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Bam! Shes got a tail again! Also cleaned the throttle body, found the velocity stack to be improperly installed with spring clamp missing aswell, and cleaned and oiled the k&n. Ordered bar end mirrors, taillight, and a ecm cable today too. 20190202_150724.jpg
 
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I haven't made much progress lately. Still waiting on my buddy to finish my forks. I did want to add a little advice to the newbs and folks with buell troubles in general. Upon replacing the rails I made sure to remove all paint from and clean the grounding points, battery cables, clean the paint off where the rails attach to the main frame, and do the added engine (coil bracket) to battery ground wire. Police your grounds fellas! No easier or cheaper buell maintenance!
 
Just finished PM ing u john. Yup that belt worked swell. Everything tight now. I spent about 2 hours on the header. 400, 600, 1000, 2000, 3000 grit then mothers polish... it doesn't look perfect in person, but a damn sight better than it did and @ 10 ft or in a pic it looks awesome!
 
No obvious difference in the old to new belt other than what I mentioned about its thickness @the base of the teeth so, I guess that and stretch must have been enough? It had to be on the cusp of snapping I guess?
 
Little update on Erika. We're finally getting some upper 50 degree weather here so I actually got a chance to ride this thing. First ride was around the parking lot @ work last friday. When I found that the front brake pads had absorbed enough fork oil to make the front brake completely worthless. So, got that all fixed up on Tuesday (thanks John for the pads and the speedy shipping).
Yesterday was about 57* and sunny so I left work a little early. Rode around beding in the brakes and breaking in the new belt for a little while(10 miles) then filled her up with fresh fuel and headed out of town. Only did about 40 miles. Ran great for the most part. Some hanging idle and occasional stumbles @ idle so i think intake seals are in my near future. Also got a CEL on when I got back in to town, but still running well. I should be able to at least pull the code this weekend. It also seems like the fan runs a lot more than it did on my Ulysses, but my guess is because of not having a RSS, may be part of the CEL issue too, not sure yet. So all in all, a good first ride... Nothing fell off, It still has all of its oil where its supposed to be, and I didnt have to walk home!
 
trouble code was 36 fan circuit short to ground. Found the fan wire and a couple others to the ecm got pinched between the seat and battery and chafed. All fixed up and rerouted now.
 
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