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Message started by BalingWire on 07/03/14 at 16:05:02

Title: Vice grips, proper wrench, WHATEVAHH!
Post by BalingWire on 07/03/14 at 16:05:02

Well, I'm doing gut surgery on the clutch side.

Cam chain adjuster is at 0.690" or 17.5mm. Miles are 13,400. So I'm going to sew her up for now and get her running again, so I can take my m/c endorsement driver's exam next week. Then I'll change the oil and install a new cam chain adjuster from verslagen1, whom I've just emailed an inquiry.

My drain plug has been modded by some knucklehead with vice grips or a pipe wrench. A six sided 13mm wrench, sort of pounded on, was able to purchase enough grip to remove it.

In times like this, curses are inadequate, and must revert to the Shakespearean Insult Generator.

Thou currish full-gorged popinjay! Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon! >:(

Shakespearean Insulter
www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/

http://i57.tinypic.com/2pq6zc5.jpg

(and the cam chain adjuster)

http://i57.tinypic.com/drw1v.jpg

Title: Re: Vice grips, proper wrench, WHATEVAHH!
Post by engineer on 07/03/14 at 19:33:08

It's a good thing you bought this bike, it would have died and gone for parts if it had stayed in that guy's hands. I saw the chain guard picture, looked like he chewed the cutout into the guard while it was still on the bike with a pair of dull tin snips.

Hey, good luck on passing that exam! Please keep us posted. Don't worry if you mess up parts of the test, it works on a point system that allows for errors in the different maneuvers. So if you flatten a cone or something just keep going and finish each step. You'll make it.

Title: Re: Vice grips, proper wrench, WHATEVAHH!
Post by NickGann on 07/03/14 at 19:39:33

Those courses are so much fun...if you have a dank teacher.

As far as the bike, it'll be your best first bike ever, tons of awesomeness to learn from and a solid instructor for basics.

Title: Re: Vice grips, proper wrench, WHATEVAHH!
Post by BalingWire on 07/05/14 at 05:28:52

I wrote verslagen1, and he thinks it is ok to run until the next oil change, which is probably all I'll ride anyway for the rest of summer/fall. This autumn, I'll send him my old one, and get his expert modifications into my bike for next year's riding season.

I rounded off the abused oil plug just a little more re-installing it. I suppose it'll take vice grips this next time. But then I'll have a new one to put back in.

Looking at my abused rear axle bolt, I cannot get a 17mm wrench on it either. Apparently, vice grips were the former owners' tool of choice. So I'm going to get a new one.

Who knows, maybe the dealer rounded off these bolt heads too. My best friend had a dealer put the oil bolt back into the oil pan of his truck and strip the threads completely with an air wrench. >:(