Eve of Danger
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Today, my friend and I spent about 10 hours working on his Ascot, attempting to get it running. Let me catalog what we found out about the bike, which absolutely failed to start when we arrived to pick it up:
My friend has put an incredible amount of work in today; we're both tired. We're about to meet up with another friend of mine for dinner and then probably go to sleep; tomorrow's going to be a long, long day. Hopefully it'll just be an exciting day.
- The battery is kaput.
- The starter solenoid is busted.
- Half the clutch lever broke off.
- The left-hand mirror doesn't stay in place
- The tachometer doesn't work.
- Both front blinker stalks are broken, one dangling precarioiusly.
- The engine has a slight "flutter" at a certain RPM.
- Replaced the battery and charged it a little.
- Wired a bypass to the starter solenoid with a household heavy-duty light switch
- Got the thing started, running, and put air in the tires.
My friend has put an incredible amount of work in today; we're both tired. We're about to meet up with another friend of mine for dinner and then probably go to sleep; tomorrow's going to be a long, long day. Hopefully it'll just be an exciting day.
3 Comments:
dang..all ya need now is a some gum and duct tape and it will be as good as new. :-)
YAY! You made it home :) Good work honey!
The light switch just adds class... I'm hearing dueling banjos right now... :)
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