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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Route66rider
That and those that seem to believe the the solution to any issue posted is to tell the OP to buy and read the manual. The manual is good, but hearing from some 'real' person that has 'been there and done that' is always helpful to me as a fairly inexperienced HD wrench turner.
Kinda like using a roll of dimes to assist in putting on a jiffy stand spring, ya won't find that in the manual.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by dawg
Kinda like using a roll of dimes to assist in putting on a jiffy stand spring, ya won't find that in the manual.

OK, how do I search to find out this trick?
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by krazy3
OK, how do I search to find out this trick?
Search for "put dimes between the coils of the jiffy stand spring"
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by dawg
Kinda like using a roll of dimes to assist in putting on a jiffy stand spring, ya won't find that in the manual.
See now the dealer told me if I gave them a roll of $20's they would do it for me
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 01:37 PM
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Just put the jiffy stand spring on the 89 FXRS that I'm rebuilding, had it not been for the dime trick, there is no way I would have gotten that spring on.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by beary
I agree that FAQ would be nice, but I would like to ask what a forum is for if members don't like repeated discussions? I think most here like to hang around because we all share a common passion. We can skip any discussion that isn't interesting to us. Search is nice, but sometimes we just want to talk about our bikes and start a subject just to get a discussion going.

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Yeah,,,what he said.

I like reading the stuff in this forum and it doesn't bother me to read it again...I am supposed to be working anyway...
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 03:59 PM
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I usually give up and just suffer the wrath of the Search *****. I tried searching for info on why my bike idles rougher when holding a brake (ABS) and got the weirdest crap I've ever seen. I'm still trying to build up the courage to start a new thread about it.
 
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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 04:40 PM
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I usually give up and just suffer the wrath of the Search *****. I tried searching for info on why my bike idles rougher when holding a brake (ABS) and got the weirdest crap I've ever seen. I'm still trying to build up the courage to start a new thread about it.
We started one for ya
 
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NOt sure if this has been said or not (didn't feel like reading through all this crap) BUT
If people didn't ask questions then there wouldn't even be a search function to use!
I can't stand them idiots either!

SEARCH THIS! lol
 
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Originally Posted by krazy3
OK, how do I search to find out this trick?
first you buy a manual, without the manual nothing will show up in a search.

was this topic about dimes or springs?
 
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