05-05-2016, 07:21 AM
(05-04-2016, 10:23 AM)jjchowdy_imp Wrote:(05-04-2016, 10:18 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: You will have to jam two nuts together if you can get them started. The same for tightening up the new one.
unfortunately, if I could get the bolts on, I wouldn't have a problem. lol. It's apparent I'm not getting anything done tonight as it's getting dark. I think I'll look for the wife's Xanax and try to lower my blood pressure. I'm leaning towards the file/die solution because they don't appear to be too mangled. Admitting to my wife that I managed to screw up the bike she bought me the first time I tried to do anything to it will be another lesson in humility for me. Ugh. Thanks for all the replies guys.
unfortunately, if I could get the bolts on, I wouldn't have a problem. lol. It's apparent I'm not getting anything done tonight as it's getting dark. I think I'll look for the wife's Xanax and try to lower my blood pressure. I'm leaning towards the file/die solution because they don't appear to be too mangled. Admitting to my wife that I managed to screw up the bike she bought me the first time I tried to do anything to it will be another lesson in humility for me. Ugh. Thanks for all the replies guys.
JJ, Don't beat yourself up, we've all done things we wish we had not done on our machines. I won't tell you about the time I was winterizing my sailboat's diesel engine and I left the water intake hose in a bucket up high in the cockpit. Took a break for lunch and came back to find water had siphoned into the cylinders and was pouring out the air intake. Well I guess I just told you about it.