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also would like to throw this out there for general opinions, after a complete going thru and tuning of my carbs by V7GOOSE, the bike runs great, pulls strongly and runs smooth, got 39.6, 41.3 and 43.3 on the last three tanks, would it be worth the effort to even change the jets back out to stock?
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anybody have a 122.5 and 117.5 stock jets lying around they do not need, I could use them to replace the larger jets installed by a previous owner. thanks, R.T.
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warmer days, no choke either, let er idle for a couple of minutes and go.
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prayers for a speedy and full recovery for Dianne, good luck on the settlement and on the vstar.
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non firing cylinder update
bigdog1971 replied to bigdog1971's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
yea, it was a good experience, learned a lot as to how things work on these carbs and all the things that can make them not work right, it helps a lot to have someone like Kent walking you thru this and having you help as he figures it out. There's no doubt though that the seafoam did help from what we saw, my carbs just had too many problems and had probably been setting up too much. -
Just an update on my 02 Midnight that was running poorly, the seafoam treaments, new plugs, fuel filter, etc... as a lot of you recommended:happy34: all helped but it ended up being exactly what V7GOOSE had told me to expect, a complete carb cleaning and resetting. And talk about a different bike after Kent walked me thru the process and showed me where the problems were and corrected them . And I am ashamed to admit that due to some problems encountered enroute to Kent's place, I showed up with an empty cooler, :sign **** happens:and , but that will be corrected in the future:beersign:. Thanks a ton Kent, job well done. Now if anyone would be interested in trading their pillow top seats for my studded Midnight ones in excellent shape, just send me a pm. , Bigdog .
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Craigatcsi, no need to apologize, there was certainly no disrepect that I felt from your post, it was an honest question/observation about a situation that happens a lot out there, we (I) got us off your original question and got off out in left field somewhat and apologize for that. I've been on both sides of the fence and just feel that I may have a pretty good grasp as to why one rider may get stopped/ticketed and the next may not which I think is pretty well reflected in everyone's posts. There's certainly nothing wrong or out of the ordinary thinking to be traveling a little above the limits with other traffic, seeing the cruiser turn around, hit the lights and hope he's not coming after me? That's a normal reaction, I think most of the posts here just state opinions as to what they feel is the best reaction at that time depending on your level of guilt, right? It was a good question and I've enjoyed being able to put my 2cts. in, we're all riders and enjoy a passion for something that many people can not. Ride safe,
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Carbon One, thanks for that post, bad, bad deal, I will print that up in the morning and post that at our office for our guys to read as a reminder that it can happen just like that at any time, I know from experience what these officers' families, friends and fellow officers have to deal with following these tragedies and it is a very, very sad time for all. thanks.
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thanks for all the supporting posts guys, I thought I may went a little overboard for a while but your posts makes me feel a lot better, Adventure 1943, thanks for your support and all of the Blue Knights everywhere, we see, ride with and enjoy their company whenever possible, they're quite a few of 'em here in Texas and Armyvet, neat trick with the keys, I've always admired our brother officers who work in the New York area and other large metro cities, ya'll have some difficult jobs and some of the most enjoyable and informative training I received during my career came from one of your own, the well known retired Homicide Lt.? Vernon Geberth of NYPD who left me with a little reminder that I still have in my office today and draws comments from most people who see it hanging on the wall, a little wall plaque that says it all, "Remember, we work for God!". :amen:and:325:.
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Adventure 1943, there's one thing you can count on in these situations, no two officers, no two offenders (traffic stops), no two situations are ever going to be the same, thus everyone is going to have a different experience from their encounter. some good, some bad, but what most citizens do know know or have not ever witnessed is a good, honest, well meaning L.E.O. walking up to an open window to maybe just give a friendly warning to the driver to maybe slow down a little and get shot point blank for whatever reason the person had for doing it, before the officer even had a chance to say a word, I've seen video/training tapes of this exact thing and it's not hard to understand how many officers now days are very cautious and apprehensive as to how they make their contacts on traffic stops now, society has brought a lot of this about and there are some very bad people running up and down the interstates/highways now, the common citizen just doesn't ever know it or have to deal with it, I would like to think that most officers (myself included) do not view most bikers in that light as many of them, like me and my fellow biking officers do ride and always share that mutual joy of being on the road and the fellowship with other bikers, whether they ride tourers, cruisers, crotch rockets or whatever. DAMN, I'm going to finally shut up now:happy65: and put that soapbox back in the garage for a while as I know I got off base here and apologize for that.:amen:I hope you keep your tires on the road and the wind at your back, be safe! Bigdog
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Hmmm, pretty lucky there, we're not big on handing out citations and certainly do not give raises, pats on the backs, etc... for an officer writing a lot of tickets, but our officers would never let you just drive off with an expired license, might let you call a friend to come get you, let a licensed passenger take over the driving with your permission or some other workable solution, but to let you drive off on an expired license, that's a no-no, too much libility out there in the event you drove off down the road, had an accident resulting in injuries or even fatalities and there's any record that you had been stopped prior to that accident and were allowed to continue. That's not speaking for all officers and all agencies as to their policies and actions, that's just the way we do it. I can only speak for myself and our agency's attitude but the old days (years and years ago) are over where an officer might stop someone that had maybe a little too much to drink (but wasn't necessarily intoxicated) and let them drive on home if they "lived only a couple of miles down the road", that just doesn't fly anymore with MADD, the libilities involved and the general attitude of the public now towards drinking and driving. Phew!, sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now.
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I always tell people that when you get stopped, don't start the conversation off with "What the F*** did you stop me for?", it will usually only go downhill from there, I can assure you!!!! and believe me, that hap:mugshot:pens.
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I have to agree with two sides here, yes during my career I've known officers who would give their own grandmother a ticket:sign02:, and yes, there are probably some out here that still have that mentality, you get stopped, you get a ticket period, but a good friend of mine who was a DPS sergeant before retiring recently always told me, "I usually don't have my mind made up on giving a violator a ticket until he/she opens their mouth." I drove a lot in an earlier career before entering L.e.and although I did get stopped a few times for being a little over the limit, I never got a ticket because the first things out of my mouth when approached by the officer was, "good morning, day, evening (whatever the time was in that situation) , how are you today officer?", the public would be amazed how far a little courtesy will get you with most officers. Not stating or promising that this is always the case, but try it you may be surprised.
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sorry for the second post but to comment on the other post about the "lead Bike" being the one that was probably going to get pulled over and maybe not the following bikes, who makes the decision to be that "lead Bike" , that may end up getting a ticket, costing him , and also being an issue for his insurance, I'm the Road Captain for our group, mostly L.E.O.s and I'm sorry, but if we're going somewhere and you want to run 80 and up for any extended periods, you're going it alone, if we're in a hurry we may run it a little over the limit but I'm not taking a ticket for anyone and put other L.E.O.s in the position of having to waste his time and ours by pulling over a bunch of speeding cops:sign your welcome:. just my 2cts.
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I've seen several instances where on the interstates here in Texas, the DPS troopers have had two or more vehicles pulled over where they probably clocked the lead car in a "pack" running together and had them all pull over, may not happen a lot but I have seen it, so if you're following or "tailing" a vehicle running well over the limit and think they will probably get them and not you, you may be surprised!!!! Some of the troopers are pretty sharp about how they can do this and not be content to just go after the lead vehicle. When you have 70 mph limits on the interstates and you have several vehicles traveling fairly closely together at 80,85 or higher in some cases on our interstates as some of you know, it's not that hard to pick out who's playing follow the leader. You roll the dice when you do that and don't cry when you get tagged. Have a good attitude about it and you may just get lucky and get that warning as some of them said, a bad or sour attitude is where most traffic stops go south for you in a hurry:headache:. Just mho from a veteran L.E.O.. in Texas..
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don't know if this might be your problem as there are lots of complaints about our bikes and their whines and gear noise but i bought a new 07 vulcan 2000 classic lt a while back and it had a bad whine or similar noise going down the road and it was pretty annoying:sign your welcome:, after replacing the stock bridgestones with metzlers front and rear, noise was gone!, bike was much quieter, handled and seemed to ride better. a tire change might help you out?
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23 years service, currently serving as chief deputy, limestone co. s.o., since 2001:happy34:
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as some of my harley riding friends say everytime i lose sight of them in my rear view mirrors, "but it's a harley":bowdown: good luck:bang head: and don't give up.
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yea and the biggest problem is having to avoid all the cats every time you drive thru the neighborhood
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yea, mine in the 07 was what i call a whine, which i contributed to the straight cut gears and was pretty constant thru the gear range, wouldn't call it a growl:think: though, like they say on these sites, some do it and some don't, the 02 i have now doesn't have it, the whine for sure, might have a little of the chirp:scratchchin: from the clutch basket as some say but if it does it's not very noticeable on this bike.
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may not help you much but i had an 07 that had the whine/gear noise? and although i had bub pipes on it that were pretty loud you still hear the whine at all speeds and it was pretty annoying but the 02 midnight i just bought is pretty quiet and doesn't appear to be making the whine and it has the road king pipes which aren't as loud as the bubs, but the whine is a pretty common problem and a result of the straight cut gears these bikes come with from what i've learned on the various sites.
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non firing cyclinder
bigdog1971 replied to bigdog1971's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
well guys and gals, met with goose today and after a couple of hours it looks like goose has it narrowed down to carb. problems and we're (er., he) is going to get that corrected as soon as we can get together again. i must say it was a a very enlightening experience to speak with and watch goose at work, yea, you can claim not be a mechanic but you damned sure fooled me!, i had some pretty good information to soak in today and thanks for those brake pads too, i was too caught up in trying to get the bike running right to worry about those:confused07:, i'll be riding to austin saturday morning and will be there most of the day so just keep in touch when your schedule will allow those carb jobs, thanks a bunch goose, owe you big time. bigdog:dancefool: -
non firing cyclinder
bigdog1971 replied to bigdog1971's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
hey goose, sorry for the extra post but all 4 pipes seems to be getting hot now when running, the front right and left rear don't fel to be getting quite as hot as the other two but they are hot enough where you can't hardly touch them, hope that helps? bigdog:think: -
non firing cyclinder
bigdog1971 replied to bigdog1971's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
hey goose, got your contact info., a friend and i worked on the bike this evening and replaced the plugs (the old ones were all just finger tight, thought that might be part of the problem) and took the old fuel filter off and blow it out and put it back on (didn't have a new one availble). it runs better but still not there, pulls pretty good thru the lower gears as long as you keep the rpms up with some popping and backfiring thru the pipes. can cruise along pretty good 75-85 but when pull throttle back hard won 't do much. i have a motion pro mercury sync. instrument that i used to try and sync. the carbs but the mercury reading were all over the place with 2, 3, and 4 being real high and 1 being very low but the mercury int he tubes was very spaced out? and not solid bars of mercury so i don't know if the tool was functioning on not but the carbs. appear to be off pretty good i guess. where do i go from here or can you look at it tommorrow if i can ride it up there? thanks, r.t., also ponch just let me know on the time and place i could meet ya'll on the 15th, thanks. -
non firing cyclinder
bigdog1971 replied to bigdog1971's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
just an update guys, i've got a motion pro mercury sycn. tool and found some step by step photos on sycn. the carbs and it looks really pretty easy so i'm going to try that after i change the plugs, the photos use the same tool so as long as mine is working hopefully it'll work out, keeping my fingers crossed that this will all work.