Yesterday, 12:21 AM
So I spent several hours today cursing the Yamaha designers again!
All I wanted to do was to get the coolant reservoir back in place, then put the radiator back on, but they seem to have gone out of their way to make life difficult for people by putting bolt holes in nigh inaccessible places.
For example, one of the coolant reservoir bolts goes directly behind one of the downpipes. WHY the hell couldn't they have mounted it an inch to either side, then you could easily get a ratchet wrench extension onto it, instead of trying to fiddle the damn thing in place and tighten it up in a tiny space??
It didn't help that, as I mentioned in an earlier post, the bolt that goes through the bracket which holds it in place was rusted and I had to use a lot of force to take it off which ended up bending the bracket, meaning I then had to bend it back in shape before I could remount it :-(
Also the top radiator bolt is up behind the fairing, so you either have to take that off too, or deal with another annoyingly small gap. Not only that, but there's also a bracket that holds the ABS pipes in place that the same bolt goes through, and then you need to get another bolt to go through the other end of the bracket *and* through the ABS union mount.
Had I known it would have been such a bloody nuisance, I would have taken the damn fairing off in the first place!
Oh, and when I had the engine replaced, there are two small hoses from the radiator, one that goes to the Fast Idle unit and the other that goes to the water pump breather, but whoever did the engine swapped them over.
Now, ok, they both go into the radiator at virtually the same point and probably there's no difference, however things like that bother me and I spent ages peering at rather poor quality images in the Haynes manual and diagrams in the Yamaha service manual trying to figure out which was which, because, when I took them off, I marked them as "right" and "left" with masking tape, but the images I was looking at appeared to have them the other way.
Eventually I figured out which was which, but why couldn't that damn mechanic have just done it right in the first place...?
Oh well, at least that's all sorted now, just the battery box, air box and fuel tank left to go, plus refill the oil and the coolant, then put the front wheel back on and the front brake calipers, then balance the throttle bodies and then maybe I can actually ride it again!
All I wanted to do was to get the coolant reservoir back in place, then put the radiator back on, but they seem to have gone out of their way to make life difficult for people by putting bolt holes in nigh inaccessible places.
For example, one of the coolant reservoir bolts goes directly behind one of the downpipes. WHY the hell couldn't they have mounted it an inch to either side, then you could easily get a ratchet wrench extension onto it, instead of trying to fiddle the damn thing in place and tighten it up in a tiny space??
It didn't help that, as I mentioned in an earlier post, the bolt that goes through the bracket which holds it in place was rusted and I had to use a lot of force to take it off which ended up bending the bracket, meaning I then had to bend it back in shape before I could remount it :-(
Also the top radiator bolt is up behind the fairing, so you either have to take that off too, or deal with another annoyingly small gap. Not only that, but there's also a bracket that holds the ABS pipes in place that the same bolt goes through, and then you need to get another bolt to go through the other end of the bracket *and* through the ABS union mount.
Had I known it would have been such a bloody nuisance, I would have taken the damn fairing off in the first place!
Oh, and when I had the engine replaced, there are two small hoses from the radiator, one that goes to the Fast Idle unit and the other that goes to the water pump breather, but whoever did the engine swapped them over.
Now, ok, they both go into the radiator at virtually the same point and probably there's no difference, however things like that bother me and I spent ages peering at rather poor quality images in the Haynes manual and diagrams in the Yamaha service manual trying to figure out which was which, because, when I took them off, I marked them as "right" and "left" with masking tape, but the images I was looking at appeared to have them the other way.
Eventually I figured out which was which, but why couldn't that damn mechanic have just done it right in the first place...?
Oh well, at least that's all sorted now, just the battery box, air box and fuel tank left to go, plus refill the oil and the coolant, then put the front wheel back on and the front brake calipers, then balance the throttle bodies and then maybe I can actually ride it again!