It's a pain in the butt getting the starer off, but it sounds like you need to tear it apart and do a good inspection.
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1986 XLH 1100 (fixer-upper) // Engineers design things, Technicians make them work. --- 30% of being mechanical is confidence/30% is knowing to go slow when needed/30% is looking repeatedly at what you have/10% is dumb luck .
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