We discuss "oil wars" here because the sarcastic banter level fits the rools for this section a lot more than in RSD.
This particular post is a simple "how to" question that has been answered plenty well enough (complete with thread references) -- so toss the whole durn thing back over the wall to RSD where it belongs.
"How to get enough guts to turn a wrench for the first time" should be the thread title if this thread remains over here in Cafe --- and you'd get some discussion on that topic lead to be sure.
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All of us were where RL153 is right now when we were young --- I can remember starting my own maintenance on a Honda S90 at age 16 when I learned
not to let a dealership work on the bike when they screwed up my carburetor trying to "lap in the slide" using valve lapping compound.
Then in college I spent two long summers working for Honda of Raleigh, so I know all about Mikey by having worked next stall down from him.
(I was the slightly older higher skilled "college dude" who put the bikes together properly out of the packing crate -- every mistake I ever made could be counted on one hand and I heard all about every one of them from the older full time mechanic dudes doing the warranty work sheets).
Mikey screwed up more single cylinder kiddie bikes in one week than I ever did in the whole two summers I was there. Mikey wasn't real bright, but he had grease under his finger nails so he was a "natural mechanic" to the folks who ran the Service Dept. (he was also related to the owner, a grand nephew or something like that)
Mikey was about 16-17 years old and he rode a ratty old dirt bike to work. His bike was ALWAYS busted and he always had parts on order for fixing something on it -- always.
Mikey would take apart anything and he could be counted on ordering a whole BUNCH of new parts for it (Honda stealership training at its best) ..... but putting it back together right when the parts finally came in was something else for him though.
Mikey spent time studying the new bikes I put together to figure where all the cables & stuff went -- I kid you not. He'd ask me questions about "order of assembly" when he got bumfuzzled by something the least bit order tricky
because he had no memory.
You are not as bad as Mikey was, trust me .....You start out by starting -- it is the only way to start.
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