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What did you do in the garage today?

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Not that steady. Trick is to take a drift pin and drive it in while the cut is still hot. Works better with acetylene torch cuts.

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Tom said:
You have a steady hand. My freehand holes look more like very poorly formed spline holes.
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It's because the hole in his head makes a good pattern.;-)

Not really mine always come out egg shaped but JMZ usually comes up with round ones that are the right size.
 
JMZ said:
Not that steady. Trick is to take a drift pin and drive it in while the cut is still hot. Works better with acetylene torch cuts.

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Now we know....:chug:
 
Sorry 105 lbf INCH

Beware of the 12 lbf-ft spec in manual. I completely stripped out 2 holes on this bike and yes I was torqueing to 144 lbf-in on 3/8 torque wrench. I lost one thread and thought sh&t happens, when I lost the second, I did some some quick googling which showed me this is a common problem.
 
FE_Rex said:
Sorry 105 lbf INCH

Beware of the 12 lbf-ft spec in manual. I completely stripped out 2 holes on this bike and yes I was torqueing to 144 lbf-in on 3/8 torque wrench. I lost one thread and thought sh&t happens, when I lost the second, I did some some quick googling which showed me this is a common problem.
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For emergency use at the race track, we used 8, 18 and 28 #/feet or 96, 216 and 336 #/inch. I see several on OLDTLSDOUG's chart that closely match those specs. I would be very wary of any spec for a bolt going into aluminum that exceeded those emergency torques by 50%. 8, 18 and 28 are easy to remember for 6, 8 and 10 mm. Suzuki threw a wrench in the works when they started using 7mm cam cap bolts on some early GSXRs.
 
Couldn’t decide whether to change the 1090r oil at 5k or 6k intervals. So split the difference on this one and changed it at 5600 miles. (The 9k recommendation from the manual seems excessive.) screens were clean and filter wasn’t too bad.

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Yes it did, but also the break in oil change was at 700 miles. So this one really doesn’t count as even 5k, I just like being on a schedule or I’ll forget.
 
South Tex said:
Yes it did, but also the break in oil change was at 700 miles. So this one really doesn’t count as even 5k, I just like being on a schedule or I’ll forget.
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I write date mileage and what I did with a felt pen on the jug that has left over oil and put up on chemical shelf. For lawn mowers, bikes, vehicles and even weed eaters and tractor and generator. Do you keep a log?
 
I usually keep some kind of log on my phone for the odd things like lawnmower and tractors. A yearly reminder on my calendar for the truck and jeep since I don’t drive much. But the bikes I try to just stick with a mileage to watch.
Speaking of, I got curious and looked at my dirt bike. 30.2 hrs, so out it came for its 10hr oil change..

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Got a set of rally pegs today for the 1090r. The stock ones are a bit small for my size 11.5’s.

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Did the zip tie trick on the spring and pulled the pin. Well, until the pin met the brake pedal.

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8 mm socket to release the pedal, remove pin, install new peg, blue lock tight on the bolt, and better than new.


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I’m sure you cut more grass than me, but I went with an Echo electric weed eater and love it. I tested it and just kept cutting and never let off the trigger and got 25 minutes of constant work. 40 minutes to charge. I bought the light duty one since I only cut my house, but they have a heavy duty one.

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South Tex said:
I’m sure you cut more grass than me, but I went with an Echo electric weed eater and love it. I tested it and just kept cutting and never let off the trigger and got 25 minutes of constant work. 40 minutes to charge. I bought the light duty one since I only cut my house, but they have a heavy duty one.

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A g ree. 100% 36vdc should be plenty powerful . Lithium power has changed everything
 
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stacked up firewood after a trip to Helotes yesterday.
not IN the garage (yet) but finished plumbing the fuel lines on the old Ranger truck.
new gas tank and pump innards, new reservoir, new frame pump, but no pumpie nada.
checking inertia switch tomorrow and more troubleshooting if needed.
spray fuel in the intake and it starts right off, so not a dead end.
 

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