Oldfeller--FSO
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You know, after years on this list I can count the times we collectively have screwed up our own bikes to any small degree when working on them on one hand.
Yet there have been DOZENS of dealership "mechanics" who have trashed our new members bikes to some degree in the same time period. The 600 mile required warranty servicing (fairly detailed and internally invasive) seems pretty popular for trashing the bolt access seal, etc. Not the first backwards oil filter we have heard about either, eh?
I can remember back when I was in college I worked at Honda of Raleigh as an assembly mechanic (putting together new bikes). My qualifications? They knew I had torn down a CB160 to the cases and put it back together with new parts I bought while working in the Parts Dept as a gofer. If I was willing to work 40 hrs a week, I could have been a "mechanic", given the easy jobs to do.
I wonder what the requirements are now? Hmmmmm ....
When we forget to record our steps or take a pic or baggie the stuff in order when we work on our own bikes, we consult manuals and ASK THE QUESTIONS here on the list before bulling on ahead.
A bike "mechanic" knows he only has 2.3 hours to get the job done, and by god he gets it done inside 2.3 hours .... goop on top of old gasket and filter in backwards and oil pump gear in backwards and anything else it takes to get it back together, quick.
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Imagine the bullshit they are going to do to that bike to fake up (cover up) the torn-up cam bearings in the head issues and spauled camshaft lobes and gouged out rocker arms and anything else they actually find inside that bike.
Bet they put some real heavy weight oil back in it, what'cha think?
If they put the oil filter in backwards, they would have stress cracked the oil filter cover -- you should be able to see the circular crack in the center of the triangular oil filter cover if you look close. The spud with the "O" ring in the back of the recess will be totally trashed too, since it got crammed in against the bypass valve and crunched.
If they are honest, they will buy you a good used motor with equivalent miles on it as that is the CHEAPEST way to do right by you. You ran that bike for 50 miles with NO OIL PRESSURE AT ALL -- no lube at all to lots of critical bearings and components.
But then, "doing right by you" doesn't seem to be their main interest in life, does it?
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Who does pro-bono (free community service) legal work in your community? Find out and have a quick talk with them. Do you have a news channel that has a "Channel 5 on your side" feature -- talk to these media story hungry people, they swing tremendous clout in these situations.
Oldfeller
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