Re: 600 mile service

 
> Anyway, what's a doohickey, and where's 
> the doohickey bolt? I know what a doohickey is 
> on a KLR650 but haven't heard that term
> for a Suzuki.

The doohickey bolt supports and secures the doohickey, in the space
between the blinker fluid reservoir and the double clutch adjustment
pin.  Mostly, the doohickey is used to prevent overheating of the rear
Thelmann wire, in the event that the plasma intercooler Jeffries tube is
plugged with cavorite residue.  It should be checked, tightened, set to
align with magnetic north, or replaced roughly every vernal equinox, or
whenever you notice that your Doppler shifts aren't quite as crisp as
they once were. Most often, it is supplied as a set with a replacement
rev recycler.


> I've noticed that sometimes when I shift from 
> 1st to 2nd it finds a false neutral.

I dunno if this is supposed to be a common thing for the SV, but Gawd
knows I've had it happen enough.  And there's nothing "false" about this
neutral; it's definitely a real, honest-to-Zeus neutral, as the
screaming engine (while the bike starts coasting down to 5 MPH) lets
everyone in the vicinity know.  But I've always chalked those things up
to a wimpy upshift on my part; a good, solid upward whack of my boot on
the shifter, and it always seems to go right into 2nd nicely.  But if
everyone says I can blame the transmission when that happens, hey, I'll
be more than happy...:-)


Bob M.

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