Chaharly

My dad had a Ram. Probably an 04 with the Hemi. It was the newer body style. Anyways it was a nice truck on the inside but they're revvy. If you're gonna get a truck invest in a 2500 Ram Diesel. Dad has one with 250k miles on it and the body and interior are in amazing shape. As far as gassers go, I've never owned a truck newer than 97. I had a 97 F150 with a 4.6 for awhile. Thought I blew a head gasket on it but it turns out theres an oil cooler that could have possibly been leaking oil into the cooling system. Either way it would get bubbles in the coolant and smelled like gas and I drove that truck for thousands of miles like that. Worst thing about that was the heater didn't work because of that specific problem. The AC kicked ass in it though. I found that that F150 could turn sharper than my new truck which is a 97 Silverado with a 5.7 I absolutely love this 350 Vortec. Tons of pull with power to spare and it shifts super smooth. Rarely if ever shifts on hills with the cruise set but this truck is as rusted out as my ford. I bought it for 800 bucks with a bad rear end and put a junk yard one it in that hows real bad. I need to get this one fixed soon but maybe this is a sign that these chevy's don't have the best axles? This is just my experience with pickups. I think the late 90s ones are nice because they're still easy to work on

Thank you for sharing these pics of you guys on the scoots. This really brought back memories of me and my brother riding together. I sure wish we could've gotten more time in. Thinking about you guys puc. Take Care

Dang she sure is a beauty!

Keeping you, your family, and especially your brother in our thoughts! I'm glad to hear they're keeping him comfortable as well. Take it easy Brother Puc!

You can still get new motor mounts for my 88 Found them on partsfish.com under crank case

I think that bike haul looks like the real deal. Did ya ask him how many ventures he shipped?

Nothing to be sorry for! I've got pretty boring topics, so I dont mind you guys throwing some interesting color on these topics. He's looking through USHIP and bikehaul at the moment. I told him about palleting it etc, but its his dads and I dont think he's gonna pallet it for us. I told him he could fly me out there and I'll drive it home, but again, he sure didnt seem too interested in that. Hell he even refused me the third fourth and fifth times I asked him! We'll see what he ends up doing to get it back here.

Hey guys. A work buddy would like to ship his dad's harley from California to Nebraska. Neither of us have ever shipped a bike before so I'm not really sure how to advize him. Have you guys ever shipped a bike? What companies are reliable? Anything or anyone he should look out for?

Here in Wayne, NE we got a thunderstorm with hail. 30 miles west in Randolph they got 2 inches of snow.... i guess @Flyinfool must be tweekin the mixture nozzles around on that white wash machine. Glad to see you're stuck with us for awhile longer!

I'd take a $7000 vmax

Nope sorry! I liked that stuff so much there aint none left!!

Yup that's what i did. Cleaned em up and RTVd the crap outa them

Well I buttoned everything back up yesterday. Wired the Stator directly into the R&R but kept the plug for the R&R to the rest of the bike. So about 18 hours later I called dad to go out and run it for about 20 minutes because I was terrified those wire plugs were gonna leak. He said he run it for 20 minutes with no oil on the floor so it must be successful! Thanks guys!!

Gonna miss ya @MiCarl ! You sure you wanna leave us?!?!

Awesome thanks so much! I'll check resistances across the 3 wires from the stator tomorrow to satiate my curiosity. Everything else went real smooth. It only took a few minutes to get the rotor off. I'd tighten the puller then whack the puller on its bolt. Figured the shock would be going through the crankshaft instead of the rotor. I'll look at the R&R tomorrow to see if the color codes on the wires are different but I'm pretty sure they're the same as are the ones on the bike. I'm going to solder the new Regulator in to the old one's plug and I'll have to drill a hole to mount the regulator. I found that E-6000 that you were talking about at the Dollar Store for about 4 bucks and yeah I have to say that I'll be using that on just about everything now. I'll do a write up over everything I've done to the bike when I finally get her all buttoned back up!

Yeah I'm gonna call ricks first thing tomorrow and get ahold of boss bearings about the regulator. I wonder if anyone's done the ricks stator upgrade

Hey guys. I'm in the middlle of installing Rick's Stator and it doesn't have the plug attatched to the wires. There are 3 wires, all yellow that come out of the stator and go into the same colored wires on the R & R. Are they interchangeable? Does it matter which one goes where? Also on the R and R there are 2 green and two red wires and the old one had 2 red and 2 black. Can i switch the two reds and blacks around, or do they ahve to go to the exact same slot. Any help would be VERY much appreciated

Had a similar situation with the current 88 that i have. I wrecked my 99 and was looking for a first gen because i missed it. Found my current bike and saw the photos. Talked to the guy several times. Said he moved out to Montana and the bike is at his buddy's in Ohio. Hasn't run in a few years and he only put like 3k miles on it in the 7 years he owned it. Said he was the second owner and the body is in GREAT shape. Asked a pretty high price on it that i agreed to and drove from Randolph Nebraska to Cleveland Ohio to get this bike. Got there and every piece of plastic had some sort of break. The drilled a hole in the trunkand wired a lawn mower battery to the actual battery. Ran like crap which i expected. It was covered in cat prints and only 1 speaker worked. I told that guy that his buddy is a crook as the guy who was actually selling the bike was 2k miles away but since i invested so much to get it we took it anyways. I've done a ton of work to her but she's been an amazing machine for me. I just wish i could get my hands on that dude

I wonder if the little speed sensor in your speedo is going out? Do you maybe have another cluster from a royale to try? Also when was the last time you lubed and adjusted the freeplay on your cables? That, to me, made the biggest difference

Glad your okay man. I was instantly pissed when i found what happened

Thanks!

Do you still happen to have this @mralex714

Looks like the bumper of a pickup

What size are the bolts that i need to use with the puller? Like what thread? I gotta drive 30 miles to work on this bad boy so i'd like to know what bolts i need! Someone said you also need to replace the allen bolts on the starter clutch. Does anyone know what size these are as well?

I'd love to come to a meat and eat! I live backwards from normal society though. I work Friday Saturday and Sundays. If it was during the middle of the week like say, a Wednesday then I could do it. (Wilmington is about 540 miles from me, and it'd be pretty much all interstate)