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What makes you so sure that you aint the 1st one you put on your ignore list

So Because @Marcarlis a subscribed I have to put up with him calling all the time asking if the coffee is on yet. I'm gonna need to study on that

It does seem the only time the middle class or blue collar segment of our society catches a break is when we have a minority government. This same group of members of society seemed to get pushed aside and ignored any time we have a majority government regardless who the ruling party is. Go Figure.

Puc I get the give me liberty or give me death thing but I do believe it means to fight for your liberty and with the tools and weapons you need to do so. Not lay down your arms, turn your back on the enemy and allow yourself to get shot down because you think they will just walk away. You take every possible measure you can, to defend yourself against the enemy. In this case covid is the enemy with masking and social distancing being the weapons in this battle. Putting your head in the sand and refusing to take proper steps to protect yourself and loved ones from this enemy is not fighting Its expecting the enemy to just get up and walk away. Now before I really get myself into trouble I am going to crawl back in my corner. But do understand I state my opinion only because I care about you guys and do not want to see or hear of any of you getting sick because I hope to once again be able to rub elbows with you all laughing and joking in person like we were able to do before this tragedy struck.

Hard to tell from the pictures but that one cam lobe looks as though it may be starting to wear through the hard facing. If that is the case then it would not be long and pieces of cam lobe will start breaking out. Some pretty much holds true if the lobe overheated as Marcarl suggested possible due to lack of lubrication in which case there too pieces of cam may start to break away. This is because once the metal in the cam overheats its temper will have changed. Again as Carl suggest unless you just want the joy of rebuilding the engine I would more than likely be more economical to find another engine or bike.

I have been trying to say this to my kids for years but the younger generation just thinks you're paranoid and ridiculous. They can make all the Privacy promises they want but let's face it wherever you put your information somebody there has access to it and there's no guarantee as to what they will do with it. Tell them that one day we will all be just like on Star Trek and nothing more than cyborgs unthinking members of a collective.

Not to get too involved in American politics But whoever you all vote for I hope you people strongly consider who is going to be the best suited , most responsible and intelligent candidate to deal with keeping your society healthy in this covid crisis. I realize there are other issues that are also on the table but for the sake of all of you I hope you put your health first the other issues are meaningless if your too sick to care. I realize there are alot out there that still do not believe covid exits but better to be a live fool than a sick or dead skeptic.

Keep in mind Patch that water always finds its own level So just for argument sake consider the carb float bowl as being empty The rad is full the cylinder has a flaw allowing water to enter on top of the piston and the intake valve is not closed but the exhaust is. The water level in a full rad is higher than the top of the carbs. in finding its own level the water leaks into the cylinder into the intake fills the venturi where it can make use of a number of passages to enter the float bowl. You keep comenting on the needle seat being closed but that passage does not enter the venturi that is only a shut off for fuel entering the bowel from the fuel line. there are numerous other passages which if you ever rebuilt one of these carbs you would notice. Now add pressure as in testing and you overrule the water level principle based on gravity etc. and drive the water from the high pressure area to the low pressure area. The other possibility for the source of internal coolant leaks is if the intake is closed and there is a crack in the head between the intake passage and water jacket in the head. Which @Popsnana19655would make having the head checked for cracks a good idea before reinstalling it

Nice to know that you will root for ME every time even if I may be wrong. Its great to have friends in low places. Thanks Buddy.

To be honest with you Don I don't mind that you did take it out. I found if I used my cell that moon button would cover part of the text, specially when you were trying to form a reply. Not that your efforts are not appreciated because they are.

I use all forms of bleeding but I prefer vacuum bleeding as it is fastest and does a great job of flushing the system purging the system of impurity's. Back bleeding works well and probably the most effective in removing air to get rid of air pockets but is more work since to do it properly you need to remove the calipers and tip them so the the line is at the high point and the bleeder screw is at the low point. There is the risk of crap in an older system being pushed up into the master so I would recommend this only if installing all new parts. There nothing wrong with Regular bleeding it just slower and can take longer. As a rule regardless of which method I use I usually finish off with a bit of regular bleeding at the end just to make sure I have rid the calipers of any air lingering around bleeder screws.

I guess you must be right since you be the expert

@cowpuc I did not mean to imply that it was totally dependent on pressure. Pressurizing the cooling system simply speeds things up for Diagnostic purposes. For example park two identical bikes side by side with identical issues leave one to the combined forces of gravity and the specific gravity differences of the two fluids gas being lighter than water, and pressurize the cooling system of the other both will eventually end up with the same results just that the pressurized one will get there a lot faster. For the most part I was only trying to point out that there are physical paths that are available for the coolant to end up coming from the defective cylinder enter the carb float the gas out of the fuel bowl and eventually lead to actual water coming out of the over flow tubes. Not disputing that fact that if you put gas and water in a jar that the gas will rise to the top while the water will settle to the bottom as a matter of fact when I stated the water purging the gas out of the fuel bowl it was based on that exact gas and water in the jar principal. Same holds true for oil or any other petroleum . As a matter of fact If you blend the oil and water together vigorously enough such as may occur in an engine were coolant finds its way into a crankcase they will mix hence that tasty looking mocha milkshake. leave the mixture in a jar and after a time you will actually watch the mixture separate, with the water settling to the bottom and the oil floating to the top. When I worked for a tank truck outfit, we would occasionally get spills that got into the storm sewers which led into nearby rivers. We would build a floating Dam which stopped the oil floating on top of the water and allow the clean water to flow past the underside of the Dam . We would then use big sucker trucks to suck the oil off the surface.

Seems to be working on mine and I am using firefox. !st opened it this morning on my cell and it threw me for a loop. thought I accidently clicked on some other site. Shut it down and logged on again and again there was that strange looking site. Then I notice the bikes in the overhead pictures were looking pretty familiar. Studied on it a tad and came to the conclusion .....That Doggone @Freebird is a mess'n wit ma head agin. Dang Freebird. Weel once all the marbles in me head stopped a roll'n around that head a mine, and the confus'n started to drift out I taught to me self. Not bad. But Dang Freebird nice work an all but sheesh slow down a tad so's some of us less swift tinkers can keep up

All this theory sounds impressive but you are overlooking the simple points here 1) engine is not running and intake valve at some point of open position 2) rad is pressurized at 14 PSI ( that is to say 14 PSI above your atmospheric pressure) Using a pressure tester. 3) once piston fills with coolant it exits out the intake and trickles past rings into crankcase 4) connected to intake is the carb and as the coolant level rises it enters the carb venturi were it has access to 5 in total, including the cold start and coast enrichment valves, plus three air vents at the top edge of the venturi. 3 of the 5 jets are open orfices the enrichment valves sometimes stick open so that is only a possibilty but at the top of the venturi are vents leadin into the fuel bowl coolant can enter and fill the bowel through any or most of these. the bowel has a vent at the top to which a hose is connected which terminates just above the twin kick stand coolant enter the bowel purges the fuel and soon coolant appears to be leaking from the frame behind the engine.

Maybe there should have been a yellow button between the red and the green. would that have made it easier for you ......MR POOFER

anything from 86 up in other words 1st gen MKII should be the same. the earlier models 85 and older MKI is different.

I think it is cool that you can go back and see what you missed before you get on or if you accidentally get yourself signed off you can still pick up on the conversation. And you is a POOFER @cowpuc . @Flyinfooltold me so and I always believes him.

JUst give @Flyinfoolsome snow seeds for his WWW machine and he will be happy though the rest of us may despise you for it.

I checked them out a few days back and seem to prefer the first one. though the second one is OK also. The third one did not particularly appeal to me but thats just me. I do have one question though. In my signature I used to have a pic now all it shows is this I AM A DRINKER OF THE WIND [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Where would I go to fix or change this?

Hey @Freebirdmine shows an expiry Date I thought since it cost more to pay in Canadian dollars it was a LIFETIME membership!

Mine shows me in Burlington OK but at city hall where the jail is. I hope this ain't some sort of prediction "since I didn't do do it".

Boy I could sure relate to this song the past few weeks. Talk about suffering from sometimers.

There are jets and port passages, 5 in total, including the cold start and coast enrichment valves, plus three air vents at the top edge of the venturi that lead to the fuel bowl were coolant can back up into the fuel bowl once coolant flooding back from the faulty cylinder floods the venturi.

I have this thing smart things that suddenly was loaded on my samsung with one of my updates (UNASKED FOR BTW) and cannot get rid of it. The only thing it does as far as I'm concerned is use up twice as much battery power so my phone is good for a day instead of week between charges. If I try to remove or disable it, my blue tooth quits working because smart things has taken control of it. I go to my son to see if has the answers and his response is why do want to get rid of it - its great and proceeds to show me how through his cell phone he can turn lights off and on turn on his robotic vacuum control his radio or TV. I tell him I don't need all that because I got two legs that work just fine and all that crap is A just laziness and B another window for us to be spied through. He just laughs and say's Dad you need to come out of the middle ages and get with the times. Lot of help he was. Boy do I miss the so called middle ages of the 50's - 80s. When life was still fun. even though there are a few things I do admit to enjoying about technology such as this website.