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  1. 4 points
    I AGREE!!!! Our problem is the dealership here has gotten to ths point where thir concern is the sale. If you bought the machine there they will deal with you, if not good luck. My brother bought a used 800 they make every excuse in the book not to even touch it, the dealership in Billings 140 miles away is total opposite will bend over backwards to do whatever they can to take care of you. My oldest brother did buy a machine from the Billings dealership and started experiencing some electrical issues. He took it back and they gave him a brand new machine off the floor to use while they figured out what the problem was. They had his machine for 3 1/2 weeks he put about 200 miles on the loaner. When they called him he took the machine back no charge other than his expense in gas and time over and back. Ended up some one at the factory was having a bad day and ran the main wiring harness in the wrong place so the seat was rubbing on it and finally broke a couple of wires that were causing a short to the guage cluster. They put a new wiring harness in and he hasn't had an issue since. That's the way it should work. I I've called over there with questions on various little things and they get a tech on the phone that is willing to spend the time to answer questions and lets yiu know if it's something I myself can take care of then explains how to do it. Hmmmm.....imagine that, customer service!!! Even though it's 140 miles over because there's not much population around here speed limit is 80 so takes les than 2 hrs to get there, Wide open rode with not much traffic.
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  3. 2 points
    beautiful country though.. Montana... I 'm sure you love it up that way....here in the Carolinas, the "hill" in our neighborhood is actually the "speed bump" out on the street.
  4. 2 points
    Wow, thanks Jeep! So it looks like the kid got lucky.
  5. 1 point
    Hey guys, just picked up an 03 450 foreman to rebuild.
  6. 1 point
    Thanks, it was my dad's, didn't know he even had it. Was talking to my mom when she told me about it. Said she was holding on to it for me my brothers had already gotten dad's other guns. It looks like it needs some serious cleaning. Has been in a little soft case for the past 30 years on a drawer.
  7. 1 point
    I think more and more we will see things that are unreasonably difficult to maintain, and I think it's be design. People paying dealerships for maint and repair is where they make their money.
  8. 1 point
    That's likely going to be something with the two switches for reverse. One's on the bottom of the shifter, the other is the actual gear position switch. If you have a functional brain, you could always do the reverse mod which tricks it into thinking it's in forwards while mechanically being in reverse. Gives you full power/speed in reverse. We did it to @basfnb's Rubicon and he loves it. Of course, quick way to get hurt or killed if you don't have sense, or let someone without sense ride your Rubicon, so do this mod at your own risk! https://www.hondaforeman.com/threads/honda-rubicon-reverse-mod.80360/#post-625421
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    Dad and I took down a 30-40 foot dead oak in my sister's front yard Saturday. It died 2-3 years ago and was down to a dead snag that was getting pretty rotten. Hooked my Jeep winch to it and pulled it over, then took the Jeep back to my house to get my 4wheeler trailer to load the wood on and by the time I got back Dad had pretty much cut it all up with my 346. He said "Man I wish I'd bought the other one they had when you bought this one!" I took the kid out on the farm yesterday and took the MS180 to run it a bit widening out some of the trails. It does a great job on small saplings and stuff. I've ordered a new wider bar and chain for it, so will be interested to see how it does then. I tried to make one cut on that oak with it while dad was cutting elsewhere Saturday, and the 346 would run circles around that MS180, but that's comparing apples to watermelons. More CC's, pro grade vs homeowner.
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    good grief!!.. I'm already into my 3rd cut on the yard this past week...beautiful 70s temps..pool has warmed to 73 just from the sun.. I'll crank the heater this week to slowly bring it up to a nice 88 degrees..the grandkids are begging me to go swimming. wife has been on the pond last 4 days in a row and caught no less than a half dozen bass each evening. all our seasonal flowers are planted front of house and around the pool and I wore myself out saturday with my Echo limb saw and brush cutter rigs...thank God I have my old blue 300 ..pulled I think 11 big bundles of cut limbs and 3" sapplings back to the burn pile. point is..Springtime is here in the sunny South..can't imagine still dealing with bleak gray skies and snow...
  11. 1 point
    Aaaahhhhh, spring time in Montana.
  12. 1 point
    Amazing how the ladscape can be so offensive. https://qr.ae/pGpfxS
  13. 1 point
    You did good LedFted, 50:1 mix is an EPA only thing and it's not enough oil.... in Europe the same saw models that are sold here are spec'd for more oil, 32:1 generally. I pay no attention to the EPA, I run 32:1 synthetic oil/gas mixes because 14,000 RPM two-strokes won't survive long term on 50:1 EPA mixes.
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    I noticed that the bare thermie for my multimeter lags behind oil temp changes too, unless the oil is constantly being stirred, despite that bare thermie being submerged to the same depth and placed within 1/4" of the end of the oil temp sensor brass that is being measured. So constant stirring of the oil is required.... when I take a photo while calibrating a sensor I gotta snap a pic within 3 seconds after I stop stirring the oil, else the numbers for both the sensor & the measuring thermie begin to drop at different rates. The mass of the brass sensor wicks the oil temp down rapidly the moment stirring stops. I submerge the brass up to the bottom of the flats so that the majority of the mass is in oil. I imagine the brass would cool the oil immediately surrounding it less if the entire sensor were dipped in oil though. Maybe I'll try that the next time I calibrate one of them.... You got some good data there... your sensor R/T curves are pretty consistent with published specs.
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    Haha right you are Fish, although not quite cloudy... He actually PM'd me to ask if I could repair it for him It will be on its way to me soon
  16. 1 point
    Easiest way to tell a pre-1964 model 70 is the serial number. less than 700,000. Another way is the extractor claw. If it doesn't rotate as in Mauser 98 type it's a controlled feed and not push feed. When stripping a round from the magazine the rim will slip up behind the extractor claw before it chambers. With the controlled feed you can chamber a round with the rifle held upside down. Beautiful rifle you have there. The stock reminds me of a Fajen but it could be most anything. Even original from Winchester. The two tapped holes on the left of the receiver make me think it once had peep sights on it.
  17. 1 point
    🤯😵 Holy Cow!! No, I don't do a lot of mud, this first ride, I think, is some of the dirtiest, wettest, muddiest, and iciest trails I've ever been on and they aren't even that bad in comparison to the kind of riding you and your friends are doing. I don't even like taking my machine through water as deep as the foot wells😁. Most of our riding is on twisty/winding trails that dont open up until mid June, the forest service does that so they dont get torn to shreds. Even then there's not a lot of water crossings or puddles, we try not to get them too dirty as my wife never helps with the clean up, any prep to go riding, just gets on, hits the start button, gear selector, and squeezes the throttle, Easy Peasy!!!! 🙄 We have so many miles of trails that are so far back into the mountains it would be a maintenance nightmare if the forest service didn't regulate the use during spring runoff and melting. So... all that to say my machines don't get that hardcore use. I'm not saying it wouldn't be fun to do some of that kind of riding I just don't want to spend the time nor $$$$ to be fixin' and repairin'😄. I'm a lightweight😉, see, they're not even that bad after a full day of riding. But spent 4 hours cleaning them up anyway.😏 Notice our grass hasn't even started greening up yet😒
  18. 1 point
    So you tried for Betty Davis and got Kim Carnes ? If so you need to be more careful with your copy and paste , as it will jump to the previous song you listen too sometimes , watch the address bar when you copy and paste to see if it changes
  19. 1 point
    Lots of work to simply change fluids for sure!! Engineering dept. doing their best to try to make you bring it to the dealer, Good job proving you don't need the dealer to do it.
  20. 1 point
    The xr650 is designed very similar to the xr400. Which is the same engine as the 400ex. I would bet the ticking is the auto decompression. The reason its in the first 20 seconds is it works on engine rpm. Uses centripital force to drop into its groove and stop ticking. I would bet if you rev it and hold the idle high for a few seconds you would hear a click and it would stop. That would confirm it 100%
  21. 1 point
    Honestly I've had better luck shooting old ammo that I've gotten from Dad than I have some new production stuff. Was out shooting mistletoe with the kids at Christmas, and the federal bulk pack 22 from Walmart was "bang BANG BANG pop, BANG bang bang pop" No two shots sounded the same. The old Remington 22's that Dad gave me as a kid? He's still shooting it, and it is consistent, reliable, and accurate.
  22. 1 point
    Funny story on old ammo. 30 years ago I was with my dad, & uncle who had ammo that was really old at that time. He was shooting it out of his Remington Nylon 66. My father & I never laughed so hard in all our lives! He went to shoot at a rabbit across from us.. we could literally see the bullets exit the barrel & drop about 15’ away!! U could have caught them with ur hand lol!! Other than that I’ve shot 10year+ ammo without issues.
  23. 1 point
    Here in Canada, eh, the gun laws are wonky. No centerfire can hold more than 5 rounds. High capacity magazines are pinned with a rivet at 5. But yet, I can walk in and buy one of these off the shelf. Makes no sense! Is 18" barrel the shortest you are allowed across the whole USA?
  24. 1 point
    This belonged to my great grandfather. He passed it down to my great uncle (my grandmother's brother). My great uncle recently passed it to me. .32 rimfire Remington Elliot We haven't exactly gotten along over the years, but he knows I appreciate and value family stuff, so he knows that by passing it to me it will stay in the family.
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