I have toured this town for 10mm x 1.25 lock nuts to no avail so the engine is held in with regular nuts, lock washers and copious quantities of Locktite. My plan for today was to install the drive system which meant jacking the bike up and removing the rear wheel. I really don't like doing this as it all seems so unstable and I am not buying a lift for one job. In the end I pushed it parallel to my workbench, ran a ratchet strap through the vice and clipped it to two parts of the frame. Things went well until it came to tightening the drive pulley nut. I am guessing that it is 25mm but whatever it is necessitates another trip to Lowes, oh well.
All this progress got me in the mood even if it is cold and damp in the garage. The next step according to the manual is to fit the carburetor and once I thought to warm the rubber couplers with a heat gun to make them more pliable, that job took less than 5 minutes. So I have to finish the drive train, install the guards, on with the battery box, the fuel tank and we are getting scarily close to pressing the go button.
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| Carburetor installed and below the big nut that needs 85 foot pounds of torque tomorrow. |
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