Cotton eyed Joe

Welcome back!!! Now go get another Banshee!!!

Was it in a readers rides section? How do you send pics and info in? Never tried Dirt Wheels, but I've tried to contact Sand Sports 3 different times (through editors email, and Sand Sports email), and they never respond to me. On advertising, and on getting my bike on their pages. Damn it. I bet Walt could get his in Sand Sports.

Ohh Hell man.... I wish I knew... I woulda thrown in a "suprise" for ya... and NO I dont mean anything like what NYUK sends Ya know... Where has Stan been? Maybe he got lucky yesterday and didnt have to molest himself for once! HAPPY BIRFDAY BEN!!!!!!!!! Heh...I'm still here!!! I turned 29. My sister swore I was 30. lol. After a gruelling day at the shop yesterday, spinning my wheels on getting my Banshee off of the atv lift, and onto the street, I went to dinner with the wife, and then came home and fell asleep. That was muh birfday. Oh, and I ate my weight in carrot cake. The easiest way to get me in the sack is feed me full of carrot cake!! Me and Ben got something else in common. I got 1.5 headlights from B370. Not for my birfday, but so I can at least go on a night ride at Dumont. For my birfday I got 3 lbs of coffee beans. 2 lbs of Millstone (Butter Toffee and Velvet Chocolate...hehe...I've seen that movie before ), and 1lb of Starbucks. I was wondering what the hell I was going to do with it, then I found out I got a coffee grinder. WOO HOO! If I have 2 cups of fine grind with me on the road to Cali, I'll probably have a heart attack or an anurism by the time I get to St. George. Want some stories of the old days eh?? Well, back in my day, I didn't get a ride to school. I walked...no I CRAWLED up hill both ways in 127F temps, on my hands and knees through broken glass naked, with a tennis ball stuck in my ass. You kids these days....... (shakes cane) Thanks you guys!

Leave NOW so they cant catch you I'm glad to hear you can make it... Saves me having to ship this grab bar to ya! hehe Roost ya.... Errr I mean see ya soon! It also saves me from having to ship this stock swingarm and carrier to you! Glad to hear your're going to make it. hehe....uh...please don't.

Ive never run nerfs. Just don't like the looks. Im sure they work well, but I think it would feel like having these 2 big wings hanging off my bike, and kind of throw off the lines of all that plastic I cut off.

We turned the screw in, but then we noticed that it wouldn't let the piston all the way back out again. So thats why we ended up pushing on it manually. I'll invest in one of those My-Teeee-Vaks. Brakes are something I've never had to work on like this. I disassembled the brakes, polished them, installed new seals etc. This just kicked my ass. 2 days a quart of DOT4 later... Thanks for the tips guys. I'm definitely NOT going to forget how to do this next time. I've washed my hands a dozen times, and they still feel like they have brake fluid on them

If it ends up you don't like them, I'm sure to can find some one to give you good money for a barely used set. I'm sure you'll like them. I know people with just pipes and a filter that have ran these tires (except on 8" rims) and they work great.

Whatchoo thinking mang? Its cool. I'm sure this won't be my last trip to Cali. I'll bring a 40oz and pour the whole thing out for you.

God I wish I had money.

hehe...yep. A real toothy grin. Slicked back oily hair, red bowtie, saying shit like "This was owned by a little old lady. She only rode it down her drive way to the mail box once a day. Clean one owner." If you had a good experience with the Yamaha dealer GOOD!!!!! I haven't yet. I'm not holding my breath either. I've gone to 5 different yamaha dealers and been to each countless times, and its been pulling teeth to get what I need, or me kicking myself in the ass for even going their in the first place. The dealers here are like heroin dealers. They don't care where you get the money, they just want it. all of it.

Damn EVIL!!!! I might have some T-Maxxx rim blanks left at the shop. wink wink.

I just went through this shit today, and yesterday. I still smell like DOT4. On the fronts, you have to squeeze the brake lever, and release the check valve on the caliper. Close the check valve and release the lever. I did one side 3-4 times, then did the other side, and kept going back and forth until there was no more spongyness. However, today my dad and I discovered that we had an air lock in front of the primary cup on the master cylinder. We couldn't get the lever to push the master piston in far enough to push this air out, so we pushed the piston in as far as we could with the end of a screwdriver, opened the bleeder valve, closed the bleeder valve, then released the master piston. It took a little bit to get it all out, but once we did, we could resume bleeding the usual way.

Here's what my dad did while I was on the phone with Banshee370: He had to use a screwdriver to press the plunger in further than what the lever would allow. Then apparently after there was no more air in the master, in front of the primary cup, we could bleed them, pump them up, and now they stay. I will check them again tomorrow, and if need be I have the magnum sitting here beside me. Thanks to everyone for the replies. Stan.

Air passes through the lines and brakes just fine. I can't get it to pump up at the master cylinder now. I've taken it apart, and looking at it, there arent any marks in the bore at all. It looks clean as hell in there. All new guts this morning. It just acts like its passing one of the cups. Like the primary cup isn't sealing all the way. The rebuild kit did nothing for my problem. No fluid leaks out of anywhere on this thing either. It seems to be tight as a drum, but on the pressure side of things, it acts like the primary cup isn't doing its job. But how? Its bigger than the bore. I have to compress it to get it in.

Thats another thing....We get the occasional "spit" of fluid, but we are having problems with both stainless and stock lines. We have tried 4 different lines, and all act the same. After the last 15 minutes of so of pissing around with this thing, I'm beginning to wonder if the master cylinder isn't just junk. I don't know why it would be. No scarring in the barrel. The ports in the ressy are clear. I'll go check those lines though just to make sure. I'll be back in 10.

K I put on new stainless braided lines yesterday, tried to bleed them, nothing. I tore my master cylinder apart, and it was kinda dirty from me polishing it, cleaned it, put it back together. Nothing. Went and bought a rebuild kit from the Yamaha crooks. $29.95. Nothing. Put stock lines back on. Nothing. I did buff and polish my cylinder, and I think I may have buffed the surface that mates to the banjo bolt. I put it in the mill as true as I could get and milled it down about .010". Then we started to get a slight squeek of air escaping. We checked all the fittings, tightened everthing down. Nothing. We can however put a thumb over the master cylinder hole, pump up and release the air out of the cylinder, and get enough fluid pressure to spray DOT4 all over my face twice. What the hell could it be? We've tried the stock lines, we've tried one line at a time, and nothing works. The only way we ever get pressure is when we put a thumb over that master cylinder opening, and "bleed" the air out, then it feels like it "pumps up" Any help would be appreciated, as Dumont is just around the corner. Thanks.

LOL now you're thinking Travis!

LMFAO Did anyone else get a PM from this little shit stain?

Dont feel bad. I think everyone here has messed up either those, or the a-arm ball joints doing the same thing. Always use nuts to support the ends. I'm not sure of the thread size and pitch, but I would assume its a 12mm x 1.5 or 1.75 thread. Go buy a die from ACE hardware or an industrial supply and chase the threads if they aren't totally trashed. If not, you can grind those threads on the end down to get the nut on. The nut doesn't use those threads to hold anything, they are just there so they can be crossdrilled.

Has anyone emailed him a link to this thread?

I also think that if he is asking you to "hurry up and wire him the money", that sounds like a bad deal. If I remember right, wire transfers are against eBay policy. Not 100%, but I think thats a good indication that its a bad deal. If I was selling something 100% legit, I would want the prospective buyers to feel at ease buying, not pressured into it. I would want them to be able to contact me, and like Deuce said, pet my dog (I don't have a dog, maybe one of the neighbor hood strays), come up to the shop and bs for a while, etc. This guy sounds like he's just trying to get you to do the deal NOW NOW NOW. Yeah, ask him if a little old lady just stopped by to look at his banshee's and if she was really interested in buying. You're smart to think about looking for a local used. That way you can atleast sit on the damn thing, inspect the frame and grab bar for bends creases and cracked paint.

Tony Bennet, and Rosemary Clooney.

I know this works, but I have actually seen out in the dunes, people try this without it working. I have no idea why, but that god damn tire WOULD NOT come off that rim for anything!!! Check around at the local tire dealers as well. They just might be able to help you out more that the local bastard yamaha dealer.

If there was time I could order in some brass tube, polish it up, wax it to keep it slippery, and then fab up a small stage out of some 4x8 3/4 CDX. A portable stripper stage would kick ass!!!!

A speck of dust has caused my carb to stick open before. Think of a grain of sand thats been broken up 3 or 4 times. Clean them out.