Oklahoma Wrench Session

[hop along]

Ah, gotcha

PM me with an address or directions to your place?  I could just ride around Tecumseh till I find your bike, but it could take too long.. the donuts wouldn't last   

Looks like just us
Hop Along

[snoopy]

I *was* going to show up since I'm only about 4 hours away, but things have picked up today at work and I'm the on-call this weekend, so I can't be away from a computer for the 8 hours there and back.

[BudMan]

Bummer. Oh well, we'll do this again before too long I'm sure.

[hop along]

Well in most regards the session was a success   
The weather to ride out from Norman was perfect-there was even a little wet stuff in the air to keep it cool.  In fact it was so nice, I managed to miss the turnoff.  Of course the road sign was a bit hard to read, or at least that's the story I'm sticking to.

Bud has a neat little setup to stabilize the bike while working on it.  I may have to borrow this concept...see the bottom picture for reference.

Lots of stories were shared, and I'd like to say that's what took us so long to deal with replacing fork seals, but we did have some difficulty in removing the two 6mm allen head drain bolts at the bottom of the forks.  As in, a trip to Lowe's and a phone call to Greg to make sure we weren't about to *really* mess things up.  He assured us we were on the right track; and indeed, after a good tip from him, a plain 'ol allen key and vice grips were enough to break those two bolts loose move forward.

although there is at least one sticking point still... we had a lot of donuts left over at the end!

Thanks again Bud for hosting.  I learned several new shop tricks-in addition to replacing fork seals... I really appreciate it!

And I do have a tire changer, and a truck, I could always drive out there and we could change that tire you have....


Hop Along

[TLRam1]

Thanks for the report Hop Along, is that your bike being serviced. You have enough donuts left over for the next wrench session.

[guywheatley]

Just a follow up on the film trick. It seems to have worked. Thanks for the info. You guys just saved me ton of money and work.

[hop along]

Terry-
That is my bike being worked on, in Bud's shop

Guy-
good to hear!  Keep an eye on it in the future.  Wish it'd worked on mine, what made our job hard was two *stuck like a duck* bolts.  But now I feel quite prepared for next time

Scott

[BudMan]

Well... It was a small group (2), but we met the objective of the session and had fun and some great donuts!  We had quite a time getting those bottom bolts out but the post mortem on the bolt showed the problem.  We found Loctite RED solidified in the threads.  The manual does in fact call for thread sealer on the bolt, but I don't think PERMANENT sealant is called for.  We used Loctite BLUE and torqued the bolts to the appropriate value IAW the manual.
We tried using an impact driver to remove the bolt, but found the spring and rotational action of the fork absorbed the force of the driver. So much for fancy tools; the old brute force approach got the job done!
The excess donuts were rescued from getting stale while waiting for the next wrench session (burp).