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I told my wife that if I could get my bike up on the lift this weekend - I'd count it as a success. So I'm happy on that count. But in the large, you're not wrong. I love this bike to death - every time I look at it, I fall in love again. But for some reason I feel snake-bit by it, and I...

LOL. We’re laughing at it and someone else is monetizing it. I wonder if the guy saw it here? Edit: it looks like they got their money’s worth of fun.

Was able to get my bike up with the front wheel raised pretty high, giving pretty good access to the bottom of the fork leg. Used my Mastercraft Maximum cobalt drills, but they weren’t cutting very well, so switched to Milwaukee Cobalt drills which were much better. Tried to drill out bottom...

i had bought an Abba Skylift but was looking into machining the parts myself. After a while going down that road, I spent the money and just paid the vendor. Somebody on Facebook was nice enough to take measurements of his fittings but I decided to stop futzing around. After a back and forth...

Hmm. I lost all the plastics for my 87…. But it might be forever to collect a full set again.

LOL. Here's what my garage looked like after; I'm pretty sure I posted a picture of it going up. It actually looks better than it could, because the firefighters kept tossing stuff away as they were able to. Somewhere, I think behind the table saw, is the engine that @Ash so kindly gave me...

BTW- I just want to be clear. I am very, very grateful for the kindness the people on this forum has shared with a novice wrench like myself. I responded to your post @Mad Mike; you have been one of the most generous of many. I hope my last post didn’t take away from that. I truly appreciate...

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1311552886419822 "1985 interceptor not running (needs battery)". Yeah, the battery is just one thing it needs. I can't even figure out where the bike in question is. I wonder whether the loafer comes with it. Where's the other shoe?

I'm guessing you have your bike and a garage at home. If so, consider yourself lucky in that regards. I have my bike 2-h away from my home and am only there on the weekends. Right now I have no good way of getting to the spot I need to get to. I have no garage, so setting up to work each time...

There's no corrosion visible from the bottom, but you can really only see the bottom of the fastener, which is slightly recessed. As to your earlier question - the extractor is still stuck in the top. I did consider the possibility that I could making things harder. Barring damaging my fork...

I have a feeling it'd be way too easy to get myself into trouble way too fast with that thing, LOL. It's cool though!

I don't mind if the bottom of the fork leg gets discoloured. Nobody's going to look there, and my bike has her share of pock marks already. Dirt on the underside isn't going to bother me. I'm more worried that there's a chance heat could compromise the fork leg itself.

Sounds like some voodoo magic right there! I've got to learn more about how that works. The few videos I've found, the tool looks gigantic.

Also - at my cottage we've been having some leaks during rains. My usual guy has been up there several times, each time claiming he had fixed it, but taking literal months to look at things each time water came through. So I decided to pull the plug on that guy. I'm very loyal to my guys...

Ooh - I like it - another rabbit hole to go down! After googling - looks like you need decent access to the fastener, which I don't really have. What would you do with those coils you show? Same idea? I am *hopeful* heating will help under the theory that my fastener is galled. I discovered...

I tried out a “Hakko 936” soldering iron I bought NIB on Marketplace. A soldering iron is a good thing to have around, but my immediate plan for it was to use the hot tip against a seized bolt to try and free it. So I wanted to play with it and maybe solder up some connections for...

For some reason, I was excited by this realization that might seem obvious. This fastener has probably been seized for a while, and THAT’S why the cap head was rounded in the first place!!

You can see the threads in the slot so cutting in there will leave me with just threads - no shoulder. Now I fully acknowledge I’m a newbie doing this so happy to hear opinions- that’s what’s great about this forum, so many knowledgeable people. My thought in cutting there was to relieve the...

Is there a risk that banging on the Torx bit will compromise the threads and create another problem for me?

I think this is the way I'm going to have to do it. Planning to: 1-cut the bolt in half through the slot. This should relieve most of the pressure on the threaded part. 2- if I didn't catch the side of the hole with my extractor, I should be able to pull the top out easily. 3- Use a...