Idiot!

[suprize]

Bike was not shifting correctly felt like a spring had broken so.....after a read of some restoration threads I got enthused with the spanners....

got the coolant drained, laid the bike over and ripped off the cover and all looked as it should. couldn't see past the clutch so more spinning and got that off. all good underneath...WTF.

tested the shifting with a big spanner and all good???
put the cover on and not so good.... and bugger.... the shift lever was dragging on the edge of the new clutch cover Duh...

back together it goes......

 

[Freaky]

I think most of us have investigated too deep when we should have checked the basics!! Easily done.

 

[dartyppyt]

That's about like looking for your wrench, for an hour, and it is in your back pocket the whole time.

 

[Motosportz]

How about leaving a tire iron in the tire and then successfully racing an ISDE. (Not me) Thats a cool one right there.

http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/wh...working-on-your-bike.31762/page-4#post-304235

 

[Old Geezer]

Idiot......no. Consider yourself a student, always learning something new. That's me anyway.

 

[suprize]

That tyre lever is gold...

 

[hva-factory]

The only people who make no mistakes - are people who don't do anything!!!

That's my excuse anyway!

Andy

 

[suprize]

Not trying if your not making mistakes.... sounds good till you boo boo...

 

[dartyppyt]

I like the one where I stalled in the first turn with a stuck throttle. Come to find out, I forgot to take the paper towel out of my air box. Thought, boy this bike is running rich today.

 

[suprize]

my best was learning what the ring pin on a two stroke piston was for...its for making lots of tingy noises and peppering the engine with bits of ring....

 

[1982 XC 430]

I think one of the better ones is when You or a buddy's bike just won't start. Then You get the great idea to tow the bike to get it to start and find out the Throttle is stuck wide open....

 

[jimspac]

The IDtenT error I did when I was 17 was when I rebuilt the top end on my father's MR250 was missing one circlip putting in the piston. The wrist pin worked out and into the cylinder wall. My father started it up and heard a funny noise so he pulled the top end off to check what I did. There was a vertical groove gouged into the cylinder wall. I got a verbal thrashing for it but he put it together with the other circlip as it still had great compression. He broke it in and about a week later he was thanking me for the microporting the wristpin did on the cylinder wall. Turn out to be a performance enhancement.

Sometimes you just get lucky

 

[Old Geezer]

I think one of the better ones is when You or a buddy's bike just won't start. Then You get the great idea to tow the bike to get it to start and find out the Throttle is stuck wide open....

Reminds me of a similar story featuring my brother, sitting on his 400MX Yamaha in my driveway. We had previously been messing with the carb and didn't get the slide put back in correctly or something. And oh....the kill switch was fubar at the time and we just hadn't yet fixed it.

Upon kicking her over, she lit up full throttle. So my bro' in his infinite wisdom said to himself: "Self, just stomp her in gear and she'll die". Well I'm here to tell you, when a bike is at full-tilt-boogie sitting at a standstill and you put her in gear....on an asphalt paved driveway...things get radically verticle in a heartbeat. He did about a 20 foot wheelie, basically being drug along by his bike and hanging on for dear life, until crashing into some shrubbery. Just missed a concrete planter. Reached down and pulled the plug to kill her.

Words of wisdom: Never run a bike without a functioning kill switch, and always check throttle action before kicking her over. And don't hit the beer too early in the day until all the bugs are worked out.

 

[suprize]

ol mate built up speedway sidecar with a kwaka 900 engine. he went to great effort to set it up so it would just fall over if u let go of the bike.
on the great day of starting, we pushed it along his driveway (he lived in a plant nursery) ,she fired, chokes and high idle sent it surging, I fell off the chair and I still have this vivid image of him hopping frantically along furiously pulling In the clutch lever (which was stuck!) moments before he disappeared into huge pile of pot plants and hit the house!!good times....

 

[Charlie H]

Reminds me of a similar story featuring my brother, sitting on his 400MX Yamaha in my driveway. We had previously been messing with the carb and didn't get the slide put back in correctly or something. And oh....the kill switch was fubar at the time and we just hadn't yet fixed it.

Upon kicking her over, she lit up full throttle. So my bro' in his infinite wisdom said to himself: "Self, just stomp her in gear and she'll die". Well I'm here to tell you, when a bike is at full-tilt-boogie sitting at a standstill and you put her in gear....on an asphalt paved driveway...things get radically verticle in a heartbeat. He did about a 20 foot wheelie, basically being drug along by his bike and hanging on for dear life, until crashing into some shrubbery. Just missed a concrete planter. Reached down and pulled the plug to kill her.

Words of wisdom: Never run a bike without a functioning kill switch, and always check throttle action before kicking her over. And don't hit the beer too early in the day until all the bugs are worked out.

Hi OG
Did you ever solve your clutch dragging problems ? I have the same thing going on, Charlie in Spokane

 

[dukkman]

Hi OG
Did you ever solve your clutch dragging problems ? I have the same thing going on, Charlie in Spokane

Hi Charlie.
Phil , www.husqvarna-parts.com , sells steel plates to replace the alloy ones and they help a lot with the dragging.
Cheers

 

[gzrsbro]

Hey Charlie,

This is the Old Geezer's bro. You know, the one who did the Burn Out Wheelie... That was my $300. mx250 off ebay. BTW.
I've had so many WFO happenings in my life, that I can calmly walk over and pull the plug wire, no problemo.

Just get back at the bro, I can remember we were out doing some trail riding, when I came upon a barb wire gate. I of course stopped. The old Geezer saw my stopping as an oppertunity to pass my a$$, and slamed into the gate.

Didn't get hurt, but the gate picked the bike up about 3 feet, chopping his front fender in half right at the triples. Then slammed it down right on the throttle. WFO again.

I can still see it. The OG's got two thumbs on a 35 year old kill switch that didn't work. I pull the wire but, it didn't stop running till he grounded it out with his hand. Shocking! Huh?

Back to the dragging clutch. We pulled the plates off the boss, un stuck and cleaned them up. Fixed the problem. Even tightened up the adjustment at the clutch. Sometimes you can hit neutral. If your lucky.

 

[Old Geezer]

Hi OG
Did you ever solve your clutch dragging problems ? I have the same thing going on, Charlie in Spokane

Well as my bro' just said, the clutch is working pretty good. Even after a good cleaning it was still dragging, so I adjusted it to minimum play (which helped some), but I think what really helped was to ride the thing. Now, it doesn't drag at all but is still a royal pain in the ass to grab neutral from a standstill (which I think is just the nature of the beast). Need to be rolling along just a bit to find N.

Of course, this past weekend she would not light up...damned if I know why. Does that sometimes. Was forced to ride my rice bike. And oh....my kill switch on the 360 stopped working last time around - need to fix that thing before I run into another barbed wire fence!