Posted by Crazy Red Power in SE-WI on September 15, 2011 at 20:00:28 from (24.183.132.223):
Unless it's trailered. I had something lined up, but it was just too expensive. That, and the hauler has to drive an hour & a half to move my chopper 20 miles to the show. So, I figured I'd drive it instead & began the inspections of road-worthyness. Simple lube points first! I always run across mechanical issues when I crawl all over a machine to find fittings. I found fittings that have all THREE layers of paint intact! The next issue I found was the rear wheels, the bearings are either shot or were not tightened after there last repacking. Provided they were repacked. The king pin (axle) was not taking grease, so I figured I would pull it, clean it grease it & put it back. No. The pin is not leaving the axle, even though the axle saged down a quarter-inch when I lifted it off the ground. To shorten the story, the gear selector box is jammed, again, the variable drive belt squeals & squallers for no apparent reason, the engine did something with a half-gallon of 30W in a half-hour's run time & don't know where it went, my manifold isn't here yet, I p'd away last weekend looking for manifold gaskets that no longer exist & I have a dent in my head from smacking it on the infernal confounded frassin' spout that's three feet too short. Oh, I'm also missing a few zerks, not that THAT is anything new. I was told that long ago. Aw, the humanity!
So..... unless the planets align & all the parts fall where they're supposed to, that poor death trap probably isn't going very far for a while. My apologies for going on, I'm just having a time of it. I will still go to check out the show, meet some good people & take plenty of pics.
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