Doubletrouble

I bet it's a new Flux capacitor! If you hit 88 mph and 30psi of boost you time travel!

Well, so much for spring like weather. We got a couple inches of snow overnight and it's still snowing. Luckily the roads are just wet but they did spray them with the pretreatment. So no riding at least til it warms up and we get some more rain to wash the corrosive junk off the pavement.

Good info if you thinking about larger tires. There is a lot to consider if you want the truck to pull the same as it did on stock size and just behave the same while not towing. Keeps your EGT's down and keep the engine in the power band without stressing the drive train to the point of failures.

That's awesome!

Nice, that should look pretty sweet when done. Looking forward to seeing it.

I locked this topic for the time being. This is getting a bit out of hand compared to our usual conversations.

Glad ya'll made UT back ok. We haven't had snow like that here. Hoping at this point we don't get anymore this year. I'd like to have better tires before more snow comes.

So what's the plan? Are you dechroming everything? Triple tree, lowers, crash bars, all of it?

Yes @Max Tune you should! Your gonna miss out! Just did rear wheel bearings on my sons street glide yesterday. He bought the 2 wheel bearings but did not get the one that goes in the belt pulley so now he is on the hunt. Lol My rear pulley bolts directly to the rear wheel hub so I didn't know there was one there. 🙃

We have had some intermittent warm weather here including some heavy rainfall to wash the salt from the roadways. I have seen several bikes out here and there already. I refuse to get mine out to early just for the sake of preserving it the best I can from salt, wet roads with mud and yuck on them and so on. I am however beginning to get the bug. It's time to pull the battery and charge it fully and give it a run on the load tester, check everything over good and fire her up. List of things to do so far: 1. charge and test the battery 2. check oil levels 3. check tire pressures 4. adjust clutch in the primary ( Harley Davidson ) 5. adjust clutch cable 6. check brake pad thickness 7. change spark plugs 8. check primary drive belt tension I may have missed a thing or two but that's it in a nutshell. The oils were all changed last year with only about 800 miles on the oil. Tires/tubes and all wheel bearings were changed last year with about the same milage on those as well. Of course the bike will need to be washed, waxed and polished to look it's best. I am also considering buying another tuner from dobeck, what they call an EJK tuner which is short for Electronic Jet Kit. It's a simple tuner to enrich the factory tune which is setup very lean to pass emissions tests. It does offer some flexibility on the users part. You can adjust the mixture at idle, part throttle and WOT as well with an easy control pad. I had one on the bike before and by my own mistake I fried it by putting 12 volts to the ground wire of the tuner. The bike ran sooo much better with it on so I think it's time to buy another. I anyone else beginning to get their ride road ready? If so, what have you done or going to do to be ready to hit the road on 2 wheels?

@Nomad2015, I don't believe anyone meant to be harsh. There is usually several steps involved in diagnosis which leads to questions asked by those of us that are not there in person to diagnose a problem. without the answers we will not know how to proceed. I'm sure you to are also frustrated with your truck during this process, I've been there myself. Not condemning anyone, just want to clear the air and real things in a bit.

Right!!!

@W-T, Could you maybe take several pictures of that truck and post them? It's so unbelievably clean! I want to see more.

Great article, could be a real money saver! a little bit of time and a fuse holder is all that is needed to avoid tracking down a new pcm or waiting for one to be rebuilt.

That's exactly what I was going to do. I didn't ha e any fuel line or vacuum hose in the garage, or at least I couldn't find it I will do one or the other soon. On a side note, I love being able to hear the turbo spool now.

Typically that is what I do also. I like to just check things over at least a few times a year

I'm asked frequently why I consistently "tinker" with my truck even though it's running good, no maintenance issues to address usually, just want to flip the hood and stare in amazement sometimes. But, this time I spotted something while I was installing a BHAF this morning. The lower exhaust manifold bolt on the rear cylinder was backing out! I grabbed the tools and tightened her up and checked the rest. The upper bolt on the rear cylinder was about half a turn loose as well. All the others were fine. Glad I caught that!

I'm asked frequently why I consistently "tinker" with my truck even though it's running good, no maintenance issues to address usually, just want to flip the hood and stare in amazement sometimes. But, this time I spotted something while I was installing a BHAF this morning. An exhaust manifold bolt was backing out on the bottom rear cylinder. Had I not "tinkered" with the truck this morning I would not have spotted this and possibly lost the bolt all together. I tightened this one down and checked the others. The upper bolt on the same cylinder was about half a turn loose, the rest were good. Glad I caught that!

I finally pulled the trigger. The OEM filter had to go. It's been on there the 3 years or so that I've owned the truck. Filter minder wasn't showing anything but it was filthy anyway. So it was time for a BHAF. I had to replace the air filter anyway so why not upgrade?

I got my injectors from @dieselautopower they came with everything needed to install. I reused my injector tubes, inspect them before putting them back in.

Looks pretty good

I would do injectors first and soon. If those are truly OEM factory injectors they're way past their service life. Typically injector life is 100-150k miles.

Is it possible the impact on the door could have slightly pulled in the panel which holds the striker? And BTW, welcome to the forum.

Before long cash as we know it will be gone. All virtual money for us citizens, the elite will hold the gold and other precious commodities. More control from the elites. That's all it is. It won't change until something monumental happens.

Sure it was just "A" beer lol