05-12-2014, 11:20 AM
(05-12-2014, 10:11 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: Quote: Done and dusted with a small amount of tweaking, sounds good but being a wimp I won`t go out at the moment as its persisting down.
Donyamate. Good advice from xpacpal1x, you can twist and push/pull as much as you like to get the unit seated. There is some room for fore and aft adjustment built in to the bike mounting bolt hole. However, there is no room for adjustment in the rotational plane. Just make sure that the Staintune tab is vertical, that is aligned with the mounting tab on the bike.
Cheers
(05-12-2014, 08:23 AM)davidsargee_imp Wrote: Watched the youtube link about "Bush Mechanics", they remind me of some people I know back in Louisiana, in fact, I have a cousin that is probably an alpha "Bush Mechanic".
Bike looks great, Ptero. How's the arm?
Bush mechanics, legends. Slipper bearings made from aluminium saucepans, pistons removed or replaced with heated hardwood, fuel tanks removed and replaced with 44gal drums and the standpipe raised in order to just add water to source the reserve and get to the nearest beer. Making a capacitor from the vehicle frame. Tyres stuffed with spinifex. The list goes on and on. The real bush mechanic is now a very rare breed. Just pay dollars and get the replacement part or plug in to the computer for a tuneup (sorry CIP) is the new way. Better?, well, mostly I guess, but not always.
My neighbour has a Toyoto Tarago people mover. The headlight bulb blew. Replacement cost a few dollars. The problem lies in getting it fitted. The front of the vehicle needs to be pulled apart to get at it. Labour cost, about AUD200! A bush mechanic would put an axe through the nose cone for easy access rather than part with that hard earned.
OK, early morning rant out of the way. Thanks, David, for the enquiry about my arm. Its healing well. Surgeon (maybe a bush one!) did a great job and I am now almost at full extension. In two weeks, I hope, Last Blast rides again.
Cheers, Tony
Bush mechanics, legends. Slipper bearings made from aluminium saucepans, pistons removed or replaced with heated hardwood, fuel tanks removed and replaced with 44gal drums and the standpipe raised in order to just add water to source the reserve and get to the nearest beer. Making a capacitor from the vehicle frame. Tyres stuffed with spinifex. The list goes on and on. The real bush mechanic is now a very rare breed. Just pay dollars and get the replacement part or plug in to the computer for a tuneup (sorry CIP
) is the new way. Better?, well, mostly I guess, but not always. My neighbour has a Toyoto Tarago people mover. The headlight bulb blew. Replacement cost a few dollars. The problem lies in getting it fitted. The front of the vehicle needs to be pulled apart to get at it. Labour cost, about AUD200! A bush mechanic would put an axe through the nose cone for easy access rather than part with that hard earned.
OK, early morning rant out of the way. Thanks, David, for the enquiry about my arm. Its healing well. Surgeon (maybe a bush one!) did a great job and I am now almost at full extension. In two weeks, I hope, Last Blast rides again.
Cheers, Tony
Good to hear about the arm, don't overdo it, two weeks isn't really that long.
Lol, the "Bush Mechanics" really do remind me of some people I knew when growing up. I was raised in "backwoods" Louisiana, there was a family that lived near us that made their living as loggers, about 3 generations of them were there at the time. They had two log trucks that were unrecognizable from the originals due to their age and all of the "mods" that had been performed over the years to keep them operational. Also had a sawmill that was constructed from the engines and other various parts of other logging trucks that didn't make it.
The old man of the family could just about make anything startup and run with whatever was at hand, it could be pretty amazing.