Rally prep

[Flynt]

Well, you have your side stand down while on the center stand, WTF?

Belt and suspenders you know...  Just hadn't kicked the side stand up yet.

So also added the oil cooler (with the subtle black fittings), the detent kit, and the voltage regulator upgrade.  The exhaust was justified by keeping the stock and intact fatty pipes from breaking (I'll save them for future owner)...  then the slope got slippery and I added most of the stuff that makes the engine/electrical systems happy.  Still on the stock suspension, but I'm even getting squishy on that part.

Should have known better than to think I can stay stock...  just not me.

Frank

[FJmonkey]

Well, you have your side stand down while on the center stand, WTF?

Belt and suspenders you know...  Just hadn't kicked the side stand up yet.

So also added the oil cooler (with the subtle black fittings), the detent kit, and the voltage regulator upgrade.  The exhaust was justified by keeping the stock and intact fatty pipes from breaking (I'll save them for future owner)...  then the slope got slippery and I added most of the stuff that makes the engine/electrical systems happy.  Still on the stock suspension, but I'm even getting squishy on that part.

Should have known better than to think I can stay stock...  just not me.

Frank

And I thought I was an FJ slut....

[Pat Conlon]

And so it begins......

...looking in the top left corner of the side cover vent...is that a shiny bit of stainless steel?
Perhaps a stainless steel clamp?

Hmmmm, what, pray tell, could that be? Something that starts with U?

I had one of those tall windscreens on my '84. It did not work for me but the kicker was when my friend Dave saw that windscreen on my bike he said, "Hmmmm, Pat you should have gotten a blue tinted screen instead of dark smoke tint. I said, "What the hell are you talking about...a blue windscreen on a red and silver bike.."
Dave said, " Yea, if the windscreen was blue....when you stand back and look at your bike, it would look like Marge Simpson's hairdo..."

Damned if he wasn't right.....after that, every time I looked at my bike, I thought of Marge Simpson.

[Steve_in_Florida]

Marge Simpson! 

(Just ignore those guys, Frank.)

That is funny, though.

Yessir, you have a right nice lookin' FJ. The braided lines on the anti-dive are a nice touch.

Steve

[Flynt]

And so it begins......

...looking in the top left corner of the side cover vent...is that a shiny bit of stainless steel?
Perhaps a stainless steel clamp?

Hmmmm, what, pray tell, could that be? Something that starts with U?

Excellent pull Pat...  I actually did that one a few weeks back when out cleaning the carbs with Robert.  That f'ing airbox is even more of a worthless POS on the '84, so out it came.  As I've been tuning the carbs to get the fueling sorted, I've had them off a few times and have really appreciated the decision to shelve the airbox in case some future for the bike includes returning to stock.  That was the first step down the well known slippery slope.

I am searching for a name for this one...  Marge is in contention, although I'd call her "Midge" like Moe the bartender does on the show.  The shield is very functional as you know, but the main reason I like it over the stock one is I don't like the near horizontal line where the stock screen goes from black to clear...  doesn't work for my eye.

Frank

[skymasteres]

Hey, does anyone know what the thread size is on the bolt that anchors the rear bottom most corner of the fairing to the frame? (I've got the tab that it's welded to repaired, now I need to put a new nut on it)