saddlebum

I am too dutch too bribe. Smuggling is more the nature of my gene pool. Off course even there I have conflicting genes. My fathers side of the gene pool are notorious for smuggling and being successful at it, while my mothers side is more along the lines of fear of of getting caught and have the give away facial expressions to pretty much guarantee it.

This is true, in fact you will drain an additional 1/4 to 1/3 cup of oil through this bolt after having drained through the main drain plug. Not draining this additional oil when doing an oil change and I am not saying you have too, is why often after changing oil and running the bike and then shutting it down to recheck your oil level, your new oil mysteriously gets darker faster than you think it should.

This is true, we use easy off oven cleaner to remove pin stripping and painted lettering from all the used trucks we take in as trade in's. You do run into the odd stubborn one but most pin stripping is done with lettering paint. The paint used by he who I cannot remember his name, is such a paint and should come off easily. Once you remove the lettering, wash with soap and rinse well. When dry you can buff the paint with a very mild abrasive liquid polishing compound and than polish with a good wax. if your lucky and there is absolutely no shadow left, you may be able to go straight to the wax.

Not that I don't appreciate it but you do know it is a major offense to bribe a government official........Right?

there is enough room to do the job without taking the fairing apart. If you already did your forks then you will know what I am saying unless you pulled the fairing apart to do the forks which I highly doubt the only thing yo may have to remove is that lower center piece of plastic under the headlight.

or stunted growth Its ok Carl go ahead and say it your far enough out of reach

yup and the border guy was even kind enough to help me push the bike across the border and into the shade, into the handicapped section. When I questioned him about parking in the handicapped section He simply asked is you bike running, to which I replied no, to which he replied then your handicapped ...unless you prefer to park in the sun, to which I replied you win to which he replied of course I win I am the border patrol.

Point taken and fully understand the curse of big hands. Plenty useful in brawls but nowhere else.

And so it begins What amazes me is how everything that was considered wrong has now become OK and how everything that was Ok is now considered wrong

Here again by shooting the carb cleaner back into the overflow you basically just cleaning the fuel bowl which is Ok but if you were to force it in through the carbs fuel inlet you would do a better job of flushing the needle and seat.

LOL whatever works

The reason I recommenced flushing through the fuel supply line and leaving the drain plug open rather than just back filling the float bowel through the drain hole is so the flow pressure of the cleaner goes right through the needle and seat valve flushing out any debris that might be sitting in the needle and seat.

I guess There is a probability that there will always be someone or someones that crave the power to remake the human race into their version of the perfect race. Hitler attempted it through a human breeding program and I am sure he is not the only. I believe arranged marriages as well as for joining preferred family ties for wealth or power may also have to do with maintaining or improving the family bloodline. Many tribes on both continents often turned captured slaves into tribal members after a time in order to improve their blood lines. So nasty at it sounds I think this is something will always be one way or another. But viral research also has another nasty side and that is war fare and I do not put it past any power to dabble in this field even though the idea of it has been banned world wide, but then that all is only on paper agreements are always broken. At the same time someone will always come up with some theory as to why something happened just to scare the pants off us.

My mother had to practically rope and hog tie us then drag us in no matter the weather or time of day. today its all you can do to throw those kids out for even an hour.

No kidding kids today are more sophisticated but in my mind what they consider as fun does not even come close to the fun we had as kids in the 50's and 60's. When is the last time you saw a kid climb a tree grinning from ear to ear catch mice or frogs with their bare hands. or a group of kids get together and completely on their own organize an impromptu game of football, baseball, soccer or street hockey. wonder off into the bush and build forts. Someone once said I was happier being 20 in the sixties than sixty in the twenties. I one time scampered up the face of a set of storage racks to toss down eight 11R-22 truck tires. the 30 year old on the ground stunned after saying it could not be done asked how is it a 65 year old guy like you can climb like that. My simple answer was I grew up climbing real trees not virtual trees.

Not to sway opinions one way or another but I remember as a kid, in the sixties we all had to take the smallpox/polio/TB vaccines. It was also required to be taken by anyone immigrating to Canada or the US as well as people travailing from one continent to another. As a result these diseases were just about wiped out. Then in the eighties came the push against mandatory vaccinations, mostly by young mothers who thought they knew it all. As well quarantining and mandatory vaccinations for immigration were largely stopped. As a result smallpox, polio and TB are starting to make a come back as well as a host of other viruses that once did not exist here but now do. I am not a big fan of government interference either but where do you draw the line between individual freedoms and public safety? Unfortunately you can look at the whole picture from different angles combined with a mix of true facts and misinformation each and everyone of us can come up with a different perspective and still not know for sure whether each and everyone of holds the correct opinion. At the end of the day this boils down to a real conundrum and none of really knowing the true answer until its too late to do anything about it.

I guess at the end of the day you got to play the odds and determine which is the lesser of two evils. For me the shot and risking possible side effects is the safer bet over the risk of getting covid and risking possible death. When seat belt laws first came out we all heard similar arguments such as " if I had worn a seat belt I would be dead right now" or the biker who will claim if he ad worn a helmet he would have had a broken neck and not survived the crash, yet we all know that more often than not helmets and seat belts save lives more often than the cause the loss of lives. My sister and brother in law who spent a month and a half on a respirator then two weeks on a stomach tube because they temporarily lost the ability to swallow without choking on their food due the respirator and survived by the skin of their teeth , will tell you, and made it a point of contacting their friends and family once they were able, to take the chance, and get the shot even going through the side effects, which in most cases a survivable couldn't possible be as bad as what they went through with covid and thank god they are still alive.

I agree with Brad it is not uncommon for these bikes to get a stuck float or needle. and have the gas over flow out the vents. In many such cases the bike will leak gas out the vent while idling but stop when the engine runs at higher RPM. Then when you stop and idle at a traffic light for example the gas will start leaking out the overflow again until you get going. One thing you can try which I have had success with is drain the suspect carb, disconnect the fuel inlet line at the suspect carb and connect the can directly to the carbs fuel inlet and spray the carb leaner into the carb. I take the nozzle of the can and replace it with a length of small hose which I then hook to the carb. A small hose clamp or a washer that fits snug over the hose just above the nozzle and snug enough so it wont slide over the part of the hos stretched over the stem on the can will aid in depressing the stem to force the cleaner into the carb Make sure to leave the fuel bowl drain open so it can all flush out. Give it a good flush and the put it all back together. Seafoam may work for this but I prefer to use an actual can of carb cleaner which is more aggressive and faster acting than seafoam for this sort of thing. If this does not solve the problem than you may have to do a carb overhaul.

My first shot was the Phizer no issue and then I had Madonna the second time still no issues. As a matter of fact the only time in my life I had a drug side effect was when they put me on a portable IV antibiotic to treat a severe infection and cellulitis. My whole upper body broke into a rash and I itched like I spent the night in a bed of poison Ivy and this is not an uncommon reaction to antibiotics yet no one makes an issue of it. Other than My wife who had muscle aches for 24 hrs after the 1st phizer shot and no reaction to her second phizer shot no one else in my familly or among the people I know had any severe reaction to any of the shots. the most common complaint was they felt like someone punched them in the shoulder. Also even among those with the worst side effects most pretty much survive it with no ill effects. Covid has a far far greater chance of being terminal. A Nurse I knew who worked in the covid ward told me during the time of the astrazonaca issue with the lethal side effects to younger women there were even more women in her ward 20% of that age group who contracted covid got the same or worse afflictions.

That's what I said the first time second guessed myself and changed it and now I got to correct it again. ....I guess I should thank you though. and before you say I am still waiting....Thank you. BTW all after Carl got through the border he managed to get permission to come back through to see if he could lend me a hand that's why he was able to correct me on which bridge it was. Goes to show once again what kind of guy he is.

The question is......Did he survive or was it a suicide run or did you not get to end of the book yet. I have run one set of E2's one set of E3's and on my second set of E4's. I found them to be a great running tire with excellent tread life. If I had any complaint at all it is that I found near the last 1/4 of their tread life I found the rubber getting harder and road grip in the corners started to fade some.

There is no shaft extension with these starters the gear is a fixed gear which remains engaged full time The mechanical connect and disconnect between the engine and starter is done through what is known as a sprag clutch or in laymen's terms a one way clutch. This something like a large roller bearing that freewheels when the inner ring runs faster than the outer race but locks up when the outer race runs faster than the inner race such as when the starter which is gear connected to the outer race causes the outer race to over run the inner race. once the engine starts the inner race over rides the outer race and the clutch disengages and the outer race becomes stationary as the starter button is released. This is why you sometimes think the starter skips when an engine attempts to fire but its only the clutch disengaging becuase for a split second the inner race over ran the outer race. Getting back to your starter when you run it on the bench even though it turns over does it sound smooth or gravelly. It could still have a bad set of bearings that seem OK with a load on the starter but once a load is place on them they can bind up. I would either replace with a 4 brush if possible now that you have it out or at the very least dis-assemble the starter and inspect the bearings for wear and or smooth rotation, if they feel even the slightest bit of roughness they are done. If the sealed bearings feel smooth but spin so freely they just keep spinning they are also done, this indicates most of the grease in the bearing is gone. they should turn smooth with some drag. clean the armature and brushes if the bearings are OK and reassemble and retest if spins real well and relatively smoothly you may get away with reusing it.

Generally on vehicles other than motorcycles we are only concerned with the cracks, in the groves between the lugs, if we can pry the crack open enough to see the cords. If we are unable to see any cord material we let it go. Now on a motorcycle I am not sure I would leave it go to that point but at the same time If they are only fine hair line cracks with little or no depth I would not be to concerned yet. As stated by Firestone about the rubber between the treads being very thin and does not impact the treads stuck to the belts, is true up to a point. But once the crack penetrates to the cord you now have a point were water can get to the cords. If steel cords they begin to rust and eventually fail and you get a bulge in your tire or you start to work towards a tread separation. Even a partial puncture were the foreign object only penetrates to the cord you also run the risk of moisture penetration we usually seal those holes after removing the object provide no serious damage has begun. Another example of foreign penetration is what is referred to as a stone bore. This were a stone or small pebble gets lodged in the tread or sipping and over time bores its way into the the casing and eventually allow for moisture to attack the cord material in the tire resulting in tread failure of some sort. TIP: every once in a while go around your tires and pick out any stones etc. Truckers are so aware of this that very often while we are working on their trucks you will see them go over their tires while they are waiting with a small screwdriver picking out any and all pebbles lodged in the tires. For them its not just a safety issue but at $500 or more per tire it becomes a cost factor as well.

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The reason radials and bias are not to be mixed and this applies to all vehicles with the exception of tandem axle highway tractors. bias and radials flex differently. A bias has a stiffer side wall which A) allows for little to no side to side flexing or side to side rolling action ( B) The foot print which contacts the road is smaller than that of a radilal. (C) the tread on a bias due to the stiffer side wall has a tendency to cup in the middle of the foot print reducing even more the amount of rubber contacting the road. As well because of the stiffer side wall this cupping action increases and decreases as the down ward pressure on the tire while moving down the road increase and decreases all of which results in more tread squirm in the contact patch increasing tread temperatures. A radial on the other hand flexes more in the side wall Which A) allows for more side to side roll and B) creates a larger foot print and (C) because of the more flexible side wall and stiffer tread on the radial there is no cupping in the middle of the footprint allowing for more road contact with less squirm in the contact area and therefore better heat handling of the tire. Many will remember When radials first came out the two most immediate and notable features of the radial was longer tread life and better traction, this was due to the differences noted above. So now you come to to the mixing issue. Because of the difference in the way the two tires flex and the radical difference in the amount of rubber contacting the road When this tires were mixed on a four wheel vehicle, Handling became an issue even to the point of being dangerous because while going into the curve when the radial was maintaining a flat contact patch on the road and flexing in side wall due to the g forces the bias was trying to maintain those same forces at the contact patch creating more heat and this force increased since due to the radials ability to absorb most of it bias was forced int dealing with more than if all four tires were bias and due to the difference in one set of tires handling those g forces one way the other handling it another way you ended up with handling issues. The only vehicle that was not effected by this to noticable extend was a tandem axle highway tractor and is why it is legal to have radials on the steer axle while running bias on the eight drive wheels. So now getting back to your bike, here I am making an educated assumption based on my years as a Mechanic and dealing with all kinds of tire issues. My thoughts are that based on the above information and the fact that the scrub pattern on the tire in the second picture appears to be more porous than normal, I am thinking that that tire was running higher than intended tread temperatures for a bis tire due to the mixing of construction types resulting in the tread separation. When we have had an abnormal run of issues on tires in the truck fleets we would set this tires aside and either have a tire rep come out or send the lot to the manufacture to be analyzed as to why a particular issue suddenly started to occur. It may not be a bad idea to see if you can send that tire in so the can determine the cause of the issue. Just don't mention the mixing of tires, let them figure out why it happened If you offer any theory or darkside info on your part they will just jump to conclusions instead of actually looking into the root cause.