When simple jobs go wrong...

[Annabella]

Tomorrow it's a very special day for Donkey - it's MOT day. The garage are forewarned of the special treatment Donkey requires and have been kindly asked not to laugh.

Donkey has been spruced up especially for the occasion and tonight, I had the very simple task of fitting a new clutch lever. To be honest, I was amazed at how dirty my hands were from just removing the old lever... I must have been reading too many "Heavy Bus Racing" 'how to' guides (ok, so that required some percussive persuasion and a lot of WD40) and putting the new one on. Here's my dirty hand.

https://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs235.snc1/8235_258142770566_790925566_8726176_6836566_n.jpg

From there, I checked the oil level... bugger all. Which reminds me, the car's been running a bit on the hot side so I'd better check the coolant level.

Off I toddle and get the bonnet open. There's barely any water in there, so I get my watering can and ring Dad so he can listen to Donkey running. I get ever so slightly carried away chatting and overfill the expansion chamber completely.

Me: "Bugger!"
Dad: "What's the matter?"
Me: "Too much water in the car now"
Dad" "Ah, just stick the cap on and run it for a bit, then see."
Me *clambers into car, starts it*
Dad: "muffle muffle muffle"
Me: "Can't hear you, car's too loud"

There's no difference made, so there's only one thing for it - syphoning.
I try using a squeezy squash bottle, but that's just useless and I manage to extract approximately 50ml which I then promptly spill all over my engine.

Dad is still on the phone at this point: "Er, don't you have any hosepipe?"
Me: "It's all scummy and full of spiders and crawling things"
Dad: Just chop the ends off and give it a swill through

I can't give it a swill through unfortunately, because, somehow, I managed to empty my pond last night so one end of my proper hosepipe is in the pond filling it up. I assess my tools and decide a bread knife is definitely the best thing for the job of chopping up a hosepipe.

Phone still under one ear, I start chopping.

Me: OUCH!!! FOooooook!!!
Dad: *laughs*
Me: I've sawed my bloody finger and now I've got bloody blood all on my new kitchen worksurface!! AND I'm going to get it on my engine cos it's bleeding everywhere! Meh
Dad: What were you using?
Me: Breadknife

I can hear Dad face-palming

My sawed finger:
https://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs235.snc1/8235_258142775566_790925566_8726177_6158891_n.jpg

Never mind. On with the task in hand. Out I go with my sawn-off green hosepipe, now attractively decorated with blood.
https://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs215.snc1/8235_258142780566_790925566_8726178_6045464_n.jpg

In it goes, and I start to suck. Dad's trying to give me advice how I can do this without having to suck, I'm too impatient.

BLEH BLEH BLEH BLEH BLEH!!! Pah! *spit spit*

The stuff tastes MINGING!
Dad, is still on the phone and laughing at me. Thanks Dad.
Dad: I take it you ignored my advice and just sucked? Well, has it worked?
Me: Er, well it stopped after I waved the end of the hosepipe around as I spat out the coolant in my mouth.
Dad: You know you've got to keep the end below the expansion chamber don't you?
Me: YES!!
*sucks again*
I haven't learnt my lesson and get yet another mouth full of still warm, foul tasting antifreeze.
Geh.

To add insult to injury, when I was tidying up and putting my sawed-off hosepiper away I managed to put my whole head in a big spider's web.

Edit, a little photo whoring of my 'hot' car:
https://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs215.snc1/8235_258142785566_790925566_8726179_2496954_n.jpg

I'm off to drink wine to try and get this nasty horrid taste out of my mouth. Donkey had better pass it's MOT tomorrow!
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[hellkat]

Its just not your day, is it?

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[Barry_M2]

I cant believe you backed it all up with pics too!!

Brilliant!

Oh, and hope your finger doesn't drop off!
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Clutch plates on a VFR, 3 days and lots of swearing on G's drive way!!! Stupid Japanese!

I feel your pain.



Luke

[Handsome]

[Skudd]

When my G/F is bleeding I always get her to suck.
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[SlimRick]

[Handsome]

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[Luke_Retrofly]

I couldn't remember what order I took it all out. There was something like 30 bits, stupid expanding clutch thingy.

The first time I put it together the clutch worked in reverse

[Annabella]

To update: Donkey passed it's MOT


After having to fiddle with the lights which inexplicably stopped working during the MOT, having to fit a new front brake switch after the existing one fell apart in my hand whilst fiddling with headlights, and fitting a new throttle cable when taking apart the switches to see why the lights had stopped working revealed there were only 2 threads holding the thing together.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

Congratulations Donkey.

TS
trying hard to resist the urge to say something about women always spitting whilst pulling faces.
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[Clanger]

I have a tendency to lose finger ends whilst using knives too...
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[ZRX61]

Somebody go over to his house & weld his fucking toolbox shut

[G]

Easy syphoning... get an empty washing up liquid bottle and make a hole next in the top, next to the lid.
Attach tube. Squeeze bottle with hole open, place finger over hole and let go.

Or get a fancy syphon pump thingy like what I got for racing .

[Annabella]

[Handsome]

So you could have filled two of the bottles up from the third one, wouldn't have mattered about mixing them as they're only washing up liquids anyway...

Just for future reference like...
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[Wave2k]

I opened some cheese a few days ago and ended up driving the knife through my hand.

simple things
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Simple minds

[st3v3]

I find it amusing that during this drama there were moments of pause for taking pictures.
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[G]

Oh and the issue with Luke's VFR was that we had initially messed up the two separate halves of the clutch basket - only bike I've seen with a design like that. I've done/helped with quite a few since, and they work first time now .

[Annabella]

[kingsmith]

my big guestion is why you needed to remove some water, top up and drive away do it all the time with my car?



its not totaly closed water system in there..always some where to come out..

always fines its own level..
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