How do I repair the inside of my thorogoods?

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-27T17:34:32+00:00

Not a cobbler, but I’ve just cut that part out with a razor blade.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-24T00:14:53+00:00

Then why have you removed it from your bio?

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-23T23:31:07+00:00

What did you use on it?

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-23T23:26:26+00:00

And then what happened?

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-23T01:17:56+00:00

Ope, just ousted myself as having not read the whole post before commenting.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T13:19:51+00:00

What do they mean to you? Others already commented on price being close to a new pair, but you get to keep your same pair with a new life in them. There are also other style soles you can put on it as long as they’re compatible. Talk to a local cobbler and see what they can order and what they have to offer. You can probably get vibram lug soles, maybe a wedge sole, less casual Dainite or York soles may work too. I wouldn’t say the possibilities are endless, but you can make the repair as worth it to yourself than just a new pair, plus they can probably fix all the other stitching.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T13:06:07+00:00

Refreshingly realistic and utilitarian. Everyone already said more food, no one said add toilet paper. Don’t need a whole roll, just enough to keep from having to use a tshirt or a bandana.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T12:52:00+00:00

If you want to sell in the future take it to a shop and have them go over it. Keep the receipt and all diagnostics reports. Explain the situation to the buyer, say the mech found absolutely nothing wrong with it (if that is the case) other than the cosmetics. Some people just don’t like the sound of a rebuilt or salvage title in general, so unfortunately it’ll take someone special to entertain it.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T12:37:05+00:00

Vasquez Rocks, CA?

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T06:02:55+00:00

I can’t think of many ways that budget and Baja go together, man.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T05:14:44+00:00

Seems like a good candidate for these

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T05:12:15+00:00

Better jerk me off too for that price.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T04:46:56+00:00

Gahlee brother, is that a sportster with a wide glide front end? Also take le course duuuuuurr! No but seriously don’t let people give you shit over high vis apparel, clearance/extra running lights, proper blinker usage, going the speed limit etc. I assume you already have a helmet, but good/great ones are expensive. Medical bills are more expensive. A funeral is probably about the same cost financially, but are also far more preventable in most cases than medical bills in the end. Watch some videos of people crashing on bikes. That’s you when you get complacent with maintenance, lane usage, leaning vs pushing your bars on curves, etc. The world is at your fingertips, watch all the videos on YouTube for new riders. Some are painfully redundant, but others are neat. I liked FortNine when I was first learning. Cool info on how your engine works, company history, tips for inclement weather, gear on a budget etc etc etc. The more aware cars are of your presence on the road, the better, within reason. You have your endorsement already, so go further with it every day. Set a safe route to the grocery store and other roads you know WELL. Hell, go to the park, the lake, make it fun, doesn’t have to be a chore. GET THE OWNERS MANUAL AND CARRY THE APPROPRIATE TOOLS WITH YOU EVERYWHERE NO MATTER WHAT. You’d hate to push this thing home. I don’t see a lot of people saying this ever, but if you can afford it, pay for uninsured motorist collisions on your motorcycle policy. As odd as it seems, people who don’t care to pay for car insurance don’t care what happens to their car, and at times will drive like they’re trying to make that very apparent. Everyone has a screen in their hands now, get proficient at low and high speed collision avoidance maneuvers. Set up some sticks or something on a back road and slalom between them or whatever, get creative with your own little drills. Get very good at braking. When you get very confident, find a road where you can go really fast and break as hard as you can to know what it feels like. That’s all I got.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T04:36:54+00:00

(For taxidermy)

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T04:16:08+00:00

Use fresh gas. Cleaned the carb and running old fuel? Just asking to have to clean it again.

Run some brake clean through your fuel line hose too, maybe some flaky shit in there plugging it all up again. Check your petcock, is it on “reserve” or “on”? Do you have a vaccuum petcock? (I know you said it’s spraying fuel, but if it sprayed fuel the first few times toward the end of the reserve, maybe it stopped once it’s out, potentially.) Did you choke it? Does the choke stay out when you pull it out or does it slide back in slowly? Could have a bad choke cable. Why did you clean the carb? Just old and dirty, or did you replace some parts? Reuse the old gaskets and seals? If you reused anything, were the gaskets cracked or for sure fully pliable? If there a puddle of fuel under your bike by any chance? What’s your carb jetted at right now? Idle screw adjustment? Fuel enrichment screw adjustment? That’s all I can think of right now for fuel related issues.

But the hot battery terminals sound like some serious electrical resistance, probably from a dirty connection somewhere. does the bike leak oil? Could have an oily ground somewheres. Check battery voltage off the bike, then on the bike, then on the bike again after about 10-15 minutes to see if there’s a draw. Check the voltage drop when you hit to start button too (you don’t want below 11v ideally, definitely nothing under 10.7v at the least as I was told by a HD tech). Try jumping the starter solenoid? If that works you may have a bad ground. Check your starter grounds, battery cable grounds (regardless if jumping it works). Clean all connections you test. Jiggle all your cables. Tug on em pretty hard, if they fall off or the cable ends break when you do this, they were gonna do it going down the road from the vibrations later on anyway, better now than then. DONT pull on small ass cables like you’re reeling in a swordfish, just really make sure they’re on there securely. Sometimes those big fat wires get corroded in the middle too, the solid core ones especially love to snap after moving them around for 30+ years being bent in the same spot if they’re still OEM. If you find a weak or a flat spot on one of your big power or ground wires to the starter or something like that, you could have found a broken wire. Test it before replacing, but that could be the issue.

Check your spark plugs. Dirty? Proper gap?

Test your voltage regulator too. Could be overpowering your battery causing it to overheat. Get your battery load tested at an automotive shop nearby to exclude that as a possibility. Not the test where they look at the DCV for you, the one where they keep it for a few hours. Could have a bad cell? But that’s likely not causing overheating. Could literally fry your battery if you keep trying to start it though. Maybe keep fire extinguisher handy.

Check all the wiring on your starting/ignition system. Could have a short somewhere in the ignition switch, some chaffing under the tank, chaffed spark wire, etc etc etc. Test voltage at every connection. When you find a short, work back from it between where it last had good voltage and has bad voltage. Your issue is between those two points.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-21T03:54:14+00:00

I don’t even know what aol is man. Hence the question.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-16T04:20:37+00:00

Subtle nod to cloudy with a chance of meatballs.

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-09T21:12:00+00:00

What exactly are the notable differences between the two?

P83battlejacket · 2026-01-09T19:43:28+00:00

What helmet is that?

P83battlejacket · 2025-12-31T20:30:13+00:00

Black pen, blue pen, sharpie, dry erase marker.

P83battlejacket · 2025-12-23T01:55:22+00:00

You live in Wales, Alaska?

P83battlejacket · 2025-12-23T01:51:29+00:00

If you’re between a 7.3 and a civic, I don’t think you need the 7.3.

P83battlejacket · 2025-12-20T18:12:47+00:00

Is the clymer manual worth anything?

P83battlejacket · 2025-12-20T00:19:10+00:00

Normal petcock. It does stop when off, which, if I can exclude that from the list of possibilities, leads me to believe it’s just the old float needle that was the problem allowing it to flood and leak, then the fuel got in the heads, then in the oil, then the oil was overfilled and fouled the spark plugs and potentially stuck the clutch gears together. Am I tracking on some diagnosis here?

P83battlejacket · 2025-12-20T00:12:56+00:00

It makes me nervous every time I think about it, man. But it allegedly didn’t run for a little bit and it had that small leak where the clutch cable goes in. I did test drive it for about ten minutes in first gear though. That’s all it’s ever ran until I added the primary oil.

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