SuzukiSavage.com - Lesson learned, DOH!

zipidachimp

Serious Thumper

Offline

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 1389
surrey, b.c.
Gender: male

Lesson learned, DOH!
07/17/17 at 19:24:20

Took my S41 out for a run last Friday, within 3 blocks started to surge, buck, backfire etc., within 6 blocks, so bad had to turn it around and bring it home. Extremely loud, thought I had an airleak whatever. Started to take it apart, went to remove the battery, + terminal was loose, explained the wavering neutral light. Charged it up, put it back, took it out today, smooth as butter. Now all my terminals have lockwashers.
Why did it loosen? who knows. Embarrassed

Back to top

IP Logged

batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #1 - 07/17/17 at 20:10:12 I think they call it vibration.
Back to top	my old work mates called me MacGyver IP Logged

Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #2 - 07/17/17 at 20:17:24 Cause you dunt have a Gremlin Bell !!!!
Back to top	The Topic Terminator IP Logged

batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #3 - 07/17/17 at 20:34:33 hanging a gremlin on your bike by his bells sounds mean.
Back to top	my old work mates called me MacGyver IP Logged

Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #4 - 07/18/17 at 07:04:59 Just one of my stupidstitions never paint a bike green and must have a gremlin bell given as a gift, they don't work if you buy it. After that anything goes !
Back to top	The Topic Terminator IP Logged

justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #5 - 07/18/17 at 07:55:20 And I thought the Vroom motor was silly.
Back to top	The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.- Edmund Burke. IP Logged

Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #6 - 07/18/17 at 08:58:30 The sound wave created by the bell disables the gremlins so they can't jump on as you pass by. Without it , well you can fall prey to those nasty little critters. Yup , and I've seen Bigfoot too ! But I haven't seen any aliens , but haven't been to Texas yet !
Back to top	The Topic Terminator IP Logged

ero4444

Full Member

Offline

weekender

Posts: 176

Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Reply #7 - 07/18/17 at 15:30:54

the way I heard it, they jump up from the street, get stuck in the bell and get their ears gonged, and they fall out and off in disarray.

as a new biker on an old bike, I was reading about gremlin bells, and it seemed like it couldn't hurt. I looked where to hang one on the bike and it was already there and I had never noticed. Gave me a warm-fuzzy for no reason.

Back to top

c2001, 3800miles, 3rd owner, adjusted idle, raised seat, Tkat brace, Raptor petcock, cleaned carb, replaced some jets, Dyna muffler, Fiamm horns, Shinkos, future Ed L. forward controls, fork boots.

IP Logged

Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #8 - 07/18/17 at 16:05:47 Either way the bell serves its purpose keeping the little buggers off my bikes free to jump on the non believers bikes , where they belong !
Back to top	The Topic Terminator IP Logged

hotrod Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 326 NC Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #9 - 07/18/17 at 18:20:14 I ride with a deer whistle . By the time I get it out of my pocket, and blow in it, the deer are gone.
Back to top	IP Logged

Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #10 - 07/18/17 at 19:01:58 Ya know they make ones that you can stick on the front fender. Actually for cars but work on bikes too !
Back to top	The Topic Terminator IP Logged

ohiomoto

Serious Thumper

Offline

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 2689
WTF is JOG?

Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Reply #11 - 07/18/17 at 19:56:17

hotrod wrote on 07/18/17 at 18:20:14:

I ride with a deer whistle . By the time I get it out of my pocket, and blow in it, the deer are gone.

---------

No need for the whistle these days. Modern day deer look both ways before crossing the road.
Wink

Edit: True story, I was playing golf last weekend. Had a 6:30am tee time, at a course located in a national park. On 2nd shot on the 8th hole (along a road) a coyote appears, looks both ways before crossing the road, the fairway and into the adjacent woods.

Back to top

IP Logged

NitehawkCE

YaBB Newbies

Offline

SuzukiSavage.com
Rocks!

Posts: 7
Kentucky
Gender: male

Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Reply #12 - 07/21/17 at 11:29:15

Ruttly wrote on 07/18/17 at 07:04:59:

Just one of my stupidstitions never paint a bike green and must have a gremlin bell given as a gift, they don't work if you buy it.
After that anything goes !

Actually, that has been changed. They work if you buy it yourself. But....They are more powerful if been given as a gift from another biker.

Back to top

IP Logged

batman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3806 osceola new york Gender:	Re: Lesson learned, DOH! Reply #13 - 07/23/17 at 10:46:34 I think you've all gonged crazy,what you say doesn't ring true,no gremlins have jumped on my bike (they can't ride without a helmet in NY ).
Back to top	my old work mates called me MacGyver IP Logged