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Heck you have not even hit the record in the asking questions department. So since you have a long way to go ask away. BTW those of us in the know love to assist, some of us even started out as you are doing now. This site is all about sharing knowledge and the questions even help us in the know because it gives us the chance to remember stuff that we sometimes forget or challenge us with a new problem to test our know how and diagnostic skills. Glad you decided to join. True we got a little off track the past couple years with the whole covid thing and all but hopefully come this year we will all be back on the subject of our bikes, a much better topic anyway. You will not regret joining and may even develop new friendships with members in your area. As they say birds of a feather flock together and we are definitely a bunch of fun loving bird brains

Could use a bit more info on the brake issue. I am not sure if your saying they locked up or that they did not and you did not state if you were applying both foot and hand brake or just one or the other.

I get that. I have spent hours searching for air leaks on transport trucks which have miles of air lines, fittings and air bags unable to find any, yet the customer insists it looses air over night. Sometimes you have to add extra soap to the water spray everything down and wait a few minutes. The tell tale is sometimes nothing more than a very slight foaming at the leak. Also check the exhaust ports and or open ended lines near the solenoid valves. Cover the hole or end of hose very lightly with a wet soapy finger. Its possible the valves are leaking internally and allowing air to escape through the exhaust port. If your not sure were they are with the compressor assembly uncovered, lower the pressure using the buttons on the class control panel. As you do this you will hear were the air is escaping as the system dumps air, these are your exhaust ports. they should seal up tight other than when dumping air. If air is leaking out of these other than when lowering the suspension than the valves are faulty and need to be replaced.

If you only need the diaphragms and the sliders are in good shape try out this place http://jbmindustries.com/Yamaha650.html I have purchase from them a couple times and highly recommend them. Read entire page before you buy though in case you prefer to stick to OEM style. Pay particular attention the the note highlighted in yellow near the bottom of the page referencing the venture

Nice I love it. Here is what I built to move snow. And the blade with 4x4 draw bar removed is light enough to carry under one arm or toss up on the rafters for the summer. I can angle the blade behind the truck are out past either side of the truck or even turn it completely around to push the snow rather than pull. The whole thing only takes fifteen minutes to mount to my trailer hitch. It worked so well the first year that the driveway hardly got any snow the last two years I didn't even have to use it.

I have come to the conclusion I need not worry about my diet. I will most likely die of brain strain from trying to keep up with all the pro's and con's, do's and don't s in the never ending quest of doing the right thing only to find out it is now the wrong thing and then back to the right thing to try and stay healthy.

If you have clogging of the arteries I would not cut back on the statin drug but would back off on the K2. If the statin is giving you muscle pain see your DR for a different type of Statin. Both my brothers had to do this and they are now fine. K2 increases platelets in the blood stream which I said before for some people specially if the have thin blood is a good thing. But too many platelets can causing clotting specially if you already have restricted arteries. This is why clodidogrel is often prescribed for the 1st year or 2 to stent patients to reduce platelets and prevent clotting of the stent. Clotting can also drive up your blood pressure another reason to be careful when taking K2.

So whats in the box? Inquiring minds wish to know!

It always sad to hear of the passing of another member. Condolences and prayers for him and his family

Yes Merry Christmas , Happy new year and lets hope!

Its not? and here i just filed my tank with water figuring it was cheaper than gas. My thinking is that since compression creates heat and heated water turns to steam I would in a sense have a steam engine that would cost me nothing to run.

Check battery voltage before you you hook it up and recheck voltage when hooked up If there is a big voltage drop your battery is either defective or undercharged. Put it on slow charge over night and repeat the same procedure. If the same occurs you likely have a defective battery you can verify this buy load testing the battery. On the other hand if when you hook up the battery and you get an unusual heavy spark as you touch the cable to the battery you may have a bad short somewhere.

A Day late but hope all had a very merry Christmas Day.

Yes Merry Christmas to you as well.

Another interesting fact that my Dr told me which totally threw me for a loop is that oranges are fattening. I guess it, and can only assume it has to do with the sugar content. Who Knew.

Knew you would get in on this one. Notice how I conveniently left out the name of this dish to give you an opening. If its one thing us dutch folks like as much as stretching copper penny's as though we were making copper wire. Its Stamppot.

Try taking the kale out of the garden the day before you intend to eat it and put it in the freezer over night before cooking it. Back in the sixties and most of the seventies when it stayed frozen all winter we left the kale in the garden all winter and only picked enough for dinner. Also try this. Peel and quarter some patatoes place in a pot and cover with water. Place a bed of kale on top oft the potatoes and some smoked pork or pork and beef sausages on top of the kale and cover. Once the patatoes are done, remove the sausages and mash the potatoes and kale together. Serve on a plate and mix in some viniger and raw diced onions. You will love it.

So your clearing the snow so you can cut the lawn and I thought my neighbor was a lawn fanatic

I take both rosuvastatin and ramipril. I have had no side effects from either as far as I know, though I do know that certain types of statins have produced muscle pain in some people. One statin in particular was notorious for this. I take both before bed rather than in the morning. Apparently statins which are meant to control cholesterol work best while your sleeping. I take the Ramipril at night because the pharmacist advised that it has a tendency to cause dizziness so its best to take before bed rather than in the AM. Vitamin K2 and food products such Kale which produce a lot of K2 helps the body produce more blood platelets which in most cases is great. However if you are on a platelet reducing medicine such as Clopidogrel You should not take it because it defeats the purpose of taking the drug. Also not a good idea if you are prone to blood clotting and should be avoided for at least a year if you recently had any stents inserted.

Now I am not even close to being a computer export as a matter of fact far from it, so the only thing I see when it comes to newer operating systems is fancier more confusing do dads for which I have little use.all I do on the on the internet is email, bank, and sometimes look up info on how to do something I am not familiar with or go on VR to stir the pot, so for me windows 2000 and maybe XP were just fine. From my point of view for the limited amount I use a computer all these upgrades mean to me is more time sitting in front of the computer struggling with another learning curve, I would rather do without preferring to spend my time with more physical activities instead of constantly saying to myself. Now What

What year and model of bike are you talking about?

Check the connectors at the ignition module (CDI). I almost replaced mine for the same same symptoms. No spark on one cylinder. As I was removing it I noticed the build up of green and white crap in the connector and on the terminals. I cleaned all the terminals with slivers of fine emery cloth and electrical terminal cleaner followed with a second cleaning of ACF 50 then gave it a good saturation of ACF 50, then reinserted all the connectors. that was three years ago and the bike has run like a dream ever since.

Garages are self full filling. They get filled full all on their own.

It is not uncommon for something like this to take place in these bikes if they have sat for a while. Sometimes they take a little help to get started and once you do try keeping the RPMS up for a while until the bike warms up. once it warms up ride up and down the street for a bit in 1st gear and keep the RPMS well up. Or if the gas is old drain the carbs into a glass container, this way you can check for water in the fuel. If possible after letting the bike sit undisturbed over night, drain the fuel tank as well with shut off set at the reserve setting. Drain the 1st bit into a glass container so you can again check for water. In any case if the fuel is old replace it and the fuel filter. If this does not work, Start with the simple things. Make sure it has spark. If you have a compression gauge check compression while you have the plugs out. If compression is bad on any cylinder do a cylinder leak down test to pin point where the cylinder is losing compression. It may also be a good idea to check your valve settings. Too tight may prevent a valve from fully seating fully as the engine heats up and an overly excessive gap could indicate a sticky or damaged valve, such as a bent valve stem or debris between valve and seat. Make sure the fuel cock is open. Check the fuses if it still has the old glass ones its possible the fuse holders have corroded and weakened with age sometimes the fingers even get so weak they just break away. Take the top off the air cleaner and trickle a bit of gas in each barrel to see if it will then fire up. If not or if there was no spark, Go over your electrical connections, specially the ones going to the ignition module regulator and stater. Check for any green or white powdery looking coating on or bridging the terminals and clean with a good electrical cleaner (ACF50 is my preference as it does a great job of cleaning and protecting ). If it does, look into your fuel system make sure fuel is getting to the carbs you can open the fuel bowl drains and turn the key on. You should hear a clicking noise indicating the fuel pump is running and eventually fuel should run out of the fuel bowls. Try shooting some good carb cleaner through every orifice. At this point though avoid removing the diaphragms to access more orifices for now since you wont know their condition and for now is better to not disturb them, You can remove them later when all else has failed. With the top off look down into the carb and check the sliders make sure they move freely. If the the bike has been sitting for some time it is possible that crap has built up in the carb and plugged orifices and/or jets If initial attempts to flush carb with cleaner appear to fail you can now remove the diaphragms since if this step fails to work your next step will likely be to remove the carbs anyway and try flushing the remaining orifices reinstall the diaphragms and sliders and try again (make sure the hole at the needle end is in the six oclock position. If after all this and everthing checks out Ok other than the only time the engine will run is when you trickle fuel down the carb than I would be inclined to considering removing and O/H the carb

Along with Marcarl's suggestion I would coat the slip fit parts, matting surfaces and threaded parts with a high temp nickel based anti sieze compound such as Permatex® Nickel Anti-Seize Lubricant , MMC78 Nickel Base Anti-Seize Lubricant Compound 2500°F , Volvo jointed bolt and exhaust paste 1161929 or equivalent. It helps parts to slide in place better and aids in getting a better seal. You will notice a smell the 1st time or two the engine heats up but after a few good rides the smell will be gone.