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    twigg replied to KarlS's topic in Jokes and Humor

    The "Brass Monkey" explanation was a: held by me for a long time and b: disproven quite a while ago. It's a cute explanation but it isn't true Mainly for the reasons above, but also because the relative differences in expansion coefficients are far too small to cause this to happen.
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    Yes ... repairing ABS is very easy. Go to Home Depot and buy 1Qt of Methyl Ethyl Ketone (It's by the paint thinners) Next pop into your local plastics supplier and pay a couple of bucks for some offcuts of ABS sheet. Cut the sheet into the sizes you need to patch the hole, and use the MEK to "glue it". Grind up some of the ABS, mix it to a paste with MEK and use that to fill the gaps. Wear nitrile gloves and work quickly. This is a complete repair for ABS ... works beautifully on fairings and will be, at minimum, as strong as new. MEK is evil ... do not get it anywhere you don't want it, and don't spend money on Plastex.
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    "Odd" is the kindest description. High beams should only ever be used when there is no on-coming traffic, even in daylight. I know some use them in daylight, but if they get a ticket then they will just have to pay it. High beams, especially some of the better bulbs, can dazzle or distract other motorists and they shouldn't be used ... There are better ways. With that in mind, then it really shouldn't matter how many lamps you have up front with your High Beam ... There is no one around to see it By the way, it's not hard to make an argument that "anything" you add is auxiliary to whatever the manufacturers put there in the first place.
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    The magnets don't scratch if .... You keep them clean. Mine have been great. Additional fixings are great for peace of mind, but completely unnecessary in practise. Those bags do not move even on sports bikes doing over 100.
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    Release ALL the air pressure, if you have CLASS, unless you want a mouthful of old fork oil. Don't ask me how I know this
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    Tyres and pressures, any add-ons or accessories that may be recently added .... Other than that you are looking at bearings. Wheel bearings, swing arm or steering head. They are about the only things that can cause a symptom like that. Oh ... a broken frame could do it too ... say if a weld had failed.
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    They are the Walmart brand, and there is little wrong with them for a basic lead/acid battery at a good price. As was said above ... leaving it out to freeze was probably the cause of it failing.
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    I use mine for weighing eggs before they go in the incubator. They are also very useful for weighing carburetor floats to balance them all and check if any are leaking.
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    I'll help you all I can to set it up correctly. But I will not help you defeat all the safety switches. You have a fault on the bike, possibly more than one, and using logic, and a decent multimeter you can easily trace and fix it. The Service Manual is available free, and it has flowcharts for every switch.
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    Beat me to it
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    Thanks
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    I don't think any fell into the engine or cooling system, but it's soft, crumbly plastic, so there will be little harm done if it did.
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    What on earth are you talking about?
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    The parts fiche has the same part number for all years (not really suprising as I think the front fairings are essentially the same). Can you measure your screen from the very bottom to top in the center, and I can compare it to mine?
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    Okay .... The rear pedal should be fairly firm, and not actually move very far. The front lever should be the same. You should not be able to pull it back to the bars. Assuming you are not losing fluid, then you are perfectly describing a brake system with lots of air in the lines. The other possibility is master cylinder seals that are leaking and letting fluid back past them when you apply the brakes. Bleed out the air first, if that doesn't fix it you will need two master cylinder repair kits.
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    Eye level is exactly where I want my screen to end .... Hmmm ... will the screens from the '86 and '83 fit each other?
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    Definite "idiot" here.
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    Folk who can spend $2 Million on an RV don't actually think like that Some of them don't even do the driving themselves.
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    The aux. lamp on with the High Beam is a bit of an oddity as regards the law. First ... You generally only use High Beam when there is no one else around. Night, deer country when you need to keep a close eye on the sides of the road, etcetera. I never found it useful to run on High Beam in daylight ... They can see your Low Beam quite well, others may vary. Anyway, the point is that you really are only going to use auxiliary driving lamps when there is no one around, so it's not so much of a problem in real life. As the others have said, wire them through a relay, and fit a switch. By the way ... I have heard some very good things about the high performance driving lamps from Walmart ... and they are only around $20 a set.
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    Correct me if I am wrong .... but if your bike complies with the regs. in it's home State, then it complies in States it is visiting too .... sucks if you live in Wisconsin, but there are probably other benefits there
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    This is important! It is even more important if you ride a bike with twin headlights ... Gold Wing, etc. Car and truck drivers are actually very good at judging distance from two point light sources. The become good because the brain registers patterns. Two lights, close together is a car or truck some distance away .... The same lights far apart is the same vehicle much closer. A motorcycle has it's lights close together by default, and you can see where this is going .... A very good arrangement for bikers is a single headlight with twin driving lamps above or below the plane of the headlight. This forms a triangle which is an unusual pattern, guaranteed to get the attention even of drivers in Tulsa. Because the pattern is unusual, the brain registers it as a potential danger, and they pay more attention, even in daylight. Headlight modulators perform a similar function.
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    To anyone who was following this saga .... The joint refused to budge and the front half broke apart when I tried to lever it through the water jacket plug hole above the joint. In the end, the two thirds that remained buried deep in the engine came out cleanly, in about ten seconds, like this: http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i418/twigg2324/1986%20Yamaha%20Venture%20Royale/IMG_0516.jpg So we are back on track
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    Sounds like you are good to go By the way ... changing email and passwords is routine on all accounts. It won't cause problems folk do it all the time. It does have the advantage of ensuring that updates are notified to you, rather than the PO. It's up to you.
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    Let me ask you something. Where is the copyright agreement that allows Service Manuals to be downloaded from this site?
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    I wouldn't get too hung up on "legally" in this case. They acknowledge that the "useful life of the product" is a factor, and those "conditions" are very much a legal grey area ... they are civil anyway, not criminal. If you like .... Buy the Device and have the previous owner "loan" you access to the updates ... or if it is a friend, get him to do it every now and again. They've had their pound of flesh, no cause to pay twice.
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