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A.B.T.C. (May require permits from the ABDSP though...

The Nature Conservancy. "Conserving nature" just may preclude certain types of activity ( in their minds). Dealt with a few conservancies and they are pretty protective of the use of the land. If it were secured through a mitigation requirement, (bought by a developer then transferred to the Conservancy for maintenance and monitoring) the Wildlife Agencies may have also had a say in the uses allowed.

I'm in...

Bragger! Sorry to have missed the event.

Welcome Teamcurtis! Glad to see you here and looking forward to riding!

Thanks again to the hospitality of the Paradise crew for staging and coffee whilst pondering the dilemma at hand. Punky bike loaded up heading for home.

Looks to be on the north end of Idyllwild (looking north from that area). Maybe off the 243? You can see Banning just over his head, San Gorgornio to the right, Baldy in the distance. Cabazon is in the right side of picture with Hyw 10. Maybe Black Mountain Truck Trail?

I had to laugh. Sorry. I was hunting down de-smogging and got to this line. I have my own problems too...

Kugs mystery ride begat another mystery. So I'm about 100 feet into the ride when the bike stalls. Restart ride another 100, stalls again. Hard to keep it running just above idle or long idle. Lets go faster and try to blow it out is the suggestion. Starts fine and so I whip it up and runs great at half throttle and above . Close the throttle into a corner and blah, wants to die. Well, better turn around now before it gets worse. So back to staging place at Socalmules (Thanks Mark!) to scope it out. From others it smells rich and does seem to be running rich at low end. Pull the freshly serviced air filter to take a look. Runs same without filter. Check the tank breather to find its not breathing. We leave the breather off the tank and no difference, runs same - just as before. Lots of speculation on our end (fuel pump? faulty JD tuner?) so decided to pack up and call it quits and let the others (2) go about the mystery ride, which was changing by the minute. So I had a good hour ride home to think about it. Look at the Tank vent first as that was odd. Pull the tank and start following vent lines. Nothing appears pinched up top. One goes below the engine so I pull the skid plate and as soon as the nuts are loose, a good 3 to 4 ounces of fuel pours out. I see where the vent was pinched between frame and skid plate (see photo). My bad. The whole Evap system was full of fuel. With the bike running, which has not been fully de-smogged, the emissions solenoid was opening to draw fuel vapor but instead was drawing fuel and causing a rich fuel condition. The large diameter down tube with plug which acts as a storage vessel was also full of fuel (see photo). Curious that it did this now as I've ridden with it this way to two ride this season already with a good 150 miles with no problems. This ride, I tanked up pretty full so there is a thought that the tank was being collapsed by the drawing of fuel from the fuel pump, causing the fuel to be pushed out the tank vent into the Evap canister (yet I only rode it a few 100 feet). I'll have to plug the tank vent to see if its that dramatic of a vacuum to cause that condition to happen. I've been told it can and has happened to others (690s). Another possibility was the transit over the mountains from coastal to desert caused pressure differentials that pushed fuel into the canister. Runs fine now. Glad it was a simple fix, caused by a simple error. Could have been fixed on site or in the field, but did not know what we were looking for or what we would find. Lesson learned. A good reason to fully de-smog the critter. Not sure how long it would have taken to run all the fuel out of the evap system if I just kept riding. While I was looking, I put a voltmeter on the emission solenoid and found the voltage changed with RPM. Idle voltage was high 11's (11.8v but I don't recall the exact numbers) and high numbers were 12.5v (again varied dependent on RPM). Point is the voltage to the solenoid varied to change the action of the solenoid. Which way (open vs.closed) I don't know but assume more open with RPM.

So, a new torque wrench eh? Inch pounds? Foot pounds? Newton meters? I find myself checking what's what's. I could see setting the right value to the wrong wrench. Craftzman have both scales on one wrench.

It truly is a mystery...

Lone Pine peak is in the center. Whitney is off to the right, quarter of picture. Nice picture, beautiful day.

Roatan, Honduras

Once the battery is disconnected, it stops running. Been there, done that with a bad ground wire.

pretty close overall... Bags - 8600/315 = 27.3015873015873 mi/hr avg PMB - 9932/342.4 = 29.00700934579439 mi/hr avg

Done!

Hmmmm...wonder if any water got past the Notoil filter...

Looks like about a 4 second episode (5:28 to 5:32). At the rate of acceleration of a free falling object (acc = 32 feet/sec2) (d = 1/2(acc)(time)2 ) distance would be that roughly 64 feet! Question - whats the terminal velocity of a falling bike and rider?) But it does not look that high and there was a bit of "friction" on the way down. Even at half, say 32 feet, that's a drop nightmares are made of...

So how hot is it out there? Hot enough to start to loose your sanity and start asking these " thoughtful" questions? How about tube migration and not using the front brake. That would be an interesting test for you. Say ride a few hundred miles sans front friction and see what happens. Maybe you don't need the nut after all...paraphenylenediamines is just a function of tubal migration.

While Mr. and Mrs. So Cal Mule and I were hiking in the Box canyon area off S-2 today, saw a bulldozer off in Mason Valley, just south of Oriflamme and Rodriguez canyon Rd., west side of S-2. Looked to be making a dirt moto/truck track of some type. At least two table tops, but not too many sharp turns. We were in the hills looking down into the valley from the east side of S-2. Anybody know of whats going on? Its the cleared area in the center of the photo. Flowers were starting to pop too!

Just the info. Oh yeah. We had auto shop with Sutton at Orange Glen.

Cannot find any reference to the museum being open or where its located. Reference to be open in late 2019, but I can't find any info. Heading that way and would like to see it if it exist. Dropping $15K to buy and '72 works bike then $20K restoring is crazy money... http://www.mxworksbike.com/

Yep, Used to be my neighbor in VC and went to high school with him. Just had their 40th HS reunion and asked him if he knew anything about it. He's in Murrieta now.

Heard through the grapevine that Richard's Performance Muffler in Oceanside is the owner(?)/User of the track. Info from Dave Mason/Mason Jr., local and baja racers.

Welcome to the forum! Fellow FJ'r and would like to hear about the Mojave and how the FJ did sometime.