Posted by Kicker on July 18, 2009, 10:22 pm
It seems the ignition in the old Shovel doesn't
like getting wet which is unfortunate given my
location in Western Washington. Last week I got
shut down in a very light rain, today she choked
at being washed by a team of bikini clad nymphets
at the local HD dealer. Found no moisture under
the point cover and the plug wires looked good.
I'm flummoxed. Any insights? Have one on me to
lubricate the thought process.
Posted by Frydaddy on July 19, 2009, 12:39 am
> It seems the ignition in the old Shovel doesn't like getting wet which is
> unfortunate given my location in Western Washington. Last week I got shut
> down in a very light rain, today she choked at being washed by a team of
> bikini clad nymphets at the local HD dealer. Found no moisture under the
> point cover and the plug wires looked good. I'm flummoxed. Any insights?
> Have one on me to lubricate the thought process.
How about moisture down in the spark plug boot or at the coil?
Posted by Kicker on July 19, 2009, 1:07 am
Frydaddy wrote:
>> It seems the ignition in the old Shovel doesn't like getting wet which is
>> unfortunate given my location in Western Washington. Last week I got shut
>> down in a very light rain, today she choked at being washed by a team of
>> bikini clad nymphets at the local HD dealer. Found no moisture under the
>> point cover and the plug wires looked good. I'm flummoxed. Any insights?
>> Have one on me to lubricate the thought process.
>
> How about moisture down in the spark plug boot or at the coil?
>
>
Checked there too and found nothing obvious. No
change after airing them out.
Posted by snarl on July 19, 2009, 3:32 pm
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:22:17 -0700, Kicker wrote:
>It seems the ignition in the old Shovel doesn't
>like getting wet which is unfortunate given my
>location in Western Washington. Last week I got
>shut down in a very light rain, today she choked
>at being washed by a team of bikini clad nymphets
>at the local HD dealer. Found no moisture under
>the point cover and the plug wires looked good.
>I'm flummoxed. Any insights? Have one on me to
>lubricate the thought process.
Yeah, buy an Evo. Seriously. You remind me of m' Brother Browneye.
He had a Sportster and then bought a '62 Pan. Everytime he turned
around somethin' didn't work on that bike. It got to th' point where
I told him I wasn't gonna help him no mo... this after years of fixin'
what he couldn't figger out. I told him to buy an Evo.
He bought a Dyna WG three years ago and ain't had a problem since.
Now ask yerself, do you wanna ride, or do you wanna learn how to make
Shovelheads run?
Snarl
Posted by Spunky the Tuna on July 19, 2009, 4:12 pm
snarl@trippin.com wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:22:17 -0700, Kicker wrote:
>
>> It seems the ignition in the old Shovel doesn't
>> like getting wet which is unfortunate given my
>> location in Western Washington. Last week I got
>> shut down in a very light rain, today she choked
>> at being washed by a team of bikini clad nymphets
>> at the local HD dealer. Found no moisture under
>> the point cover and the plug wires looked good.
>> I'm flummoxed. Any insights? Have one on me to
>> lubricate the thought process.
>
> Yeah, buy an Evo. Seriously. You remind me of m' Brother Browneye.
> He had a Sportster and then bought a '62 Pan. Everytime he turned
> around somethin' didn't work on that bike. It got to th' point where
> I told him I wasn't gonna help him no mo... this after years of fixin'
> what he couldn't figger out. I told him to buy an Evo.
>
> He bought a Dyna WG three years ago and ain't had a problem since.
>
> Now ask yerself, do you wanna ride, or do you wanna learn how to make
> Shovelheads run?
>
> Snarl
Well said. Evos are cheap, plentiful, and can be stone reliable,
especially compared to shovels and pans. Yeah I can already hear the
_but my pan/shovel/knuckle/flattie runs great all the time_ and to that
I say good for you and no, I won't bumpstart your ass when your points
go south, your timing slips, your leaky Linkert goes toes up and I damn
sure won't take over for you when you get tired of kicking 'cuz you
flooded the damn thing for the umpteenth time.
I like old bikes in a distant, theoretical kind of way. I'm glad there
are guys who love them and keep them on the road. I'd prefer not to
ride with them because I'm choosing a different ratio of ride/wrench
than it takes to live with old bikes.
"nothing sounds like a shovel/pan/whatever" Yep, right. I agree. OTOH,
I'll take a running Evo that doesn't sound cool over a totally silent,
nonrunning pan/shovel/whatever thenkyooverymuch.
Want to spend more time riding and less time wrenching? Get something
more or less modern, if modern is actually an applicable term for
anything HD makes.
--
Spunky the Tuna
"No nation can meet this changing world unless its people, individually
and collectively, grow in ability to understand. Ability to handle the
new knowledge, as applied to increasingly intricate human relationships."
- FDR June 30, 1938
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> unfortunate given my location in Western Washington. Last week I got shut
> down in a very light rain, today she choked at being washed by a team of
> bikini clad nymphets at the local HD dealer. Found no moisture under the
> point cover and the plug wires looked good. I'm flummoxed. Any insights?
> Have one on me to lubricate the thought process.