Riding in the hood.

**CRUISER** · #**161** (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 04:21 PM

make sure you tell them about the forum also deacon

deacon · #**162** (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 05:22 PM

I always do... If you need help putting it together just go here.... I thought, as I told him that, what we really need here is a mentor program. Where the main responsibility for helping is with a mentor. The newby can pick someone and that person will help them till the problem is solved.

I say that because most of the time after the problem is fixed we finally here oh yeah it was doing this or that before I just didn't mention it. It's hard to question a new person about what the bike is really doing when he is bombarded with a hundred things at once.

To really help we need to be able to ask specific questions and then after all the possible information we can probably come up with answers.. Well someone can anyway.

I am not qualified to mentor anyone but some of the people here are and there is always someone around who can help. Right now the biggest problem I see is we are all trying to help without enough information from the person with the problem.

I mean real time q&a the person trying to fix the bike should hang around long enough to answer the right questions to get the right help.

deacon · #**163** (**permalink**) 04-13-2008, 05:25 PM

I only have one bike, I need to build a second one like a spare tire kind of thing. I'm still hoping the weedie will do it, but I have my doubts. Norman how do I find and use a brass bushing. I need something to support the off side of that motor. I want to make a hold down for the drive wheel on the opposite side of the wheel from the motor. I need a 3/8 interior dia bushing on a six or so inch rod. Any IdeAS.

deacon · #**164** (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 12:36 PM

I ran an errand today. Bike wouldn't start till i found the spark plug wire off. So I took off once I reattached it. Then i couldn't restart it at the home depot. I had to take the wire off and reattach it. I stopped and bought my second new spark plug wire. This one actually fits the plug they cant be just 7mm they have to have the right spark plug end for some reason they are not all the same. It started much easier when I tried with the wire attached lol...

Pablo · #**165** (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 12:52 PM

What plug doesn't fit? Plug without the threaded top??

Curious - who will just sell one wire?

deacon · #**166** (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 01:29 PM

yes the plug has the closed top. So the first 7mm wire I bought fit the black box but the top for the plug was too big. Since I had already cut the wire off before I found out, I squeezed it tighter. It worked for a while but it wasn't right. This one is smaller and it actually fits as does the boot.

Thats what I meant earlier about nickels and dimes. Just little things like this keep coming up with this bike. Nothing serious or really expensive just always seems to be something it needs lol. It definitely is a female always needing attention.

**Norman** · #**167** (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 08:00 PM

Deacon
I was at walmart today and in the hardware department I came across pillow block bearing of different sizes most around $4.00 or so those would possibly work for the bearing on the off side of your build you will have to make a plug to fit your roller and shoulder it down to fit a bearing.

deacon · #**168** (**permalink**) 04-14-2008, 09:50 PM

the build is a nightmare but I'm gonna whop it or burn it up or maybe both. I'm still working on it every time I test it something else needs doing. I stink of gasoline at the moment and I'm to tired to care.

deacon · #**169** (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 11:35 AM

I'm going to try to keep my comments down to a minimum, but I did want to make an observation about ME. This probably doesn't fit anyone else but ME...

I was out today looking for a bike frame. I went to the thrift shop on my bike (any excuse to ride it). On the way back there a long downhill stretch and the bike just stopped in the middle of it. I checked the tank and since I couldn't see any gas, I poured my emergency fuel in. I just knew that couldn't be the problem but there was room for it so why not.

that's when I noticed the spark plug wire had come loose from the black box. No big deal I just shoved it back in. So I'm pedaling down hill to drag start it and it fires up. Just about this time a big bubble butt dumper truck passed me. So far no big deal. I know what a dumper sounds like, but then, but then, suddenly there is this huge sound like my bike just exploded. Needless to say It just scared the b jesus out of me.

It took a second to realize the dump truck had a blown exhaust manifold gasket. I have no idea how much pressure one of those things blows but it sounds like the death rattle of every mechanical thing within a hundred miles. My bike not excluded.

It was about ten minutes later that I realized. I ride that bike everyday just expecting and waiting for the next thing to go wrong. Like I said it's probably just me but I always expect something to go wrong when it doesn't I consider it a great day. And it usually doesn't but things like the wire coming loose happen often enough to stay in the back of my mind.

Okay some of it was me running out of gas. And I almost never have to push it home. Though I have left it chained to a post while I walked home for my car. I have ridden it home on broken spokes ect.

Still nothing like the death rattle of a 10 ton dump truck with a blown exhaust gasket.

**nogoodnic** · #**170** (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 11:57 AM

LOL, Deacon its not just you. I would have pulled to the side of the road and spent the next few minutes trying to figure out where the death rattle came frome and then would have been very carful ridding home in fear of completely blowing my bike up. A little bit of paranoia seems to run with these bikes...Kelly