Tommy

I am sorry to hear of the death of your grandmother. You can be sure, she won the game...God bless her, and your family.

Ron, I am so sorry for your loss. Enjoy the good memories, and may God bless you and your family.

Alan. I am so terribly sorry about your loss. Words are futile at this time, but having lost a close loved one myself I have an idea of what you are feeling. God bless you and your family.

Larry; Does your device fit a gen one??I have a new 1500 lb. bike lift, but I have to build an adapter for the bike frame.

I'm so terribly sorry for your loss. I can sadly say, with experience, I feel your loss. Not a day goes by that I don't miss my child. I would like to tell you that time will make acceptance of your loss easier....I have not found that to be true as yet...I am hopeful.

Mike, I am so sorry for your loss..You have written a beautiful tribute that touched us all very deeply. I'm sure your wife was a wonderful person.Try to stay strong, and take it one day at a time...

Thanks to all of you who sent condolence messages to Karen Sue and I.We appreciate these kind words more than we can express.

Five years ago today my wife and I lost our daugher at 39 years of age. Kelley died of an extended illness. We are coping as best we can, but the heartache does not let up.. Well meaning people have told us that time heals all wounds, After five years I am still waiting for the healing to begin... Kelley was a Daddy's girl, and not having her in my life is a real heartbreak. She was a loving mother and a strong Christian girl. I know she is in a better place, but we miss her so desperately.

No Brad, she actually does a pretty good job....She's got my mufflers so shiny I could shave in em...

I've always gotten satisfactory results using a tire brush and 409 cleaner. I bought some fancy whitewall cleaner at the auto parts store and I don't think it did as good a job as my wifes 409...just my 2 cents.

I use the inexpensive round face vacuum gauges for all my bikes. The gauges I bought were around $50.00 Bucks US from JCW. I submit that you can get excellent carb. sync. results with these gauges if you take time to do a proper calibration. These guage sets may or may not be calibrated as they come from the factory. Mine were way off, and an acceptable result could not have been achieved. I calibrate my guages once a year, whether I think they need it or not. The procedure: You will need to borrow or purchase a Mity Vac Hand vacuum pump. If you are into your own motorcycle or car maintenance you probably already have one. Your vacuum guages will have a rubber hose you will attach to the guages. Attach the Mity Vac Hand pump to the other end of the hose on the first guage and pump the handle until the guage on the Mity Vac reads 14 inches. The Mity Vac and the carb. sync. tool guages should not leak or you will not be able to establish a static vacuum. If your guages leak down, check your hoses for a leak. Remove the clear plastic guage covers from the carb. sync. tool and set the needle to a reference point that is easy to remember. It really does not matter where you set the needle since all you doing is getting all needles to read the same at a specific vacuum. Move to the second guage and pump the hand vac to 14 inches and set the needle to the same reference point that you have chosen on the first guage. Move on to the third guage and set the hand vac to 14 inches and set the needle position as you did on the first two guages. Move to guage four and repeat the process. Again, all you are trying to do is get all guages, with a static reading of 14 inches, to read the same. Your guages will come with damper valves for each rubber line, which will slow needle fluctuations when you are actually syncing the carbs. with the engine running. That's all there is to it. Your guages are now calibrated and you should be happy with the carb. sync. results. I sync. my carbs. at around 2500 rpm. I know that some folks advocate syncing at idle...my response is, how often do you ride you bike at idle? Don't get in a hurry...take time to get each carb. as close to the reference carb. as you can. I do not use carb stix or mercury manometers as I do not want mercury in my garage. I am very fussy about my carburator maintenance, after spending most of my working career, (30 years) as a tool engineer for Marvel-Schebler/ Tillotson div. of Borg Warner. My company built carbs. for Harley-Davidson for a number of years, and we provided the Schebler carbs. for Bert Munro's Indian...You remember the movie, right? just to be a name dropper.

Man, I'm tellin ya,...buy my 98 V-max...swap out the engines and go looking for a new 1800 Goldwing....You'll blow him in the weeds and, you'll never get the smile off your face...

Freebird,..Don,...I love this site and appreciate all your effort to make it a fun and informative place to visit...Thanks again

I have done the kill switch off, won't start situation myself...However, this little saga is not about me..I was returning from the beach here in NC when I saw a gentleman pushing a fully loaded 1500 Goldwing just off the road. He was getting ready to turn into a service station on HWY 70 near Raleigh. I pulled in front of him and asked what he thought the problem was. Don't have a clue he said, I was just riding along and it quite running. I said, these bikes rarely just quit...what position is your kill switch in? He looked down...said a dirty word..and fired up his bike. He thanked me and rode off into the sunset.... Experience is a great teacher...huh?

Why don't you just buy my 1998 V-max and be done with it??

I have used Mobil One 10-40 MX4T in all of my bikes over the years with no internal problems...This oil is designed to work with a motorcycle's wet clutch..