Think about how many calories that burned and how easy it was to get your heart rate up. Sounds like a win win to me!
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It's time to start a winter Project. The Red Bike
- Thread starter Kevin Werner
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It is really just a laugh. "Did I really do that", flip up the hood, pull the flaming paper (duh...) and some stomping.
I am sorry if I have driven this thread to "human stupidity" or "human incompetence "...
No need for apologies, I'm not a football fan and I'm a little bit of a sadist, therefore you are entertaining me. My mom always told me "Son, if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people".
Thank you, cramming shop time in between grandkids is comedy all of it self.We're laughing with you , not at you
I don't have enough time left in my life to tell about my mishaps, but I'll give you a short one. 1980 Ford Fairmont Futura 2 door with damage on the RR qtr. just behind the door. Hmmmm,,, if we tack a piece of angle iron on there we can make a pull with the Cum-a-long and pull that dent right on out. So we tacked the piece on, no fire danger 'cuz we just zapped it real quick like... till smoke started wafting out. Did I mention that we DIDN'T remove the interior panel first? It looked like a Chinese fire drill as we had never worked on one before,trying to find where the screws were. In the end no harm no foul, just a little scorched insulation.We're laughing with you , not at you
If we cataloged our
mishaps we would have a popular youtube channel.
These garage fires next to my "better half" 66 Mustang is getting hard on my heart. Gonna have to sell the Mustang...
NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Just be more careful!
Same here, Rust-Oleum Grease and Wax Remover and 3M glass cleaner.
No babysitting today. I poured 6.5 oz fork oil and started to reassemble the forks. Pushing the spring, spacer and flat disc into the fork with the fork cap in a socket is a real PITA. Doing it and not crossthreading is a nitemare. I dropped my tube ~2 inches and tightened the lower clamp. The oppositeside remains tightly clamped. Now the fork cap is aligned/indexed by the upper fork clamp and crossthreading is much less likely.
With the bike on a jack I can not get above it. A t-handle would work for me if I had them clamped to a bench.
One "trick" on a big fine thread like this;; slowly turn the cap BACKWARD til you hear/feel it drop a smidge when the two thread starting ends pass each other. Grab a magic marker and reference that spot on cap n triple, then carefully reverse direction and try tightening. The thread should never present much resistance, if you are forcing it's not starting straight.
I fought this same issue on SoDak yesterday and the 70 doesn't allow what you've done, dropping a leg to start the nut, a good idea!
PS lube is your friend, smear some grease on the threads.
I fought this same issue on SoDak yesterday and the 70 doesn't allow what you've done, dropping a leg to start the nut, a good idea!
PS lube is your friend, smear some grease on the threads.
It went in real smoothly. The 1" spacer leaves a lot of preload on the spring so I really had to use a lot of force to get the cap down to where I could start threading it on. I like your indexing the threads ahead of time idea.
Working on the seat mounts I noticed the RLU still mounted. I will have to search the forum for the "jump this to this" thread.
Here's the link .....
http://www.excess650.co.uk/tips & tricks.htm
I make up a single jumper wire that I can pass through the harness wires behind the plug, then plug it in. This holds the jumper wire in place .....
http://www.excess650.co.uk/tips & tricks.htm
I make up a single jumper wire that I can pass through the harness wires behind the plug, then plug it in. This holds the jumper wire in place .....
Thanks. I just cut the pigtail off the RLU and strip 1/2", solder, and shrink-wrap the blue/black and blue/yellow.
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Are you doing this to run an LED headlight?
