06-03-2021, 11:38 AM
(06-03-2021, 09:15 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: Looking to do mine soon. Might be complicated, but can't be any worse than the valve check I did on my Bonneville when it hit 12k a few years ago. Despite my best efforts to shove towels into every possible orifice, a guide dowel dropped into the engine. After a million attempts to fish it out with a magnet stick over the course of a few days, I was able to snag it with a tool I made, shaped to the inside of the engine casing. I still have the tool in the top drawer of my tool box to remind myself not to let it happen again. After that anguish, the CB should be a piece of cake.
But, ugh, don't wanna.
... dropped a lock nut down a cylinder block gallery of a 1100 Yamaha Virago and approached retraction using magnetic extension, long nosed pliers, foreclamps, wired hooks, a long string of choice cursed words, and alotta water to replenish bodily fluids. Swore to never made that mistake again.