Paint all of the walls and ceiling bright gloss white (gloss is easier to keep clean), install way more outlets than you think you will ever need (including several 220), install a lot of lights, coat the floor with something.
I installed a Sommer garage door opener. I don't know how long it will last but it is seriously quiet and no more oily chain. Who knew garage door openers come with mandatory photo eyes now? Those got taped together and thrown on top of the opener. I know, I know my accidental death by garage door is now imminent. But I endeavor to live with the fear.
You too, huh? Have had my "eyes" taped together for 14 years now. No deaths yet- but no children at our home.
Took the Shinko 705 off the DL this morning. This tire would not die! Tried running it down to the cords but I gave up. Put a new one on. No problem. Instead of chucking the old tire at Discount Tire I actually ran it over to the recyclers. Cost me $3 bucks. Told my coworker about it and he said just to chuck it in the ditch!
Day two of me against the DRZ125. Mid stream on a KX100 suspension swap onto a DRZ125. Yesterday went out to do a 15-30 min swingarm removal on the DRZ125. About 3 hrs later I had the rear wheel removed. Swingarm had not even been touched. Rear axle would not come out. Holy cow, what a ball buster, PB Blaster, pounding, heat, that thing would not come out. Turned out the axle was bent. Today I FINALLY get to work on removing the swingarm. Of course the swingarm pivot bolt it seized up too. FAWK! I knew I was in deep when I tried to turn the swingarm bolt and the entire swingarm moved with it. It's never good when you're wrenching with sledge hammers, heat, and penetrant. The swingarm bolt is finally turning independent of the swingarm, hoping another night of soaking and it will come out tomorrow - with some additional persuasion from the sledge and MAP torch. If it does not come out I am cutting the freaking thing off. I did manage to remove the swingarm from my KX100. Even got the bearings pressed out nicely.
FINALLY got some garage time with the old KLR. I am housesitting a place that has an awesome shop, so I have free reign. Started with changing the fork seals and fork oil. hoping to possibly change the clutch parts etc tomorrow! (just in time for winter of course. Up here we only have a few more weeks before there is snow on the ground, so I am thinking more about winterizing the bike etc than riding more
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Not actually in the garage since it has a low ceiling, took the KZ400 off the truck. Put truck on stands so I can start to replace the T90/D18 with one with a Borg Warner overdrive. Tired of wearing earplugs on the freeway. Also installed the new speedo. Made in Taiwan.
Getting the Wee ready to put up for sale. Needed to remove a few electrical farkles and swap out the rear tire
Installed a new electrical service in my new to me shop. Went to install a 30 amp breaker for the new compressor, removed the panel cover and the "A" phase buss bar and breakers fell out. Short wire length saved the day, no flash just frustration. 8.5 hours later a complete new service done RIGHT is in place. Now I can wire that darn compressor....tomorrow, since it's beer o'clock right about now.
Finished up my handlebar risers and got them mounted: I'll do the build in a separate thread. Then went for a ride. Finally made it up 1/4 mile hill (wasn't pretty but it counts) And then, just as the day was winding down... So, now I have something to do in the shop next week... instead of all the other things I was going to do in the shop. Such is life, David...
Finally got the swingarm off the DRZ. Safety first children. Finally! Holy cow. Turns out the swingarm uses bushings, not bearings. Wish I had remembered that, would have cut if off right away once I realized everything was seized up. Looking more closely at everything, there is no way I would have ever freed it up, it was all basically one piece of metal. Now that I have that out of the way I have to remember why I was removing the swingarm in the first place. Oh yeah, I'm installing KX100 suspension on it. The search for a local machinist to bore out the KX swingarm to accept updated DRZ bearings is up next.
Go outside to go to work this morning. The KTM 625 SMC just CLICKS. Get on the XRL and go to work. Get home and pull the starter. Again. I installed a new brush plate in this starter a few months ago. Find one of the brushes stuck in place. Blasted with electrical cleaner, reassemble and the bike starts just fine.
Last week we had a rainy Saturday and my boy went down for a nap. Time to hit the garage and get going on the over due oil change for the R1200RT. New filter and 20/50 in hand. Get the bike up on the lift and old oil draining into the pan, filter off. Now what to do while I let that drip nah The K&N air filter could use a cleaning, but 19 screws to gain access (damn German engineers ) Well I gotta do it, at least they are all the same size screws so not worry about keeping them in order. Boy is the filter nasty 8K and this thing is crusted with bugs. Cleaning is easy with K&N cleaner but now I have 10 minutes for it to soak. How is that oil doing, New oil filter with some oil and gasket lubed up and on, oil in the crank case. Start the bike and let the oil work it way to the internals. Engine warming up and I check the air filter, still a little dirty, apply more cleaner and let it soak for another 10 min. Shut the engine and check the sight glass, right to the fill mark so we can check that off the list. since I have all the plastic off I have access to the gear box. I have 22K miles so it would be a good time to replace the gear box oil, better check on how much I fluid I need, 700MIL. Just enough 70/140 in the bottle so I am good to go, pull the drain plug and open the filler plug (damn this stuff stinks) milky gray. Now while that is draining out I rinse off the air filter and hit it with some air to help the drying process. Well this is as good of a time as any to get the new front brake pads installed. 1, 2, 3 just that easy the pads are replaced. Drain plug cleaned and re-installed and fluid added. Time to get the air filter re-installed and reassemble the plastic's. 1.5 hours and 4 required maintenance done. I am sure I saved a couple of hundred form going to the dealer.
Put a seat cover on the KZ400. Started removing stuff off the old T90 trans to clean up and transfer over to the "new" T90.
Put the zero map back in PC3 for the SV and went out for a ride. Just trying to get better MPG compared to my 110 hp map. Went out for a spin, got up to 120 mph out in the boonies. I got 60 mph @ 4k and 75 mph @ 5k on the GPS last week so 8k must be around that. Riding time is running out!