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How many miles since the switch to higher octane?

Check your oil for fuel dilution before you run the engine.

I've lived, as an adult child, three geographically different places. Two that didn't change the position of the hands on the clock (Hawaii and Arizona) and one place that did (Alaska). I really don't understand the supposed rational why, as it doesn't do anything useful. Nice not having to go throu...

Sounds like an air lock. Fill the rad at the filler cap on the side stand, then start the engine. Wearing gloves, squeeze the large pipe that runs through the frame, you should see the level drop in the filler neck. Add more coolant when that happens and repeat. Then hold the throttle at 3k revs, a...

Stevie Ray Vaughan. Doing Voodoo Chile. Great ones seem to leave early.

I have used this and is near perfect.
https://www.colorrite.com/wizardresults.cfm

Made a stand a few years ago using the info from this thread. It has been utterly indispensable. Every time I use it I'm thankful for this site. A huge thank you to the OP Jazzscot.

daz350 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:42 pm Hi i am in the process of replacing my swingarm and shock linkage.Would it be ok to replace linkage nuts and bolts with stainless

While stainless might be fine, in such a critical area I would only use OEM or exact equivalent.

This might be helpful.
https://www.superhawkforum.com/forums/m ... ide-23751/

Where did you source the exhaust mounts from?

Hey 8541 Hawk. I can't use the PM function. Have an email in to the admin to enable it.

Actually got her started today......now to go through all the fun of tuning the carbs once again as I am now at 5K feet. So its time for a second Flo-Commander, this one for the pilot circuit, as I really don't want to run smaller pilots and it looks like I need to be able to run from around 7K to ...

Shoe lace?

Well just got kicked off the US SH site..... I guess I shouldn't have been honest when the question of "why is this place so slow and no one posts much" was asked. I mean all I said was that I refrain from posting much because there was the dreaded brake pad thread and I dared to state my...

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