Am I the only one who HATES working on his own bikes?
I can not pay anyone to work on anything I built and have the skills and tools to wrench on [that would be either crazy or lazy] But I hate to fix my own stuff! It isnt saving me money My labor is money! I like to build them them and I only like turning wrenches for CASH! Thats my Saturday morning rant cause my 71 CB 750 blew a head gasket. [common with these bikes!] Fix it tomorrow!
2013-09-28T10:42:59Z
I could pay one of my employees to do it! LMFAO!
2013-09-28T14:50:11Z
tech tip: If you have an old SOHC Honda CB 750 always use a copper head gasket because it is REUSABLE! Simply put it in boiling water to expand it and after it cools off simply reinstall it! And These bikes DO habitually blow head gaskets!
2013-09-28T18:49:00Z
pinemiser even on my so called day off I invariably wind up meeting a brother at my shop because a part is needed and I have stuff or can fab it up. And since my shop is at my house its even more impossible to escape! picture of my almost finished Busa chopper is now on my FB richard.slinger.773@facebook.com its put together but the motor needs to come out and be polished now.
ninebadthings2013-09-28T23:21:28Z
For a while I thought fixing mechanical stuff was the coolest thing ever, plus I barely had money for parts, forget labor. Took the engine out of my Spitfire at age 16, replaced a holed piston, turned the crank, I was having fun. But at some point I was just over it. Now I pay to have nearly everything done. But strangely I fix everyone else's stuff. I'm the guy in the family that everyone calls with a problem. I'm up to my elbows and bloody knuckles and thinking to myself that if this was my car or bike I would be paying a mechanic to do his job with all the tools that make it easy.
Well HATE is pretty strong wording but EXTREME DISLIKE is real close, LOL! The only good part about working on any of my own projects is that I'm saving money by not having someone else do it, that money buys my beers and while working on my own sh!t I do have a tendency to have a FEW ;D
But as the old saying goes- A Man Does What A Man Needs To Do.
Try hanging the gasket on a wire and heating it evenly with a blow torch until it is just glowing orange all over then drop it into water, make sure it is fully immersed in one go otherwise it will temper unevenly – this process will anneal the copper and make it seal better.
Works with copper washers too but generally it is as cheap to replace them.
Yeah I like frosting cakes, but not if I have to eat them. It's all a matter of doing what you like, doing what you want, and doing what you have to do. Call any building contractor and ask his wife if their house is done yet ? Then put the phone down and take a nap. She will go on and on for about an hour.
No, but I sure don't love it like I used to. There was a time I would take my 'zuki apart just for fun. I could have the cams out and back in in 15 minutes (yes it was timed - the things we do for fun when there's time...) I still enjoy it when it's something I want to do. I don't like it at all when it's something that NEEDS to be done. Like tearing down the primary for that poorly designed alternator.
Yep, hate is a strong word. I hate driving the cage (didn't buy it for me, anyway) I HATE having MY ride down.