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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #15 - 07/27/10 at 14:44:52 This afternoon I applied my reflecting yellow rim strips:
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Re: What did you do to your Savage today?
Reply #16 - 07/27/10 at 21:11:21

LWRider wrote on 07/26/10 at 14:22:59:

babyhog wrote on 07/26/10 at 11:29:46:

Wow, you did alot! How difficult was the muffler swap? Got any pics of it?

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

nice deal ya almost got two bikes for the price of none.

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Starlifter Serious Thumper Offline It only snows seven months of the year here. Posts: 3746 Eastern Michigan Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #17 - 07/28/10 at 09:34:13 Cleaned the bug splatters off, wash & wax job.
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cursal Full Member Offline Daily Savage Rider Posts: 175 Eugene, OR Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #18 - 07/28/10 at 10:33:06 Changed a dead front right blinker light bulb used a # 1157 (dual filament)
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Reply #19 - 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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Reply #20 - 07/29/10 at 08:14:54

Bubba wrote 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!

It was the REAR signal; came of the Blackl Shadow my son bought from Diamond Jim...2007 model.

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alcoa Full Member Offline never let the bastards wear you down Posts: 155	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #21 - 07/29/10 at 08:23:31 She is waiting to take me to work in 90 mins.
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Reply #22 - 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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Reply #23 - 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.. Grin

Kim

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Reply #24 - 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:

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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Fuschia Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 79 Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #25 - 07/29/10 at 18:57:33 Rode her to work today (something I don't do very often)
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jef.savage Serious Thumper Offline ridin' n slidin' Posts: 638 Boston, MA Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #26 - 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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Wake51 Full Member Offline Murphy's Law Posts: 214 St. Louis Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #27 - 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.
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Reply #28 - 07/30/10 at 20:01:55

I had a busy day today...

After I got home from hiking up a mountain (Kennesaw Mt) I welded up a new brake pedal:

... 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:

And I dolled up the dash board (piece of plexi-glass, sprayed with satin black on the under side, covering the recessed indicator lights)

.... Let there be light!

Oh, and I added some paint to the tank (the black with red pin stripe)

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kimchris1 Serious Thumper Offline Pink Posse Rider... Posts: 2135 Belfair, Washington Gender:	Re: What did you do to your Savage today? Reply #29 - 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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