Well, think about it -- for 4 days you did nothing but go from full-on hard acceleration in the lower gears to full-on engine deceleration in the same or a lower gear.  

You did this thousands and thousands of times ....

I can't think of anything that would stress your primary engine to transmission HiVo chain any more than that.   You beat your poor Hurley to death trying to keep up with them puny miserable little pittyful grandma sickles ...

Your gear oil in that primary case needs to be changed, for sure.   If you can get it to quit slapping, go ahead and sell it next spring -- the slapping issue is gonna come back and get right expensive 'cause them primary chains don't come cheap.


Me, let me show you the only thing that my Savage desperately required when I returned home -- nothing mechanical mind you (other than a little adder of motor oil in the gearcase) but a desperate need according to my wife none the less !!

(my wife mentioned it to me just as soon as she went out into the garage).



Complete De-Possumification


Pics that follow show the need in increasing order, so you can see the general filth and mentally separate it from the hard wormy possum guts and the dried thick possum yuck ....

                           BEFORE









The possum guts were a fair amount larger looking when they were still fresh, but they have dried out and shriveled up pretty much into hard wormy looking things in these pics -- still were pretty fragrant though which is why my wife insisted I go give my bike a bath if I was gonna leave it in the garage ....    

Me, I'd a thought they'd have washed off in all the rain and road spray, so I thought nothing of it until she took me to task over the "bad smell" out in the garage.

(I also caught her sniffing & checking out my pants legs on the pants that I wore too -- she wanted to wash them again if they needed it.   I think she washed all my trip clothes again, on GP.
Turns out my shoes, they really did need it.)




                            AFTER WASHING







  that wuz one heck of a trip, lemme tell ya ....   dem durn possums, they pops like water balloons and sprays yuck all over the place when you hit them a going that durn fast !!




And here is a set of cute possum, chipmunk, and squirrel  pics, so we can get the proper amount of cute credit for what all we ran over while on the trip.

Actually, Zuk gave me the exact same lecture and even told me the breeds that were crossed to get the minpin -- I told him it looked like a minature dobie and when alerted it acted like a miniature dobie, so I would continue to think about it as a miniature dobie.

But it was shocking/amazing to find the little girl instantly all the way up standing on my shoulder blades licking out my ear with its little stub tail jest a wagging ....  she had hit first on my butt and had boosted herself on up the rest of the way with a quick scrabble.   Climbed me like a tree she did.

The Dobie-ism thing also served to remind myself to treat the little girl well, or it might jest jump up there with another purpose in mind and I'm not sure you would be fast enough to stop her from sinking those not so small fangs into your jugular ....

Oldfeller, pics from National Geographic don't count.  
I am sure your wife wanted to scrub you down with
tomato juice and probably should have..
Tell her to add vinegar to the wash, it cuts the odors
and actually helps lifts the stains as well...
Again your ride and report was great. Your an awesome
reporter.. Kudos for that. I really enjoyed reading all
about the adventure you guys had. It is nice that your
all able to do that. Take care, hugs kim

MMR,
Can you get this pic of Sassy on here?
I would like to see it, but don't want to get set up with Yahoo just for that.

Glad to see your Hardly get you home ok

Thanks,
Bigzuk

OF, TG here, new to the site.
Can you give your thinking about windshields, I noticed you ride at good speeds but don't have one on your Savage.
Thanks

I started with the " Memphis shield" stuff, and now have 3 of them all different sizes for different weather conditions.   They switch SUPPER  EASY  ,  also the "no shield" option is just as easy.    

Look on ebay...   sometimes the prices are just as easy as the shield are.


My Savage set=up gets along with a 17" high shield just right, but standard shocks might get along with a 15" .  ????

I'm 5'11" ,  12" shocks and a Harley soft-tail seat(wide and comfey).

MMRanch wrote on 10/03/11 at 08:34:16:


OK, gonna check it out. Thanks, MM