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The "Today I did something to my bike" thread
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Cayden Defeated Thunderstorm wrote: »She hasn't mentioned anything
But nope.
Driving , not riding :pac:0 -
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All done just waiting for my slave cylinder to arrive now.
Slave cylinder hasn't turned up so I got onto seller on eBay.
They said yep, it was delivered on the 20th and signed for by "parcel motel".
I said why would it be signed for by parcel motel when the address I gave was parcel wizard.
Seller says oh well, it says successful delivery here so nothing we can do.
If I have a problem take it up with royal mail and parcel motel.
I get onto PayPal and tell them I want a refund as my item was delivered to wrong address.
They say don't worry,that they'll sort it.
They get back to me and say they have finished review and have decided against me.WTF?
Got back on to them and appealled so will have to wait but has me rightly pissed off now.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »If the delivery service THEY chose fcuks up, it's THEIR fault and the onus is on them to sort it out or refund you. FFS.
Some bullshīt alright.
Going by their logic they could hand the packet to their good friend John Smith down the road, he could sign his own name on it and I could basically go fùck myself.
PayPal seem to agree with them.
I've 2 packets arriving later and if it turns up and my appeal with PayPal is successful,I've a good mind to tell them they can go chasing their money now, I won't be lifting a finger to help them.
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Max Headroom wrote: »Ah sh1t..gutted for ya mate, they sent you the tacky gold one instead of black...ah well.....:P
Tacky??
That's a work of art Max ya Looper!!
The slave cylinders are starting to rack up now! :eek:
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »The clutch cable on my bike is 14 years old.. just sayin'
Mine is 38yo afaik...:P0 -
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »The clutch cable on my bike is 14 years old.. just sayin'Max Headroom wrote: »Mine is 38yo afaik...:P
FFS lads do they even get used??:pac:
Incidentally,while I was getting fluid for the clutch at the local bike shop there was an Aprilia RSV factory R there to get a slave cylinder seal kit fitted!! :pac:0 -
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Been waiting on an oil filter to finish off my Tuono.
Out with the old..
See the o ring on the oil filter cover?
I bought 2 of these.
They fail after a while and when they do, oil sprays onto the rear tyre.
I found this out coming into a bend one night under hard braking.
Bike went all over the place.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »I've never had a spin-on filter weep
That might have something to do with them including a fresh new O-ring 0 -
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I'm old enough to remember when you could buy c*r maintenance magazines* which actually recommended bashing a big screwdriver through the filter and then turning that :pac:
There is an official Triumph oil filter tightening/removal tool which is like a huge socket but made of plastic, I threw it into an order a few years back for a few quid when I was buying lots of other stuff. The idea is (presumably) that you can't overtighten the filter waay too much because the plastic will deform and it'll slip. Problem then is that if you try to undo an overtightened filter with this, it'll slip too. An unbranded version of this yoke sorted it out for me no problem, cost me a tenner at a classsic bike show.
How it got overtightened in the first place was because, like a complete gombeen, I was tightening the filter like it says in the manual, using a torque wrench for some stupid torque level like 5 or 10 Nm. Unless you have a very small range torque wrench it's much too easy to not notice the click at such a low torque and just keep tightening. It took the oil filter incident and a stripped brake caliper pin before I decided to never use a torque wrench on low torque bolts again, and just go by what felt reasonable using as short a bar as possible.
* Hard to imagine these days but they actually advertised these on TV and presumably people actually bought them. Nobody can be bothered reading the handbook to find out what the idiot lights mean these days, it's hard to imagine that there used to be a market for buying a magazine every week for 2 years or so just to find out how to fix your cage, and people actually did their own work too. Putting air into the tyres is too much for most these days.In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »How it got overtightened in the first place was because, like a complete gombeen, I was tightening the filter like it says in the manual, using a torque wrench for some stupid torque level like 5 or 10 Nm.
Use a torque wrench? What Book of Lies was that?
5 Nm isn't even a "ah", even "uh" is about 20. "Hurrghhh" is about 100.
I never got on with those Manx :pac: -style removal tools. So I bought a fancy automatic band for working on the cars (given the types/accessibility of the ones I have):
IMG_20150920_243702_049 by macplaxton, on Flickr
Then I bought a Berlin foot-warmer and found that they decided to bury the spin on canister in the casing (doh) so yet another tool was needed, so a Mahle OCS1 cup-type was bought. (There was a K&N filter with a nut on it, but I don't think much of their innards).
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two wheels good wrote: »Maybe some people don't realise that the (canister) filter o-ring should be oiled before fitting. Hand-tight is more than tight enough.
A trick I've read about dealing with a seized filter is to place sandpaper between filter and removal tool - esp. effective with cup-type tool photo-ed above apparently.
A screwdriver rammed through the filter then beat with a hammer will get a fella back on the road to
. I’m using a k&n filter with a nut tacked on the seems solid enough. 0 -
A screwdriver rammed through the filter then beat with a hammer will get a fella back on the road to. I’m using a k&n filter with a nut tacked on the seems solid enough.
Not a 204 filter ?
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The pink stuff is usually OAT which shouldn't be used unless the manufacturer recommends it, and it shouldn't be mixed with the glycol based stuff (usually blue)
Give the system a good flush out with a hose (wait until the hosepipe ban is over ) until only clean water comes out. It's usually worth flushing the rad in each direction or even removing it to flush it upside down depending on the amount of gunk in the system, it's likely the coolant was never changed.
Then fill up with the blue stuff (dilute the concentrate with distilled water, or buy pre-mix)
There might be a bleed screw in the water pump or top of the radiator that needs to be opened to get any air bubbles out.In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.
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