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Found an '84 VF1000F a few hundred miles away. The price is right, but the bike looks to match it. Guy says it runs "good". May or may not go to see it. Really don't want a project. He's got an old Interceptor collection for sale.

Yes. Multitasking - warm it up, add a little oil at the same time. Not my usual practice though. Funny thing about the dipstick - it's got a crosshatched area that holds oil. IOW, you can't check it cold w/o wiping the dipstick (like I usually do on my others). When I finally found that...

Thank you, same to you.

There is just the slightest pull on the cap when it's unscrewed and I'm lifting it off. Tried to see if a bit of smoke would pull into the dipstick hole or blow away, but there wasn't enough to tell. I had just started it when I first noticed it the other day, and it seemed like a lot of air...

Ok, somebody slap me... It does seem to be vacuum. I wondered about that. It sounded just like the air escaping from my Caprice gas tank when it's nearly empty, just not as loud. That's prob vacuum too, lol.

So I opened the oil fill cap on my Acura the other day after I started it, to add some oil, and it was pressurized... That surprised me. It's a 3.2L VTec. Maybe Japanese cars don't have "PCV"? Probably normal, I just didn't expect that. Great car, it just drips a lot of oil. I had to take...

Maybe I just needed to wait for it (to come out pink). Didn't have anyone back there to look at it this time.

Those meds are great...

Heat exchanger... like a closed cooling system?

Didn't look like either one of them had any idea what was about to happen. Echo the, thankfully no one on the ground hurt. Per one video I saw, they were off the airport just seconds before that, over businesses and stuff where people were watching.

The ride with Bob Riggle in the Hemi Under Glass a few years ago was something else...

Did y'all see that horrific crash? Awful. Only B-17 I've ever been in. Tossed the idea of going to that airshow a month or two back, but didn't.

Tell me about that! High in the 40s here today and winds gusting into the 30s. I just crawled under the tarp for most of it, lol. I did have to pull it back while it was running because it was catching too much exhaust. I told my wife to remind me to do it when it's warmer next time. She...

One thing to watch for - Wal Mart sells 2 versions of 30 weight oil right next to each other (and a little apart from all the rest of it). One is the vehicle stuff, and the other says "lubricating oil" or something like that. Very similar bottles.

I was holding out for one more day, like earlier this week but it didn't work out (wasn't much chance really). Didn't have a choice but to go ahead and winterize today since it's going to be pretty cold tonight. I put fuel stabilizer in this time, ran it for 15min, and fogged through the carb...

Kawasaki Concours 1000? Kinda looking at one of those. Didn't really like the head-on look of it, but did a little research today, and overall it's growing on me. They seem to have a following too, of people that like them. It'd probably be just a tad heavier and slower than what I had...

Was talking to a guy with a REALLY nice looking '86 FJ1200 Yamaha for sale, but somebody bought it. Last bike was a GSX1100G (fast and heavy). Test rode a 1984 Honda Interceptor 1000 - red, white, and blue one time back in '05; that might be my dream bike, just from the styling perspective...

Ok, want. I was all good and hadn't ridden in the 4 1/2 years since I sold my last one to get my boat, with essentially zero desire to ride again anytime soon. Then one of my sons bought a GSX-R600 and I took an impromptu ride on it. That got me quickly rethinking that whole issue. I know I...

Ended up selling it Saturday morning for exactly what I'd asked. I basically had the deal made with the first guy who responded within 48 hours of posting it, and got quite a bit of interest overall. There were a couple of guys waiting in line to look at it. Father and so who bought it wanted...

Thanks for the replies. I've sort of given up on it for now (putting other fires out). I replaced the steering linkage a few years ago - everything except the pitman arm, then had it aligned at a local big name tire shop (chain). Front tires were essentially new then (Primewell - low end)...