What did you do to your Vmax today? Part 2
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Dorney
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veebooster
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You and the ladies Dennis! Glad to see you're back out and about on your max.
Looks great with the make over.
Dale
sdt354
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+3, I too put one in last week. It seams to be a great deal for a powerful battery. It holds about 12.9 volts overnight. My old USB? It cranks my lawn tractor incredibly fast. It was getting toward the end of it's vmax service life.
sdt354
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I put the stage 7 springs in. Went for a ride. They are barely felt when installing the carb diaphragm covers. My observation is they make my mid-range a little bit too rich. The throttle is twitchy as hell with them in. I'll go back to the springs I was using prior. Shorter than stock but longer and more tension than the stage 7's.
An old work-around for reducing the effective spring length was to tie-together several coils using safety wire, kinda like changing the springs in a distributor for the centrifugal advance weights to change how soon the mechanical advance came in. Cheap, effective, performance mod. I still have a dwell meter. :biglaugh: Kevin Cameron (Cycle World) awhile ago said how he finally recycled a bunch of old equipment including his dwell meter, since he wasn't working on anything that old anymore.
DMAN999
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Thanks, it just feels Great to be riding gain !
My UB12180 was 9 years old so I ordered the new stronger battery just because I wanted to try it out.
I'll be keeping the UB12180 around just in case I need it for my snow blower or whatever.
The APX12220 definitely cranks my Vmax really fast so as long as it lasts 5 years or more I'll be happy.
And it was only $46 (using APEX5 code for 5% off) shipped to my door.
HyperPete
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Did the peashooter on my '99 to try to eliminate the poor running. When I drained the float bowls I got a bunch of crap out of the two right side carbs. I'll likely still have to do the shotgun.
Can the float bowls be removed with the carbs in place? I'd feel better pulling them to get all of the remaining crap out.
Can the float bowls be removed with the carbs in place? I'd feel better pulling them to get all of the remaining crap out.
[email protected]
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No. Gotta pull the carb rack off the bike and split the rack in half at least. You can leave front and back pairs together. If you going that far, I would just give them a total cleaning.
Tex85
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Short story... Put on about 400 miles while riding with Reese and wrecked my Vmax a little after the halfway point.
Went into a tight turn a little to fast, hit the edge of the road where it met gravel, nearly recovered, but then caught my crash bar against the pavement and high-sided.
Good news I walked away with only a few bruises to myself, my ego, and my Vmax. In the end I lost my left mirror, cracked my CBR tail light (rest of tail, tag, etc was unscathed), scratched my front left signal (might buff out, excuse to get LED ones if it doesnt), cractched my helmet visor, and probably another minor thing or two I will find after I give it a closer look tomorrow. All in all it was very minor and I thank God for keeping me from really messing myself up (I think the big man really didn't want me to miss my volunteer work at the church tomorrow).
Went into a tight turn a little to fast, hit the edge of the road where it met gravel, nearly recovered, but then caught my crash bar against the pavement and high-sided.
Good news I walked away with only a few bruises to myself, my ego, and my Vmax. In the end I lost my left mirror, cracked my CBR tail light (rest of tail, tag, etc was unscathed), scratched my front left signal (might buff out, excuse to get LED ones if it doesnt), cractched my helmet visor, and probably another minor thing or two I will find after I give it a closer look tomorrow. All in all it was very minor and I thank God for keeping me from really messing myself up (I think the big man really didn't want me to miss my volunteer work at the church tomorrow).
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caseyjones955
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Wow, glad it was not worse and you are alright.
Traumahawk
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Yep....glad that your ok
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Dragmaxster
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Glad to hear your ok tex, If that helmet hit the ground they are made to shatter inside on impact- and don't forget there are a few guys on here that can loan you their egos.:rofl_200:
silverado6x6
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Put my 85 up for sale here in Wasilla, Alaska.
Cannot take it with me to Australia, and i'm not coming back i think.
At the least its cash to buy another.
So anyone in Alaska go look at the Craigslist, its a fair price.
Cannot take it with me to Australia, and i'm not coming back i think.
At the least its cash to buy another.
So anyone in Alaska go look at the Craigslist, its a fair price.
DMAN999
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Glad to hear you're OK Tex.
Miles Long
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Tex85
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It scraped more than hit. Since it is a modular unit I will make sure I break it down fully and inspect the inside. Thanks for the tip!
Tex85
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I'm going to put a picture of Abby on my speedometer to keep me in check going forward!
thanks!
Glad your ok Tex it could have been much worse as you know. Hope you did not mess up my pretty paint.lol
