| Author | Message | ||
     Phat_j |
i'd like to officialy welcome my lil bro to the family, he brought home his first buell last night, well, i brought it home for him... many of you know the bike, its blackbelt's x1w........ he's been lurking here for a few weeks now, and i'm sure will soon create his own badweb acct... | ||
| Crashbuell |
Now we need pics of him on his new ride to make it official! Welcome to the family, enjoy!  | ||
| Phat_j |
damnit, he was just at my shop with it... shoulda took a few... will get some soon... | ||
| Torquemonster |
Congrats to him on the Buell. Couple o' aleve will ease the ache from that ear to ear smile that im sure he's got! | ||
| Wile_ecoyote |
Welcome Lil bro. Cograts on the x1. I love mine. good on ya. Be safe, ride hard.........Mattu | ||
| Phat_j |
lil bro just called me and asked why he is only gettin 170 miles to the tank..... so he's up over 200 miles today.... i could hear the smile in his voise..... lmao | ||
| Oldog |
Welcone to the madness... | ||
| Phat_j |
ok lil bro, you can chime in anytime... | ||
| Nevrenuf |
Welcone to the madness... is an understatement. once you get hooked, most are hooked for life and you won't settle for one. before you know it, you'll wonder where it all went wrong. congrats and good luck on the new bike. | ||
| Phat_j |
lil bro's been too busy ridin, lmao....... has near 600 smiles as of early this afternoon........ thats pretty good for someone who has been away from riding for a few years. | ||
| Crashbuell |
That sounds sooooooo familiar....When I got my first Cyclone, I put 2300 miles on it in two months. Hell, I'd sneak out of the house in the middle of the night, coast down the hill a ways and then start it up and ride away so that my wife wouldn't hear! Did it ALL the time.  | ||
| Phat_j |
up to 800 smiles and just sprung his first oil leak..... i've got a pic if someone wants to post it for me... | ||
| Blak_j |
Thank you all for welcoming me in to the Buell family with open arms. I am still getting adjusted to the new sounds and vibrations but it is good so far. Like my big bro said 800 miles and climbing and it has only been 6 days.  | ||
| Blackbelt |
Dude that sucks bout the leak. Is it ok? Hopefully it is just a quick bolt tighten and he is back on his way. You better have over 5,000 on that bike before the season is through.. lol keep smiling | ||
| Phat_j |
i tightened the bolts.... still leakin.. picking up new gasket tomorrow... | ||
| Phat_j |
ok, so get this...... lil bro was bringing his bike by this evening for me to fix the oil leak... on his way, bike dies.... no ecm power.... blown fuse... wtf.... he is used to a ujm now i finaly get him on a buell, and its broken twice in a week.. | ||
| Blackbelt |
OK that is not right... WTF... check the 20 Amp fuse for the ignition.. and the wires for the kickstand switch... | ||
| Phat_j |
it is the 20 amp fuse, figured that right away.... butttttttttt put a new one in, turn the key..... pop...... gots a short somewhere...... i'll find it tonight. | ||
| Durstanm2 |
I feel your pain on just getting it and now the having to work on it...it can be a good or bad thing, guess it's the buells way of wanting you to get more aquainted with it. The bike i bought had been sitting for over a year when I got it so I blame that. -Bike just quit after taking a large road bump...I luckily had a paperclip in my jacket pocket (not sure why), but bent it to shape and put shorted the clutch lever switch and it fired back up. Still there now after 1200 miles. -I finally have the tail light working. -A blown starter gasket= oil everywhere. -Starter got tweaked in removal (+ post turned with the nut when trying to remove) and now needs to be rebuilt. It starts but takes a few raps of the button to get it going and makes horrible noises. -It puts a grin on my face everytime I pull out of my driveway. I'm not much with a wrench, but do all my own til I can't. I guess all the work I have put into it pays for itself with the reward of the thrill of riding off until the next malfunction. | ||
| Blackbelt |
did you get it figured out Jason? What was it? | ||
| Phat_j |
well here we go again.... gremlins poping up all over the place.... bike is back at my garage, stator is bad... what gives with this thing.... | ||
| Oldog |
}well here we go again.... gremlins poping up all over the place.... bike is back at my garage, stator is bad... what gives with this thing.... This Black Belt Said ... I owned a 2002 X1 and put 36,700 miles on the thang.. small problems here and there, but all in all I would have had no problems jumping on it and riding to Florida or some location.. I got a new XB just for the style. Pure astetics... Sorry could not resist..  | ||
| Blak_j |
Hey oldog I am the one to that now owns Blackbelt's old X1w. I know this sounds bad but I believe he had no clue that this would happen to me. Yeah I am frustrated about the whole thing but in a way it is all part of owning a HD. If you aren't wrenching on it, it not the real thing. So just a couple of more days and I will be on the road. | ||
| Oldog |
Blak_j: I knew that, sorry about the problems, I was teasing about BB braging about his Former bike being trouble free and then bang, I start up industrial instrumentataion / control systems I have a rule on this subject; NEVER, NEVER, NEVER! BRAG ABOUT HOW WELL THINGS ARE WORKING, WHEN YOU DO, YOU INVOKE MURPHY'S LAW - SURE AS $HIT IT WILL BREAK AT THAT POINT OR SHORTLY THERE AFTER. [ I had this happen more than once, ]} All I tell clients now is that the system is working as expected or work is proceeding as planned. I'm having a flash back to powder coating my PM wheels and how easy it was going to be to install the new wheel bearings, I bragged to my friend that I would be done in under an hour, I scrapped $80.00 worth of new bearings the job took another 2 weeks to complete. In the end some things just break.. I hope you were not offended it was intended as light hearted jest.. | ||
| Blak_j |
nope not offended. Just frustrated. Thought I had the part to get it fixed this weekend but nope. Now I will be Tuesday  before I am back on the road. Oh well | ||
| Phat_j |
here we go again........ this thing is gonna be the death of me......... fixed the stator early this week, lil bro calls me yesterday sayin the bike wont start... turns out the start button is bad.... teach him over the phone how to get it started so he can finish his ride.... well the story gets worse........ on his way over to have me replace the switches (only available as a set) the bike starts spewing oil from the right side..... cam cover gasket is leaking.... whats next????? | ||
| Oldog |
Shoot the poor thing and put it out of your misery? Cam gear cover gasket???? check the pump drive gear... | ||
| Blak_j |
I guess I was not meant to covert from metric bikes. JK but I have had the worst luck since I got my Buell. This is in no way the fault of the previous owner of this bike. It has been one small thing after another.I am now down for a few more days. I now have to replace a cam gasket. I have no clue what this is, that is why I have a brother who went to school to fix buells. Hopefully with this last thing I will be on the road problem free for a long while. | ||
| Oldog |
What I dont get is how the gasket went bad after this long, some thing is NOT RIGHT HERE!, oil could come from shaft seal ( timing cup ) Oil could come from breather at the aft end of the box why would the gasket fail, loose bolts? | ||
| Phat_j |
nope, im 100% possative that its the cam cover.... i can see it commin out... and not a little...bolts were a lil loose, but not dangerously loose.. tried tightening them, still leaking..... pulling it apart today. | ||
| Sanchez |
> cam cover gasket is leaking Ouch, that's a bad one. My M2 did the same thing to me. Here's a thread with my tear down pics. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/476 23/204917.html http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/476 23/200839.html I'm told it's possible to do this job without taking off the rocker box covers and removing the pushrods as the service manual instructs. If I have to do the job again, I'll certainly try it that way first. | ||
| Phat_j |
well i'm a certafied buell mechanic, and i would never pull the cam cover without removing the rocker boxes... |
