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My TW maintenance,

My forks fixed?
New seals installed, with all the oil I provided, and new spring preloads, cut from shower rod.
Both tubes overfilled, one within 1/4" overflowing, other down about an inch. Both stiff on compression, oil and spring, way more than I brought in. Fill level is 5.3" down from the top.
I pulled all the extra out leaving one inch overfull, in both tubes, need to get new preloads from cpvc to fit right, up into the caps. Then tune them. Pix

Pix of my blood letting, I managed to get the torn flap of skin to reattach and heal.
I had fork oil, brake fluid, and blood, on my hands, and it healed this quick.

Tire to be installed today.
 

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After my fork testing ride, I found another fail.
My newly replaced fork seals, one is in the gusher mode,
way past the wheeping I brought them in for repair.

I'm thinking try the other shop in town.

They either lost my spring preload spacers, or found them
unacceptable to reuse and made a pair from shower rod, with the possibility of metal shavings.
Longer by a 1 1/2, adding to the stiff compression, high oil level.
What I have now feels like trash, I opened them up looking for broken parts
with all the clanking.
I found that my spring spacers were holding oil, open at the top, I drilled small holes in the bottom cap, to drain back to the tubes. At most they were slightly oil starved for a bit.
Still the gush needs repair,
Send them to the other shop?
Send them back, for a second whack?
 
Grrr, spacers are the great mystery, I have found pipe, pvc, abs, and steel in various used up old Dirtbikes vs I’ve owned.
 
Round 2,
Shop 2,
New seals acquired, fork tubes to the shop, awaiting tear down, and evaluation

Marking its' spot

Last 2 Grey Unicorns available for this year, on the floor.
 

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Forks back and installed, working ok, did some dirt with light washboard.
It seemed like my forks were packing, slower return to extended, too much damping.
I added two washers each side for another 3/16 preload.
I can feel a bit of topping out, need to try rocky road, compression hits.
 
I had to see how much sag I had.
Expansion joints are pounding me, maybe to the point of leaving the ground from impact.
I need to pull those washers out, and take half of the preload, 1/4" , for more sag.
 

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Last evening, after dinner, the sun behind Mingus, I dove in again.
Pulled the two extra washers, and cut down my preload spring spacer.
Now the fork cap threads are resting on top of the threads of the fork tube.
No preload, except of the 1/4 inch of threaded, cap into tube.
My baseline, 0 preload, 1 5/8 sag, and 11/16 high, 10 weight oil level.
With this base, and what I had before with preload, measures out to 6 washers, and about less than 3/4" sag.
I do need to ride it now without preload, don't know if it will bottom out.
I'm thinking three washers, less preload by a half, maybe enough sag to minimize topping?
 

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Impact with expansion joints, a bit softer, the suspension moves again for these hits.
I need more miles and more terrain, to test, bottom outs, and stay away from topping.
Compared to what I had with 6 washer stack, I NEED sag, maybe two, if it bottoms out.
 
Riding around, I don't get the pounding from expansion joints, so much so that my cheap but legal mirror actually stays in position for use.

Embarrass to say, but this bike really NEEDS premium fuel, to kill the rattle.
Been feeding it cheap regular since '05.
Still need to go rocky road testing,
 
Stopped for more gas before dinner yesterday, went to leave and found the kickstand spring and clip on the ground. Dug thru the tool kit and grabbed an inner tube rubber band, slid it over the stand and buddy peg, to get home.

This really killed my affection of the TW, bad news should maybe to be sold ?
Got nothing I want but a DT 360.
Pissed me off so much, when I think of it, I go out and kick the front wheel, spent most of last evening kicking it. Then I stripped it down.

That pin above the bolt hole, is supposed to have some kind of knob to keep the spring in place from sliding off. It got cut off by the linkage, it is half way cut off again. I moused a field repair that lasted a couple of years, I have to do better.
Bike shops won't weld on a bike anymore, I can't get it fixed unless I do it myself.
I would love to have tanks and torches, not wanting an arc welder, for a three minute job of booger welding.

May I introduce Ilene ?
 

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Harbour Freight will sell you a MIG welder suitable for small jobs for about 100 bucks. I'm a birdshit welder, that uses the heap and stick method, but more often than not things stick. 100 bucks is often cheaper that having someone else fix it.
 
Yep, HF would have cheap welders, We have one in town, that idea was #3.

What I did was sort thru my collection of nuts, (fasteners) and find one that had a tight fit to the spring post. I put a couple of turns of fine wire thru the nut to make an interference fit, and filled it with JB weld, and hammered it on, flush. Smoothed JB around with wet fingers, and let it set.
I made up a short linkage to connect the spring to the posts, and pulled all of the side stand interlock off.
Dropped a machine screw into the wire connector to complete the circuit, and taped it off.

Another "mouse job" !

Pix?? Yep.
Left over parts, interlock & wires complete, in position under the stock linkage, bearing surface,
rubber banding cut from an inner tube, and a kickstand tab cut from the Triumph, for use as the new spring perch, if I had a welder, , ,

And the finished product.
 

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Still worrying about my preignition issue, "rattle"
Wondering if it could be caused by a loose cam chain?
My manual talks about a threaded adjuster to take up chain slack.
I pulled mine, didn't see anything threaded, looks to be a sealed spring system,
no adjustment ?
When I pulled it, the screws went slack/loose, no tension, loose in place
When I installed it, I got the screws started, in a few turns, started to pull the adjuster in against spring pressure. It went together ok,
Starting took way more gas to fire, sounded way different, clunking lower end, I added about 8 twists on the idle adjuster, it barely idles under a dragging load.
I don't know if I jumped a tooth timing wise, something is off, it doesn't run free and easy any more.
I have to pull a side case and cam cover to check it.
 
Waiting for a cooler day to spend in the sun,
I pulled the cam cover, and found the plastic chain slipper, kind of shredded and out of place.
It flips around as I turn the engine,.
The noise that it makes when it turns backward as it dies, was a small erk, now a bigger graunch.
all in the starter clutch. The stator/flywheel has to come out, to check chain slipper/timing chain tensioner action, & counter balancer.
I don't have the tools to open it up to fix it.
Shop time, couple of months to fix ?
:wtf
 
Finally called Flag's Yamaha dealer,
Can't work on it too old, 10 year cutoff.
Still making them, but I asked about the concept that I need to throw away my TW and the buy a new one because parts get brittle???? I got a chuckle, but yes, fill that land fill !

Buy a new bike every ten years no matter if you like it or not.
I have 4 left on my mini, everything else that I have, needs to be dumped.
My phone, too old too.

Maybe a bonfire like Burning Man, maybe Catch a forest fire, bigger the better, for such a stupid waste.
 
Cottonwood Az.
Two shops in town, one I hear is closing.

I did get a referral for another shop in Flagstaff,
Santa Cruz Motorsports
Googled it yesterday, "Permanently out of Business"
 
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Just to show how bad a mechanic, & taking the easy way too,

This is me and my chain maint. I started in twilight, light failed, but way cooler, , ,
I have yet to build an interface between my MC jack, and the mini, to allow the use of the jack.
I did build one for my '08 Hyper, plywood & shaped wood blocks, supporting bottom of engine cases, to a flat surface.
Here my bike is flat on the exhaust, & cat. sitting on my rv step.
Step is plastic, bike has to be stone cold.

This little gismo gets run over in use, place the rear tire on it, balanced on the side stand.
So, one could rotate the wheel in place, for Chain Maintenance, four parts snap together, have extra adjustment holes, that move on the pins for a shape that works.
I may as well lay on my belly, to be low enough to access it using it on the mini.
I had hard enough time reaching it here, off the ground.

Strangely I find myself with just one running bike, the mini, , ,
 

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Living with the mini, every ride, anywhere? Sometimes, I NEED a bike with normal size wheels.
Waiting for my TW to be repaired, working the cam drive, chain, sprocket, plastic tensioner.
Starter clutch, making bad noises, all in the left sidecase, I can't pull the stator, tools, , ,
Bought a bag O' parts, for a shop that works on older stuff, my TW is too old,
back to pan and shovel head shops, on the fringe of forgotten, in Flagstaff.
 
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