Recent content by saganaga

There's a guide on homebrew replacements for the GL1000 and GL1100. Perhaps something similar could be done for the GL1200? I personally haven't heard of the tensioners being a problem, but maybe someone else can chime in.

Stayed in a tent three nights. For the fourth night, I splurged and had a camper cabin rented at a state park. I didn't doublecheck though, and it was a non-electric camper cabin, which kind of crimped my plans. I had everything packed on the bike, including breakfast and dinner. (I did eat...

I had a week of vacation I needed to use and my wife couldn't get the time off. I believe I spent that week wisely. Five days, about a thousand miles. Made it an easy trip with plenty of time to stop and check out anything that caught my interest. I did meet two other Goldwings - a 1500 and...

Nice.

I'm jealous of the nice weather everyone is having. I can travel two hours north and still find ice on the lakes. It's been warmer here, but still in the 40s and 50s.

If you aren't seeing corrosion in other areas, I doubt it. If the gasket is still on the timing belt covers, I'd take a look at them. There should be a little spot on the bottom of each gasket cover. My only guess is that someone clogged it with gasket sealer. I could see a moisture problem...

Glad to see you are replacing the stem seals since you already have the heads off. I'm curious about the corrosion shown by the timing belts. Do you know what happened?

Remember, it's not a problem until one runs out of garage space and has to start stashing motorcycles in odd locations.

I'm still hoping for at least one more Goldwing ride, but today in the auto, I slid across an overpass in the snow. Ugh. So far, the weather isn't promising up here.

Sorry about your mom as well. It may take months to process those feelings - it's natural to block grief until your body thinks it is safe to process it. And it never really goes away. Twenty years from now, you may think of something and start to feel it all over again. I remember the late...

For small brush and small trees, I cannot praise weed wrenches highly enough.

Agreed about the carbs. They'll sit for about six months in Minnesota, and they are small enough and cheap enough that they love to develop problems. In addition, these days, internal-combustion small engine lawn equipment seem to be a race to the bottom in terms of quality and the ability to...

Had my blinders on. It's easy to assume that how you live is how all people live. I was going to say that electric lawn equipment is great, but I'm in an old neighborhood where lawns are small, and current battery tech is more than enough for these lawns. But it's a base issue - probably the...

That's a great example of a law creating a perverse incentive. The law sounds good in theory - have manufacturers tell people if a product is known to cause cancer. So there's a big penalty if you don't label a carcinogen in California. But there's no penalty if you label everything you make...

Did a ride yesterday, probably around 55F when I started, cooled down after that. Got a little chilly, but it may have been due to keeping my rain liner in my jacket, and sweating when I slowed down to a crawl in a traffic jam. On the way back though, I saw a typical summer cruiser rider...