what did you wrench on today??

[Cipher]

its alive? Bypassing the speed controls and witing direct it spins like a jet.
The root cause may be that some tinkering PO tore into it to fix it and screwed it up worse.
Now to adjust speed control as it is unlikely that the adjustment screw was ever engineered to be full seated what with it being an adjustment screw.

Best money i ever spent on kijiji
tomorrow i learn how to bake.

[Phred]

Really nice looking seat assembly Deuce. I just picked up a 750 and plan on doing something similar. Did you buy the pin striping or is that painted?

[themess]

Im about to tear into a Kitchen Aid Mixer that refuses to run. It ran when it was out away.

My Kitchen Aid is a model 4C, which I bought for $99 in 1975. Its internals are very similar to the 1930s models. My father gave my mother a 2C when they married inn 1950. She had wanted a MixMaster, like her friends owned. She figured out over the years that Kitchen Aid was made better.

Brushes on mine need occasional cleaning. Q-tips work..Rotate it by hand to clean the commutator by pressing a Q-tip against it. Also the contactors can corrode. Flour dust can coat the contactors. I've touched them up lightly with an ignition point file. The gear box has some light clunks, but I've never opened it. If it wears out or I can't fix it, I'll replace it with a model with electronic controls, at least 300W.

[Cipher]

Its odd that some old mixers last so long. I did a bit of research and was able to find the factory service manual for my model on a British Kitchen Aid website.
People are as oddly passionate about these mixers as some folks are about motorcycles. There is a lot of bitterness and misunderstanding posted against Kitchen Aid by folks that lack the ability to understand basic mechanics and electricity.

The shocking abuse some of these upset people subject these small devices to is amazing. You tube vids with dry wads of dough causing the machine to pitch about etc.
Some folks have no common sense.

Like the guys the whine about chain stretch after doing a couple hundred 1/4 mile races.

[azr]

Since the cable I order was the wrong one I was forced to make my own.

20161228_171527 by Rob Ert, on Flickr

The manual decompression cable for my DR600, followed this video and it worked well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-gY27LTU2c

[Magnafique]

I have been tearing my 1984 GS550ES apart to renew it. I found a pair of new GSX550EF fairings and frame mounts to dzus them to. So I have the swing arm out and the shock and the footrests and have wire wheeled the frame up to the engine wiped it down with thinner primered everything and then tomorrow I will apply a coat of nice looking chrome/silver paint. I lost interest in the bike and actually GAVE it to a friend of mine two years ago. Well the old bike began to speak to me and I am remembering all of the fun I had with it and WALLA! My friend can not have it. I am going to make it pretty and ride the heck out of it.

Magnafique

[Blue Falcon]

1981 GS450EX, went to start it up... click click. Checked at starter 12v, took out 2 bolts, popped starter back an inch, clamped a ground wire on it, starter spun and works fine. Popped back in, no issues, bike starts up in a split second. Sticky starter?? anyone?? Time for a starter rebuild kit?

[Burque73]

1981 GS450EX, went to start it up... click click. Checked at starter 12v, took out 2 bolts, popped starter back an inch, clamped a ground wire on it, starter spun and works fine. Popped back in, no issues, bike starts up in a split second. Sticky starter?? anyone?? Time for a starter rebuild kit?

Might be best to start a thread on that in the electrical section, but maybe a short. Dirty or corroded connection. If you moved it then it worked that's my guess.

[dorkburger]

Replaced a 4 year old battery in my car....... With a 7 year old one taken out of a car I junked a few years ago- I bought it for the (junked) car, used the car for a year, but refused to junk a good battery. I've ocassionally topped it off with the battery tender. The real challenge was getting those dumb GM side terminals to work with ring types. It worked.... or I may hear click, click, click in the morning.....

[kerrfunk]

I don't recall the last time I posted in the "What did you wrench on" thread
but wrenching happened this week, by me. Woot.

Couple days ago I replaced my car's battery (it had about 5.5 years on it and it really didn't like the cold weather).

Then on Thursday I got around to finding the loose connection in the headlight wiring.
Okay, it was a guy named Brian who found it. But I was there.
Brian also found the turn signal relay that is kaput.
And when the replacement shows up, I'll be riding again.

Finally.

*edit: have plugged replacement relay in successfully for the blinkyblinky. Yahoo!
Last up: airfilter.

[bobgroger]

Cleaned up the new to me black '83 exhaust. Not perfect but pretty darn good for 34 years old. Need 2 center flanges and a right heat shield. Looking forward to the quiet....

[azr]

Bloody hell Bob, those look great! job well done. And I'm super impressed you're doing that on the kitchen counter...

[bobgroger]

Bloody hell Bob, those look great! job well done. And I'm super impressed you're doing that on the kitchen counter...

Bachelor perks...... too cold in the garage.

[dorkburger]

...... and then there's my exhaust. Pulled it off today and began cleanup. A heavy serving of anti sieze made removal a breeze. I painted these 2 seasons ago, and as they say - prep, prep, prep.
Note the end pipe. That one was new bare clean steel- that section was replaced. The others were original and clearly not cleaned up as good as they should have been. The paint on the new pipe looked decent still. Overall the header is pretty bad with a lot of deep pitting. My main concern is longevity. If / when it rots out, I'll likely make a franken pipe with a Delkevic header and a fabbed mid pipe to use the Yoshi can I love so much.

Oh, and the spots where oil leaked held up fine.... no rust there.
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Still a lot of work to do, but moving along.
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[steve murdoch]

Spent some time today practicing my shim and bucket technique on the '81 CBX.
GS content with the 1100E headlight.