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Offline mvjr1904

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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2013, 09:06:18 AM »
I learned something today, Great information! 
Coworker uses nitrogen in his cars and Busa. I think he said he paid $15 per tire and he gets free maintenance nitro if he loses pressure.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2013, 05:51:17 PM »
So, if I used helium would it make the bike lighter???
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2013, 05:59:15 PM »
Quote from: The Pope on March 12, 2013, 09:38:22 AM
Pappy, you just sucked all of the oxygen out of this thread!!!!  :rotflmao:

Wow!  Hello your Holiness, and congratulations on the vote today!  Now tell me, was that white smoke REALLY Conrad's bong?
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2013, 07:13:33 PM »
Quote from: Flathead on March 13, 2013, 05:51:17 PM
So, if I used helium would it make the bike lighter???
No, but it would make you giggle uncontrollably! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2013, 07:22:12 PM »
Quote from: BruceR on March 13, 2013, 05:59:15 PM
Now tell me, was that white smoke REALLY Conrad's bong?

 :rotflmao: :chugbeer:
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #25 on: March 14, 2013, 04:02:28 AM »
Quote from: BruceR on March 13, 2013, 05:59:15 PM
Wow!  Hello your Holiness, and congratulations on the vote today!  Now tell me, was that white smoke REALLY Conrad's bong?

Thank you my child!  8)

Hey! Who ate all of the snacks that I was saving for later?!?!? Conrad!!!!!!
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #26 on: March 14, 2013, 04:41:33 AM »
Quote from: BruceR on March 13, 2013, 05:59:15 PM
Wow!  Hello your Holiness, and congratulations on the vote today!  Now tell me, was that white smoke REALLY Conrad's bong?

Quote from: The Pope on March 14, 2013, 04:02:28 AM
Thank you my child!  8)

Hey! Who ate all of the snacks that I was saving for later?!?!? Conrad!!!!!!

 :-[

 :rotflmao:

Sorry man, there's a few crumbs left...
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #27 on: March 14, 2013, 10:53:18 AM »
Quote from: Conrad on March 14, 2013, 04:41:33 AM
Sorry man, there's a few crumbs left...

No worries..... the nun's will make more.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #28 on: March 14, 2013, 10:57:00 AM »
Quote from: The Pope on March 14, 2013, 10:53:18 AM
No worries..... the nun's will make more.

I'm glad to hear that!

Please ask them not to be so stingy with the chocolate chips in the cookies next time k?
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #29 on: March 14, 2013, 11:28:26 AM »
According to my "wonderfull" Kawi dealer (the one that can't seem to install a head gasket properly), the proper tire pressure in the front is 52psi!!! This was after replacing my TPS.
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Me and dealer sevice departments... What gives?!!!! Too long of a story for here, but my "wonderful" ford dealer put 9 quarts of oil in my GT500!!!!!  :o
Things got very interesting between me and the service manager!
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2013, 11:30:21 AM »
Quote from: The Pope on March 12, 2013, 07:06:01 AM
In the tire?  :o :-X  ::)

Thanks Pope, I just spit coffee all over my workstation!!!!  :rotflmao:
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #31 on: March 14, 2013, 12:00:18 PM »
Quote from: rush2112 on March 14, 2013, 11:28:26 AM
According to my "wonderfull" Kawi dealer (the one that can't seem to install a head gasket properly), the proper tire pressure in the front is 52psi!!! This was after replacing my TPS.
 :banghead:

Me and dealer sevice departments... What gives?!!!! Too long of a story for here, but my "wonderful" ford dealer put 9 quarts of oil in my GT500!!!!!  :o
Things got very interesting between me and the service manager!

How many quarts of oil should be in the GT500? I know it's apples and oranges but my Silverado Duramax diesel takes 10 quarts.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #32 on: March 14, 2013, 03:16:53 PM »
Quote from: rush2112 on March 14, 2013, 11:28:26 AM
According to my "wonderfull" Kawi dealer (the one that can't seem to install a head gasket properly), the proper tire pressure in the front is 52psi!!!

Yikes.

Tell him "42" and move on.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #33 on: March 18, 2013, 11:18:11 AM »
Quote from: Conrad on March 14, 2013, 12:00:18 PM
How many quarts of oil should be in the GT500? I know it's apples and oranges but my Silverado Duramax diesel takes 10 quarts.

6.5 quarts in my 2012. He may have thought it was the new 5.8 that comes in the 2013's. It takes 8.5 quarts.

Service manager told me he witnesses them only draining 7 quarts (still to much), and said that the extra half quart would make the level on the dipstick to read 6 inches over the top fill mark! I told him at that point he was full of %*&#!!!! When I told him I talked to the tech that did it, he said that he wasn't that guy that did it, that a female tech they had did it. But they wouldn't let me talk to that guy!!!
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #34 on: March 18, 2013, 11:24:04 AM »
Quote from: maxtog on March 14, 2013, 03:16:53 PM
Yikes.

Tell him "42" and move on.

hah 52?  I thought it exploded at 51.2
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #35 on: March 18, 2013, 11:45:23 AM »
At 52 lbs your contact patch would be about 1/2 " sq.  combined front and back.  It would be like running on ball bearings.  Time to move on.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2013, 11:47:16 AM »
Quote from: stevewfl on March 18, 2013, 11:24:04 AM
hah 52?  I thought it exploded at 51.2

When I bought my bike and took it home from the dealer I decided to check everything over one more time before I took her out to bed in the brakes. I knew that the tires needed some attention cuz the pressure wasn't right. Whoever set up my bike put 40 lbs in the front tire (my TPM told me this) but 80 lbs in the rear tire! (TPM told me 52, I think that's as high as it'll read)   :o

I called the dealer and asked WTF? He told me that there must have been a malfunction in their tire gauge (there was a malfunction somewhere but I don't think that it was the gauge) and he thanked me for bringing it to his attention. They also installed the battery backwards and when I told him that he said that if I rode it back to the shop that they would fix it. Um, no thanks, I did it myself.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2013, 01:10:28 PM »
My ATV calls for 4.5 psi. A friend borrowed is and thought it said 45 psi. Man that thing was bouncing before I realized what happened.
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Re: TIRE PRESSURE
« Reply #38 on: March 18, 2013, 02:47:55 PM »
Quote from: Conrad on March 18, 2013, 11:47:16 AM
When I bought my bike and took it home from the dealer I decided to check everything over one more time before I took her out to bed in the brakes. I knew that the tires needed some attention cuz the pressure wasn't right. Whoever set up my bike put 40 lbs in the front tire (my TPM told me this) but 80 lbs in the rear tire! (TPM told me 52, I think that's as high as it'll read)   :o

I called the dealer and asked WTF? He told me that there must have been a malfunction in their tire gauge (there was a malfunction somewhere but I don't think that it was the gauge) and he thanked me for bringing it to his attention. They also installed the battery backwards and when I told him that he said that if I rode it back to the shop that they would fix it. Um, no thanks, I did it myself.

When I got mine from the dealer, it was also in the 50's.  I corrected it immediately and called them and complained.
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