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Air box displacement

Jethro,

To remove the battery on my 82 I leave the tank on, remove the 4 bolts from the sides of the bracket that holds the tank down near the seat and lift the tank up and prop it up with an empty 2 liter soda bottle or something else nearby. I then have plenty of room to take the battery out (pod filters).

When I had the stock air box I would do the same thing but work the air box up and out to have access to the battery.

I never took the carbs off until they needed cleaning or jetting
 
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Jethro,

To remove the battery on my 82 I leave the tank on, remove the 4 bolts from the sides of the bracket that holds the tank down near the seat and lift the tank up and prop it up with an empty 2 liter soda bottle or something else nearby. I then have plenty of room to take the battery out (pod filters).
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Oh thank god. I was hoping that would be the case and was avoiding the battery removal because I didn't want to find out otherwise. Luckly I have pod filters also. Well, I guess lucky, I have a little low end stutter I can't seem to shake. Probably electrical though.

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On my '83 GS1100 the battery practically jumps out by itself.
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Well la-de-da. :lol: Seriously, you must have a smaller battery than me. Mine seems to be super tall, and I have huge space in there too, thanks to my (-gulp-for Earl) PODS!
 
Try speaking a little more slowly and perhaps consider some speech therapy.
Pod gremlins are out and about too. LOL

Earl :-)


Jethro said:
Luckly I have pod filters also. Well, I guess lucky, I have a little low end stutter I can't seem to shake. Probably electrical though.
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Joe Nardy said:
earlfor said:
OH go buy a flyswatter and join Dink for a pleasant afternoon of wallaby swatting.

Earl :-)
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HEY DINK! When would you like to get together and swat some wallabies? We both have plenty of time on our hands since we don't waste it wrestling with airboxes. If we can't find any wallabies we could spend the time chatting about how strong our bikes run with all that extra air flow ...... :lol: :lol:

Sorry, Earl. I just couldn't resist! 8)
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Let me know when you get your next Vacation, we will hook up and go Wallaby bashing :wink:
Dink
 
Joe Nardy said:
On my '83 GS1100 the battery practically jumps out by itself. It must be the cubic foot or so of empty space created when I removed the airbox and installed the hated (by Earl) :evil: PODS......................

HAHAHAHAHA!

Joe
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And if I recall correctly it also likes to spit off battery cables. *grins* Tee hee hee. Unruly batteries.
 
Nerobro said:
And if I recall correctly it also likes to spit off battery cables. *grins* Tee hee hee. Unruly batteries.
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Yes, one time in 35,000 miles the positive battery bolt came loose. I'm sure that was my own fault for not tightening it properly. I'm positive it had nothing to do with running PODs and if I hadn't been running PODs it would have taken A LOT longer than five minutes to find and fix.

Joe
 
we know it has nothing to do with pods. :-) I just think your battery got angry and spit the screw out ;-) Speaking of which, I recieved pods in the mail today. *grins*
 
I hope they came with a bottle of aspirin.

Earl :-) :-) :-)


Nerobro said:
we know it has nothing to do with pods. :-) I just think your battery got angry and spit the screw out ;-) Speaking of which, I recieved pods in the mail today. *grins*
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we know it has nothing to do with pods. I just think your battery got angry and spit the screw out Speaking of which, I recieved pods in the mail today. *grins*
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And a bottle of valium. You also might want to schedule your lobotomy now, it'll save time when you go insane.
 
nerbro, get in touch with me if you need pod help i have my carbs set up real nice with a jet kit and pods.

btw what type of pods did you get? k and n i hope.....

-ryan
 
Emgo. I didn't really buy them for power, I bought them for convienance :-) We'll see how it works out.
 
Then I guess you have nothing to lose. :-)

Earl

Nerobro said:
My bike is already running lean. So If I need to rejet, I might as well go all the way eh?
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