@alainmaurice5383 Hi Alain.Im glad the video was of some value to you .I really appreciate you taking the time to comment and let me know .Ride safe out there. Cheers 🍻

Hey man thanks very much for such a kind comment .It was great to wake up to first thing in the morning .Cheers 🍺

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment so eloquently. Cheers

Ha ha Thanks Wayne. Well crafted comment I genuinely appreciate your creative bants. Thanks again for watching and taking the time to comment so kindly as always. Cheers my friend 🍺

Have one vacuum operated on my xj600s

Thanks very much, Adam .Cheers to you good sir 🍺

Hi Ron .I have to thank you for making my day with your kind comment .I truely appreciate that you like some of my videos and that you took the time to leave a great comment like this one. Thanks very much .Cheers to you good sir

My pleasure. Thank you for the great comment. I genuinely appreciate it. Cheers 🍻

Hey R.K. Nice catch seeing the old amp strategically placed in view for those in the know to spot .I kind of figured you might key in on it as you are a radio tech man . The marantz is a solid bit of kit ,still works great .Bought it new many years ago ,still have the original paperwork .It's been all around Canada with every move I made . I even have a small transistor radio my dad gave me for my 7th birthday .Original box and paperwork and still works ,a little crackley but still pulls a station in . There's even a few old tube radios on the shelf that still work from back in my childhood . I bet you have a bunch of cool radios in your collection too.

That’s very cool you have your old transistor radio from when you were seven and if you run it every now and then for a few hours at a time that will keep it happy. What model is that Marantz tuner amp? …… You have some Tube radios man how cool, send me some photos through email of them when you get a chance I would love to see them. I do have some tube radios around the house in the kitchen in the mornings I catch the news on a 1953 tube portable that has mains power as well and another tube radio in my entry that gets a run on the weekends and another in my lounge room that gets a run once a week as well plus a whole heap of hi if and tube radios in a storage unit plus other things. One thing with the tube stuff is it is non effected by any EMP’s that might hit the world at any time from whatever. One day I might do a video on my collection of Hi-Fi as that stuff does well on youtube but in some ways I have an embarrassing quantity of stuff stored so I don’t know about making a vid on it all. Like just in amps of many different brands I have 3X 8 foot stacks of them all good brands and quality items through to a few different full sets of even bang & Olufsen systems. Real to real tape recorders form studio through to home Hi-Fi ones, Hi Fi EQ’s, tuners turntables tape decks oh man you name it….like I said it’s an embarrassing quantity of stuff. I plan to sell off much of it though and just keep a few very high end sets of systems as these days it all just sits in storage doing nothing so someone may as well enjoy it. Up-stairs hooked into the editing computers and the X box I’m running one of Sony high end amplifiers from the mid 70’s with a very cool high end digital sound processor plumbed up to it, all connected to some rather expensive speaker system that totally kicks butt. And that gets used daily. I got some very cool Marantz components and amps all around the mid to late 70’s but much beyond that when they started making them in Japan I stopped collecting them as they went down hill from there. Your amp is very serviceable though so if it stops just get it fixed as the value of these things is getting up there now days and you can’t replace the quality unless you go very high end. @@TRyanLearnBikes

@@rolandkeith5322 Holy moly man you're into it big time .I sent you a few pix via email. Have a look when you get a chance. Cheers 🍻

shall do i just got up and having a coffee so when I get into my office I will check them out and thanks for sending them @@TRyanLearnBikes

Thanks very much young William .Not many will catch the Syd angle .Well done . I'm guessing you didn't see the ballerina though ,did you?

@GoldenBoyGarage Thank you very kindly for taking the time to watch and leave such a great comment. Cheers 🍻

Thanks very much .And yes it seems the parts we really need to rebuild or buy new are just getting harder and harder to find .I guess thats what makes our vintage bikes increase in value as time goes on .Kind of a double edged sword .

Well thank you very much MrShrimpy72 (great name by the way ). Thats very kind of you to say .But as you know this youtube game is a tough landscape to navigate sometimes. If our only motivation was followers it would be hard to continue creating .I rarely look at analytics.Its not why I'm here .Thanks for taking the time to comment so kindly .Cheers my friend

Ha! Great way to look at it. And a thank you for your fork rebuild video. As a result I rebuilt the forks on my boys YZ and they are working like a charm.

@MrShrimpy72 My pleasure,it's great to hear you were able to spruce up your young lads YZ forks with some help from one of my videos .Thats what its all about .Thanks for letting me know .Cheers again my friend

Yes I did run that idea as well and a few other buddies had mentioned it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. So I don't know man .When I talk to guys at the track about it I'm getting about a 75 /25 split in favor of "it wouldn't happen "..but the ones who say it could and does happen are steadfast in their position. Maybe I need to do a deep dive and get the real answer that 100%.Thanks for the idea ..it could make a great video .Cheers

You're not alone its a common thing to have happen . If your bike is a two stroke the space below the piston could be full up with fuel and could definatly cause starting problems and potentially catastrophic if it somehow did .And because there is no drain plug that can be a chore to empty it . If its a four stroke unless you've checked the gearbox for fuel contamination that could be full to the brim with fuel and oil too and could make the bike hard to start for sure . If neither condition applys start with the basics ,Check for spark , check for fuel flow , check for air flow . That should do it . Curious ,,,what make model and year of bike are you dealing with

Thanks very much. Nice catch on the rack , not many would notice that one .There's not much showing but it's moose antlers a friend of mine nailed in Northern Ontario. And the rooster is my buddy Tim's. It's a great bird , very very chill. Thanks again for watching and commenting. Cheers 🍻

@@TRyanLearnBikes oh, No Wonder it looked so HUGE! 😂

Hey R.K. .Yikes that doesn't sound very good at all .Hopefully you get that resolved soon .It would be quite frustrating to be locked out of email contact for sure. Once you are back up and running let me know if you got the email I sent .Cheers for now Buddy .

yeah I will man, with luck it will be some time today it gets sorted. it's a bugger as a quite a percentage of my clients bookings come through email even though the email account is split personal under one address and work under the other if you get me.@@TRyanLearnBikes

(one thing I don't remember (because I did the rebuild in summer) is whether I checked the alignment on the breather hole on the diaphragm and the hole on the petcock itself. Could that be the reason for the bike only running on reserve? I am wondering, if not that, what else could it be?)

@@xzouix Well thats an interesting one for sure . I took a quick look at the parts list on that particular petcock .There is a rubber gasket with a very particular set of holes .Its part number 3AJ-24523-00-00 If you type that into the google search bar you'll see it . If that was somehow put in upside down I'm thinking it could mess up the standard flow of the petcock .Does that look familiar to anything you may have had as part of the rebuild kit ?

@@TRyanLearnBikes now I remember, it was Tourmax fuel valve repair kit for XV535, and yes I did align everything including the diaphragm holes. It is not the OEM kit, but all parts fit perfectly to the spec, I compared them with the OEM parts. I also tried to blow through the petcock with the position switched to "on" after I rebuilt the petcock just to make sure I didn't mess the on and off position. Besides the petcock I did all fuel lines on the bike (new hoses, fuel filter and all). I have the motorcycle manual, so i am pretty sure I didnt leave out any steps.

@xzouix hmmm...jeeez man this is a good one ...now I'm really curious as to how this could be . I'll be at the shop on Tuesday and talk it over with two of the best mechanics in the game.Im sure they will have some interesting theories as to what could be going on .I will update you then .But in the mean time if you figure it out please let me know .I'm very interested to see what this problem actually is .

@@TRyanLearnBikes Thank you. If I figure it out, I will respond to this thread.

Ha ha .. Those were a limited run from the team at Ultimate Cycle in Hamilton. I'll ask if there are any extras kicking around , maybe you'll get lucky.

Well yes I do, I'm curious how you know that .I watched this video over a few times to see if it was in the background somewhere and came up empty handed .So I have to ask R.K. how did you know ? Is it in some other video ?

@@TRyanLearnBikes In the The Kane and Sage Magic Show video buddy

@rolandkeith5322 Ahh yes ok ..I forgot about that channel..Man Oh man ..R.K. you have a great eye for detail .To be able to spot and identify that tester in such a short period of time is quite impressive .You certainly know your stuff in the electronics world. Wow .

@@TRyanLearnBikes I do you reckon? well you must do to have one of those as I don't. I have to go for a 50 minutes drive way up in the hills to see an old mate of mine that builds high end Hi-Fi amps and repairs all old tube stuff to get mine tested.

Hi R.K. .There are only two comments visible to me at this time .This comment thread here that I'm responding to and another one where the first sentence is you mentioning about the Marantz tuner in view .I'm not sure what happened to any other comments .I didn't flag or restrict any comments .I guess A.I. can step in any police comments as it sees fit .It happened to me one time when I tried to make what I thought was a funny comment and it actually responded back to me with a warning and a link to review acceptable comment policies .Holy Moly what a soft marshmallow world we live in these days man .Do you think your missing comment could have crossed the marshmallow line in the sand in the eyes of KZfaq A.I ?

Who knows man but I put the comment up and it was there then a while later it was gone, but this has happened a few times now on comments and I have had others say the same to me as their comments have gone missing. Eh! The internet gods are not kind to us anymore I think as odd stuff happens often. Never mind I topped you up on the latest comment I just did now so all should be good I hope. @@TRyanLearnBikes

Well....you make some very interesting points. Thanks for taking the time to comment and share your experience on the subject. Cheers 🍻

@@TRyanLearnBikesThe more I dug, the more I found... Honda had a recall RCRIT-08V141-7306 on that vacuum petcock for my 2008 Honda Shadow 750C2 !@#$%. I don't know if it's the recall for it failing, or the fact it's 16 years old... if it hasn't been replaced before :-/ Either way, it's getting replaced. I just rebuilt a Honda Rebel carb and my hands smell like Berryman's B12. This is working on fuel system crrp is not fun. I pray to the heavens I never have to take out a dual carb buried in something. I'm just going to keep running solvent through them every tank up.

@@choppergirl Agreed ,working on the fuel system on most any bike can be a chore for sure .I had to look up what Berrymans B12 was . Thanks for the tip ,it sounds like something I should be using occasionally .Hopefully you get your bike sorted out soon and you can get back out riding .Thanks for taking the time to comment and inform .Ride safe .Cheers