Arizona monsoon? Out here?
We'll take a little bit of that,you can have the rest.
Standing water everywhere. Ranch chores on hold...
We'll take a little bit of that,you can have the rest.
Standing water everywhere. Ranch chores on hold...
Not sure what it has to do with a heim joint but here you go.Show us a pic of the offending nut?
Weather right now is beautiful, 72 and sunny with low humidity. Earlier this week not so much. On Monday my girlfriend asked me if I would take her to a town 35 miles east of here to a butcher shop on Wednesday on the BMr. Since I have been riding almost everyday all summer by myself I couldn't hardly say no. She has not ridden with me since 02 when we rode around Lake Superior. If I told you what happened to the bike and me on that trip you would wonder why I ever agreed to ever take her for another ride. Anyway I took the 650 for a ride Wednesday morning about 100 miles. Got home about 11:30. Needed a butt break. At 12:30 I checked the weather radar and a storm was heading our way. Weather said storm would be after 3. Told her if we were going to go we needed to get going. Being female we didn't leave until 1.
Got to butcher shop. Brats for cookout tonight bought. Headed home. Thought things would be OK. 15 miles down the road could see sky getting darker ahead. In less than a mile it looked like night, had to take sunglasses off and could see rain coming down 1/4 mile ahead. Farm country no where to hide. Rain started, it was like someone flushed a toilet. We were running straight west wind out of west not to bad fairing giving good protection. Then the road had a big sweeping left hander to where it was running straight south. Oh boy. Instant drenching, rain coming straight sideways from the right. Still nowhere to hide, not even a decent tree to hide behind nothing but corn fields. Downshift, downshift again running in 3rd, car behind slows and stays 1/8 mile behind me. Wind increases and moves me from the right side of my lane to the center line, damn that was a big gust. Wanted to stop, no real shoulder to the road. Pavement ends mud and gravel begins plus I didn't think I could hold bike up against rain and wind.
Kept plugging along. Up ahead I could see wind picking up water off of a bean field. New it was a big flat line wind. Got to the white line on the right side of my lane, downshifted to second and braced for impact. I had checked and there were no cars coming at me. There was a truck at a intersection ahead.
Holly molly. I had the bike already leaning to the right fighting the wind. That gust hit us, stood the bike up straight and moved it into the oncoming lane. Half way across the left lane I leaned the bike as hard as I could to the right and gave it some throttle. The Conti Go's held on and we got back to our lane. If there had been a walnut in my you know what it would have been pulverized. Mile latter road turned west into a small town and we waited out the storm under a canopy at a Casies.
Girlfriend wasn't phased much, she did say she thought we were going to tip over. May be another 17 years before I take her for a ride. I've ridden is some bad weather but never had wind move me a lane and a half before.
Just to illustrate those remote parts of the Borders:
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Typical single-track road.
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And there's even a house in this one!
Guess I should have washed bike before taking the picture!Show us a pic of the offending nut?
Guess I should have washed bike before taking the picture!
Here it is:
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That is a 1/2-20 thread nut. Due to the closeness of the fender seen to the left I used a jam nut to give me a bit of clearance. Now that I think of it I could insert the bolt from the other direction and put nut on outside. That would let me use a castellated nut and drill bolt for a cotter key, just one idea.
Just as a little more information this assembly has been on two different motorcycles since 1993 and has well over 100,000 miles of road use on it.
Must be where Cat got the idea! The older machines used tons of those, I had enough of them to fill a shoe box saved over the years.Hi Ken.
make a tab-washer.
Bolt goes through a sheetmetal L-shape that is trapped under the nut.
Hammer & punch one leg down over the lug's upper end.
Hammer & punch t'other leg up against a flat on the nut.
Used by the boxful on aircraft except we didn't have to DIY 'em.