Feeling way better about the bike. Spent about 5 hours working on it today. It's nice and is in good shape.
Popped open the left and right cowl. Found that the coolant was Yamacool in the radiator. Also drained the gas and flipped up the tank and got to the air filter. Whoa it's dirty! Two things needed at the local Yamaha dealer(Tri-City Cycles). Fortunately they were open on a Monday! (Most are closed on Monday....) Got a new oem air filter (K&N next time) and some yamacool. Came back to the barn and topped off the radiator and filled the coolant bottle to the full line. Installed the new OEM air filter. It's back together and ready to ride tomorrow morning. Gotta go to the Dr. to get my knee looked at. It's been bugging me for a couple months but it feels good in a riding position, better than in my Rav4. So I'm really enjoying riding the bike because my knee is at a natural neautral position. Kinda a really cool side benefit of the Super T!
Can't wait until the seal cleaner arrives. The forks look in great shape but were really dirty. The previous owner had a lot of fun and got it dirty. The forks show it from how much dirt already came out with my crude cleaning diy tool.
Also got some troubleshooting on the Farkle PIAA lights that weren't working on the bike(just them not working knocked a lot of money off the price of the bike) found a blown fuse and a bad switch. I'll replace them with some cooler aircraft toggle switches that were reclaimed from my plane's instrument panel that is getting rebuilt. Besides why not have aircraft grade switches on my bike? hehehehe already planning a small toggle switch panel in front of the handle bars just below the instrument panel.
ok... I see now why this kind of bike is really fun to own. I love working on my airplane and this is really close to that but much more simple. Still want it to be super correct because if anything happens on the bike it's almost as critical as an aircraft (can still pull over to the side of the road but still scary as shit). Still though the same things are important. Want to be visible (Lights) and want to be able to carry a useful payload (bags) navigation and instrumentation is important (gauges and device mounts + power to the bar). yeahhhh I'm digging this bike a lot and it's only day #3 of owning it
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Thanks for the info guys.