Drewcifer
1976 XS 360 Maniac
Ouch, and I've done that forgot the heat shrink move QUITE a few times! LOL
you could have done that IN the frame..... just saying
It requires some patience is all. You have to be gentle, but deliberate with her! Loosen the top and pull it back a little, then rock it back and forth so that it doesn't catch on anything. Viola, it's off!
Really? Hmm. Then I had better be careful how I phrase this ...Last time I did that I got my face slapped!!!
Couple of years ago ...... started up my xj700 for the first time after sitting all winter. Had to use starting fluid and the battery charger to get it going. It was almost out of gas so I took a run up to the local gas station 6 blocks away and filled it up but it wouldn't start after the fillup. Not wanting to walk the bike home (an XJ700 is heavier than you might think), I called my next door neighbot to bring his truck and a rope to give me a short tow home. Very Very bad idea! That XJ700 is pretty heavy and it takes some real concentration to get it moving without getting pulled out of the seat when holding on to a tow rope no matter how careful and strong you are. The end of the story winds up with the XJ on one side of the street and me on one side of the street with bloody hands and a knee the size of a small melon about 1 block from home. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
dO-bOy has managed to describe me to a "T".Embarrassingly stupid as it was completely avoidable
Last year a neighbour of mine gives me a bottle Kreem Fuel tank Plastic liner, So I go and do it to it, an this year when the bike is fully running, It starts to die every 5 to 10 minutes of street driving. the first couple trips where to the Gym, and back less than 5 miles, and not over 45 mph, No problems, first trip to work, at 60 mph, and not even a mile down the road, alot of sputtering. Bike petcock was on Prime. Ok, I thought the bike carbs can not keep up with the fuel consumption at 60mph. That night leaving work, same thing happens, and I think its gas, so I get a gallon of Ethanol gas, Everything is fine, I went to a movie theater. Then leaving the theater, about 6 times my bike dies on me. Okay, next day I looked at the bottom of the gas cap, I had plastized my gas vent hole. Now I suspect the kreem Tank liner might have been fine, if i had cleared the hole sooner.