I don't know if I'm going to watch the whole thing or if I'm just going to skip ahead I watched about the first 10 minutes and these two fellows need to suck it up and stop with the drama about "eew, bugs!"
I believe Kyle is referring to a yellow 1994 that was inside a storage shed on a acre lot in southwest Miami. I recall that it had a fair amount of accessories on it and while it had the usual accumulation of cobwebs and other debris, after we loaded it up into Kyle's Ram V10 pickup truck, he said that once he got it home he was able to get it running pretty easily. These guys who have never worked on a Vmax before just need to suck it up and get on with the work. I'm at the point where they are looking at the intake system and they already found out that the gas tank had rust perforation, so that needs to be replaced. I was interested in how they were going to approach removing the locking gas cap. They made some vague reference to "hammering it down," but whether or not they were able to save the gas cap isn't told at the point I'm at now. There are multiple posts on the Forum about sticking gas caps and what needs to be done to be able to remove them and save them since the gas cap is something like $160 and if you buy just the gas cap then you are not going to have matching lock cylinders and will need to carry two keys, unless you take it to a locksmith and get it all keyed alike.
An 11,000 mile first year VMAX that hasn't suffered any obvious road rash for $500 is a decent buy assuming that the engine turns over. That at least tells me that there is a good possibility the engine should be able to be made operational by going through the usual resuscitation techniques for all the bike systems.
Back to the show.
