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what did you wrench on today??

I finally stripped one of my three wheelers down to a frame for painting/sanding. Anyone know of a good paint to use, hoping for a gloss white finish, that is heat/gas/oil resistant. Have a small automotive style sprayer.

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Tonight, Skateguy50 came over for a couple hours to teach me about valve adjustments.

Fantastic guy, very helpful. It was nice to be involved in a procedure I had read about online so often yet dreaded having to dive into...Need to swap a few shims tomorrow and then rebuild the carbs, replace intake boots, fix the brakes, and swap the tires. Then put it on the road.
 
Hello, I didn't see a thing for "add your two cents" , so I hope I'm doing this right: in that I want to comment on what I did without responding directly to whomever I am responding after.....All that said, I finally got 'round to the good old wet/dry compression test, and I flunked with flying colors. 95/145. Any good sole in the delmarva area have anything they want to sell me? I know I should have done the test first, maybe before I bought it would have been smart. Not cryin the blues, I know better, would that this was the biggert dumbass thing I ever did! Thanks
 
Last night I discovered the beauty of double-wall heat shrink tubing. bwringer recommended it in some random thread, it sounded interesting, and so I ordered some from McMaster-Carr. The inner wall is an adhesive than melts when you apply heat to shrink the tube ($10 heat gun from Harbor Freight is money well spent for this, use the lower setting). The adhesive flows into every crevice as the tube shrinks, sealing the splice and eventually squirting out the ends a bit. The transparent outer wall allows you to inspect the joint. The inside diameter shrinks from .28" to .06", so it can cover connectors or many-into-one junctions.

I've been inspecting and replacing all the splices, crimps and repairs in my wiring harness. Also replacing the broken fuse panel. And battery terminals with poor crimps. :mad:
 
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Just oiled and adjusted the chain also re-waterproofed the saddle bags ,made of oiled canvas needs a linseed oil and wax mixture applied about once a year.
 
Trailer Project

Trailer Project

Thought I would paint the deck planks on my trailer while I wait on the intake boots.

Well, My "paint the deck planks" project turned into

"I better replace this plank .. and maybe this other plank"

and then the project turned into

"what else do I have to take apart to get out and replace a plank?"

and then turned into

"take the side walls off"

and

"cutting and grinding"

Then got the two planks out

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(see side walls sitting behind trailer)

Now can replace the planks.

But, know what, ... now that have sidewalls off, ... can repaint the angle iron fairly easy, .... and repaint the side walls fairly easy.

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Pulled the carbs off the GS to replace the intake boots. Got intake boots replaced and said "Hey,I could do the carb needle mod where you replace the plastic spacer with washers". Got that done, set it to 3 washers, which raises it about 1 notch. Then I realized I could replace all those funky screws with SS allen screws. Got that done and realized that I could paint that one bit of carb 4 that Suzuki missed back in Oct. 1982.
Got that done, got it all back together, and now I am too tired to put it back on the bike. So it sits on my bench, looking forlorn. :(
 
tonight

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!
 
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 :o.
 
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...
 
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?:)
 
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.

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

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At least I got SOMETHING working right around here!
 
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