Redliner
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Re: That'll void your warranty - Your worst or most painful "fixes"
...that's probably the best I've heard so far. So unbelievable yet entirely plausible.
Just recently I received a call from another state. Poor guy couldn't kick over his CA77.
He had spent hundreds to have the clutch....repaired somehow. He couldn't describe what was done because the Harley chimp that did the work couldn't describe what he'd done. He just kept repeating the word "clutch" and babbling on with excuses. The Harley guy would avoid him. In fact, the owner would wait at his house and the Harley guy would open the throttle as he rode by and just blow him off.
Somehow he finally got it back and paid for the repairs in full, even though the guy couldn't show that anything had actually been fixed. He says he put in new clutch plates and when the owner got the bike back, the clutch side cover was off and some pieces weren't assembled.
He said once you try to kick it, you'd get a really loud clunk and it would jam up. But, you could turn the wheel in neutral. So I told him to put a spanner on the rotor and try to turn the crank and sure enough it always jammed in the same two spots.
So you know what is next. One valve won't seat and the piston has a nice bruise in it. Bent valve.
How do you possibly disrupt the timing by working on the bottom end??? It seems impossible because it is! Keep Harley chimps away from refined and simplified machinery because the only thing they know how to do is blow a whole motor apart just to replace a stator. I'm still pissed off when I think about it. I can't help but want to track this guy down and put small metal rubbish into his spark plug holes, or silica in his oil tank. Fuck that guy. I have a short shit list, and this guy managed to score high.
...that's probably the best I've heard so far. So unbelievable yet entirely plausible.
Just recently I received a call from another state. Poor guy couldn't kick over his CA77.
He had spent hundreds to have the clutch....repaired somehow. He couldn't describe what was done because the Harley chimp that did the work couldn't describe what he'd done. He just kept repeating the word "clutch" and babbling on with excuses. The Harley guy would avoid him. In fact, the owner would wait at his house and the Harley guy would open the throttle as he rode by and just blow him off.
Somehow he finally got it back and paid for the repairs in full, even though the guy couldn't show that anything had actually been fixed. He says he put in new clutch plates and when the owner got the bike back, the clutch side cover was off and some pieces weren't assembled.
He said once you try to kick it, you'd get a really loud clunk and it would jam up. But, you could turn the wheel in neutral. So I told him to put a spanner on the rotor and try to turn the crank and sure enough it always jammed in the same two spots.
So you know what is next. One valve won't seat and the piston has a nice bruise in it. Bent valve.
How do you possibly disrupt the timing by working on the bottom end??? It seems impossible because it is! Keep Harley chimps away from refined and simplified machinery because the only thing they know how to do is blow a whole motor apart just to replace a stator. I'm still pissed off when I think about it. I can't help but want to track this guy down and put small metal rubbish into his spark plug holes, or silica in his oil tank. Fuck that guy. I have a short shit list, and this guy managed to score high.