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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> What did you do to your Savage today? /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1280150574 Message started by Drifter on 07/26/10 at 06:22:53 |
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Title: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Drifter on 07/26/10 at 06:22:53 Wished for fuel injection! :) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Savage_Amusement on 07/26/10 at 07:03:52 Changed my oil and filter. Cleaned up a few dirty spots, checked it over really well because we are going to the Black Hills of South Dakota for a week. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by ebmiller2 on 07/26/10 at 07:33:16 Took it to Starbucks for coffee :) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by james may on 07/26/10 at 07:57:34 Took it out to pay bills and get some parts for a suzuki katana I'm fixing for cash. Love my saddle bags!!!(wish they could put some under the seat storage in the savage though) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by bill67 on 07/26/10 at 08:19:06 Gave it a teaspoon of Sea Foam this morning shes feeling much better now. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by verslagen1 on 07/26/10 at 09:05:26 She played rooster today. She starts easier with the choke in, then I pull it out a notch to warm up. Well, every once in a while she complains, today was a KERPOW, good morning all. [smiley=evil.gif] |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by babyhog on 07/26/10 at 10:29:25 I left her in the garage... :( :( :( |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by jimR on 07/26/10 at 11:05:38 Put a newly acquired Corbin seat on it. Thanks Jim! |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by LWRider on 07/26/10 at 11:24:13 Haven't had much time today to work on mine other than clean the turn signal relay contacts. Over the weekend, however, I put on a H-D muffler (for a FXS 1450). It really sounds nice. I also put on the rear exhaust shield. I replaced the mismatched (color-wise) green rear fender with a black one to match the tank and the front fender, and while I had the wheel off, I attached the right passenger peg, which was in the pile of parts I got when I picked up the bike, but not installed. I also checked the decomp solenoid and it checked good, then the decomp controller and it checked bad. Found one on ebay and it shipped today. Now I can hook that back up porperly insteading of bypassing it like the PO did. I also replaced burnt bulbs with new ones and checked the neutral switch which checked out good, but the wire from which was just hanging under the bike frame. Fixed the front brake switch but then had to do some wiring checks to find out why it is still not working (I still don't know). Finally, I took the two side covers to my shop and spray painted them black. Getting closer every day to having a rider. Cheers, Mike |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by babyhog on 07/26/10 at 11:29:46 5C474279747562100 wrote:
Wow, you did alot! How difficult was the muffler swap? Got any pics of it? |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Jimmer on 07/26/10 at 13:14:58 Did about 300 miles on the bike, officiating soccer this weekend. Enjoyed every minute of the ride. Even our heat didn't ruin the ride. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by LWRider on 07/26/10 at 14:22:59 2A292825273D440 wrote:
Here's Pic of the muffler on the bike. I had removed the tank for some wiring work. Ths muffler has great tone and once one the backfiring all but stopped. http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/415/newmufflerandfender.jpg And here's a Closeup of where it attaches to the rear muffler bracket. http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3057/mufflermounting.jpg Here's the bike as it was when I picked it up for free in Alabama. You can see the mix and match of colored fenders and the spare parts that came with it. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4891/beforeontrailer.jpg Cheers, Mike |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by DeepPurple on 07/26/10 at 21:51:17 Rode it to school, and the book store. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by danroot on 07/27/10 at 12:49:20 killed it. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Tom K on 07/27/10 at 12:54:43 Bought a battery and started charging it. Old one was 6 years old. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Paladin. on 07/27/10 at 14:44:52 This afternoon I applied my reflecting yellow rim strips: http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/images/RimStrip.jpg |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by james may on 07/27/10 at 21:11:21 514A4F7479786F1D0 wrote:
Here's Pic of the muffler on the bike. I had removed the tank for some wiring work. Ths muffler has great tone and once one the backfiring all but stopped. http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/415/newmufflerandfender.jpg And here's a Closeup of where it attaches to the rear muffler bracket. http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3057/mufflermounting.jpg Here's the bike as it was when I picked it up for free in Alabama. You can see the mix and match of colored fenders and the spare parts that came with it. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4891/beforeontrailer.jpg Cheers, Mike[/quote] nice deal ya almost got two bikes for the price of none. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Starlifter on 07/28/10 at 09:34:13 Cleaned the bug splatters off, wash & wax job. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by cursal on 07/28/10 at 10:33:06 Changed a dead front right blinker light bulb used a # 1157 (dual filament) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Bubba on 07/29/10 at 07:49:48 swapped out my busted left rear turn signal for one I bought from Lancer. I think he sent me a front but I used it on the left rear. The wiring was different but I got it to work. Like new!!! The biggest pain was removing the side rails with the wheel on the bike (it's tight under there since I went with a taller tire!). Then I cleaned off a bunch of spots on the exhaust (wine? cranberry juice?) that someone accidently spilled on my bike from the deck above, had to use bluejob but they came off...I tried everything else to get them off but the Bluejob worked great! |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by LANCER on 07/29/10 at 08:14:54 665146464515141C17240 wrote:
It was the REAR signal; came of the Blackl Shadow my son bought from Diamond Jim...2007 model. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by alcoa on 07/29/10 at 08:23:31 She is waiting to take me to work in 90 mins. :) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Bubba on 07/29/10 at 08:36:19 Hey Lancer, no worries...it worked. The wiring was just different then my '06 so I figured it came off the front. My rear only had two black wires, the one you sent had 3 wires. One blue, one green and one black. I tried some different wiring combinations while the rails were off until I found the right combination., then buttoned them up. Thanks it looks purdy again! |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by kimchris1 on 07/29/10 at 13:39:41 I sat on her, started her up. Let her roarrrrrrrrrr. Honked her horn, made like we were out on a road trip...ahahhah... I told her that hopefully not too much longer we will again be burning up the roads together. I even put the blinkers on and off as well as her hazard lights.. I am warning people ahead of time.. ;D ;D ;D Kim |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by LWRider on 07/29/10 at 14:27:44 More work today. Had some stuff come in I had been waiting for. First off I installed a left side front footpeg, something that strangely seems to be practically non-existent in the used market. It will be much easier to shift with a peg there. Looks pretty: http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7184/newriderpeg.jpg Also got an ebay package with a few "relays" off a 2006 model. The one I needed was the decomp controll unit and I installed that. I also got a fuse holder in the package and it was better than mine, with the rubber mount and all which mine was missing so I swapped them out. I also received a starter solenoid that I had bought on ebay. This one has a frame mount and all the nice rubber covers, etc. I will swap it with my beat up and electrical-taped one tomorrow. My turn signals have been lighting up, but not "wink." I suspect the relay, of course, so I went out to Autozone and bought a $2.99 flasher relay and installed it. The OEM I had priced out at $38.52. The plug on the bike plugged right onto the Autozone relay; I didn't have to do any modifications. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, actually it was yesterday. I took my fuel tank cap apart and cleaned it so I could get air through the vent and reassembled it. I suspect this is a problem on my bike. When I have tried to start it it took a long time and pretty much every time it finally fired up was just after I had removed the fuel tank cap. I assume it had a vapor lock that was keeping the fuel from flowing. At least that is my theory and if it was the cap, it should work now. Cheers, Mike |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Fuschia on 07/29/10 at 18:57:33 Rode her to work today (something I don't do very often) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by jef.savage on 07/29/10 at 19:25:27 Took it to Cruise Night then parked it in front of a restaurant and watched a little pickup truck back into it. Looks ok, I'll check it in the daylight tomorrow. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Wake51 on 07/30/10 at 11:46:35 Drilled out the stock exhaust last night guided by the suggestions on here. Never could look back either, she sounds like a real Thumper now with a throaty roar. 8-) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Horatio Hawkshaw on 07/30/10 at 20:01:55 I had a busy day today... After I got home from hiking up a mountain (Kennesaw Mt) (http://www.nps.gov/kemo/index.htm) I welded up a new brake pedal: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/4844846167_6c1d35de88.jpg ... re-positioned the sealed battery (kind of temporary- building a box for it tomorrow) and installed the shorter, better fender I welded up a few days ago: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4844846205_b1f1142dfe.jpg And I dolled up the dash board (piece of plexi-glass, sprayed with satin black on the under side, covering the recessed indicator lights) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4844846259_c3dd15782c.jpg .... Let there be light! http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/4845464370_1b0780d875.jpg Oh, and I added some paint to the tank (the black with red pin stripe) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4845464430_f2020dac9b_z.jpg :D |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by kimchris1 on 07/31/10 at 13:43:16 Horatio, man you were busy. Hell I would have had to take a nap after climbing a mountain.:) Your bike is coming along real fine. Keep the pics coming and again nice to see you back.. :) kim |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by cursal on 08/04/10 at 13:52:21 Rolled the odometer to 16k today on the way back from Blue River Lake. Man I love summer :) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by cursal on 08/06/10 at 17:02:26 Changed my front break pads. Great help here: http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1177184106/ Used a pair with Kevlar in them off ebay, $21 delivered. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by EJID on 08/06/10 at 19:00:05 Had to switch it to reserve just after leaving the garage, then had to lock up the brakes to avoid being run off the road by a cage. >:( Went to fill it up at the station and for the first time ever I fueled it up on it's kickstand. :-? Sure enough when I went to stand it back upright to leave gas spilled out around the cap all over the right side of the tank. :( Rode it home and cleaned up the spill with paper towels and water and was pleased to see that my rattle-can paint job held up to the gas. :) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by jspace on 08/06/10 at 22:30:32 took her out to get gas.. to the gas station an hour from my house.. :) |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by cursal on 08/07/10 at 09:41:37 Wash, waxed and detailed. Going for a nice long ride tomorrow with the little woman. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by ralfyguy on 08/07/10 at 13:07:26 6F797E7F6D600C0 wrote:
How are those new pads? Was thinking about getting them too. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by cursal on 08/07/10 at 14:17:10 4F5C515B445A48443D0 wrote:
How are those new pads? Was thinking about getting them too.[/quote] Only have about 60 miles on them and I am treating them real easy while I, "break them in" (no pun intended), using heavy rear and light tapping on the front when stopping. They seemed very "soft" on the initial test ride after installing. Thought I did something wrong. (my 1st time doing a brake job) ...But they are stiffing up as I ride, will leave more feedback after a few hundred miles more. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by bill67 on 08/07/10 at 16:31:32 Kicked the tires to see if they had enough air in them ;D |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Ed L. on 08/07/10 at 17:09:38 Took a ride and got caught in a light rain. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by rl153 on 08/07/10 at 17:27:55 Went for a ride with my wife in the country to a farm that serves ice cream .One of the nicest days weatherwise in CT.Bikes running pretty good ,except for ticking valves .Nothing I have works perfectly . |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by DaveLKN on 08/07/10 at 18:45:38 My day sounded a bit like EJID's. I've been riding this 98 Savage only for a few times so far this summer- I finally got the tags/insurance done and got it on the road, and had only ridden it around a few miles from home. Washed it off and headed out to dry it off the easy way. Ran it dry -of fuel- within a mile from the house, so I went and gassed it up and then rode some more. Beautiful day. Need to get forward controls to make it more comfortable, I think. Now I've gotta get my Marauder running asap to enjoy it before winter! |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by jspace on 08/07/10 at 23:48:39 washed it.. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by BuckHMCC on 08/08/10 at 17:27:58 It's been a week since I've been on a motorcycle - vacation which was nice, but no m/c activity. My daughter and I planned a ride (an HMCC outing), but she called not feeling well. So, first I took out the Bandit for about 70 miles up to the quiet (NE) corner of Connecticut. It didn't run right for a few miles at first. Motorcycles do not like being neglected. However, it was running good by the time I returned. So I decided it would be best to wake up the daughter's Savage. It just refused to start. I put the petcock on prime and watched fuel starting to flow past the glass windows of the in-line fuel filter. A little more cranking and it finally fired up. This warm weather seems to have evaporated away the fuel in the carb bowl. I putted around for about 30 miles. Only 5 miles to go to turn 15,000 miles when I came back. Rear suspension must be gone. It's certainly a more punishing ride than the Bandit. What that bike needs, besides new shocks, are mid controls and a flatter, higher seat. Oh, yeah, that's already been invented -- it's called a 'standard'! ;) Hey, cursal, Google 'how to break in new brake pads' for advice on bedding your new pads. It's not just being easy on them... |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Jive on 08/08/10 at 19:27:50 Took my first long ride from Beckley, WV to Princeton, WV. Very tired, and yes I now understand the seat issues! http://p1.bikepics.com/pics/2010%5C08%5C08%5Cbikepics-2035846-full.jpg http://p1.bikepics.com/pics/2010%5C08%5C08%5Cbikepics-2035847-full.jpg Jive |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by cursal on 08/09/10 at 07:27:08 Thanks Buck, I seems I did this the almost exactly just on my own. http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_5877942_break-new-brake-pads-harley.html I Must have good instincts. I didn't do a second cycle/round, but I'm noticing the difference already. Thanks for the heads up! |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by dvansyck on 08/09/10 at 14:54:01 Put bottom of engine together. Somebody thought the starter gear pins can be held in with JB weld after they broke off. :( |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Hashbrown on 08/09/10 at 15:01:30 painted the engine |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by Starlifter on 08/09/10 at 19:09:21 Umm, I did this awhile ago, but I finally bought and installed a fork brace. A very wise purchase. Here in Eastern Michigan they have recently goughed out deep parallel (to the roadway) rumble stripes on the center and sides of all paved roads. Passing etc. on these things seemed a little squirrely before the fork brace, but now I don't even feel them at any speed. Fork brace, highly recommended. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by kel30734 on 08/09/10 at 19:18:26 Ride the Bjesus out of it every day to work and back........ we got nice country moutian roads to and from work only time it gets parked is...... never MOd on weekends.... Abuse it on dragon runs and it is an every day coumter about 300 days a year :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o 03 with approaching 30,000 miles on the clock camchain and oil and tires and aspark plug every now and then |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by LWRider on 08/10/10 at 16:30:53 Started my '86 today after some rewiring work and the installation of a new igniter. Still have a minor oil leak (head cover plug leak), but it is ready for a road test. |
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Title: Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Post by dv8savagerider on 08/10/10 at 17:52:23 Realized that there was someone else from Michigan on here :o They are really messing up the roads on my side of the state as well- Southern lower Michigan |
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