Say Retro, I forget if we have covered this before, I admit to being "past fifty" as I suspect you are as well by your signature. So I figured you could forgive an inquirey as to your icon. (even if we have covered this)
I love sidecars and riding with one is a special talent that has left some of my old friends quite literally in a ditch with my rig when I let them try it.
Is that your sidecar rig? Do you still ride at all?
I have owned about 38 bikes or so and a couple with side cars. Mostly Harleys and British bikes and one BMW.

There I just wanted to distract you for a bit.

JustV12

 

The sidehack was borrowed.
However, that is the cow I was dating at the time.

No, seriously, I have no idea about the avatar photo. Just one I found on the web and thought was suitably (ahem) mystical/warped/bizarre.

Never owned a sidecar due to lack of opportunity. During my years in the bike biz I got to mess around with a few.

The most fun I ever had with one was at Daytona Bike Week in the early '80s. The dealership had recently taken on the Vespa scooter and moped line.
I took our P200E demonstrator and added a California Sidecar Co. car, color matched in red, along with the factory Vespa quarter fairing, luggage rack, tour trunk, etc.
It was a total hit at Daytona! Pissed off a bunch of guys with mega-buck show bikes when people walked right by them to look at the scooter.
Was a highly maneuverable rig. You could crank the forks hard right and spin it in a circle, pivoting on the sidecar wheel, without ever leaving your lane of traffic.
Did that trick at a stop light in Daytona in front of an outdoor restaurant. Had the whole crowd cheering and clapping before the light changed. Nearby 'Davidson pilots were chagrined.

This is NOT a photo of that scooter, just one I got off the internet to demonstrate the basic concept.
(Besides, all my dogs have been goobers, hate riding in a car much less on a motorcycle!)

 

Hey retro, I like your style lol
Here have you been ?
I notice you also slightly modified your signature as well
Happy safe driving

 

Hi Cadillac,
Not much going on lately, mostly just tryin' to stay warm!

Of course nothing like what most of the country is facing right now, but the steamy South ain't too doggone steamy at the moment....!!!

Of course it doesn't help that I live in a 100+ year old house that was built the old fashioned way for a hot climate. 12' ceilings and nary a speck of insulation.

Sitting here at the computers, my wife and I definitely have that "homeless" look .... you know, lotsa layers of clothing. All we need is a couple of derelict shopping carts to complete the picture.

See y'all later!

 

Dammit, this is central Mississippi.
This crap just ain't right!

Donor & recipient hidin' under snowdrifts (sic).
Inspector chicken sez everything's OK.

 

WELL, retro, you got supper right in front of ya,, chicken. LOL

it snowed in Austin tx, been here 7 yrs, never happened before.

sure is one crazy winter tho!!

my OPEL veggie car dont like startin in cold weather, loves it when 100F!
so i put regular diesel fuel in it and starts OK,, but diesel costs money, veggie oil i get fir free, so yearly cost are very low.

course 40-42mpg helps also!

 

pic of 82 OPEL-ISUZU 1.8L turbo,5spd.

 

darn thats two different car pix,its the one thats yellow.

would help if i would enlarge pic before i upload! DUH.

 

I hear ya.
Looks like the rust worms got to the white one pretty heavy!

 

Retro, wanna trade weather patterns? I have an XJ6 up on ramps and it's completely buried. The snow has settled now but we had a good 5 feet or so on the ground.

 

I could go for part of that deal.
How 'bout we just trade summers?

 

Is that the light at the end of the tunnel,
or just the 3:10 to Yuma .....????

OK, here we go again.
After letting the XJ40 sit since October, (and let that be a lesson to the bastid!), I've adjusted my attitude, grabbed the bull by the horns, sucked it up, girded my loins (whatever in hell that means?), (insert additional cliche of your choice here), and attacked it again.

Installed a new set of Bosch plug wires. Was certain that wasn't the problem, but the originals were very shabby and needed replacement anyway.
Just for kicks, I tried starting the car with absolutely NO additional preparations.
It started instantly ... the quickest it's ever started since I've been messing with it.
Sadly, it only ran about 30~45 seconds and then bogged out again.
Would not even attempt to restart.

I had suspicions the fuel return line might have been clogged, but it proved to be clear. (And yes, before you ask, I did turn the air pressure down on my compressor this time!)
Since the fuel return line was already disconnected, I cycled the fuel pump a few times to check for flow out of the fuel pressure regulator.
Nothing, dry as a bone.

I then pulled the vacuum line that leads from the regulator to the intake manifold, thinking it may have been clogged. I found it slap full of fuel.

I then cycled the fuel pump again with the vacuum line disconnected and fuel absolutely gushed out of the vacuum port .....!!

Eureka ....!!! Even neanderthal dummies like me are now getting a clue!

My new fuel pressure regulator will be here in the morning.
Wish me luck ...!!!

 

Welcome out of hibernation Retro, hope you had a good kip.

Best of luck with the regulator, at least all that spilt fuel helps to keep the weeds down.

 

retro, you are a PIECE-OF-WORK,, LOL

 

Thank you ronbros,
but please, please, please don't use the "W" word around retired people.
Just seeing it in print gave me the vapors ... had to go take a nap!

BTW, I was confused in my last post.
Turned out it wasn't the light at the end of the tunnel or a train.
Near as I can figure it was either just some ball lightning or a courtesy light at the entrance to limbo, which as you know is the stopover to HELL.
(Sorta like the Atlanta airport, I guess.)
I did see a road sign showing the miles/kilometers to the river Styx, and in the men's loo was penciled "Call Charon for a good time".

Picked up my pressure regulator today. Had my old one with me (Mama did raise a stupid son, but it weren't me!). Part looks identical .... cool!

Get home and go to swap it out .... the freakin' threads aren't right!
Same diameter, but the fittings won't screw on. Matching the threaded portions of the two parts together showed a very minute difference in the thread pitches.

At this point there is another brand of regulator on special order out of Tennessee. Should be here early next week.

Translator, .... I need a translator again! I thought you were talkin' about those nasty little breakfast fishes the blokes are partial to, but those are kippers.

Googled "kip", here's what I got:

n., pl., kip.
A basic unit of currency in Laos.

That can't be it. I don't have any money, Laotian or otherwise.

 

Well if you are ever on vacation in downtown Laos and awaken hungry after a kip, you could just nip down to the local fish shop, buy a heavy kipper for a kip, and take it home wrapped in a calf skin.

It is the Kipper Season, when all said and done.

Kind of one stop, one word shopping. Bound to catch on. LOL

Best of luck with your dodgy screw thread, what is special about Tennessee?

 

Well, what I personally consider special about Tennessee has nothing to do with the question at hand.
That would be the road network, from the standpoint of a hard core motorcyclist or anyone else who enjoys curvy, well maintained roads and beautiful scenery.
(They have more than their fair share of curvy, well maintained women too, but I digress ...)
Raised in the flatlands of coastal Mississippi, I always loved riding the hills and valleys of Tennessee. In fact, my intention a couple years ago was to move there. Made a couple trips to look at various properties, but in the end discovered the "perfect" (sic) home in east central Mississippi. So I guess I ended up moving halfway to Tennessee.

Pertaining to your question;
The first (non-fitting) part was manufactured by BWD (Borg Warner). It was a standard parts house order, at the store the next morning.
The one I'm waiting on now is a Beck Arnley product. Apparently this has to be special ordered, and I guess they have a manufacturing plant or warehouse in Tennessee. I also ended up paying a shipping surcharge, which I'm not real happy about.
But hey, as my sweetie says, "it's only paper!"

 

Brain needs to speed up!

 

If you chat up the bird in the fish shop, you might have a kippie-up as well.

 

Are you referring to my brain ...??? Sorry, not a chance.
At this stage it's all downhill from here
Pretty soon I'll be able to hide my own Easter eggs ....!

norri .....
Dammit, now I gotta go googling again.
Actually, I think I catch the general meaning.
It's to no avail though. I couldn't get lucky in a cathouse with a Visa Gold card!