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Glad you are doing as well as you are. Bikes can be fixed faster than humans heal. Let us know if you figure out what happened. Good luck and prayers on the lung issue. kickshot

I agree with Bubber. Oil is better now. But so are oil filters, air filters, fuel filters, fuel and engines. All the things that contribute to make oil dirty and fail have gotten better. So if you believe that, than you must believe you can run your oil longer. kickshot

Want to know the real truth? (And yes we can break this down a hundred and one ways of why it happens, but the way I see it is. It all boils down to corporate greed.) The person who worked on your bike was most likely a mechanics helper or what they call a maintenance tech that has no training what so ever. I have spent a lot of years working to become a Ford Senior Master Technician and when you see those commercials on TV where Mike Rowe leads you to believe that a Master Tech will do the maintenance on your vehicle it really chaps my tail. kickshot

I would start by putting the bike on a jack and checking the steering head bearings for play, check the rear swing arm for play, basically check all bearings and suspension components for excessive wear or play. Including rear and front shocks. if you have to take the front wheel off and check shocks individually than do it. kickshot

I'll try to help if I can but I'm afraid we don't speak the same lingo. First of all if your check engine light is not on you most likely do not have any problems. Secondly P1000 is a diagnostic trouble code (DTC) that is set when you clear all DTC"S lets say by disconnecting the battery and touching the cables together or by just letting the battery go dead. It means that the pcm has not completed a complete monitor cycle of all sensors. Some of these sensors take a long road trip to complete the cycle. And I mean a long road trip at steady throttle. I suspect your fuel pump locked up from lack of use or just not driving enough to keep good fresh gas in it. Also the monitoring of sensors is handled differently by all test or scan tools. I call them pids. The lap tops I use as test tools are up to date and have access to a lot of information but are powered by ford software programs and supported by ford hardware. as for fuel mileage....well you are talking to a technician and there are way to many factors that can cause bad fuel mileage. Hope some of this helps. Also I am sure your pcm did not lose any of its programming. Is it possible you had a rodent attack some of the vehicles wiring while it sat idle? They can cause very strange problems some times but almost always cause a definite symptom. kickshot

Funds and prayers sent. kickshot

Hey puc send me a pm with the name and address and I'll get it out to you. kickshot

The carb sync tool will only help if the carbs are working right. Sounds like yours may still be gummed up. It will not help with the idle adjustment. Also you may want to verify your air filters are clear and your spark plugs are not fouled. I'm sure others with more smarts than me will chime in. kickshot

Now I know I got to get back to Palo Duro this year. It has been too long any way. Just the beauty of the Canyon alone is enough reason to go but now you can ride a zip line! kickshot

Hey Puc do you collect patches also. If so let me know. I got one from Wendover I'll send you. Kickshot

Hey I got a new ideal! Let's not count a state unless you do an Indian Larry seat stand while in it. (Yea right like any of us do that!) I love watching some of the threads on here. Me I'm all for if you have ridden a motorcycle in it period. I don't have the state map because Texas alone is not enough for me to mark. I'm just not sure how many miles I have in Texas but I know it's a life time of them. (But that's another thread!) My wife does not like tour style riding and I am not retired yet so I'll have to wait to get my map. kickshot

Hey Fuzzy I have a sissy bar off my 2005 RSTD but it is missing the locks and back rest pad. It is just the chrome bar that was stripped of all other stuff. You can get the locks and the bolts for about $130.00 plus shipping from www.partshark.com. When you get to the web site and get the parts fiche pulled up just look under seat and you will find the locks and bolts. It was taken off after I hit a deer. I could not see any thing wrong with it other than normal wear but I guess it was an insurance thing. Is your address still the same as listed in your profile? If so and you want it I will send it to you. kickshot

The front switch would be my first suspect and then maybe where the wiring flexes as it is routed by the steering head may have broken. kickshot

Advance auto parts here carries motorcycle oil and filters on the shelf. That's what I use. kickshot

We can build the safest roads and vehicles the world will know but you can't take away the human factor. I just finished a 3000 mile trip and forty minutes from home a bike passed me in the left lane of a congested interstate in Austin Tx. It looked like he was leaving ample distance between his bike and the vehicle in front. Twenty seconds later I was passing the scene of his accident . He had rear ended a car. How I don't know. I pray for him and the people involved in this story. Please try to be as safe as possible on the roads. Not only for you but for other people as well. Kickshot

Yes you should be able to change coils only if you want to. Like you said it is only an intermittent misfire so it should not have fouled the plug. kickshot

You could buy one coil and install it in a cylinder and drive it to see if the miss is gone. If it is gone you know you got lucky. If not put the original coil back in and try another cylinder. That is a lot of work on a van. Mode six data, power balance and PID data monitor is what I use to find missing cylinders that do not set a misfire code. But I have access to ford test equipment. I am not sure if one of the parts stores that pull codes for free can access that information for you. I would bet it is one of the remaining five original coils that is failing now. I do know that the accell coils did not work well for us. I do recommend using only motorcraft plugs. But if I found an after market coil with good reviews I would try it. kickshot

Not sure what king of magnet you may be using but I got one off the Matco Tool truck that is mounted on a flexible wire with handle and it will go almost any where. kickshot

I have an 1873 .45-70 Springfield with bayonet. It has an a stamp that grand dad said was an Army armorer's stamp. It's a breech loader. It is some thing else. Got it from my grand dad along with a few other guns. Need less to say I will be passing these guns down to my son. kickshot

Very nice! kickshot

Just a looks thing as far as I know. I have them on mine. Had to order the tri-bar head lamp to match. kickshot

Wow Puc! I always thought that it would be fun to ride with you because of your posts but now I am sure of it. I'm sure your son is proud of you. As for the drinking problem thing I am not sure I can weigh in on it. I was pretty wild growing up. Had no real direction in life until the day my son was born. Then I knew why god had spared me the times he had. I still enjoy drinking beer. I never had a problem with my son. Drinking has never been his thing. He has made me nothing but proud of the man and father he has become.

Yep just put the second one in my house about two months ago. They last about seven years here. The hardest part is getting the old one out. They gain weight over the years. kickshot

My left pipe produced what could be called smoke when my head gasket started leaking. If sea foam in the oil causes smoke you would think it would smoke both sides. Hope it is not a tell of more serious problems. kickshot

"In COURT her lawyer proved he altered the visability of the bike by removing lights and reflectors. As he read the list of lights and reflectors removed in the transition from Police Dresser to Clean look Sportster the jury substantially reduced his award from the first award. (This was her appeal). " To quote John Mellencamp "Hey calling it your job ol' hoss sure don't make it right But if you want me to I'll say a prayer for your soul tonight." I could go on and on about right and wrong but I still feel people are too quick to blame their actions on some one or some thing else! kickshot