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A longer rod will also give you a longer compression moment as the piston moves through TDC. This can be desireable or not depending on what fuel you are using, :thumbsup:

You could always cancel the transaction with your credit card company and be done with it. Several banks and card companys have online fraud protection policies that may also help you in cancelling your order. :thumbsup:

I am still not exactly sure what your tie rod problem is. I understand the outboard tir od is hitiing some or doesn't connect to the upright. My question is the following: what's different about you bike than other peoples? In my previous post I was asking if you had +2+1 arms or just +2 arms, thinking that if the arms are not mover +1 forward, the tie rods may hit something. However, people are running yfz450 shocks with stock a-arms, so my previous thought may not make sense. :thumbsup:

As it seems that everyone has mentioned, the 6" over swing arm is not appropriate for you application. If a 421 cub is in your future, then the 6" arm might plausible. However, if you like to jump your bike a 6" over arm will make the bike tough to control in the air and present you with a challenge to find a proper shock absorber. I personally don't believe in a swing arm over +4 unless most of your time is spent drag racing. :thumbsup:

Depending on how worried about this you are, start a new thread and we can do the math to figure it out (it's a bit involved and I don't want to hijack this thread). Past that the correlation between a-arm length and designed rider weight does not necessarily affect the shock in the same way that it does the springs (springs can always be changed fairly inexpensively). At the bare minimum the shock in question should atleast be compression adjustable to overcome a majority of the rider weight difference.

I'm still confused as to what the problem is exactly, or at least what the cause of the problem is? There are a ton of people here who are running +2+1 arms and the yfz 450 shocks without any problems (I think I'm one of them).

That Goo-Gone stuff is awesome. Plus, it smells like oranges. :thumbsup:

I agree............ :thumbsup:

The rainbow coalition sticker that Durablue puts on their axles is pretty gay. I haven't taken mine off yet, as I recall from some of their axles I had in the past, they are really hard to get off.

The Works shocks should be great for that application. I am a bit confused as to why +2 arms don't work with the yfz450 shock. Is it because the arms are not +2 out and +1 forward?

G-Force all the way. Either that or Durablue. I have had two lonesat axles, bent the crap out of both of them and then had them screw me around in respect to the warranty. To be fair, I think that I purchased those particular axles from them during a time when they were having alot of trouble with their heat treating process. There is not much of an excuse for the way they handled the warranty with me though.

If you do a search in this forum I think you will find more information than you knmow what to do with on this subject. :thumbsup:

More like arm pit of a wookie.............

I would bet the same thing. :thumbsup:

It's a bs feature of a product to say the least. It sounds like you know what you are talking about in regards to air flow / fluid dynamics. IMO it's not worth testing on anything. If you were to test it, dropping it on a simple flow bench and then doing the same thing with a normal intake would quickly tell the tale. :thumbsup:

I went and looked at a Banshee awhile ago that had the problem fixed by welding the kickstarter in the out position. :shoothead:

It's easy to install as long as you can operate a screw driver and a metric socket wrench. :thumbsup:

I will venture a guess that the reason that they didn't do that in the beginning is that composite injection molding equipment was not capable of reliably forming that shape at the time when they came out. They held off a design change because there really wasn't anything wrong with their product as it stood and they needed to pay off their tooling and equipment. There is a new generation of composite injection molding equipment that has comeo out within the past year or so, that must be capable of completely forming the bell of a wheel (I don't believe the older generation of equipment could produce anough pressure to do a complete bell). :thumbsup:

I suppose the part that is the most entertaining is the two mexican cleaning folk that were caught having sex on the dyno managers desk. Apparently they had been doing it in other places and just happen to get caught by our on-site security folks that night. My boss had to come to work at like 3am to sort out what was going on. My boss, who is a fairly entertaining British (actually Northern Irish) guy, asked them what the thought process was for shagging at work on the dyno managers desk, from the broken english that was returned to him, he pieced together that they had decided to go in the dyno facility because they knew there were cameras and wanted to tape themselves. Where that plan fell short was that the cameras record digitally to a server that is in another building andthey didn't have computer access anyway. :thumbsup:

We are allowed to have those guns now via Federal law. Though that can be modified via state laws. There are many guns on that list that are not allowed to be sold in California. That doesn't mean you can't own them, you just can buy them here. An antique firearm is generally viewed as a firearm that does not use modern ammunition (i.e. muzzle loader) or is more than 100 years old. :thumbsup: Furthermore, most of the language in this bill is cut and paste out of the Brady Bill. :shoothead:

It was in one of our dyno cells not a car. We were running one of our truck motors pretty late at night for some reason or another. A couple of us hid in the cell and waited for the cell technician to start the test cycle. He got it going and started the test sequence. One of us had an extra exhaust probe that was positioned near a bare ass. During a decel slope in the test profile, I switched out the pre-warmend sensor on the board and my co-worker let it rip. I switched it back really quick after, and we waited for the test to end and the tech to wander off somewhere. Long story short, we took the 12 gas results, overlaid over an EPA emission analysis of a dairy farm, to the tech and asked him what the hell he'd been up to that night. (A couple of our cleaning folks had just been fired for having sex in the middle of the night on the dyno managers desk (the entire dyno facility has cameras in it)). Fat girls, and farm animals were some of the joke topics...........anyways you get the idea, I supposed it's not as funny typed out on an internet forum.

Female Hog Hunter?

Farting on the O2 sensor isn't as funny as you think it's going to be after you have done it.

What about Barely Legal.

Apparently, you haven't taken apart your kickstarter yet. :thumbsup: