Scooterotica

trying to pull off a flywheel with the correct tool without removing the flywheel nut first....................

me mate put a git long pike nut on his bottom shocker bolt looked great, (at the time) panel on , rode down the road, bang! shocker bottoms out, big dent in newly painted panel, which goes skidding down the road, buggering paint. I didn't laff.

Built an engine on the bench, did the flywheel up hand tight thinking I would torque up properly when in the scoot, put engine in the scoot forgetting to tighten flywheel, and tried to start it, wouldn`t go straightaway but started eventually but didn`t run right, remembered just in time, checked flywheel and the woodruff key had almost sheared, lucky no serious damage to an expensive crank.

I tried tightening up the flywheel nut (left hand thread) with a torque wrench that DIDNT work left handed.
Thank god the nut stripped and not the thread on the crank !

Got a nice new torque wrench that works both ways, left and right handed

Cheers and keep the faith

Den 08 wrote: oh and just to chuck this in a few years ago went to sandford a week early

f****n Norah!

i hand tightened the 4 rear studs on an old vespa after fitting a new exhaust,i didnt have the right tools and thought ill tighten them later , my mate called around and we headed off with him on the back, all going well until i pressed the rear brake, i honestly saw the wheel pass the scoot and then it all went pear shaped , tore the arse out of my new sta prest, i didn't sit straight for a month with the road rash ..

Even worse than wrong bearing in the flange...

Have the factory Innocenti flywheel puller. Turns out the taper on the inside bolt of the puller works very well on indian cranks to mushroom the end of the crank out(where the threads are) if you use an impact butterfly on the bolt to get the job done quicker. Two cranks down before I worked out what was happening and why the nuts wouldn't go back on....

kicking over a customers new engine for its first start up with them present with out turning the ignition on DOH

Test run on the series 1 today. Thought the steering was a bit off. Further up the road hmmm its a bit further out now. Stopped and pushed it back. Ended up realising it was a tad loose. Rode back with the bars at 10 degrees. Interesting

I'm glad to see a few non-scooter related posts here, and if it saves a life, well here goes... (how quick do you know the ending?)
After working under my van for three hours last Wednesday, axle stands et al, finished the job, checked over, cleaned up are, took out axles stands start to lower jack. Oh, hang on.... Two tons of sill on to side on pelvis, theres only one winner. And it HURTS. Got out of hospital Tuesday night, 6 weeks immobile, 12 weeks to weight bearing 6-12 months back to normal. All my life Ive observed good practice with regards jacks, would tell anyone off working without axle stands, and 3 seconds of stupidity. Just down right, absolute stupity. And I can hear you all, just as I would've a week ago.
Thats three euro rallies cancelled, and a boss who is a tad upset as we've yet to finish the last 10% of the house build.
The silver lining? not that I'm alive, its the fact its happened! If it hadn't? I wouldn't have had x-RAYS and CT scans. I would have carried on with the house and going to rallies, drinking and smoking. Wouldn't have known about the most minute evidence of emphysema. It will still develop. The kind doctor who just happened to have nothing better to do other than study my CT scans for half an hour uninterrupted (waiting for me to come out of anaesthetic in resus) nearly missed it. It's apparently minute. I haven't looked into it yet but apparently i wouldn't have really known much about it for 18 months, by which time it would be game over. By not smoking I should be able to stabilise (not reverse) it at the stage its at now, which like I say, apparently is minute at this time. The CT scan was a precautionary because of potential crush injuries, although i did tell them i hadn't been as I was conscious the whole time and knew.
1 not even for a second, attempt to go under an unsupported vehicle, regardless of ANYTHING. It was too quick, and silent.
2 I'm 49. I would have had about 5 years at best. If you smoke, GIVE IT UP, IT IS NOT WORTH IT. To you, your wife, children, your parents and us, your friends.
3 Breaking your pelvis into pieces by crushing is short term, very painful and smarts a tad, if it hadn't happened Id be non the wiser, other than "it's bad for you", but I ENJOYED a fag with my pint etc. So its a good thing it happened now (even better i hadn't smoked for 35 years, and it hadn't happened)
Sorry if its long winded and mods might like to move elsewhere.
Off my soapbox now, but.....
Keep the faith.
Simon Brace
B-RACE TUNING