Stupid things we Do...Just for fun.!
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From: Vermont
Sheit Happens! I'm still taking a pretty good ribbing. Wifey even has the two younger boys in on the 3 Stooge deal! Will I never learn! Bone head move number 2...Mention the 3 Stooge thread to wife! 
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From: Taylortucky, MI
Last fall I decided to change the oil & filters on both bikes. I had about 3 or 4 quarts of oil hanging around,went up to the dealership & bought 4 more quarts & 2 filters. I put all the oil bottles together on the garage floor & proceeded to pull filters & drain oil on both bikes. Installed new filters & filled bikes with oil;had 1 unopened quart left, and disposed of the empties & used oil at the auto parts store. Later that day, I went to put the unopened quart on the shelf & noticed it was 10W-40 instead of 20W-50. Not good in the Florida heat. Dunno if that was the only quart of 10W-40 from what I had hanging around, or if some or all was 10W-40. So back to the dealer for 8 more quarts & another oil change. Really hated dumping 2 bikes worth of oil that had zero engine time on it! Well, at least my oil tanks got flushed!
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From: san diego
when I was younger, I was working at a benz independant shop, I was ALWAYS VERY BUSY THERE!! One day a 280 sl came in for a oil service, ran the car in, racked it blew thru the service, blew in 7 quarts of oil and shipped it, down the road motors. 2 days later, the car comes back, leaking oil, from everywhere. I put it back up one the rack, and I mean every orifice on this car was leaking!! dropped it down to check the oil level, about 14 quarts of oil in that bad boy!! seem I forgot to drain the old oil before filling it with new, oops!! told the boss that the drain plug seal was leaking, and drained and refilled, and got it the heck outta there!! got away with that one!!
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Had removed/replaced the turn signals from my 72 Suzuki GT550. The wiring harness grounds out inside the headlight housing. Figured in order to be smart I would test out all of the electronics before I buttoned everything up - save myself some time if I had made an error.
Spent 2 hours troubleshooting before I realized that nothing worked because the headlight bucket was not bolted to the fork.
Spent 2 hours troubleshooting before I realized that nothing worked because the headlight bucket was not bolted to the fork.
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
They don't get any better than this: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/gener...eet-glide.html
Personally biggest bonehead of my own was trusting a Moco dealer part to be right . on the older engines there is a back to back double timken bearing set up to exact end play tolerances to hold the flywheels true in the cases , big procedure you go thought to get it right . The bearings come in a matched set with the correct spacers and 99.9% are ok out of the box . I took a gamble on the factory unit being that way too and didn't do what I should have .
Well Murphy had other ideas and around 75 miles on the motor @ 55mph it seized locking the engine up and putting me sideways on the road . You'd be real surprised how much drag the clutch put on a no power motor to . So I'm in the center divide on a rather busy highway using language that would back up a drill instructor .
What's really screwed about that , never had another of those bearing be out of spec from the box since just the ONE time bite me .
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From: North Florida
Playing cards and drinking in a friend's garage late last fall, someone had some hot sauce and the discussion turned to peppers. Dude brought out a habanero, I said wasn't that hot and took a bite. I can handle some hot stuff, didn't bother me that bad.
One of the guys I run the bars with and I had been racing shots, I challenged him to eat the rest. He said he would, if I snorted some seeds.
Tell you what, minced up habanero seeds... not intended to be consumed via nose. I did it, and damn it sucked, but he was the one chuckin in the garbage and laying on the lawn with the garden hose in his mouth for a half hour.
OH, you meant on bikes?
Early stages of my MM-EFI conversion a couple weeks back, I had the pump and filter out of the tank. Decided I wanted to see what was in the filter, so I dumped it into a mason jar. Very little came out, so I tried blowing in one line, nothing. Tried the other, nothing. Same friend from above points at the air compressor and asks if there's air in the tank. He held one end in the jar, I put the nozzle on the other end (we were stone cold sober, I don't work on stuff drunk) I tapped the trigger and launched a 20' ball of atomized gas across the garage. He just kinda stood there looking like he needed new shorts.
One of the guys I run the bars with and I had been racing shots, I challenged him to eat the rest. He said he would, if I snorted some seeds.
Tell you what, minced up habanero seeds... not intended to be consumed via nose. I did it, and damn it sucked, but he was the one chuckin in the garbage and laying on the lawn with the garden hose in his mouth for a half hour.
OH, you meant on bikes?
Early stages of my MM-EFI conversion a couple weeks back, I had the pump and filter out of the tank. Decided I wanted to see what was in the filter, so I dumped it into a mason jar. Very little came out, so I tried blowing in one line, nothing. Tried the other, nothing. Same friend from above points at the air compressor and asks if there's air in the tank. He held one end in the jar, I put the nozzle on the other end (we were stone cold sober, I don't work on stuff drunk) I tapped the trigger and launched a 20' ball of atomized gas across the garage. He just kinda stood there looking like he needed new shorts.
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From: California
When I had a house up on the mountains of utah my buddies and I would get hammered and drive this beat *** mid 60s Lincoln down a dirt road on my property. on the end of the road we had like a cul de sac with a dirt mound. On the dirt mound we'd put bottles...
we did this for training purposes. we'd get hammered haul *** down the road whoever was in the back seat would leave the door unlatched, he'd have his choice of firearm as we went down the road you had to down a beer, load a magazine and when the driver did a "power slide" you'd let gravity fling you out the back seat. when you stopped rolling you'd stand up engage the targets (bottles) We would do this until we ran out of booze, rounds, a broken bone, or we got too drunk to load the firearm.
Not the smartest thing I have done but it was a lot of fun.
the other thing we'd do is my wife and I would sit on a big rock she'd call out targets out to 1K meters. I'd shoot then she'd take the rifle and I'd spot for her. Anything to do with shooting to me is fun.
we did this for training purposes. we'd get hammered haul *** down the road whoever was in the back seat would leave the door unlatched, he'd have his choice of firearm as we went down the road you had to down a beer, load a magazine and when the driver did a "power slide" you'd let gravity fling you out the back seat. when you stopped rolling you'd stand up engage the targets (bottles) We would do this until we ran out of booze, rounds, a broken bone, or we got too drunk to load the firearm.
Not the smartest thing I have done but it was a lot of fun.
the other thing we'd do is my wife and I would sit on a big rock she'd call out targets out to 1K meters. I'd shoot then she'd take the rifle and I'd spot for her. Anything to do with shooting to me is fun.
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On my bike: Started to get off it at a gas station without putting the kickstand down.......yea, the old classic.
On a friend's 04 Sporty: it was dirty as hell when he got it, so we spent a day cleaning it inside and out & changing the fluids.
After fighting for at LEAST 30 minutes with that annoying-*** derby cover gasket, we got the derby cover on and bolted in place all proper.
....then we looked down and laying on the ground right there at my feet was the little lever that connects the clutch cable to the clutch assembly.
On a friend's 04 Sporty: it was dirty as hell when he got it, so we spent a day cleaning it inside and out & changing the fluids.
After fighting for at LEAST 30 minutes with that annoying-*** derby cover gasket, we got the derby cover on and bolted in place all proper.
....then we looked down and laying on the ground right there at my feet was the little lever that connects the clutch cable to the clutch assembly.