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General Discussion / Re: Cheesehead RIP

« Last post by Chuck in Indiana on Today at 06:46:38 PM »

I would have loved to go, but I'm dealing with some health issues. I had no idea he was Mensa..

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General Discussion / Re: setting up delrin manifolds & PHF on t3

« Last post by Turin on Today at 06:39:23 PM »

I got my step studs at ace hardware. I use a little copper RTV on both sides of the gasket.

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General Discussion / Re: setting up delrin manifolds & PHF on t3

« Last post by yackee on Today at 06:30:07 PM »

I've had issues with those manifolds and took them off and went with alloy ones.
The main problem I had was the manifold screw threads for fitting vacuum gauges leaked and stripped so I fitted helicoils with an o ring to seal the screws and have a decent thread.
Personally I don't rate the delrins after that.

Frenchfrog, which alloy versions did you use? I didn't know anything non-plastic was available to mount them to a T3. I still have the stock manifolds.

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General Discussion / Re: setting up delrin manifolds & PHF on t3

« Last post by yackee on Today at 06:29:14 PM »

did you use step studs and lock nuts? That's what i did and have never had an issue.

I used thread-reducing inserts but hadn't thought about reducing studs. That might be the solution.

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General Discussion / I tried going back to work….

« Last post by bobrebos1 on Today at 06:16:09 PM »

At my age of 67 because I was bored!  Five months later I am big time stressed out so I gave my two eeeks notice.  I’m done!  Back to retirement investments go.
 Ps.  What happen to the search function on here as I can’t get it to work using my iPhone????

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General Discussion / Re: Classified Ads poorly composed

« Last post by Perazzimx14 on Today at 06:12:28 PM »

it's not enjoyable selling anything lately. Gone are the days of buyers/sellers being respectful, courteous and pleasant to deal with.  Now it seems like most buyers will toss out fake offers and then disappear if you accept, only to reappear again under a different name and attempt to negotiate from the last price. 
 
These days, when I sell something, I do my research and price it well below the market value and then decide who I'm going to deal with based on how they reach out to me. I'm happy to sell for less than market if the buyer is a good person.

I still enjoy selling and buying and there is no secret to either. Bikes priced right sell and bikes priced wrong, don't. Most of the time tire kickers or time wasters are easy to spot and even easier to ignore. Selling or buying is only as hard as you make it.

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General Discussion / Cheesehead RIP

« Last post by Tkelly on Today at 06:01:32 PM »

Great turnout at Rick’s memorial Saturday.For those who encountered his prickly personality ,as I did, found,there was much more to the man.I had my IT person attempt to post the obit but I don’t know if it went thru.

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone want to go camp at TWO Suches ga June 15-22nd??

« Last post by bobrebos1 on Today at 06:00:43 PM »

Well Bob, we are all waiting with bated breath to hear what you decided to do.  It's raining pretty hard here on a Saturday morning. Hope you are safe and dry in any event.

I got delayed from work and didn’t get home until today, Sunday.  It’s pouring rain and supposed to all week.  Il ride over to Arnold Air Force Base Friday to get a new ID Card.  Maybe camp there at the Base Famcamp!

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General Discussion / Re: Classified Ads poorly composed

« Last post by mr_pacman on Today at 05:21:27 PM »

it's not enjoyable selling anything lately. Gone are the days of buyers/sellers being respectful, courteous and pleasant to deal with.  Now it seems like most buyers will toss out fake offers and then disappear if you accept, only to reappear again under a different name and attempt to negotiate from the last price. 
 
These days, when I sell something, I do my research and price it well below the market value and then decide who I'm going to deal with based on how they reach out to me. I'm happy to sell for less than market if the buyer is a good person.
 

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General Discussion / Re: Eldovert no spark

« Last post by lazlokovacs on Today at 05:20:02 PM »

update

tried 3 condensers, made no difference. Made my own condenser, made no difference.

have replaced rotor and distributor cap and points and plugs and plug caps and HT leads.

The really really strange thing is, the left cylinder is running PERFECTLY. The plug looks good enough to show off to your buddies. But the right side is missing at low throttle openings. Plug is perfect on the left side and sooty and black on the right side. I've tried swapping the plugs around and I get the same result.

There is a decent spark on both sides and the bike fires straight away every time.

Bear in mind that I'm running with a single coil and a single set of points AND that the bike was running perfectly before the 'no spark' episode.

So.... I'm finding it hard to keep believing that this is an ignition issue. Seeing as the left side is running perfectly, the only things left in the ignition system would be the RHS HT lead, plug and plug cap.

It absolutely feels like if I turned the mixture screw a touch leaner on the RHS carb the bike would run perfectly. Why haven't I tried that yet? Because 99 percent of carb issues are ignition based and I can't for the life of me figure out how the carburation could have changed so dramatically just from swapping out a dead coil.

I want to be sure that I haven't overlooked anything ignition based before I start tuning the carbs. (Which are untouched since the bike was running perfectly)

Any thoughts?? This one has got me for now....

Ps I've tried cheating the points a bit in various directions to get more dwell, more/less advance etc. No matter what I do in that regard, the left side runs perfectly and the right stays sooty.