it's own.

Not much has changed around our house, but we determined that I will be the one going to buy what ever is needed and then only if it's like necessary. We have a box of gloves in the car and truck, so if and when we have to shop or whatever, we grab a pair, get out of the car and on the way to the destination the gloves get put on, until we have exited the location and on the way to the vehicle, then off they come and in the garbage. That way our hands stay clean and so does our vehicle. We were using sanitizer and still do if necessary, but our skin was drying out and it was going to break, so that would be even worse, so gloves it is. All the projects are being worked on around here, mostly just talk though, don't want the list to get too short and then not have a selection to choose from. Marca says she has more to add to the list once I get it down a bit, so I will continue to do my normal thing and find 'make-work projects'. Her ideas of necessary things always seem to involve wood and building, and I like to see grease and oil,,, the 2 don't match so well. Do miss getting hugs though, wonder how long this is going to take,,, think I will send a message to our Prime Minister and tell him to get on with it,, long enough already!!! It's also amazing how many people now walk the streets in our neighbourhood, and none of them seem to mind it one bit. We actually get to talk to each other, discover were we all live, share stories and happenings,,, it's hard to work outside and get something done,,, kind of nice really!! No sports, no bars, no going out for dinner, all kinds of family time and getting to know each other better. Quite nice for a change. Maybe it will rub off and into the future some. It's more difficult for old folks, and those compromised and the quarantined, guess we can kind of help out in that and communicate as much as possible.

Does the pump time out, or does it just not want to go above 45?

I like them, first time I laid eyes on them though.

Take a small punch and lightly tap on the lid to push it down a bit to loosen it, it's a mighty tight fit, almost like it was made for it.

I'm going t wait for Patch, the idea I have will work but dangerous and seeing as I have no idea who you are I will keep it to myself for a bit. What you could try though, and you have to do this carefully, is to get some heat to the tip of the tube, either by using a soldering iron or a very small torch. Once it's hot, poke it out. Not too much heat or you might deform the orifice.

If the rubber is nice and flexable then I use a product called Fluid Film. It's made from lanolin and so has no effect on any of the rubbers or rubber type components. It is alos nice and slippery so helps to seat the boots etc in their proper location. If the materials are getting hard and old then I would replace them as no sealant will continue to work well under flexing components.

So reading through the article, I need to scratch my head somewhat. In most of our world, a dog remains a dog and a cat remains a cat. They have little ones and turn out basically the same as their parents, still dogs and still cats. Now this virus, all on it's own decides to mutate into something that it really is not, it changes very quickly and seems to accommodate itself into something that it's host (us) is more unlikely to be able to resist. So what external forces are driving this change? I know animals can and will adopt to changing environments, but this takes time and generations to complete. What cause this little feller to do this, at will seemingly? I'm not arguing with the article, not at all, but just wondering about what's seems to be discovered.

Sure thing Charles, will ask for the peace that passes all understanding.

I found that I had to scrap everything learned related to MS, and then carry on with BC, not that easy to do, but I was under the gun to get things in order. I was trying to organize routes around our city, 85,000, into 7 zones with over 1200 stop locations. It was more than MS could handle and even BC wasn't robust enough. Eventually had to go to an on-line routing program designed for delivery.

I was kind of like forced to use BaseCamp this winter for planning a snow route. I was using MapSource, both from Garmin and work well with the Zumo. I had tried BaseCamp before and wasn't at all happy with it, but now that I'm used to it,, it'll be my goto.

I think your numbers are screwed, not that they are false, here's why I think. Italy's outbreak was limited to one area when it first began, I'm thinking that area had a lot of older people living there (not that we should not be concerned for older people) and so did not take the whole population of the country into account as far as percentages and rate of death is concerned. I don't think those numbers are widely available for anywhere, maybe it's too early to figure just yet. So looking at it that way, the numbers don't tell the real story I think. What has been disclosed is that CV19 has about the same affect on a person as a good case of the common cold, so my thoughts are: if you are compromised in the health dept, then maybe it would be best to self isolate, and if you are older to do the same, then the rest of the population could go through this feeling of miserableness for 2-4 weeks and then it would be all over, but as long as the virus has new folks to log onto, the most vulnerable will continue to be vulnerable, and that could be for months at the rate we are going. The fear is that the health systems would be overloaded, as they are already and that those REALLY needing the help would not have access to it, because it would be plugged up with panicked people who think that a test will somehow help. I think it's high time that we figure out when a body is contagious, and when the contagiousness is over. That way we can treat this more as a common cold and deal with it. As long as we are not told the parameters the problem is wide open and out of control. Yep, we see that happening. At this rate we are are in this for a long haul, possible 6 mths to a year.

I just don't know about you,,, here I give you good advice and then you go shoot holes into it, what's with you? Maybe I can adjust this a bit. Throw the plants into the ditch in front of your house,( after all, would you throw HER plants out in plain sight?) and then when she comes home and notices right off the bat that there are plants thrown into the ditch and inquires about them, tell her one of the neighborhood people ( you are one of the neighborhood people) must have done that,, she'll be so worried that it was hers that when you take her into the house and show her how nice her plants look she'll be so relieved and happy, she'll never see the difference,, and you'll be her biggest hero!!! Works good on paper anyways,,,at least I think so.