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I hope that I am not resurrecting an old thread but I wanted to get people's opinions. Things change fairly quick in the online world and one blight that I am constantly running into are scalpers. 3rd party people that resell items at a big mark up and they essentially do nothing but take your...

So managed to start looking at coils and saw they didn't look like they were in the best of shape. A couple of posts said that surface cracks don't mean the coil is dead, its full of some kind of epoxy or something. So tested primary on the two in the picture and got 4.4 and 4.5 ohms and...

Ohh, So if I'm understanding this correctly, the original setup used oil canisters instead of spin on filters? To be specific I was originally talking about adapters that are above. Maybe I am just misunderstanding it because those are just purely for aesthetic purposes?

I definitely will have to pick one up, i'd rather do as much of the work myself that I can. I live in a state that is full of stupid, so finding a good mechanic is very difficult. But ultimately that will have to wait until I can use some vacation time to work on it. I came across something...

I appreciate the responses, a lot of good info. In reply to fire-medic, the word I was looking for was sputter. It isn't very pronounced most of the time but it will get there the longer I run the bike. It isn't present at idle, and starts at 3k and continues to about 7k rpm. 7k and up it...

My name is Robert and I am a daily motorcycle rider. I had been relying on my old 99 honda Magna to get me through the insane traffic in my area. But the old girl is developing some issues that I need to address before it goes from a fixable problem, to a replace situation. I like to take care...