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Post by pamcopete on Aug 6, 2011 5:30:12 GMT -5
timg,
You need to move.
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Post by ShakerNorm on Aug 6, 2011 15:21:48 GMT -5
Or at least get a neighbor with some sense......
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Post by pamcopete on Aug 6, 2011 20:35:27 GMT -5
ShakerNorm,
Neighbors are like relatives. You have no choice.
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Post by tommerr on Oct 27, 2011 1:09:24 GMT -5
It was around 1965 or so and I was around 17 years old. I acquired a 1941 Indian 30.50. Boy oh boy was I going to make this into a prize! I dismounted the engine and I proceeded to tear it down for inspection. A friend helped me. I got to the engine sprocket and it would not move! I decided to use a six foot pipe on the breaker bar. Yup, it moved! I took a left handed nut off right handed. Fortunately, the nut was softer than the shaft!!! Many years later, I tried to remove the wheel lug nuts from a 1952 Dodge M37 military pickup truck. Some nuts would not move! Yup, one side had right hand threads and the other side had left hand threads. Brains do mature with age.
All the Best,
Tom
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Post by aussie650 on Dec 28, 2011 13:05:14 GMT -5
18 years old living with parents, massive fight with dad. Did the usual swear and storm off with helmet in hand. Jumped on the the XT250 out the front, kick start, rev rev rev and gunned it............. forgot that I kept it well chained to the large park bench mum owned. Over the handle bars and into the back of my car. Dad just smiled and walked away. 10 years on and Dad still gives my grief about it.
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Post by terrys650 on Dec 31, 2011 22:27:45 GMT -5
been a mechanic for 40 plus years and i tell the young pups that experience is having screwed something up once before and learning from it. well maybe 10 or 12 times
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Post by Burns on Aug 31, 2012 21:06:50 GMT -5
Golly, nobody has done anything stupid for a long time!
Well, here's my latest goof.
Some time back I modified a Lucas headlight to take a Yamaha bulb. A couple days ago (Sunday - shops all closed) it burned out the low-beam filiment.
It was a pretty day (kinda rare in Puget Sound); you have to have the headlight on all the time in this State and I didn't want to be out with just one filiment between me and the law but I wanted to get in the wind for a while. So....
I had some old Lucas bulbs and assorted Lucas parts, and no Yammie bulbs, so, I "unmodified" the headlight and put in one of the Lucas bulbs.
I got about a block down the road and "pop" lost a filiment on that bulb.
I rode back and put in another Lucas bulb.
"pop"
I'm thinking "I wonder if the 'regulator' wire from the PM R/R has a break in it or something" So I check the voltage, and its 12.5 at idle and goes up to a max 14.5 - ok - that ain't it.
Now I'm out of bulbs so I take one of the burned Lucas jobies to the computer to match up the discription and order a new one on line.
6V 30/24.
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Post by preston on Sept 1, 2012 7:23:30 GMT -5
well.
that was "bright" of you...
maybe Radio Shack, has a voltage reducer
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Post by Burns on Sept 1, 2012 11:29:14 GMT -5
no need of that, I've already burned up all my 6 volt bulbs
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Post by rawolf on Mar 24, 2013 21:34:58 GMT -5
Having been a bike mechanic years ago and from that time have fixed all my own stuff I sometimes show off my stupid tricks from time to time. My riding lawn mower is about 10 years old and is showing its age by being hard to start. Even when jumping the battery to the truck still did not yield a very fast spin to the engine. Pulled the starter and took it apart.... It looked just fine. Pulled the spark plug and it was really wet, oh yea, probably the needle and seat in the carburetor was letting the gravity fed fuel by and after a week or so would let a lot of fuel into the cylinder. Aha, hydraulic lock!! Well a short cut to pushing all the extra fuel out would be to just turn the key and the starter would spin the engine pushing all the extra fuel out the spark plug hole, great plan. Ah..... But remember with the current electronics, one should never leave an open spark plug wire, the high voltage could find its way back to the electronics and burn them up... So, put the plug in the wire cap, ground it to the engine and the plan should work marvelously to pump out the extra fuel. Turn the key, spin the engine, extra fuel is forced out and gee, the spark plugs works too, igniting the five foot spurt of fuel exiting the engine, blowing a fine sheet of flame all over the garage! Luckily no important or otherwise flamable things caught on fire! Had a panic for a few minutes putting out the flames and a pretty sooty mower hood from the fire. Glad it wasn't one of the bikes!!! Best part was no one was around to witness this event!
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Post by ShakerNorm on Mar 26, 2013 20:54:03 GMT -5
An ex-military guy's dream!
A Motorized flamethrower!
LMFAO
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Post by peanut on Oct 24, 2013 12:08:32 GMT -5
and todays stupid trick isssss............ Fitting your inlet stubs on upside down dohh! Carefully fitted my carbs for the first time ever today. Convinced myself that the stubs should be set looking upwards . Consequently once fitted I realised that I wasn't going to get the valve covers on now so off the carbs come . Ding round one to the bike Fit the valve covers refit the carbs for the second time bolt up ...finished when I realise that one of the gaskets have fallen off grrrrr Unbolt and remove the carbs yet again ! ...fit the offending gasket refit carbs job done . Ding Round 2 to the bike Upload video to youtube sit back with a cup of tea to admire my handiwork. it wasn't long before some kind person pointed out that the carbs were at the wrong angle wtf!...?? Realisation dawns that I must have the inlet stubs on upside down .... Ding Round 3 to the bike Remove the carbs for a third time ! .. reverse inlet stubs.... place clamp screws at the bottom this time . Refit the carbs which has been made even more difficult this time as I had since fitted the cengine covers and clutch cable etc Round 4 to me I think  |
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Post by Burns on Oct 24, 2013 14:53:24 GMT -5
on the kill switch-stupid list, did you know that a Honda 250 Rebel will spin the starter motor with the kill switch in the "off" position? I replaced a lot of electronic components getting a friend's daughter's Rebel running before I "cured" the no-start problem by putting the switch on "run" Stupid and expensive.
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