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Post by mental on Mar 7, 2004 23:18:43 GMT -5
Hey, I just found out what happens when you pull the starter off without draining the oil first. What a big, stinkin' mess. What in the hell was I thinking? OK, don't answer that. If I HAD been thinking, I would have just put the starter right back in and drained the oil, but nooooo, I had to let it ALL drain out onto the floor so I could watch it ooze all over. Then I had to step in it so I could track it all over the garage. Of course I didn't have any oil dry or kitty litter on hand so I proceeded to use up a very large supply of clean shop rags. How stupid can I be? Don't answer that either.
Make me feel better and tell me you guy's have done similar or worse. I know Chopperbbad has.
Mental
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Post by Hammerin on Mar 8, 2004 1:03:03 GMT -5
;D  Yep. Me too. Of course I don't remember all the juicy ones Sept'n the time I was riding just out of Revelstoke. YA. In THE MOUNTAINS AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!  Rickman Kaw puched to 1045, can I say way too cool a scoot,( for me at that time) traded that as a down stroke on a house ;D 8-)though so any way, just before the first tunnels in the RIAN       Stupid................... the bike stalled about huner'd yards , out in the open( cooled again too . OH MY>> AGAIN STUIPID>>...............  :Quite at the side of the road. A guy and his wife on a Gold wing stopped to see what was wrong." I'm not to sure but being a MC mech for 15 years I should have it licked real soon.thanks for stopping though.................." "Ah, would it be your kill switch is in the OFF posssion?" he said and then mounted up and drove off. DAMNED, foot in  mouth :'(desease >:(or :-/what  and then I drove on to Calgary. |
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Post by 50gary on Mar 8, 2004 16:16:08 GMT -5
Mental, don't feel too bad, I did the exact same thing yesterday. Although, I knew the oil would come out and on to the floor, I put down some cardboard, drain pan and oil dry and STILL made the big mess. Ah well, Cheers, 50gary
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Post by nippon650 on Mar 8, 2004 16:34:26 GMT -5
Mental, here's one for the stupid file, I parked my bike and walked away without putting the side stand down. Did it right there while the whole wide world watched it fall on it's side. Very expensive mistake.
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Post by 50gary on Mar 8, 2004 22:52:03 GMT -5
Nippon, did you ever ride away with the side stand still down and try a left turn? Cheers, 50gary
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Post by nippon650 on Mar 9, 2004 7:56:28 GMT -5
50gary, yes i have, on a 650 Triumph. Turned my beard white !
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Post by Hammerin on Mar 10, 2004 1:57:07 GMT -5
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Post by woody84 on Mar 12, 2004 15:06:41 GMT -5
Check this dumb trick!!!!!
29 years ago bought my first bike a 350 Honda off a friend. Spent a whole week in the school yard learning how to ride. Went over to show my friend how well I could ride and pulled up infront of his house, with him sitting on a lawn chair and forgot to put my legs down and fell over. Right out of laugh-in ;D ;D
Bob
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Post by roar on Jul 29, 2008 14:32:34 GMT -5
Hey Mental,
If it makes you feel better I figured I leave the oil in as long as I could on a piston replacement project because I wanted to flush it a couple of times anyway. Sooooo with the head and cylinders off I proceeded to clean the motor. All fine and dandy until I got around to the bottom, tilted the motor towards it's front, and cleaned around the oil pan and such for a good three minutes until I felt the oil dripping down my leg.
Hope it made you feel better cause just writing down made me feel dumber.
Cheers,
Roar
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Post by pamcopete on Jul 29, 2008 14:39:41 GMT -5
Well, how about leaving the drain plug out and pouring 2 quarts in the filler and then... ..starting the engine to check for leaks! Fortunately, the catch pan was still under the bike.... ;D |
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Post by cafefill on Jul 30, 2008 8:22:12 GMT -5
All this talk about oil. As I begin the rebuild of my motor which I ran out of oil, I'm not feeling any better here. Funny stuff, tho.
Cafefill
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Post by jonbell on Sept 14, 2008 20:20:34 GMT -5
You guys make me bust a gut ive been a mechanic for many years done it all wrong charged new battries backwards,spilled more oil thn a saidi prince put a break shoe on bakwards matal to metal...took apart and put back my first bike tranny 17 times before i got it right lit everthing u can think of on fire burned out more electronics ,fuses ect kick over bikes with plug wire off repededly so you guys compaired to me are gueineses
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Post by jscribner on Sept 15, 2008 16:02:04 GMT -5
Well, how about leaving the drain plug out and pouring 2 quarts in the filler and then... ..starting the engine to check for leaks! Fortunately, the catch pan was still under the bike.... ;D I just did this exact same thing last week. Didn't start the bike, but poured in 2 quarts of oil while the drain plugs were out. Sheesh! John Scribner |
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Post by WA1DH on Sept 15, 2008 22:16:52 GMT -5
My dad did that with his car last weekend. I got in from work and he starts telling me how he went to change the oil but did something stupid, and I said, wait.. let me guess, you left the drain plug off when you refilled it. Exactly! At least the XS doesn't take that much oil. He had to toss it because it mixed with the old oil in the drain pan, which had antifreeze in it (head gasket blew).
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Post by kakedog on Oct 24, 2008 23:50:47 GMT -5
I've done a few of thes things (left drain plug off, didn't tighten oil cooler hose clamps, one time I even wrestled off an oil bag from a cb750 only to realize with a crotch full of oil that you have to drain it seperatly from the engine) but the only thing that tops it is, I was at my buddies garage and changing the oil, came up a little short so I snagged his 5gal oil jug and topped it off. turns out that what wasn't used antifreeze was used ATF (somehow the color came out right to look like oil). That was a crappy walk to the autozone.
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Yep. Me too. Of course I don't remember all the juicy ones Sept'n the time I was riding just out of Revelstoke. YA. In THE MOUNTAINS AGAIN !!!!!!!!!! 
Rickman Kaw puched to 1045, can I say way too cool a scoot,( for me at that time) traded that as a down stroke on a house ;D 8-)though so any way, just before the first tunnels in the RIAN 
Stupid................... the bike stalled about huner'd yards , out in the open( cooled again too 
:Quite at the side of the road.
mouth :'(desease >:(or :-/what 
and then I drove on to Calgary. 
