So I'm doing the universe's slowest 15k service, stretching it into days because I hate working in the Florida heat (esp. with the thyroid issue) -- working only short periods late in the evening or early in the morning. This morning, before the sun started really burning and the humidity started climbing again, I reinstall the throttle cables and set the cable tension, reinstalled the oil cooler & horn, and removed the vacuum caps over the sync ports in preparation of sync'ing the carbs.
As I removed the vacuum cap for carb #1, it dropped down into the area under the carbs... and bounced... who knows where...
So I get down and start looking for it. After about three minutes, I'm about to give up, but I decide to rotate the rear wheel just in case it came to rest on the chain. I'm peering down and what do I spot? The vacuum cap? No, that would be far, far too simple...
I find the lower rubber stand-off for the rear of the gas tank. Wedged between the swing arm and the rear subframe... covered in chain lube & grime... Except that I have the stand-offs sitting in a zip-lock bag. Then it dawns on me that about 1-1/4 years ago (Feb '05), one stand-off went astray when I had the bike on the dyno following install of Ivan's jetkit... and I had replaced it with a new one at the time. So here is this puppy, having covered several states and thousands of miles, hanging on for dear life...
As for the vacuum cap? I gave up and went and got another one out of the small parts bins in the closet... I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere around fall '07...
Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet
As I removed the vacuum cap for carb #1, it dropped down into the area under the carbs... and bounced... who knows where...
So I get down and start looking for it. After about three minutes, I'm about to give up, but I decide to rotate the rear wheel just in case it came to rest on the chain. I'm peering down and what do I spot? The vacuum cap? No, that would be far, far too simple...
I find the lower rubber stand-off for the rear of the gas tank. Wedged between the swing arm and the rear subframe... covered in chain lube & grime... Except that I have the stand-offs sitting in a zip-lock bag. Then it dawns on me that about 1-1/4 years ago (Feb '05), one stand-off went astray when I had the bike on the dyno following install of Ivan's jetkit... and I had replaced it with a new one at the time. So here is this puppy, having covered several states and thousands of miles, hanging on for dear life...
As for the vacuum cap? I gave up and went and got another one out of the small parts bins in the closet... I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere around fall '07...
Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet
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