What did you do today?

[118811]

Your best chance is to plead guilty with an explanation in front of the judge.  No letters. If you want to write something it better be a check.   

Probably so.....
Only it costs me more in time and effort!!!

[rz3r0]

118811, I'm sorry to hear about the ticket... When I got a ticket for going 21mph over ($182 ticket), I explained my situation to the LEO at the scene and to the judge in court. Surprisingly the judge looked into my situation, gave me a significant reduction in my offense, and reduced it to 6mph over. The ticket ended up being $80 and my insurance rates did not go up. Here was my situation: I was next to a semi-truck (in their blind spot) the trucker began to signal and started veering into my lane, and I basically sped up to avoid being merged into. The LEO was laser speed gunning in the area and I got pulled over. Nonetheless, explaining my situation to the judge saved me $100 and prevented my insurance rates from going up. How much of my time did it take? Maybe about 2hrs 30 min tops. 30min to set up a court date and 2 hours to wait in court, explain, and pay my remaining fee. I'd say go to the court, it can't hurt, and good luck 

[MadDuck]

All of you plus the picture are not making things easier to me.  1st thing first, fix the monster.  MD, I will buy the pump from you.  SSD called me today and it was the pump, quote "power and ground are good, but there is nothing at the pump.  New pump $1200, labor $175."

Even with me selling my monster, it is probably still at half way mark on Ben's SC.  I really do not think I can afford it.

Now ......... here's the real problem.  An intermittent open circuit in the power supply (red) wire from the fuel pump wiring harness on the fuel assembly ( the plug for the fuel pump power/ground and the fuel level sender ) to the actual fuel pump itself.  If you do an ohm check at the actual pump contacts ( wiring harness connector removed ) the level of resistance is almost zero, which is good. If I run direct power & ground to the pump it starts right up and runs every time.  The ground wire resistance is near zero every time I plug it in the to Fluke meter too. When I check the power circuit it can be 14+ ohms one minute ( still way too high ) to infinite resistance the next minute ( total bad open circuit ).  Needs a new wire/contacts and pump should work just fine.

I have the pump and can show this to anyone almost anytime.

Not that the guys at SSD misdiagnosed the problem but more like they stopped early at a sure fire fix.

[sta]

Thanks MD.  Let me know if I could help you in procuring any of the parts.

[MadDuck]

Fuel pump assembly Part 2:

I thought that the wiring problem would be in the plug connections to the wire and even thought I truly found it when looking at the pump side connector.  It actually looked rusted where the wire was soldered to the plug.  So I cut the plug off and stripped down to bare wire --- still high to infinite resistance. So I opened the other connector and took it out of the gang plug. I could get down to bare wire and still had the problem. Now here is where it gets really tricky. I can probe the wire until I find the open but I can't replace the wire. All four wires pass through an epoxy seal in the base of the assembly. THAT'S SO GAS CAN'T LEAK OUT..   Doah!!   

At least the actual electric pump is good.  There was no foul in replacing the pump as a whole.




BTW......... Jing!!  My Man!!    he brought by two four packs of Old Rasputin.      

[sta]

Fuel pump assembly Part 2: ...

BTW......... Jing!!  My Man!!    he brought by two four packs of Old Rasputin.      

Good.  I bought two for myself too, gotta see what's all the raves are about.   Or at least why does MD like it 

[DRKWNG]

Black blood of the (somewhat drunken) earth that stuff is.

[MadDuck]

Black blood of the (somewhat drunken) earth that stuff is.

Are you calling it dirt?

[DRKWNG]

[MadDuck]

Put a cigar in there and that would look like me on a Sat. night.

[DRKWNG]

Yes

[DRKWNG]

Went on a ride today and met someone with one of the 50th R1s.  Guy had the bike all dressed out with full Öhlins (Nix30s &TTX2), OZ wheels and a full Graves system.  Noticed a good two inches worth of chicken strips on his tires and asked if they were new for the season.  "Oh no, I bought those almost a year ago."   

[MadDuck]

Went on a ride today and met someone with one of the 50th R1s.  Guy had the bike all dressed out with full Öhlins (Nix30s &TTX2), OZ wheels and a full Graves system.  Noticed a good two inches worth of chicken strips on his tires and asked if they were new for the season.  "Oh no, I bought those almost a year ago."   

Make that guy a deal!! 

[DRKWNG]

Make that guy a deal!! 

Yeah...  I almost punched him with my helmet...

[sta]