what did you wrench on today??

[bobthebiker88]

Today's project, was the ignition switch swap on my CB900C, as well as cleaning the front calipers, and putting new brake pads on her.

[fantasticmachine]

put a new chain on my kz440, also tinkered with the seat on my GS... startin to get cold out there

[Mop Bucket]

I am also working my hardest at fixing something by standing and staring at it - my wife thinks you have to be in mad motion to be working on the problem, but I have found that thinking it out works best every time.
Ozarkdrb

Thats what I did last night, stared at my brakes wondering how do I refurbish those... Didn't turn a wrench but I did figure out I am missing parts, again. Then I built a tool hanging rack.

[ddaniels]

Got the oil seals in for the tach cable finally yesterday, and got them installed and proven not to leak just in time for the rain today.

[Qckslvr]

I changed out the rear hub bearings on my BMW 325Cic today. Book time is 8 hours for BMW to do it, I did it in 6. Had to drop the rear body supports, sway bar, exhaust sytem, and axle shafts. Luckly I bought the special tool to remove and install the bearings and hubs. It is nice that my car no longer has a noisey rear bearing

[koolaid_kid]

It has been a long road

I have been having electrical problems all year with the GS. Coils, stator, ignition, wiring, you name it.
Now have a new (well, I rebuilt mine) stator, Duaneage Honda R/R, Dyna S ignition, AGM battery, coil/horn relay, Fiamm horns, and lots of new wire and connectors. Finally got it charging today by wiring the R/R straight to the battery. Went over the wiring diagram this evening with bwringer and identified the wires and connectors of interest. With any luck (well, good luck, had too much of the bad stuff already) I should be able to have everything ironed out by the weekend.

[themess]

I have been having electrical problems all year with the GS. Coils, stator, ignition, wiring, you name it.
Now have a new (well, I rebuilt mine) stator, Duaneage Honda R/R, Dyna S ignition, AGM battery, coil/horn relay, Fiamm horns, and lots of new wire and connectors. Finally got it charging today by wiring the R/R straight to the battery. Went over the wiring diagram this evening with bwringer and identified the wires and connectors of interest. With any luck (well, good luck, had too much of the bad stuff already) I should be able to have everything ironed out by the weekend.

Two (sets of) questions:

Do you think that these things failed independently? Or did something fail and start taking other things out in a cascade? Had you cleaned all of your connections before this started?

Were you able to get to Brown County last weekend?

[chuck hahn]

Got the wood stove installed yesterday and then hung the cabinets in the spare room that i converted to the pantry. We got done with the outside stuff on the roof about 1/2 hr before all the wind and rain started.

[koolaid_kid]

Two (sets of) questions:

Do you think that these things failed independently? Or did something fail and start taking other things out in a cascade? Had you cleaned all of your connections before this started?

I suspect they are all interconnected. I went into the headlight shell and the stator loop was toasty (right handlebar switch connector). I bypassed it under the seat this spring, but I suspect it was too late for the stator. My old R/R passes the tests fine, I just replaced it to be safe. Perhaps the increase in voltage took out the ignitor, IDK. I was aware that the ignition switch was going last year, I was just avoiding it. After replacing the connector I now have charging again thru the stock wiring harness.
On the plus side, the only thing I have left to rework is the carbs. I have a spare set that I started working on when the bike went down for good, so hopefully I can get to that and avoid being stranded on the side of the road again.

Were you able to get to Brown County last weekend?

No, the bike was still not charging at that time. I really wanted to go, but it was just not in the cards.

[cwscooge]

You know, when I was a kid putting together a car or motorcycle so I could get around, I learned a GREAT deal about physics and mechanics and chemistry by wrenching everything myself. There were times when I was in college under my busted truck in the freezing cold that I said "I am going to make enough money someday that I will have somebody else fix this stuff!"
Now that I know or can figure out most fix-it situations (my younger friends often call for advice fixing stuff - I am know as "Middleaged Man") I have collected enough tools and are too cheap to pay somebody for what I KNOW I can do! Ozarkdrb

I agree 100%. I used to say the same thing. But now, although I can afford to pay others to do the work, I do it myself because I don't want to get ripped off paying others to do what I know I can do, and often don't trust others to do.

[Dave8338]

Escort again, today!

On the bright side, UPS showed up with a NOS take off caliper for me.

Very nice. Wished they all look that good, already.

Need shorter Master cylinder line, I ditched the L bars.

For some reason, they are much more comfortable on the 650.
What gives?

[Baatfam]

Yesterday I changed the oil and filter on the BMW...also did the "handlebar mod" I got off a BMW K-bike site...learned how to reset the ABS and read any computer error codes...
Today I'll change the spark plugs, then go for a ride, warm things up and change the trans and rear drive fluids...

[machinest]

New "Shed in a box" for winter storage of Bikely nailed and painted an 8'X 8' plywood and 2 X 3 platform will get the rest up after it dries.



nailed up mostly without paint



back side painted
more tomorrow

[chuck hahn]

hauled a 8 X 12 wood barn looking shed to myn place for storage of all these bike parts and such..gotta build a floor in it but thats trivial for getting a free shed!!!

[Dave8338]

hauled a 8 X 12 wood barn looking shed to myn place for storage of all these bike parts and such..gotta build a floor in it but thats trivial for getting a free shed!!!

I love FREE! Speaking of free...I picked up three Anderson Casement windows ALL of which will fit the scheme for the shop. Double pane, aluminum clad, casements and one will fit the South facing "hole" that was covered over with Buffalo Board and painted, prior to buying the place. The other two (same size) will be used on the East facing wall, for "port holes" and additional light/air movement. All came with screens...

OH and for the "working on things" portion of the gig... I submit:

Escort be need'n some luv...


Making " baby steps". WINTER BEATER needs to pick up the pace!



OH HOW I LOVE THE SALT, that is slathered on the MN roadways, just for those WHO CAN NOT drive...


Not missing a thang!


I "need" it to last another 5+ years. Funny, I said that, FIVE years ago!