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Oh come on!!!!

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Roland5color said:
So last week my valve shims finally arrived and I was able to adjust my valves. The mail ran late that day so I didn't get start until it was almost dark. Well this is the first time in the last 12 years that I don't have a garage to work in because I am renting a place to live in until I am done remodeling my house. So anyway I'm out on a small concrete patio of sorts trying to adjust my valves in the dark with a treble light.

All was going well and I was almost finished when I I felt something hit my hand and fall into the head. Oh come on!!!! I thought as my heart sank. Instantly all I could think about was having to tear the motor apart because something fell down the cam chain tunnel. Wait a minute what the hell could have fallen. Then I realized that it was the little knurled nut that holds all of my feeler gauges together.:eek: It had come loose from all of the back forth motion of using the different gauges to set the valves. Luckily though it fell just to the side of the number 3 intake valve and I was able to get it out with needle nose.

Lesson learned. Remove and use one feeler gauge at a time especially when working under less than perfect conditions or at the least check that nut regularly lol. So who else has had a Oh come on!!!! Moment while wrenching on their bike?
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I need to adjust my valves as well and I believe its the same bike as yours, a 1982 GS1100GL. How long did it take and how difficult was it. I am pretty good with doing my own work so I try to do all my maintenance myself.
 
not bike related but definitely a doah! moment.

Back in college I was a 'student mechanic' (aka grease monkey) at the university garage. was changing the oil on a diesel box truck; it took 12 qts of oil IRRC. I was doing it in 'the pit' because it wouldn't fit on a lift. Finished changing and realized i put the wrong weight oil in it, so drained it and repeat. Checked the dip stick and it was dry; I was like WTF? I had forgotten to put the drain plug back in.:eek: Of course, since it took 12 qts, the catch pan was already full, so had 3 gallons of oil I had to clean up as well.:(

I'll tell ya one thing, after the 3rd oil change that oil sure was clean on the dip stick:D
 
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