Stupid trick of the week

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GrandGT · #11 Unread post by **GrandGT** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:46 am

got on my bike last week and found my ferrari was missing... oh wait

Locopez · #12 Unread post by **Locopez** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:08 am

okay.....I join the club...went to change the oil for the 1st....and dropped the tranny oil...and kept thinking....man that is not enough oil? The oil & Trans oil plug are the same size...and really close together! So guess what I changed the trans oil & the engine oil!

snwbrdr · #13 Unread post by **snwbrdr** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:33 pm

i also put two quarts of oil in without putting the plug back in.

i just wanted to make sure it was really clean.

Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:26 am

While doing a valve adjustment (my second), I finished the first side and bolted the cover on. When I went to do the other side, couldn't find the shims anywhere . . .

Yup. I'd bolted on the cylinder cover with the adjustment shims in the valves.

Just glad it was the first side, not the second side

Coulda been ugly.

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#15 Unread post by **Kal** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:42 pm

Forgot to disconnect the battery before messing around with the starter motors on the CX.

Had a short in the lights circuit at the back. Whole loom just went up in smoke. Auto-electrician arriving Monday to sort out loom and short circuit as I would cry if I did it again.

XJRJohn · #16 Unread post by **XJRJohn** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:49 pm

set off on the bike one night ,only got to bottom of street when it came to a halt.pushed it back to my garage,whipped the plugs out,checked the spark etc,etc.my son (keyoke)was stood watching.he asked if id remembered to turn the fuel on.he still thinks its funny 10 years later.xjrjohn

Nibblet99 · Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:59 am

XJRJohn wrote:set off on the bike one night ,only got to bottom of street when it came to a halt.pushed it back to my garage,whipped the plugs out,checked the spark etc,etc.my son (keyoke)was stood watching.he asked if id remembered to turn the fuel on.he still thinks its funny 10 years later.xjrjohn

I seem to remember him doing the same on the FZ though, in the pouring rain. Karma's a "dog"

jonnythan · Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:09 am

This isn't bike related, but it's oil related...

I changed the oil on my girlfriend's car a few weeks ago. Started up the engine, revved it a little bit, then turned it off and waited for the oil to settle to check the level.

Then I glanced down from the driver's seat and noticed a very large pool of oil spreading out right under the door.

"Oh, "poo poo"."

I clearly remembered putting the drain plug back in, but it's the first thing I checked. Not a drop of oil on it.

I stood up and look at the engine compartment... it took me a second or two to realize that the "blast pattern" points clearly to the oil filter. I felt like I was on CSI for a minute, then thought the Fram oil filter I bought was evidence that I was too damn stupid to be a crime scene investigator.

I took the oil filter off to see what was going on. I was sure that I destroyed the car somehow.

Well.. you know how they say 2 is better than 1?

This does not apply to oil filter O-rings.

xsyamahadg · Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:54 am

I took my teenage daughter for a ride on my Yamaha one summer evening, and on the way home, I ran out of gas...no problem, I'll just turn the reserve on... but it was already on reserve and we were really out of gas ! We had to push the bike a mile in pitch black darkness to a farmers house and buy a gallon of gas. She pitched a hissey fit and didn't talk to me all the way home. Go figure women !!

#20 Unread post by **Big B** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:43 am

today, on my lunch break, took a short (6-7 mile) jaunt to a neighboring town to visit the honda dealer. i let him try out my gloves on the way back and of course, since i wasn't wearing any, i took a bird off of the hand.

stings a bit, but at least my buddy was wearing his helmet, because the dead bird skipped off the side of it