what did you do with your fazer today ?

[unfazed]

New battery in the 1000.

[coffee]

Got half way through changing the clutch cable on my FZ6 this afternooon which should (supposedly) have been an easy job of an hour or so, but turned out to be a right PITA!

There's a stupid clip buried inside the frame that is very difficult to get to, so you need to take the airbox off to reach it.

Then I discover that the clutch cable has two metal sections (presumably to hold the bend in the right places or something) which are an absolute bastard to wiggle through the narrow gaps around the engine and, even worse, by the side of the engine and through the front of the frame to the clutch lever

By the time I *finally* got the old one out and the new one in place it was dark and I've only got a little hand-held fluorescent light to see by, so there was no way I could get the airbox back in place etc.

I'll have to finish it tomorrow...

Blimey!! I thought it was awkward on my FZ1  :eek

[ogri48]

I take it the "murder" lift is the top of the gable?

that it is mate, though it harks back to a time all the bricks and blocks had to be hodded up there..nowadays you aint even allowed to carry your tools up a ladder let alone a hod with 14 bricks innit..

[mtread]

.nowadays you aint even allowed to carry your tools up a ladder let alone a hod with 14 bricks innit..

OK I'll ask........ How do you get them up there then? Trampoline? 

[coffee]

.nowadays you aint even allowed to carry your tools up a ladder let alone a hod with 14 bricks innit..

OK I'll ask........ How do you get them up there then? Trampoline? 

I've seen them mechanical driven brick and tile carriers maybe it's them  :agree

[steve 10562cc]

OGRI : Heres a bad memory for you, wet 4" clinker breeze on a cold winters days wearing your finder tips out till they bled. Only being able to lay 3 courses of the ba**ards before they wagged about, while being payed by the yd. Dam going to have to go for a lie down and a couple of aspirin till the thought wears off  lol

[Grahamm]

A follow up to my previous post:

After running out of daylight yesterday, I got back to reassembling my bike although getting the airbox back on was a nuisance until I undid all the collars that secure the rubbers to the throttle bodies and smeared them with some red rubber grease.

In any case, I'm glad I did the change because the clutch is *so* much smoother and easy to use now :thumbup

[ogri48]

.nowadays you aint even allowed to carry your tools up a ladder let alone a hod with 14 bricks innit..

OK I'll ask........ How do you get them up there then? Trampoline? 

site fork truck/ teleporter mate

[ogri48]

OGRI : Heres a bad memory for you, wet 4" clinker breeze on a cold winters days wearing your finder tips out till they bled. Only being able to lay 3 courses of the ba**ards before they wagged about, while being payed by the yd. Dam going to have to go for a lie down and a couple of aspirin till the thought wears off  lol

paid by the yard! Christ thats going back some mate. my old man really struggled when guage went from four bricks to the foot to 300mm lol. he reckoned metric would never catch on, there was too many numbers in it 

[steve 10562cc]

We were paid by the yard but the site agent measured by the metres, yep thieving t**t.  when I started my apprentice ship was either the first or second year we had gone metric. Metric was great easy to work areas and volume out bo**cks to yards, feet, and inches. 

[mtread]

Just think of those poor Egyptians building the pyramids. Being paid by the cubit 

[steve 10562cc]

only one bit of advice for the old Egyptians use smaller bricks you can lift. 

[fazersharp]

Re greased my 1 lug speedo rotor as here ---- http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,24814.0.html

[agricola]

Put the front and rear wheels back on the bike with the new tyres on, rear brake to refit, hugger to refit, still waiting delivery of the inlet rubbers from Yamaha Europe

[ogri48]

prepped the thou for france tommoz. Just gotta do chain tension, air, oil and water in the morning

[VNA]

Big boxes.  Hope you are enjoying the trip.

[unfazed]

Two new Sportec M7RRs and new valves on the 1000 all ready for the road again

[agricola]

prepped the thou for france tommoz. Just gotta do chain tension, air, oil and water in the morning

and a bag of cement on the tank to keep the front wheel down :lol

[ogri48]

Lol I need them big boxes ...one for me sandwiches one for me conscience... spot the paratrooper in a spot of bother btw..

[Anquetil]

Private John Steele at Saint-Mère-Église. Brings back memories of my time living in Normandie. Have a good, safe trip ogri48.