Well the seat height mod was a win, thanks to the detailed How-to instructions, and last weekend the Steed got its first farkle. I installed a G2 throttle Tamer. It does make a very significant difference and make the engine much more manageable at small throttle openings.
Of course things don't usually go as smoothly as we would like, and the 30-minute installation procedure turned into half a day for this little newbie. There was not enough slack adjustment available in the cable at the grip end so I had to dive under the tank and pull out the air box to access the bottom-end adjuster. Like many before me, I found the screws holding the bottom of the airbox to the throttle bodies to be insanely tight so rather than strip them I popped over to see a clever neighbor who does all his maintenance on his K1000. He lent me some hammer-drivers, but also suggested that I give each screw a squirt of WD40 and leave them overnight. The WD40 did the trick because sure enough, next morning the screws came straight out without even putting up a fight.
Then of course there were some other valuable lessons, like the one where I was putting the last screw back into the top cover of the airbox and dropped it so it fell right down into the throttle area lol. Then there was the second lesson where I got the top cover back on successfully and put the tank back down and then saw the air filter still sitting on the ground. Some guys are just not meant to be mechanics lol.
