Jay's intake cam mod gone bad...*now updated*

[andrewsw]

interfuse says:

Pull the motor and get a friend to help bring it into the kitchen.

If you live with a woman, don't do it! It was nearly the end of my now 15 year relationship when I tore down my old gs450 in the living room...  

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[Red01]

The key is to that sort of thing EARLY in the relationship so it's expected behavior.  

The first winter of my marriage, my RD350 came into the livingroom of our apartment for winter storage & rebuild. Now that we have a house with a garage, the bikes stay out there, but parts still come in the house when it's too cold to work on them in the garage. (I do have to wait until she'd out of the house to use the oven for mechanical related projects though.)

[stormi]

LMAO!  I have a "spare" Borg-warner T5 transmission that I've carted around with me for years.  

At one point, I had it living under the kitchen table in my apartment.  It was too oily to put in the "storage" room or anywhere else that made sense, because it was all carpeted. I didn't use the table much back then, so it seemed a good place.  

The only part that really sucked was when I would be walking past it, and the input shaft was sticking out a little too far, and I'd catch it with my ankle or something.  

In my previous apartment, it had lived in the front closet, with my shoes and coats.  

I got some odd comments when people would hang their coats up.

[Red01]

I have to say, it's not the average woman that stores spare transmissions in the closet with her shoes...

...and you said you weren't strange.  

[stormi]

Well, I read once that the average woman has 24 pairs of shoes... it seems to me, I'm even further from "average", in that I'm not sure I've owned that many pairs of footwear since high school... and most are purpose footwear - riding boots, street and dirt, ski boots, then the obligatory snow boots, one pair of heels, my regular "dress" shoes, a pair of runners and a pair of sandals.

Of course if I'd had more shoes, they wouldn't have fit in the closet with the tranny.  

me?? I'm not strange at all...    

[tomacGTi]

Trust me guys, the GF is quite understanding but frankly we're running out of room in the basement as cycling team stuff has taken over for the summer.

I can only image how much shit she would flip if she saw me R+R'ing a motor in the kitchen...

[andrewsw]

Well, my gs450 in the living room adventure was early on too, about a year into it. I had already torn down and rebuilt my bicycle more than once in the living room, but the gs was too much. I *still* hear about it. She's very tolerant, but big piles of m/c parts in the living room it too much...

Stormi -- you rock!

[gsxr400 racer]

this post has now entered the no where zone

[andrewsw]

yeah yeah yeah. It my fault, sorry. I"m done. ;-P

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