what did you wrench on today??

[musicman]

tonight

Tonight, I put the Windjammer and gas tank back on my 80 GS 850. I am having a lighting problem and have decided to take it to my mechanic tomorrow in the daylight. I also emptied the tank on my 1969 Harley ML 125 and found that I left the gas on....damn. Now I need to go through the carb and check the crankcase, but that will have to wait until another day. Too hot and tired today!

[Allie]

I tried starting my bike today after doing the intake O-rings, carbs, checking valves, replacing half moons and gaskets. It doesn't want to run, it sounded kind of mis-fire-ey, and I got one big loud BANG out the exhaust. After my Jackie Gleason style heart attack I can only conclude that when I was checking my clearances and turned the engine some before I remembered to put the cam chain elevensioner back in that I managed to get the chain to skip a tooth or two. Doh. That smarts. Why do we say 'that smarts' after we do something dumb?? Anyway, now I get to learn all about Mr. Cam Chain .

[blowerbike]

plug wires crossed?

[blowerbike]

skipped teeth on the cams/crank would be bad

[Allie]

No, the plug wires are not crossed. Yes that is bad, I can only hope that since I didn't hear any noise from the top end that I'm lucky...

[blowerbike]

then the explosions are from the crank and cams being out of time...
there's extra room in those engines so there's a good chance you didn't bend any valves.
is that peaches i smell?

[Sandy]

Nothing earth shattering happened in the garage today but I did spend a few hours cleaning up the old GS. It's been a couple of years since I've had it this far apart for a good cleaning and seeing as it got ridden about 150 miles in the rain last time I had it out it was due. I also got to play with the camera and PhotoShop a bit too. Always wanted to try one of those see through the paint type pictures.

[Allie]

Wow that's a neat picture series! Pretty durned nice bike too.

[raistian77]

LOL, well of my own I worked on strip and dipp of my 850 VM carbs.

A list of every one else's stuff I have to work on
Flush water passages, thermostats and water pump on a '89 Evinrude V4
Spindles replacement on a Bobcat Zero turn
Motor replacement on a Hustler Zero turn
Stator on a Custom Harley
Rebuild carbs on a 78 Mercruiser 6 cyl 2 stoke
and Briggs and Stratton 23 hp riding mower
clean out Ford 350 I sold last week
Axle seal and A/C recharge on Dodge 3500

Busy Busy Busy

[Allie]

Solder joints can get funky after 30 years too, it seems.



At least I got SOMETHING working right around here!

[gggGary]

Cool spoke wheel GS1000!
XS650 parts everywhere today. The parts they are a flyin'

[chuck hahn]

Just did the starter gear #4 on my brothers 80 XS 650 so he could sell it a few months ago.. lost of fun. Guy that bought it is gonna do a bobber project on it..at least hes cutting up a Yamaha and not a GS!!!

[Larry D]

A couple days ago actually.....I changed my valve cover gasket on the 750L. It had been leaking a little for the past month or so and now I know why....it was broken in two places. No more leaky now though !!!

[DanTheMan]

Here's today's list: Valve shims DONE!, r/r carbs, put the ones chef rebuilt on, new airbox boots (again), modify G seat to fit for more comfort and a backrest, adjustments to the fairing, rebuild front calipers from parts bike to replace my mushy ones. Hopefully I'll be done by midnite. Oh, my bike started running real bad before I started this business, found about a 1/4 cup of water in my gas tank, that's cleaned out too. I don't know which station I got the water from, but I've got it narrowed down.

[mcloud]

Changed flashers, mirrors, a bit a bufffing and tried a new stripe theme.
Installed new old original flat seat.