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The version born with cast wheels was also born with either a red or a black/gold tank. The version with wire wheels had blue tank paint. I have one of each and the caps and tanks are freely interchangeable - it only takes a screwdriver. The color of the factory paint is the only difference I...

I have both types ['81's]and have swapped keyed caps back and forth to have a working tank to ride with while painting the other. Never seemed to have a problem. '80, '81, and '82 [Heritage - wire wheels] seem to differ only in paint colors, chrome and in the cast/steel wheels and seat bar...

Need a working power plant from an '80, '81 or '82 Heritage. Not Seca, Not Maxim. Within a couple of hundred miles from the intersection of I-40 and 69 highways - eastern Oklahoma I can come and get it. Or ship it here if the money is right. I'm pretty sure I can unbolt it from yours and...

Radio Shack sells [or used to] some stuff that's marketed as cable organizer. It's flat plastic wound into a spiral like a telephone handset cord. No need to remove parts, just cut to length and wind it onto the spark wires. Makes good armor. Won't keep water out but won't hold it in either...

OK I just got the beast ready for Spring - new sprockets and chain, oil, filter, clutch cable, etc. Even invented a retainer for the fuel snorkel. Gas into the tank, tickle the carbs and kick it three or four times. She began to catch a couple of times, started to run - then suddenly NO...

Onetype, Can't tell from the picture but a diode is supposed to pass current in one direction only and sometimes they have a pointed end in the direction of flow - sometimes a painted ring around the outgoing end. Does sound like maybe the relay is the trouble. Anybody with and old Cadilac...

Sorry Drewp, I'll try to be less Amerocentric. Those Sneaky-snake camera gadgets were often in the high-tech junk given out to local law-enforcement after 9-11 and they mostly don't get used because of lack of training and more pressing needs for police man-hours.:doh: So if Chickenone has...

Using the engine to power the cleaning-rag/hand/chain/sprocket interface. Homo Sapiens - LOL!!

If you are buds with any badge types you might try to get the use some of their 'anti-terror' hardware. Uncle Sugar was throwing this sh*t around pretty wildly for a while and most of it got shoved into the WTF closet by local lawmen swamped with speeders, runaway spouses and teenagers...

Appears to be missing a price tag.[/B][/B]

Here's one way to louden up pipes: The picture shows a stock pipe on top. Some PO drilled four 1/2" holes in the one on the bottom. I've run both and the stock pipes are nice and quiet [civilized] while the 'enhanced' pair are plenty loud - I SAID, PLENTY LOUD. Too loud for me. I'm...

Here and in many other states "Legal Title" can be had for about $150 in 'fees'. Possession of the bike for a period of time [3 months here] and posting some notices on nearby power poles are often part of the legal run-around. A Bill of Sale may help but a Storage Lien will do the job - might...

Free bikes are like free puppies - Both are fun but don't let them steal food off your table. :thumbsup:

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;)About that oil: It seems that engine oils have changed formula since our bikes were made. When our bikes and the world were younger you could use the same stuff in your two-wheel as you put into your four-wheel but newer cars use a lube that doesn't protect all the parts in our little...

Soccer moms are deaf and and blind. Ignorant pigf:eek:ckers don't care whether they hear you or not - if they want your spot they WILL move into it even if they are looking right at you. I have kicked dents into car doors to get their attention as they crowded me out of my lane - this is risky...

Back in another century and a far country, my lady and I loaded a Yam 350 [2-stroke ancestor of the 400] with tent, bags, camp stove, coffee pot, iron skillet, etc. [everthing but salt :doh:] and set off on a camping trip. Being young and silly we thought that if we we cound find a way to strap...

Could be a typo - the manual usually lists both nut and matching bolt-shaft but this time just says 'nut' :shrug: Still seems like a lot of stress to put on aluminum/steel threads in a non-critical application.

Yamaha manual lists General Torque Specs as: 10mm nut -.6 m-kg / 4.5 Ft-lb 12mm - 1.5 / 11 14 mm - 3.0 / 22 17 mm - 5.5 / 40 Torque generally measured on 'clean suface' [not oiled or rusted] In another torque section it says, "Exhaust pipe 8mm nut - 2.2 / 16" Which is strange...

. . . I coated the carb-to-head boots with aviation sealant and then slipped a section of bicycle inner tube over each one. Problem solved. hoganJr ------------------------------- "Aviation Sealant" - is that like Form-a-gasket? What color is it when it dries?