RE: I give up

On 27 Jun 2006 at 20:49, Patrick Sills wrote:

> The fib turned out to be 2 bones for the price of one (CBMMA!). It got
> operated on and grafted. While I was laying there recovering my truck got
> wrecked while parked, but that's a story for over beers.
>
> Pat S
> CBMMA #17
> ISRA #5745
> "Official Biker Scum"
>

Keee-rystamundo.. I'm thinkin I don' wanna get
anywhere near anything mechanical you have,  bad
juju, bro..

Glad to hear the halves are wholed again. How's it
feeling?

Harold just left the abode. Came in running on 1.5
cylinders, left running strong on all three. Turned
out that the resistors in two of the caps were burned
open, the center one was firing down the burnt-
carbon residue on the outside, left one was
hopeless. Don't think I've ever seen resistors that
bad before. Cut off 3 screws to length and slipped
them in to replace the resistors - he's got 'em in a
plastic cigarette wrapper to go hunt down new
ones.

Also needs the petcocks rebuilt, right one is
weeping and the left is seeping - looks like the
floats are working as there's no evidence of
gasoil(tm) yet. He/we will take care of that when
there's more time. He has the classic clutch-seal
oil-weep too.

But, other than that (all standard maintenance stuff)
it's a nice looking (and nice-sounding, now) scooter.
Gave him a pencil marked up with the rear and final
gear oil levels so he can make a gauge and
check/change that, and we talked about some of
the "features" unique to the triples.

One thing he has which had me headscratching is a
small two-contact plug coming out of the headlight
that doesn't appear to go to anything currently on
the bike. Looks like it would be connected/mounted
to a gauge or something, but where it's wrapped it
doesn't reach, and there's nothing on the gauges
that would receive it. All the lamps seem to work
(except the headlight-out indicator, but I don't know
a quick way to check that when the head-lamp
works, and that gauge set doesn't have a receptical
for it anyway, so, as I said, I'm headscratching. It's
fairly rusted so it hasn't been hooked to anything in
awhile, I'm speculating the PO added something
once (an illuminated .. compass??), then took it off,
but I don't know the 750 wiring that well, and I didn't
start digging into it. Which was just as well since his
SWMBO started tugging on his cellular leash
<VBG>.

Anyway, he should be home now, with a strong-
running scooter. Now I just gotta dig mine out of the
garage (4 vehicles I have to shuffle), found out if I
don't get to work early I have to park out in the back
40, whereas the scooter parking is right outside my
office. Sadly, I think that's gonna have to wait for
the weekend.

But at least Harold is good to go for awhile. Hope
things work for him so he can make CL..

-Steeley
CBMMA# (wd)40
80 XS 850 Venture

"Caution: Do not approach or attempt to reason
with bikers. Most of them are belligerent.
When possible, take down their license plate
and call the police."


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