We all spill and sadly guys we are adults now and Mom is not there to clean it up for us. But more to the point, how many times have you griped over the cost of “Super Clean” or another related clean up products. Spilling fluid of any kind on the garage floor is still best handled with kitty litter. It works better than any commercial absorber and doesn’t have any dust in it.
Draping a sheet or towel over your workbench area when working on something small with lots of parts that could scatter will help you to find them more easily. Leave the material loose and lumpy instead of smooth, and anything that gets dropped or falls will sit in the material instead of rolling off the bench and into a dark crevice.
Not exactly rocket science in this day and age, but wrapping tape around a drill bit at a pre measured length makes an easy depth-gauge point to stop drilling.
Truck seem low on power? Could be a dead cylinder. An easy way to check, if you have headers, is to either mist or drop water on each header tube where it exits the head. The dead cylinder will be the one that stays wet.
If you have to hold a nut where your fingers can’t reach and the tape trick with a socket or box wrench won’t fit either, a dab of grease on the end of a standard screwdriver will hold the nut in place and is slim enough to get the nut where it’s needed.
At a show and you forgot the bug and tar remover, but a greasy flying beast’s carcass is smeared across the chrome? Use your girl’s nail polish remover to instantly remove the mess. Be sure not to get any on the paint, though, as acetone is a great paint remover as well.
I recently acquired upright vacuum cleaner bags at a rummage sale for a quarter…
…I cut each bag in half, and now have 12 filters for my shop vac for two bits.
It was such a good idea I felt like I was stealing!
I constantly pick up the free cars-for-sale shoppers from the gas station. I pull the two staples out of the spine, drape the pages over a clothes hanger and have an unlimited supply of free shop rags. The pages work well for soaking up oil.
Well, i get this question all the time.
You can make shorter cables and that’s not cheap these days. the 750 Honda does not have solder removable nipples, so, what I do if I use Clubman bars, is I simply re-route them.
I fit the cables on the throttle and then they face out and I route them to the front of the bike, I thread them in front of the forks and then above the lower tree.
I make sure that the cables fit nice on the left side of the triple tree by the brake switch, then hug to the frame, under the coils and onto the carbs. I fit the lower cable forst and the top last, just easier to handle.
Unless you have hands of a four year old.
You have some adjustment on the cables ends by the carb too, check that as well, as you will be surprised as to how much you can get the cables to be really responsive by adjusting the 10mm nuts there.
I also add a dab of Lithium grease to the slide rods too.
This is as common as White Honda Civic Hatchbacks.
OK, Most of the screw heads are softer than a stamp collectors hands and the things will just get chewed up like cheap bubble gum.
The best bet to get the screws undone is to get ya self a cheap impact screwdriver, I bought mine from harbor freight.
Then I basically use the Phillips fitting on the screw head, then bash the balls out of the impact and the screw will come undone.
Once they are out and you want to replace them, I use stainless metric Allen head bolts.
These will last bloody years and come undone so much easier years down the line.