Recent content by 64Y80

Not common that I know of, but you have proved the old saying "if you can't fix it with a hammer, it's a electrical problem."

Signed.

And when you buy a helmet get a good one. https://www.hdforums.com/articles/good-helmet-deal-isnt/ Hope the link works, not a scientific study but It gets the point across.

I agree, sometimes KISS is best.

The BMW uses 2 links to locate the rear diff. These 2 links create a virtual swing arm whose length and center can be ascertained by drawing a center line through each link as seen in the side view. Where these 2 lines cross is the center of the virtual swing arm. By playing with the relative...

FYI, the dyna family and the touring family use's a rubber mounted "a" engine (no counterbalance), the soft-tail family uses's a solid mounted "b" engine (counterbalanced). By the way I too had a 1980 Suzuki GS 1000e. Loved the bike, just had to put up with stators frying and cheap fasteners.

Let me play the devils advocate. I have ridden Japanese big four bikes my whole riding life, starting with a 1964 Yamaha 80 and ending with a 2007 FJR. I switched to Harley last year. I like the harley, I like how it put together and the fact that it is, for me, easier to live with. I don't...

Unbelievable, I can't change my mind that fast.

I doubt the shims are case hardened. The cam rides on the buckets so the buckets would be case hardened. The shims are just spacers between the buckets and the valve stems with no relative movement between parts.

I had some issue with the heat on a hot trip down south https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/topic/131460-first-trip-on-the-feejer/. I was wearing riding boots but only blue jeans, slow cooked my left leg just above the boot. If I did another trip in hot country I would definitely wear a...

Your country sure has a lot of bumps on it, beautiful pictures.

Wouldn't touch it, looks like a lightning bolt coming out of the FJR 1300 sticker....kinda neat.

I wouldn't go that far.

I was in the Navy from 71 to 75. I spent 2 years on the Enterprise home ported in Alameda, and spent 6 months in Bremerton in dry dock. During this time I had a Kawasaki 750 triple 2 stroke. I spent my free time riding all over with multiple weekends spent in Yosemite. Just before heading...

I'll be missing another tech day. Threatening rain all day and the grand kids are spending the weekend. Y'all play second fiddle to Chase and Xander.