Topic: A bit of a shock today!

[eldar]

Well today I was doing some end of season work. I took my left side off my engine. You know, those 2 covers. Then I took off the front chain guard....... Ok now I have never taken these covers off before. The stator and shift areas were very clean, will have to replace the gaskets there though, since they ripped but should still hold oil for the rest of this summer. 

Well anyways, I took the chain gaurd off and found ASSLOADS of crap in there!!!!
Dirt, grease, chain lube, you name it. There was enough there that the chain had made a path through it!

Well needless to say I cleaned it out but I never thought that much would build up there!

[Roach Carver]

here's a shock

http://www.break.com/movies/rookie_reporter_grabs_electric_fence.html

[eldar]

Ok, a shock on my bike!

[Terry in Australia]

here's a shock

http://www.break.com/movies/rookie_reporter_grabs_electric_fence.html

Ouch!

[petercb750]

I've got a mate who had a pee one day on the side of the road - onto an electric fence! That got his attention!! 

[clarkjh]

I've got a mate who had a pee one day on the side of the road - onto an electric fence! That got his attention!! 

We had a kid around here that we could get to do that all the time, he never learned.

James

[eldar]

Well I am finally getting things back together. I had to clean my jets a little and the float bowls. Crud in there. I have a filter but was not using it as the hose pieces did not fit right. That is fixed though.

Cleaned all the crap out, put my covers back on and the chain.  Thought, "hey I am ready to put oil back in and start her up!"
Well I turn the petcock on and see gas moving, and I crank and crank and crank......and crank some more, get some fire but very pathatic. Start thinking why my bike is doing this to me? Check #4 plug as it was not warm at all. Not wet or anything. Opened the drain screw, nothing. Flipped the tank to reserve and see more gas going in. Starts quick and revs like hell since I had the idle too high when I was trying to start it before!  Sometimes you just feel RREEAALLLL stupid! Quick test ride goes pretty good, cant believe how well the bike rolls now with all that crap not draggin on the chain!!!

Tommorow, I will quickly try and set idle mix cause I am going to go on a ride with a harley rider! IF I get things working completely.
 
He is one of those good harley riders. Although he says I should chop my ride! Hey I am just getting everything to look how I want it to, I am not going to chop it!! Although a 750 makes killer chop!  I do give him crap about his ape hangers. He has gorilla grips on his. They are bars that are 1.25 in in diameter instead of 1 inch.

Well anyways, hittin the sack for now and maybe I will have a story on how a spanked a harley or maybe I will get my butt kicked!
At least I can beat them K1s!

[Terry in Australia]

I've got a mate who had a pee one day on the side of the road - onto an electric fence! That got his attention!! 

We had a kid around here that we could get to do that all the time, he never learned.

James

I watched a mate pissing on an electric fence when I was a teenager, man that was the funniest thing I ever saw, ha ha!

[74cb750]

Terry, you are sick man!
Did you try it also?
peace,
michel

[jtb]

We always stood in a line with the new kid to see who could "hit the wire" 

[Terry in Australia]

Terry, you are sick man!
Did you try it also?
peace,
michel

Nah mate, we'd both been drinking all day, but I guess he'd had more to drink than me, ha ha!

[putnaja1]

That's halarious!  I've never seen that before, but I did see a buddy who was drunk pee on a wall A/C power outlet.  

On the original topic, when I changed the chain on my 550, it had so much gunk in the countershaft area, I was really wishing I had a varsol machine!  I got it clean in there eventually, but I think I ended up wasting a whole role of paper towels..

I've got a mate who had a pee one day on the side of the road - onto an electric fence! That got his attention!! 

We had a kid around here that we could get to do that all the time, he never learned.

James

I watched a mate pissing on an electric fence when I was a teenager, man that was the funniest thing I ever saw, ha ha!

[Terry in Australia]

On the original topic, when I changed the chain on my 550, it had so much gunk in the countershaft area, I was really wishing I had a varsol machine!  I got it clean in there eventually, but I think I ended up wasting a whole role of paper towels..

What's a "Varsol Machine", mate? My K2 engine was absolutely filthy, the PAO (previous #$%* owner) had left the tach cable out and just rode it it like that, so the entire front of the engine was covered in several years worth of thick gooey crud, and behind the transmission and of course around the front sprocket area was like Eldy's, just hand fulls of muddy grease.

For a week I used a plastic atomiser sprayer and sprayed about half a pint of diesel fuel over it to soften it up, then just hit it with a 50/50 mix of diesel and stale gasoline (I've got gallons of stale gas that I drained out of all my bikes fuel tanks recently) using my "Kerosine gun" at about 40 psi, and it came up like new!

[nickjtc]

Hem, hem. That's a good reason to use a more liquid chain lubricator, rather than wax.....like the lube dispensed by an automatic chain oiler.

Oh no! Don't get Nick started again on Scottoilers!!!!!

[Bob Wessner]

I'm sure some lube products contribute to the problem more than others, but an accumulation there is inevitable in my opinion. The chain is zipping along pretty good when it makes that tight turn up front and lube, as well as any grit picked up from the road, will be flung off by centrifugal force and will lodge there and build up. Worth checking and cleaning at least once a season.