We're trying to solve the @Shaman problem here.
#$%@ GP Bikes just made my life harder
- Thread starter Shaman
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Loooong name ... also lined with Corinthian leather.
The “Imperial Cruiser” bit was tongue in cheek added by someone here in the past lol.
And it has rich Corinthian leather lol.
Everyone’s confused now, it’s not my bike with the problem. I’d have gone through my arsenal of “haven’t used that in 15 years but it did the job in 15 seconds” tools and had it out by now as well.
Either that or I couldn’t find that right tool, used a chisel to try to turn it instead, broke the head off, and would still be cursing and throwing the chisel.
One or the other
Oh, and I like beer.
Unfortunately it loves me, too.
Gaoler
Well-known member
I've used a soldering iron/gun when a bolt is difficult to access.... It's slow and tedious, but it works.
I suppose you could speed it up by using a "solid" soldering tip on a propane torch... Y'know the one that uses the flame to heat up a solid soldering thingy... 'Only possible issue could be the open flame.
Everyone who’s ever worked on their own vehicles long enough eventually has that moment of utter despair after something going very wrong (like breaking a very important bolt somewhere, or dropping something into an intake manifold only for it to completely disappear) where the “**** it, let this POS burn the ground, I don’t care anymore” option has passed through their mind.
Everyone who’s ever worked on their own vehicles long enough eventually has that moment of utter despair after something going very wrong (like breaking a very important bolt somewhere, or dropping something into an intake manifold only for it to completely disappear) where the “**** it, let this POS burn the ground, I don’t care anymore” option has passed through their mind.
I don't think I've considered burning it to the ground.
But I do think, "How much money would I have saved if I had just taken it to a shop in the first place. Now I gotta pay them to fix my mistake and then fix the bike as well..."
When I overestimate my meagre wrenching skills....
The flipside to that is you could have paid the shop in the first place and now you still have to fix the bike. Now you are down money and time. If I'm paying >$100/hr for expertise, I expect expertise not a knuckle dragger.
Now, in Shaman's case, until it comes out, we don't really know what happened. I would be really surprised if they torqued it in to 150 ft-lbs (head would be twisted). I suspect his got tight after. Why is the big question. It may or may not be related to the person that installed it last.
The “Imperial Cruiser” bit was tongue in cheek added by someone here in the past lol.
And it has rich Corinthian leather lol.
Everyone’s confused now, it’s not my bike with the problem. I’d have gone through my arsenal of “haven’t used that in 15 years but it did the job in 15 seconds” tools and had it out by now as well.
Either that or I couldn’t find that right tool, used a chisel to try to turn it instead, broke the head off, and would still be cursing and throwing the chisel.
One or the other
N234
Well-known member
Have you insulted any of them?
This could result in a crying, very emotionally damaged tech with shaky hands I, who accidentally spills red thread lock into the oil drain during plug reinstall.
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This could result in a crying, very emotionally damaged tech with shaky hands I, who accidentally spills red thread lock into the oil drain during plug reinstall.
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