{"id":2277,"date":"2008-12-09T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T02:06:24","slug":"have-a-harley-jolly-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"Have a Harley Jolly Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Finally, a Tool I Refuse to Buy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another reason to beat everyone who works for Harley-Davidson.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I have a bad diaphragm on my fuel supply valve. The solution? Remove the vacuum hose, remove the fuel hose, take off the valve, and open it up. BUT Harley-Davidson uses stupid spring band hose clamps, and you have to have special hose clamp pliers to remove them. This is brilliance at its best. You save maybe five cents on the cost of the bike by using the crappy clamp, but you lose ten dollars when you buy the special hose clamp pliers to take the clamp off.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of one good reason not to replace it with a nice AWAB worm drive hose clamp. That&#8217;s what I did to the carb, and it worked out fine. It will save me the price of those stupid pliers.<\/p>\n<p>I love the little touches manufacturers put on their products, to quadruple the time and money it costs to fix them.<\/p>\n<p><b>More<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Harley-Davidson used to make a replacement diaphragm that cost around seven bucks. Then they decided that was too cheap. Now you have to buy the whole valve, for almost thirty bucks. Supposedly, you can buy the diaphragm by itself, but they make you pay the cost of a valve.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder people hate Harley-Davidson.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting a Golan aftermarket petcock. I&#8217;m tempted to eliminate the diaphragm and replace it with a gasket, but I&#8217;d have to remember to turn the petcock off whenever the bike wasn&#8217;t running.<\/p>\n<p>This is how Harleys are. The stock parts fail, and when you try to replace them, they screw you so badly you pretty much have to buy aftermarket if you want to retain your self-respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a Tool I Refuse to Buy Here&#8217;s another reason to beat everyone who works for Harley-Davidson. It looks like I have a bad diaphragm on my fuel supply valve. The solution? Remove the vacuum hose, remove the fuel hose, take off the valve, and open it up. BUT Harley-Davidson uses stupid spring band hose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}