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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #300 - 07/06/16 at 10:01:17 It may have swollen the plug. Transmission stop leak works by softening and swelling seals. Too much? Seals get turned wrong side out and made gooey.. pooey..
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Reply #301 - 07/06/16 at 11:02:37

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/06/16 at 10:01:17:

It may have swollen the plug. Transmission stop leak works by softening and swelling seals. Too much? Seals get turned wrong side out and made gooey.. pooey..

I know carb cleaner melts plastic and swells rubber, but I don't know what the lower surface of the plug is made of. Can someone who does know fill me in?

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #302 - 09/09/16 at 15:27:27 Tired of the hand cleaner not getting it? Grab a Scotch Brite pad and put it by the hand cleaner. It's not as hard on the skin as the pocket knife scraping the contact cement off.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #303 - 10/15/16 at 21:26:46 Since I j ust can't remember the mileage when I filled up, I stopped by Hobby Lobby and g o t a. P a ir of grease pencils. They call them China markers.
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Reply #304 - 11/13/16 at 05:26:58

Not knowing this (my first time to change oil as bike is new to me) caused me to spill those few ounces of oil on my garage floor as I tried to move bike back into another location to replace plug and then refill oil!!

Onederer wrote on 02/22/08 at 19:41:26:

When changing oil, after removing plug,remember to lift bike off side stand, like you're going to ride. If not, several ounces of dirty oil will be left in the engine.

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norm92de Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1180 El Paso TX Gender:	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #305 - 12/04/16 at 21:50:09 When I change my oil I always make sure to tip the bike every which way so that I get every last drop of oil out of the engine. That way I can be sure it will take as long as possible for oil to get back up to the camshaft after I start it up.
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Reply #306 - 12/05/16 at 00:30:27

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/15/16 at 21:26:46:

Since I j ust can't remember the mileage when I filled up, I stopped by Hobby Lobby and g o t a. P a ir of grease pencils.
They call them China markers.

Funny you should post that now because I've been wondering for months the best solution, I thought of those grease pencils that we used to write on film with when I worked in a lab. But I ended up getting a laundry marker which is a permanent marker but it's still relatively easy to scratch it off with your fingernail and a bit of spit. Prolly better than the grease pencil.

I also got some velcro so I could stick the marker somewhere but while looking around I found a spot where I could hide the pen without velcro, you can see it in the image between the toolbox cover and the side cover.

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Reply #307 - 12/08/16 at 17:24:57

Recently I purchased a new spray cleaner that the Harley shops have been touting. The product is "S100 Total Cycle Cleaner" which is quite inferior to plan old "Gunk Engine Degreaser Original".

Neither are as capable as the original "Harley Davidson Gunk", which through a stroke of genius I still have a good supply of it, and having a nephew that works for Harley supplied the genius part.

The S100 cost about $11.00 for a 21 oz. spray can and the Gunk costs about $3.00 for a 15 oz. spray can at WalMart.

Actually Simple Green performed better than the S100 for those friendly to the environment.

The $3.00 can of Gunk Original performed more than satisfactory.

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Reply #308 - 01/11/17 at 20:27:20

Use Pledge on your helmet visor to help get rid of the water. Spry a small amount on then work it with your fingers so that the wax turns opaque. Once the entire visor is covered, wipe it off with a soft cloth.

Then it rains, the water drops will bead and, when you turn your head slightly left and right, the wind will blow them off the visor. For light or misty rain you can wipe the visor with your glove and instead of sheeting the water will bead and blow off as above.

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Reply #309 - 01/12/17 at 09:38:37

I'm sure I'm a descendant of Moses. I can't go anywhere without getting lost. The China marker, made in China, meant for marking porcelain/glass,, and I put the fill up mileage on my speedometer, and I was going out to run some new roads to the lake and decided to write the names on the glass.
Saved me about 39 years, 11 months, 29 days and 23 and 1/2 hours.

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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #310 - 01/12/17 at 17:53:58 KiwiGeek wrote on 01/11/17 at 20:27:20: Use Pledge on your helmet visor... Does this also work for bugs?
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Reply #311 - 03/11/17 at 14:06:29

Not sure if anyone has done this. But if you want a trip odometer get an old or cheap android cellphone and download something Ulysse Speedometer. You'll have a digital speedo with multiple trip odometers to keep track of miles between fuel stops. How you mount it is up to you. Also HERE WeGo for offline GPS that will work with bluetooth headsets.

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Reply #312 - 04/12/17 at 06:50:30

Kris01 wrote on 01/12/17 at 17:53:58:

KiwiGeek wrote on 01/11/17 at 20:27:20:

Use Pledge on your helmet visor...

Does this also work for bugs?

Yes it does, slippery by any other name is slippery.

Pledge is also great for buffing a high sheen on waxed floors.
In Army Flight School we had to wax & buff our concrete floors, and were constantly trying to improve the shine (a better mirror image) We found that Lemon Pledge did a first rate job of putting the shine down AND it smelled good too.
Unfortunately, it also made the floor a bit slippery, and the Battalion XO (a Major) found out when he came to do an inspection and slipped and hit flat on his back. Nope, he was not the least bit amused.
Next day a new directive came out ... NO MORE LEMON PLEDGE on the floors.
No one was hung for the Major's back pain, but rumor had it that we were applauded for our creativity.

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SkinnyPuppy YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 8	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #313 - 07/26/17 at 16:36:15 Try not to drop your bike , OEM parts are crazy expensive .
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sgreiss YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 9	Re: DAILY HOT TIP Reply #314 - 09/01/17 at 07:30:54 Starlifter wrote on 02/20/08 at 07:06:02: Replace the cheap tools in your on-board tool kit with good quality chromiun steel shorty metric wrenches. Hadn't thought about that. Great idea!
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