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Those are the stock Marzocchis, cleaned and serviced by WMR Performance, my local Ohlins/WP pro shop. KTM/Husq/GasGas dealer.

The crank snout seal spacer. Seal in the front housing, oring inside the spacer. Like sealing pinion splines on an old chevy.

All your oring belong to us

Good start today.

$4500? Maybe I should pay more attention to detail on mine.

I haven't begun to Bit-O-Honey or Necco wafers yet.

Ah, you did not put that tape there yourself? If not, certainly get it off to find the Cracker Jack prize underneath.

I can never promise, but it could happen

NSEQUITUR best licence plate EVER Where is that scruffy little diner? Clear over that '77 sticker Not one bottle of bourbon anywhere. Pity. Next year I'll throw a wine bottle at the pavilion from the upper deck.

I've never had my eyes on a Stelvio, but don't forget the harness runs all the way to the headlamps. Back in steel-bucket lamps, a worn through wire in the nest of snakes inside the bucket was common.

You have a short circuit. Simple As. I used to tell my students, 'You can find 99% of faults with your eyes and fingers'. It's very unlikely that the short is inside the wiring harness where you can't see it. Here's how I'd approach it. First, eyeball and finger every place where the harness lays against the frame. This may require cutting zipties and disconnecting connectors. If it doesn't present that easily, use the wiggle test. Connect a test light clip to your positive battery terminal, and the point of the test light to the user side of the fuse connection. (fuse out of course) Disconnect the users, if I understand correctly the headlamps. Turning the switch off, if Euro where it completely disconnects them is ok. If the test lamp is lit, wiggle all the harnesses until you find a place that extinguishes the lamp. If the lamp is off wiggle everything until it illuminates. That places you pretty near the problem. Then eyes and fingers. Anything more complicated than a rub-through is going to take a proper wiring schematic. ; Edit; all of these tests with ignition key off.

I buy Butler maps for any area I'm going to ride in anymore. Fabulous, waterproof, best roads clearly identified and a very good general area map in every case. https://butlermaps.com/

Though the size of the hail was enormous, the general conditions are exactly what we see with Great Plains tornadoes. Could you have actually had a nearby tornado?

There they are...I think I see a little smoke rising still

on a '72 Norton Commando The dumb part

One day we'll trade stories. Two 21 year old morons leave Detroit for Daytona on a '72 Norton Commando and a '76 BMW R75/6. February 25th.

I was kinda stunned coming into the valley and seeing miles and miles of cranberry ponds, mist hanging in the heat of the morning. Nobody East has visibility on CA agriculture, all we get to see are tent cities in SF and Death Valley. Occasionally adverts for Lake Tahoe vacations.

Da Winnah! Just a simple assembly flip at the factory, I suppose. Oh, do you want original licorice, or the fruity ones?

I am philosophically opposed to re-inventing the wheel. The stock manual-adjust and the weak suck stock spring loaded tensioner are well addressed with this one. I did consider how I could add a spring behind the stocker when this lump proved unfit. But a new one is in the mail.

Good times. Who is 'we'? PM me if you don't want the stigma of racing a Sportster.

Not that *you* ever have to chase anything... except that old drum brake Tonti that keeps showing our age.

Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Nope. No G&P for you either. Here's a clue