| Author | Message | ||
     Bartimus |
Doughnut, Welcome to S2 ownership club. Check the quickboard archives for the S2 signature series listings. there is a listing of Badweb S2 owners and their bike numbers. http://badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/discus.cgi The Nallin kit you want is: 005-NR3563TSS2EKH-BP this is a Stage 2 sportster engine kit. The S2's came with a stock sportster engine. This kit will give you Revolution cylinders, thunderstorm heads with stage 2 headwork, Dyna 2000 ignition and street performance cams. I am having this kit installed on my newly purchased 2nd S2 as I speak. The kit normally goes for $2898.71, I got my kit for about $2400 through Santa Fe, HD/Buell. Check with your local (Buell friendly) dealership to see if they have any winter specials going on engine kits. I have had absolutely NO problems with my SS2 V&H in 148,000 miles. edited by bartimus on January 20, 2004 edited by bartimus on January 20, 2004 | ||
| Firemanjim |
Why lower it,I am only 5-8 and have no problem.Just like on my dirtbikes--one foot down one on the rear brake.Works just fine.Get some good riding boots so you don't slip--not cowboy boots for gods sake!!!If you want take some preload off rear shock,but this is not a good idea if you are over 190 or 2 up. | ||
| Roadrunr |
Jim Witt, I looked at your lathe today, check yer mail pardner. | ||
| Philip |
hey roadrunr, did you get that new windscreen painted and installed? | ||
| Easyflier |
Ara, the Perlite I've seen has roughly the appearance of popped corn so a screen wrapped around the exhaust pipe then dump it in around it, like styrofoam packing peanuts. I haven't disassembled a Buell race pipe but the online articles I've read about repacking other pipes makes it seem possible. I originally thought about trying it to modify a stock XB muffler and with the method I was going to try it would work without a screen, I was just going to use real small perforations in the pipe. I think that Vermiculite has similar properties also but after doing some reading Perlite sounded like the better choice. If memory serves me correctly it's created by heating lava rock to about 1,400F which should make it hold up well inside an exhaust system. But that's just a theory on my part, it could be that vibration would eventually turn it to powder and it would blow out but for the cost of the material I think it would be worth experimenting. | ||
| Roadrunr |
Phillip, I got it installed, still black though. busy, busy, busy, you know how it goes. | ||
| Jim_witt |
Steve, REALLY appreciate you doing that for me today! Plus you did an outstanding job inspecting the puppy. Exactly what I wanted. Shoot me over an e-mail with the time you spent inspecting the lathe, including travel time, your home address and I'll pay you for your time. Cheers, -JW:>  | ||
| Roadrunr |
Jim Witt, no charge fellow bueller, glad to help out, plus it was only about 15 miles from my office. Let me know if you get it. As y'all say, CHEERS | ||
| Court |
>>>>I'll pay you for your time. JW: Do you have anything in NYC that you need inspected?  Steve: Lesson learned from the years.....few Buellers repay favors in cash, we revel in helping each other. But, I can do you one better on JW's behalf, fire me an e-mail and I'll rummage through the Buellchives for you. Having spent a good part of the day with a total asshole, it was a pleasure to get home and read this. I like nice people. Court P.S. - Need a fuuny?. . . I know, I know...can't leave without a story. Today the foul mooded engineer remanded me in front of a rather large crowd...speakgin in a very loud tone "I handed them PERSONALLY to you on December 20th". In a strange moment of lucid memory, I recalled something lying in the bottom of my briefcase and asked him "to me?", to which he replied, "yes, you personally". The memory of seeing something my briefcase grew clearer....."sure, it was me?"...."as sure as I am that my name is Peter". Ahhhh...the memory hit me. I dug into the bottom of my breifcase, dug about and handed it a small piece of crumpled papeer, saying "here Pinocchio, take a gander". It was my boarding pass from the weather delayed flight returning from my son's KU Graduation. I was, to quote, F. Lee Bailey, "unavailable to committ the crime or presence" I like nice people. | ||
| Jim_witt |
Steve ...... THANKS!  -JW:>} | ||
| Road_thing |
>>Having spent a good part of the day with a total asshole<< Yeah, well, if you thought that was bad, wait until the evening of the 26th...  r-t | ||
| Roadrunr |
Court,It took me 39, well 40 yrs next month to figure out that a honest thanks or an ataboy is worth more than any amount of cash...( what goes around absolutely comes around)..I've yet to personally meet a badwebber or bueller that wouldn't do the same. You wanna give me something? how bout a pic. of R-T in a cardboard box next to the dumpster he's eatin out of! now that my friend I would have to frame and hang on my wall. just get him good and drunk, he's easy! See ya on the 14th R-T  } | ||
| Blasterd |
Hello everyone, I know this is not the best spot to post this but it is an urgent matter. My Cyclone is my primary transportation and I think it tried to leave me stranded last night after class. It was spitting and sputtering violently and backfiring and momentarily dying out while I was in gear riding, but it ran fine at idle. It was all I could do to get it home and I did not want to stop with it 30 degrees and 10:00 at night.(Florida is supposed to be warm) I did notice that my rocker boxes were leaking, but other than that I didn't see anything visually wrong. Help, I have class again tomorrow night, any input will be helpful. Ken | ||
| Mikej |
Ken/Blastard, Check your sidestand/kickstand switch. My M2 ran like it had water in the gas, twisted the switch wires together and it ran great after that. Very common problem, very simple solution. A paperclip or short strand of speaker wire used as a jumper will let you know for certain if it's the culprit. | ||
| Mikej |
ps, your profile pic could get me in trouble (both at work and at home) | ||
| Ferris |
Ken, checked your intake seals lately? | ||
| Stingaroo |
Ken, I agree with Mike. On my way home from college once, I stopped to get gas, and had the same problem. I had replaced the switch at the clutch lever, so was not sure what the problem was. I found the switch on the kickstand, put something in there to push it up further, it worked, I made it the 150 miles further to home. Later,I did what Mike did, I just cut the wires above the switch and spliced them together. No problems since. | ||
| Mikej |
You just then have to remember to put the kickstand up before you ride off, or hope the rubber toe flips it up before it flips you down.  If I ever sell my M2 I'll probably just go down and buy a new switch for it, then will give the twisted one to the new owner in case it goes bad again. I didn't actually clip the wires on mine, I just bared them a bit by removing some of the insulation, twisted them together, then wrapped a little bailing wire and white electrical tape around the merger. | ||
| Djkaplan |
I still have the wires twisted together from a roadside repair over three years ago. My bike was less than a month old! I'd have been stranded for sure if I hadn't read about the switch on the BadWeb. I didn't have a clue there was even a switch down there. edited by djkaplan on January 21, 2004 | ||
| Fullpower |
how many kill switches are on this motorcycle? | ||
| Mikej |
Not sure about the XB's, but on the 'tubers there is the sidestand switch which is electrically coupled to the clutch switch, there is some sort of tip over switch (that if present didn't kill my M2 when I was laying on it's side a few years ago), there is some sort of air/fuel ratio switch on maybe just the f.i. bikes (but I've seen something looking like a safety switch under the tank and near the carb on the M2). There may be other ones. Two for certain, maybe three or four. And that doesn't count the manual one up near the throttle. | ||
| Blasterd |
Mike, Man i'm just proud to be an American, and I figured everyone would rather look at that picture than a picture of me on a M2. I forgot about that switch, more than likely has some trash in it since I did get rained on the other day.(man I need a rainsuit) Ferris, I have never checked the intake seals, i will look it up in the service manual. Thanks for the input guys. 1 more thing, can anyone tell me the part # of the good rockerbox gaskets and how much they are? (Justin,Dave) thanks, Ken | ||
| Ferris |
Ken, intake seals are easy to quick check by spraying a little WD-40 (aerosol carb cleaner also works well) around them while the bike is running. if the idle speed changes when you do, they're leaking. also, if your bike craps out while riding in the wet, particularly when you're applying a big hit of throttle, there's a good chance that some moisture has wicked up inside the spark plug boots and is allowing voltage that should be going to the plugs to ground out to the heads. a judicious but liberal application of dielectric grease to the inside of the boots will eliminate this. | ||
| José_quiñones |
If it was one of the kill switches the bike would not idle. Check the stator/voltage regulator/battery voltage/connections. Another thing might be that the bike is starving for gas because the fuel tank vent valve is closed/frozen shut, open the gas cap and listen to see if air rushes in. Follow the little line that starts at the gas cap and check for kinks/pinched spots. Disconnect it from the cap and blow through it to make sure it's unobstructed. | ||
| Kenw |
i agree with jose...sounds like the vent hose is kinked or the vent itself is clogged.with the bike idling take off the fuel cap...do you hear a whooshing sound?? the vent hose could be blocked.pull it off the nipple on your gas tank and blow through it. grab the vent with really long needle nose pliers and unscrew the nipple from the tank.back in 98 0r 99 i'm not sure we had a problem with bad vents on fuel tanks.even mine was bad.take the vent CAREFULLY out of the tank....oh yeah first you need to remove the fuel cap mounting plate with a goood allen wrench...there is permanent locktight type stuff on the allen screws so they will turn out slowly...have an expandable magnet handy in case you drop an allen into your fuel tank ....take out the plastic vent and try to blow through the little hole...if you can thats not the problem.remember it vents up through the tank. if you put fuel in prior to the problem then add some fuel dryer into the tank. ken w | ||
| Kenw |
ken also check your crankcase vents as you noticed you now have a rocker box leak (high pressure} ken w | ||
| Blake |
A faulty kickstand switch has no noticeable effect if the clutch is pulled in while idling. | ||
| Firemanjim |
I am with Ferris,check your plug wires at both ends,mine had corrosion at coil end an caused misfire under load. | ||
| Bartimus |
I had the same problem on the S2, turned out to be a bad ground cable connection. Listening to all the talk about the kickstand and stuff, I just went out and jumpered the kickstand and clutch on the S1. | ||
| Stingaroo |
Blake you are correct. A bad switch will not crap the bike out until the bike is in gear and the clutch released. It will sit and idle all day until you do. Ferris, I never thought about the plug wires, I may have to do that. |
