Your right Bill, who really knows. Are you getting a load of snow your way? Our East area is getting clobbered! Were finally getting some rain here in Sunny Northern California. Unfortunately even if we have a good snow pack this year we still will be in drought conditions next year, that would be only about 1/3 of what we need to get back to normal. But I degress.
Catching up with the last few days, Last Sunday the 16th I was hooking up the throttle and clutch cables. When attempting to insert the engine end in the clutch housing it would not go in. The powder guys missed plugging it up and I missed correcting while the part was off the bike, of course I didn't know I had a problem at that time. So how to fix this without having to take the cover off again? Hence the first picture, you might have thought to yourself "what is that contraption on the drill?" What I finally ended up with was attaching a Lexan drill bit to an old extension I had in order to thread it through the area to the hole, quite tight. I hadn't used the extension in years so the two, the name escapes me, you know like just the threaded piece with an hex indentation on the top to screw down to hold the shank of the bit. Both were long gone, so the search went on for something with the correct thread and not to long. Found a machine screw with the right thread but was too long to clear the sides of the engine. After lots of grinding, cleaning and getting the threads working right I finally manage to slip the puppy in there and cut out the powder coat enough for the clutch cable to set in there properly.
Monday and Tuesday had some work. I decided while working on the clutch I didn't like the bulging oil lines and began to correct them. Had to remove the oil tank which was a great pain but even worse to put it back in after shortening the length of the lines. But as luck would have it now they were both too short, Arrrrgggg
So out it all came again, shortened the long one to the correct length for the short one and luckly had enough of the line left on the shelf to make a 1 inch longer long one and back in she goes. I think it was well worth the effort to get it right, third times the charm! Alas while cutting one of the lines to length with my die grinder with a cut off blade managed to put I nice nick in my good thumb. the rest of the week was work and when I was able to get to the shop began to wire the AMP water-proof connecter for the seat side of the taillight/turn/stop signals. While checking out the bike side I already had done one of the wires fell out, crap, you cant imagine how hard those tiny connections are to get out once in. I had bought a tool made to do it, plastic of course and it busted in the first effort to get it out, that's $2.50 in the loo. While fixing that wire ANOTHER wire came out, so had to fix it! Did I tell you how tiny those things were. Anyway got back to where I was when I started to wire the other one which I will wait a couple of days to do just to keep my sanity.
Well winter is here with a BANG! Temps have dropped near freezing, hope I got enough antifreeze in the boat engine this year? Well guys be safe out there, have a great Thanksgiving!
