A member of the Wrench Junkies hooked me up with this kick ass video of his build.
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
Frustration, thy name is “the Breakdown” By PraiseCaster.
Yep. Settin here all frustrated because my stator/field coil
decided to fry on me and take my brand new battery down with it.
It’s not a good feeling, especially while I am on my 20 mile
one way commute to work (and 20 miles back!), stuck inside my crusty old
4Runner and I am forced to watch every motorcycle rider in SoCal blast on by in
the diamond lane at nearly 80mph, while I creep along in traffic at around
3mph!
Arrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
Just the day before that was me: In The Wind! Catchin bugs
with my teeth! Giving the hi-sign or simple nods to other riders as we briefly
encounter one another!
Sniff-sniff. I need a second…….
Ok, better.
So I have my parts enroute, but I wont be back on the chop
for at least another week (that is IF all goes well with the repairs). So how
can I fight this deep, brooding, hell-hole of depression I find myself slowly sulking
into?
Work on the chop.
Yeah I know, I said parts where gonna be a week out, but I
can still work on her:
Is there something I can “improve”, that I was letting go
because I didn’t want to put her up on the stand, but rather just run her?
Well, she is on the stand now, so it’s time to get on that!
Also, it’s a good time to go over her while she sets there
motionless on the stand. Yeah I know, “It’s not the scheduled time for that!”
So? Why not do it now, then you can extend the time out. Take this time/opportunity to look at all the
bolts, nuts, chain, oil lines, gaskets, brakes….. How does it look? Anything
look out of the ordinary? Now is the time to investigate, not while broke down
on the side of the road!
I am taking this opportunity to work on the harness routing.
One or two of its routes can be improved on, so I’m gonna geeterdun while she’s
on the stand!
I found a little thin film of oil under my valve cover, by
my number three tappet cover, and it turns out it was 2 valve cover screws not
torqued down all the way. Fixed!
I noticed my kickstand spring would nearly pop off the
kickstand leg, so I shortened it.
Tonight, I am gonna go back in and look some more. It’s
keeping my mind occupied, giving me reassurance that my chopper is road ready,
and I am making improvements to my ride while I wait for parts.
I figure I can either set in my chair, watch tv shows I
don’t really wanna watch, moping about my chop being down while I wait on
parts, or I can be active during this down time, making my ride better,
occupying my mind, and hopefully while doing so (at least in my dain bramaged
mind), make time seem like it’s going by a lil faster than it really is. Sort
of a poor chopper-mans time travel.
Is it next week yet? Yeah, almost!
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Another Video
I really like this one. Leans to the dramatic side but still a really well done video I think most will enjoy.
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