Paulver
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Somehow, I ended up"living" the name of this forum.
As of Friday, all of my sleds are Yamahas. I traded a couple of my other brand sleds for two newer Yamahas, and I still have my '78 ET250 and my recently acquired 1980 ET340D. The ET340 had a frozen carb, but I got that all straightened out and repaired one of the posts that holds the float pin with JB Weld. With any luck, I should have it running sometime this weekend. I'm hoping that I don't have to bleed the Autolube lines, etc., to get things running. I never used this system before, so I'm not sure what might need to be done. The ET250 had all of that removed and I just mix the fuel for it.
Newer sleds are '05 Yamaha RS90 Vector and a '09 Yamaha Apex GT1000. Both have electric start and reverse, which is what I needed. Very nice sleds, and now, being thrust into the 21st century with these newer ones, I'm finding that they are a bit scarier than my 40 year old sleds...... speed-wise. You young bucks are used to zipping along at WOT, but I've never traveled as fast as these sleds will go, without being buckled into the enclosed cockpit of a car surrounded by tons of metal. Kind of unnerving to watch the ground fly past your body with only inches of air separating you from it. Looking forward to being a little scared this winter!!
As of Friday, all of my sleds are Yamahas. I traded a couple of my other brand sleds for two newer Yamahas, and I still have my '78 ET250 and my recently acquired 1980 ET340D. The ET340 had a frozen carb, but I got that all straightened out and repaired one of the posts that holds the float pin with JB Weld. With any luck, I should have it running sometime this weekend. I'm hoping that I don't have to bleed the Autolube lines, etc., to get things running. I never used this system before, so I'm not sure what might need to be done. The ET250 had all of that removed and I just mix the fuel for it.
Newer sleds are '05 Yamaha RS90 Vector and a '09 Yamaha Apex GT1000. Both have electric start and reverse, which is what I needed. Very nice sleds, and now, being thrust into the 21st century with these newer ones, I'm finding that they are a bit scarier than my 40 year old sleds...... speed-wise. You young bucks are used to zipping along at WOT, but I've never traveled as fast as these sleds will go, without being buckled into the enclosed cockpit of a car surrounded by tons of metal. Kind of unnerving to watch the ground fly past your body with only inches of air separating you from it. Looking forward to being a little scared this winter!!
