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Old Mar 19, 2016 | 09:36 PM
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Ya know.... Anyone the can do a top end, behind his motel room, xxxx miles for home..... Can do anything.
No kidding~! That still blows my mind!
 
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Old Mar 19, 2016 | 11:31 PM
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No kidding~! That still blows my mind!


Home or away, if you have the skills you can do the job...I once rebuilt the clutch on my Triumph 500 in a pub car park 200 miles form home and so hung over I had to lay down to do the job....guys like the Dr and I...we're heroes...lol!!!
 
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Old Mar 20, 2016 | 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Spanners39
..I once rebuilt the clutch on my Triumph 500 in a pub car park 200 miles form home and so hung over I had to lay down to do the job....
I think I still have one of those funny looking 'keys', for adjusting the clutch springs, on my old Triumph Bonneville. Probably still hidden in a tool box somewhere.

Found it:

 
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Old Mar 20, 2016 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Spanners39
Home or away, if you have the skills you can do the job...I once rebuilt the clutch on my Triumph 500 in a pub car park 200 miles form home and so hung over I had to lay down to do the job....guys like the Dr and I...we're heroes...lol!!!
Ya, but can you sew?? ;-)
 
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Old Mar 20, 2016 | 06:35 PM
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Looks great Hess

Oh It's called Welt Cord or some call it Piping.

Made a few miles of it my day and YUP can be a PIA

Nice job WP
 
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 09:19 PM
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I sure hope you donated all that goat meat to your local Church of the Rastafarians.


 
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Old Mar 22, 2016 | 08:58 AM
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According to the eBay auction, they were either Italian or Turkish goats. I'm thinking Turkish, and thus they would have been lining up to be executed rather than put up with one more day of.... Never mind.
 
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Old Mar 22, 2016 | 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Spanners39
Home or away, if you have the skills you can do the job...I once rebuilt the clutch on my Triumph 500 in a pub car park 200 miles form home and so hung over I had to lay down to do the job....guys like the Dr and I...we're heroes...lol!!!
I remember using ( liberating ) a shopping cart caster to get bearings for the neck on an old Triumph years and years ago. We did the "repair" in a Quarter Car Wash on a cold rainy day. The hardest part was finding a bottle of Jack!!
 
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Old Mar 23, 2016 | 09:46 PM
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