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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Dream:
It involves MgSO4, Magnesium Sulfate, except it's explosive in my dream, which wikipedia says it's not. I don't know if i was making it, or setting it off.

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Dream:
there was a bit of the dream that escaped my mind. But the only thing I remember was cleaning my hands and washing off tapioca looking bits off the bottom of my right hand.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009


Down to the cam cover. What lies underneath is spooky!

Yesterday i started on this:
Cross my fingers, hope that this worked out well. My first attempt at doing the major service on my moto. It seemed easy to do, but too easy at the same time.
I took the time to read up some online sites on how to do a valve check or adjustment. It seemed easy enough.
The moto hits 36k and i went for it, i thought i had all the tools needed but went to my brothers for a few more special tools that helped out quite a bit.
-Taking off the tank felt funny, but it was easy to do, a few hoses and an electrical connector. Was it going to leak, what do i do with the gas, blahblah. You do nothing, it sits there cuz the fuel pump is closed.. *phew*
-Airbox was easy enough, cleaned and relubed the BMC filter.
-Carburetors, i thought the instructions were off but all it took was 3 screws and some lifting to remove it. More hoses.. It looked pretty clean on the inside, the outside thought was all gunky.
-Hardest part, was the valve cover. Well, it's not that hard, loosen 6 bolts and remove the cover. As i'm removing the cover the rubber gasket is stuck, all i know is yanking such items is never good. So i carefully peel it all out, and didn't think much of it. It'll haunt me till today.
-Tappets, a cap that sits on a shim that sits on the valve. i used the feeler gauges at the TDC and BDC points to see the clearances of each tappet. Theres 16 total. The limits were for Exhaust .2-.3mm, Intake .1-.2mm. If any were larger then the limits, then i'd need to take the moto apart even further, adding to the complications. Luckily they are all pretty well spec'ed.
Every Exhaust tappet was slightly under .2 at .178, which is good enough for me.
Intake Tappets: (1).127,.127 (2).127,.127 (3).102,.102 (4).127,.102
-Phew, put the rubber gasket back on, ok, put the carbs back on, how do you do it? oh well, just press a litle and tighten bolts. ok, put the airbox on, hmmz the vents don't fit the airbox.. The carbs weren't totally in place. Remove n fix. ok.. Airbox on. alright, gas tank on ok.. my main concern was the hoses, there were so many and i couldn't remember where goes what, so after handling the munchkin a few times and rereading the service manual a few times it worked out. It felt too easy..
-Changed the spark plugs, oil, coolant and cleaned, oiled and tightened the chain a little..
-It's 9pm when finished. Put the key in, it starts up. Sweet it works, let it sit, 'lo n behold i see a puddle forming under the bike.. ahh crap. One is murky n black, the other smells like gasoline.. ^%$!!!
-Woke up today and found out i needed gasket sealant, one thats flexible and anaerobic. Kragen has them, kragen has 12 of them.. Got the right one, went back, took everything apart again, and reinstalled with sealant.. Turn the moto on, and now only the gas tank leaks.. fantastic! Why, how, it leaks i dunno. I play with the tubing and clamp, it made it worse. i play with it one last time and no more leakage! That pump must shove gas out pretty strongly to have leakage like that!
-This time turned it on for a while, let the coolant cycle and saw no more leakage. Sweet! Rode it around the block, it felt pretty good.
Hopefully tommorrow will be the test to see if it all comes together, when i ride to work..

I can now see why a major motorcycle service costs so much (600-800$), it's all into tearing into the bike just to stick a thin piece of metal inbetween the cam and tappet to see if shims need to be replaced. Other then that, everything else is simple. I'm glad i didn't need to do that. That'll involve removing the cams and the tappets, ouch!
-Also took out a few things on this blog that wasn't working..
-Also i made a pretty tasty Guava cake!

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Friday, August 14, 2009

Dream:
Andrew and Marlia were riding in delilah with me and we were going here n there. Well someone set the gravity of the world to 25% of what it normally is and so every freeway ramp became a jump. We were flying all over the place and it was pretty fun.. i was wondering how nobody smashed into each other..

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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Had a haircut, quick n easy.
Might as well post that the moto has hit 36k miles, but i found out that i'm out of filters.. bah, i also am wondering if i should get the valve shim kit first and then take apart the moto for my first attempt at valve adjusting or open it up and then figure out what i need..
funfunfun

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