What did you do to your bike today?
- Thread starter jackson409
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So the seller used the photos from his purchase, at what point do you have to tell your neighbor to just sell it for whatever he can get, and then take up knitting... if he couldn't tell the bike was beat to shit, he might not have the common sense t be allowed to even freaking ride.
Otherwise you just setting yourself up to be his free repair shop.
Most of us never went to "mechanic" school, we just hadda fix something we just broke, so we figured out how.
We all started out no knowing shit, made mistakes, busted knuckles, tore something down, rebuilt it, only to realize we just fucked it all up, then hadda rip it apart again because we forgot a stinking wrist pin clip. c e, or some other stinking foul ass letter clip that let some damned piston seize, or ring gear to slap, or master link to come apart, or forgot to put a oil filter in after a rebuild and shit oil all over the motor and mamma's garage.
But then after a few decades, lots of conversations, and thousands of hours spent wrenching and riding, we get to a point where we go "hmmm,, do I want to put a rekluse in this one or go back to the one finger hydraulic",
and that is how we became real live dirt bikers.
Your a good guy bro, don't let yourself get pigeonholed, been there, and it sucks when you realize you just suckered yourself.
Ask yourself, does he work on his own car, or even show an interest in getting his hands dirty working on it with ya?
Nah it was just one picture in the ad. He had the title and according to the new owner hes the original. I asked about the rekluse and he says he had a shop do it. Just a lazy, put away wet kind of owner. And yeah the new guy says he works on his cars, but not motors. He says suspension swaps and exh etc.. He actually dropped off some tires yesterday and I said hold it man you are going to have to take that to a shop. if you just roll in a bike to have a top end rebuilt youre gonna get raped, but tires is no big deal. I also told him once he gets this thing home, hes going to have to figure it out, and step one is clean the heck out of it!
These blue silicone hoses really make the motor pop
These blue silicone hoses really make the motor pop
Finally got the timing chain in yesterday, first thing ordered and last to arrive. Popped that baby together first try. Usually, I have to slip it together sharpie mark the link/cam sprocket and move one way or the other but it was a no look half court swish. I must be getting good at this because the battery was dead and I lit it up 3rd kick.
There’s some weird shit in the manual though(which I followed) like bolting down the cyl/head says and I forget the exact tq# but something like stagger tighten to 35 ftlbs then remove bolts re-molybdenum threads then tighten to 22 ftlbs, then another 180° turn in 90° increments.
It didn’t give a final tq spec it just said tighten to X then give another 1/2 turn. Must have been Dr. Gutentight’s contribution to the process.
Either way it runs like a top. And he gave me a gift card to an overpriced Brazilian steakhouse for me and the wife. Case closed!
There’s some weird shit in the manual though(which I followed) like bolting down the cyl/head says and I forget the exact tq# but something like stagger tighten to 35 ftlbs then remove bolts re-molybdenum threads then tighten to 22 ftlbs, then another 180° turn in 90° increments.
It didn’t give a final tq spec it just said tighten to X then give another 1/2 turn. Must have been Dr. Gutentight’s contribution to the process.
Either way it runs like a top. And he gave me a gift card to an overpriced Brazilian steakhouse for me and the wife. Case closed!
Well that sounds like the Honda book for the CRF450 and 250 I had worked on. Tight to XXftlbs torque, and then back off a 1/4 turn, and re-torque to a XXftlbs that was actually greater than the first. OK, I see, crush the gaskets, then pull the threads. 
Well that sounds like the Honda book for the CRF450 and 250 I had worked on. Tight to XXftlbs torque, and then back off a 1/4 turn, and re-torque to a XXftlbs that was actually greater than the first. OK, I see, crush the gaskets, then pull the threads.
That’s actually pretty normal. It’s called pre-torque (I think). Done a lot on airplane motor heads. I’ve seen certain car companies do that. Dodge/Chrysler being one of them. I think a lot of heavy equipment companies do that now as well. Stops having to retorque the heads after a heat cycle.
Best thing that comes out is the wrinkles.
bought the stuff to change the oil, I'm supposed to be racing in texas this weekend and I'm currently balls deep in biochem, hopefully someday, at least, when I'm old I'll have sweet stories about how I raced National Hare and Hound while attending college full time and working 50+ hour weeks.
And walked uphill both ways thru 2 feet of sno.......er, dust.
I actually do walk to work most days but it ain't uphill both ways