Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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Mark, that pic is so cute! 
And yes, it's the USS Spiegel-Grove. It was sunk off the coast of Key Largo as an artificial reef. When it settled to the sand, it listed to one side. One of the big hurricanes (Ike?) produced so much surge that it actually dug out enough sand from the keel so that it became upright again. Beautiful dive, when the current isn't rippin'. Ditto for the USCGC Duane. |
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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I know where your bolt is....for some reason any bolt I drop on the Roadie ends up laying on some part of the suspension assembly. Its gotten so I go there first now, its like a funnel down there I swear.
I have the Stebel and my wife hates it....because I am always showing friends how damn loud it is!!!  |
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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I'm sure you're right, TH. I just can't get down there to get to it. I'm going to look in the driveway when I get home, though. Hopefully, getting the Roadie out and starting it up was enough to dislodge that bolt. If not, well... I'm not going to worry too much about it. It's annoying, though.
Edit:  I honked it for all of my coworkers. They were all suitably impressed. |
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Last Edit: 2009/01/08 14:36 By Frank_W.
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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You're right Darn Oldie, it's hard to park an aircraft on that cloud---jack--A&P
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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Frank_W wrote:
That installation went pretty smoothly until I got to the point of hooking up the battery terminal cable, which should have been the easiest part of things, but no... As usual, NOTHING can ever be easy! As I was screwing the bolt into the battery terminal, it slipped out of my fingers and disappeared into the engine, somewhere.
The same exact thing happened to me when installing my new horns. Same bolt, same frustration. The only thing different is that I could not find a bolt at home that would fit the tiny space in the battery terminal. So I took my car to Home Depot the next day, came back with the wrong size bolt. Next day, bought another one at ACE Hardware... wrong size again. Had to go to the Yamaha dealer get one. They gave me two new ones (in the sealed plastic bag) and did not charge me anything! Now I have a spare.
DJ
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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erizo wrote:
ever left a bolt underneath someone elses bike when they HAVENīT been working on it?
Now, that's just mean!!!! 
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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djroger wrote:
The same exact thing happened to me when installing my new horns. Same bolt, same frustration. The only thing different is that I could not find a bolt at home that would fit the tiny space in the battery terminal. So I took my car to Home Depot the next day, came back with the wrong size bolt. Next day, bought another one at ACE Hardware... wrong size again. Had to go to the Yamaha dealer get one. They gave me two new ones (in the sealed plastic bag) and did not charge me anything! Now I have a spare.
DJ
Well, if worse came to worse, I was going to take the negative terminal bolt out, or else slide the rectangular threaded nut out of the terminal, and take that to a screw and bolt place that we have, in town. I'll probably check with the dealership, next time I have to go over there for something.
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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kind of the same thing but the nut that holds the gas tank on right side I saw it fall seen were it went even touched it once and then gone gone gone theirs a bottomless pit behind the rear jug back side of gearbox. never found that nut.
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Re:(Mis)Adventures In Wrenching 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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Heck, if everyone jacked their bikes up and got in there, with all the parts we pulled out and pooled, we could probably build another Roadie the way Johnny Cash built his cadillac in the song. |
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