FJRPittsburgh wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2023 7:36 pm
Removed the ECU from the 2013 and sending it off to Ivan in the morning. I can't wait to get it returned with the updated flash.
The '13 is being saved? At SEO you were concerned about the damage......
After work road to the state store for Sheep Dog Peanut Butter and Bird Dog Black Cherry wiskey. Pulled the front wheel to get balanced. Got a slight vibration above 75 80 and we all know that's unacceptable.
I'm off work until Tuesday. May even get a chance to run to the shooting range this weekend.
Update: 20grams out of balance, which is 4 of the square weights. Not tested but this weekend sometime.
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I just posted my '14 on Craigslist. Sigh. It's got a wonky second gear but missed the recall by a year. Second's been like that for a long time and hasn't gotten worse, I just can't accelerate hard (or really anything but very gently) in second, but all other gears are fine. I've gotten kind of used to it and put 35 or 40 thousand miles on it with that problem and it hasn't gotten worse, but makes selling kind of problematic. Definitely don't want to have it rebuilt or replaced--definitely nothing I'd ever attempt myself. So I pulled off what I wanted to keep and installed it on the new-to-me '09 AE with 7,500 miles on the clock. Been having fun shifting with my finger.
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That’s what we fixed in Rob’s bike. Bad shift fork. Send it this way, I’ll fix it! It’s documented on this forum. Search for Jolene and you’ll find it.
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"That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be" - 1911
"Stay thirsty, my friends"....... Wouldn't that mean I'm dehydrated all the time?
In another thread I explained that I purchased some tires that Duane had paid for last fall. They are PR4s...I found out in my garage that they are GTs...the markings are slightly different. Im thinking, well I never get GTs, so how much harder are they to put on? As it turns out, not hard. Phew. However, I put the rear tire on backwards, first time ever...Duane is laughing.
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Today, on the first of the holiday without solid rain, I pulled the spider webs off the FJR and took it for an hour-long ride. She purred like a kitten and roared like a lion. Then she went back on the tender to snooze again.
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wheatonFJR wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2023 12:37 pm
In another thread I explained that I purchased some tires that Duane had paid for last fall. They are PR4s...I found out in my garage that they are GTs...the markings are slightly different. Im thinking, well I never get GTs, so how much harder are they to put on? As it turns out, not hard. Phew. However, I put the rear tire on backwards, first time ever...Duane is laughing.
On my first FJR, I spooned on a set of PR2s and I installed the rear one backwards. Didn't realize it until I wore that tire out - yep, I rode 8-ish thousand miles on that tire backwards, including some miles in the rain.
Luck be with Pants back then....
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Hppants wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:15 am
On my first FJR, I spooned on a set of PR2s and I installed the rear one backwards. Didn't realize it until I wore that tire out - yep, I rode 8-ish thousand miles on that tire backwards, including some miles in the rain.
When mounting the new tire you actually looked to see what direction the old tire was mounted?
Hppants wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:15 am
On my first FJR, I spooned on a set of PR2s and I installed the rear one backwards. Didn't realize it until I wore that tire out - yep, I rode 8-ish thousand miles on that tire backwards, including some miles in the rain.
When mounting the new tire you actually looked to see what direction the old tire was mounted?
Obviously not on that tire change....
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living. Or get busy dying."
- Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
Hppants wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:15 am
On my first FJR, I spooned on a set of PR2s and I installed the rear one backwards. Didn't realize it until I wore that tire out - yep, I rode 8-ish thousand miles on that tire backwards, including some miles in the rain.
When mounting the new tire you actually looked to see what direction the old tire was mounted?
Obviously not on that tire change....
Yes, not when you mounted the PR2s but you looked when you took them off!
I look when putting the new tire on but it is one of those things I hate. I hate finding the direction arrow. Everybody stylizes the things. But some will put small arrows in the edge of the tread. I find that easier to find. There are also markers in the edges of the tread indicating where to find wear bars.