What did you do to your bike today?

[Pat Kelly]

Hey Pat, tell me it ain't so ....
a leaky F.O.R.D.


mro

After 40 years as a daily driver, yes, it had a leak. Not anymore. Actually the leak was from a seal that didn't seat right when I replaced it last year. I'm sure some other makes of vehicles use this same seal .

[Pat Kelly]

CRAP!!! you cheap a$$........just go buy the stuff..........$1.50

If I was being cheap I'd use the 3/4" pvc splice I have sitting in front of me

[XSokieSPECIAL]

If I was being cheap I'd use the 3/4" pvc splice I have sitting in front of me

I've heard the PVC will work as spacers in the front fork tubes if you extend them but I have serious doubts about the drive shaft.

[Pat Kelly]

I've heard the PVC will work as spacers in the front fork tubes if you extend them but I have serious doubts about the drive shaft.

Maybe I can wrap the driveshaft with masking tape as a spacer... lol

[GARTHXS]

I loaded it on a truck

straight trade for a bandit 600s

[cywelchjr]

Well tomorrow I'm going to paint the tank and side covers, and depending on if I can whine enough to get SWMBO to let me get 2 mirage kits I may do the fairing at the same time. Then when it's done I take some good pictures and post them so everybody can laugh at my poor painting skills, although it does look pretty good for a rattle can. I gotta say that duplicolor has gotten it down on making it easy to get a really good finish with a rattle can.

I quoted myself because plans changed. The paint job is being put off for a couple of weeks, because I wanted to ride. so I rode a little, and then I got tired of my turn signals on the rear twisting up or down (right side down, left side up) because they hit the hard bags. So, I finally figured out how to shorten the signal stalks so they don't hit anymore. It's nice, they are actually not hitting the bags anymore, so they should stay where I put them.

[jwhughes3]

Rode it to Wally World with SWMBO

Method to my madness - backpack limited purchase size!

Got out for only $10.11


Gotta love the XS!

John in San Antonio

[XSokieSPECIAL]

straight trade for a bandit 600s

At least you still got the one under that cover..........heh heh heh....

Method to my madness - backpack limited purchase size!

Got out for only $10.11


Gotta love the XS!

John in San Antonio

That never worked for me

[Elevener]

Well, of course the PO told me the bike had progressive springs in it. When I changed fork seals I found otherwise. Now it has progressive springs and shocks.

[79XS11F]

I fired her up in spite of a weak battery. She was stubborn but did come to life before the battery was exhausted. So today I will be putting the battery on the charger for a full charge as compared to the battery minder charge it has been getting.
Rob

[kjohnson]

Today I did a fair bit:

• set idle mixture
• synced carbs
• changed oil
• changed diff oil

But I forgot to change the sparkplugs. Despite old plugs, she sounds so happy now

[jwhughes3]

plugs

I pulled the plugs and checked/cleaned them - 2 inner were tan/good. The 2 outers were sooty but OK - cleaned checked gap and replaced - fired up quicker anyway!

Now to figure out why running richer in outer cylinders and sooting them up.

John in San Antonio

[ManitoulinLad]

Cleaned plugs on wknd - 3rd cyclinder out came the helicoil with the plug attached - didn't even know one was there. As per the expert of Tinman905, tonight will put "red locktite" on the threads & put her back in - will let dry tonight - hopefully will come out tommorow & then will have antisieze (sp) on all plug threads. Then its a ride to work yee haw! - geez always an adventure - Dan

[tcoop]

Fixed electrical issues to Taillights faring
Fired it up for the first time.

Working on:
Brakes
Carbs
tuning

[Crazcnuk]

Nada, it's snowing!