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what did you wrench on today??

ozarkdrb said:
I wrenched on replacing power window gears in the gearbox that hangs on the end of the drive motors in a 1990 Ford Pickup w/ power windows. Ford - in it's 90's wisdom made the main drive gear out of Nylon!!! Made to Crash!
You must have window glass up, speakers out, and all door panels off, then drill a 1/2 hole and dremel out two others to get to the three 8mm bolts that hold motor and drive to window regulator. Nice engineering!Then you get it loose, pull it thru speaker hole, clean-out ton of broken olastic in ancient grease from gear box and replace all gears and grease. Then stand on head to get it all into place, only dropping bolts a dozen times down into door bottom. (magnetic pick-up stick will save you there!) Then you put all the plastic covers and crap back together and hope it works.
They are FIXED! I don't know what it would have cost to have a shop do this and it is on an old truck that is just used as a fram truck, but Holy Crap - it is really hard to do!
Thanks Ford!
There went my whole yesterday...
Ozarkdrb
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Did this very repair to my 1986 TC two years ago. Nylon pieces (3 per motor) $4.29 delivered to my door. PITA of doing the job, just as you describe...PRICELESS! :mad:

Ford used these nylon parts to save the pot metal gearing they used in the event of a frozen window, as they allow for some cushion from the worm gear on the moter to the toothed gear that drives the window rack.

Hey... on the bright side, they worked well for 20+ years. :o
 
I dismantled the passenger side door on my '94 Chev CK2500 to prop up my window. The gears are fine, but the metal channel on the window rusts out. This is the second one, I replaced the left side window two years ago (yep, gotta replace the whole window, can't just replace the channel). I shop the wrecking yards for a rust free one and throw the old window in the dumpster. What a waste. I don't have the money for a new window right now, probably won't want to roll it down until next spring anyway.
 
ddaniels said:
I've wondered how those Pyle speakers sound. So, how do they sound?
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First, the old speakers are so bad that they aren't a fair reference. The Pyles sound much better. I have real bass now. My town has two public radio stations, one AM,. one FM. With the old speakers they sounded almost the same. Now the FM station is clearer, head and shoulders above the AM station. Voices and instruments sound more natural, better timbres.

My replacements aren't real hi-fi speakers. They are a good upgrade for inexpensive OEM speakers. I'd guess that most cars with premium sound packages come with speakers at least as good as these. But at $70 for fronts (5 1/4") and rears (6"x9"), they are well worth it.
 
One Last Power windows comment...

One Last Power windows comment...

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! I hope that never ceases, but those Ford gearheads on those window drives will make you cry. 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.
Never quit wrenching!
And buy more tools and motorcycle batteries with the money you save!
Ozarkdrb
 
ozarkdrb said:
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.
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Hahaha....my wife doesn't get that either...:D

I spend a considerable amount of my repair time just noodling on the problem...saves a lot of wasted effort.
 
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.
 
put a new chain on my kz440, also tinkered with the seat on my GS... startin to get cold out there
 
ozarkdrb said:
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
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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.
 
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. :rolleyes:
 
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 :)
 
It has been a long road

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.
 
koolaid_kid said:
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.
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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?
 
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.
 
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themess said:
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?
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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.

themess said:
Were you able to get to Brown County last weekend?
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No, the bike was still not charging at that time. I really wanted to go, but it was just not in the cards.
 
ozarkdrb said:
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
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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.
 
Escort again, today! :mad:

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

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

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

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

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nailed up mostly without paint

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back side painted
more tomorrow
 
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!!!
 
chuck hahn said:
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!!!
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I love FREE! :D 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...
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Making " baby steps". WINTER BEATER needs to pick up the pace! :cool:

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

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Not missing a thang!


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