The odyssey begins !

[Jeff Cameron]

That must be a very satisfying feeling.....to go from a dead bike to 100 mph = win!

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Fred you're the man. How many hours did it take you??

I'm guessing probably 25 -30 hrs. But I'm pitifully slow when assembling stuff. I hate doing things twice.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Thanks all for cheering me on and all the kind words. I have been blessed with mechanical and electrical skills that showed up when I was very young. It has been very handy throughout my life and I feel very fortunate for it. Maybe not as good as being good looking and able to sing but it's nothing to sneeze at

I would again like to thank Rick (vanguard138) for letting me ride biotch on his bike back to the hotel. Without him you would have just found a broken rocket and two skeletons alongside the road !

 

[ROCKETHEAD]

Took her out for the maiden voyage this morning, went a hundred (you didn't think I was going to start babying it). Everything held together ! I'm now wondering if that inner bearing knocked the clip off and slid over some time ago as it seems to have noticeably less drive line slop now. Plan to put a hundred or so miles on it than pull the pan again and clean the screens of any remaining skita. For the moment the odyssey seems to have ended on a happy note. Here she is all buttoned up

What is all involved in pulling the pan, I figure the 3 drain bolts and all the other bolts holding the pan. What about all the other bigger bolts? Doing 10k service and want to see how much crap is on the screens.

 

[TOMCAT]

Fred look closely into your computers screen .. yep, that's me bowing in reverence .. well done mate , old school fix-it-yourself is a dying art.

 

[jake shaw]

Congrats on the job. It is a long tricky job. Just completed mine also. Took a 1000 km ride & seems to be fine. I also detect less drive lash.

 

[Rocket65]

Very impressive. Not to mention saving thousands of dollars.

 

[CanberraR3]

Respect.

 

[HELBOY]

Thanks all for cheering me on and all the kind words. I have been blessed with mechanical and electrical skills that showed up when I was very young. It has been very handy throughout my life and I feel very fortunate for it. Maybe not as good as being good looking and able to sing but it's nothing to sneeze at

I would again like to thank Rick (vanguard138) for letting me ride biotch on his bike back to the hotel. Without him you would have just found a broken rocket and two skeletons alongside the road !

So a Rocket Scientist is born not made???

 

[Rocket Scientist]

So a Rocket Scientist is born not made???

My father is also mechanically inclined. I remember when I was about 11 (which is odd cause' I can't remember what I had for breakfast) he bought his first motorcycle. It was a well worn 1966 Kawasaki 250 Samurai with a blown tranny. He took that engine all the way apart in the basement on the ping-pong table. Took him a couple tries to get it together (leaving parts out) but he got it running good again, painted it (huge) metal flake blue. He had never worked with metal flake either. Turned out to be a really nice looking, reliable bike. When I got my first dirt bike it was made clear that when it breaks I would also get a chance to get my hands dirty. It did, and I did, and I found I really enjoyed wrenching. By the time I was 14 I was fixing other peoples bikes for money including the local drug dealers' Harley's. Today I work in the food industry repairing food packaging equipment. Here is a short video I found on youtube. It's not my plant but it's all the same equipment we use. It's made by a Swedish company called Tetrapak.