fb40dash5
Junior Member
No, thank god, not that kinda snowball. I'm done with them for a while... I love winter and snow, but the last 4 months has been too much.
I took the bike out for this year's first ride today, after parking it at work in... I don't even remember... November maybe? Jeebus, it's barely gotten north of 40 since then until the last couple weeks.
It kept up the sputtering, crappy idle, as I expected. So I bring it back to work after school, and figure I'll check the plugs, tweak the plug wires, and change the oil & coolant.
Well, if I gotta take the plugs AND wires out, guess I'll go in through the top. No biggie. Oh look, there's the coolant overflow, I wanna rinse that out too. Guess I'll just pull the ECU so I can get that out. Hey, what are these rectangles with hoses on the valve cover again? Oh, the AIS? Guess I'll delete that while I'm in there, it was a PITA to get this far. Crap, guess I'll have them overnighted from Amazon, hopefully I can ride to school Thursday. Hey, I put copper plugs in last year, lemme try those NGK Laser Iridiums I found this time.
So there it sits, about $150 in stuff later, with my coolant funnel and about 6 adapters on it to reach the cap, because I can't run it without an ignition system to get the air bubbles bled out... and about half the bike unhooked and/or removed to get to everything. Well, at least getting to the plugs from the top is stupid easy once you have everything off anyway!
I let it sit, in a shop no less, for 4 months, and I pick about the 3rd 60 degree day of the year to rip everything to shreds. WTF. :spank:
I took the bike out for this year's first ride today, after parking it at work in... I don't even remember... November maybe? Jeebus, it's barely gotten north of 40 since then until the last couple weeks.
It kept up the sputtering, crappy idle, as I expected. So I bring it back to work after school, and figure I'll check the plugs, tweak the plug wires, and change the oil & coolant.
Well, if I gotta take the plugs AND wires out, guess I'll go in through the top. No biggie. Oh look, there's the coolant overflow, I wanna rinse that out too. Guess I'll just pull the ECU so I can get that out. Hey, what are these rectangles with hoses on the valve cover again? Oh, the AIS? Guess I'll delete that while I'm in there, it was a PITA to get this far. Crap, guess I'll have them overnighted from Amazon, hopefully I can ride to school Thursday. Hey, I put copper plugs in last year, lemme try those NGK Laser Iridiums I found this time.
So there it sits, about $150 in stuff later, with my coolant funnel and about 6 adapters on it to reach the cap, because I can't run it without an ignition system to get the air bubbles bled out... and about half the bike unhooked and/or removed to get to everything. Well, at least getting to the plugs from the top is stupid easy once you have everything off anyway!
I let it sit, in a shop no less, for 4 months, and I pick about the 3rd 60 degree day of the year to rip everything to shreds. WTF. :spank: