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

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!

i also put two quarts of oil in without putting the plug back in. i just wanted to make sure it was really clean.

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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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

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"

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.

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 !!

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