Well, got a bunch of stuff done today. Went to the hardware store and got some stainless steel allen head bolts for the rotor/stator setup when they come back, (yay!) and for the top of the accelerator pump setup when that comes in (yay!) then to the Honda store for a couple gallons of oil, a pair of filters and thankfully they had that washer that goes between the spring and the filter, too! (YAY!) so today I got an oil change done. What came out was about the color of a deep amber beer. Not too shabby. I even ran a bunch of Seafoam through the oil to clean up the crank case a little better than just your standard oil change.
Found I was missing a bolt holding the oil pan on, hence the slow weep (no drips, just a weepy leak) I'd seen earlier. I grabbed a bolt off Samson and put it in. Waiting for it to feel torqued down, when it went *snap!* ... just past the start of the threads. Dammit!
Well, I figure it's A) a very slow weep anyway, so I can deal with it B) not in any location critical to the function of the bike C) has 9 more bolts and two in very close proximity backing it up ...so next time I need to drop the pan, I'll look at it, but for now, it's staying. Just discouraging. The rest of the oil change/cleanup went well.
I used the unicoil spring thing to route my fuel line. That seems to be working well, too, thankfully, so that's all good.
Figured out what that mystery, ribbon-in-the-wind-like *fipfipfipfip* noise was. Somehow my tach cable decided to destroy itself from the inside, so down at the valve cover where it plugs in, the casing was all peeled up like a banana and the naked tach cable shaft was still plugged in. Weird. So... pricing new tach cables. Do they need any kind of special lubing inside?
All in all,
Full day's work.
