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Gael
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      01-23-2010, 07:10 PM
On Jan 23, 9:15*am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:
> Every now and again you come up against an odd one. A *really* odd one.


Yes, you *are* the really odd one, aren't you? But you don't stand out
from the ukrm crowd, you're right in the thick of *that* mess.

Who gives a cold rat's ass about trivial problems that you've already
solved?

If you want to meet your Limey friends and talk Polari in a gay pub,
why don't you just *do that*?
 
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Lozzo
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      01-23-2010, 07:28 PM
Gael wrote:


> Who gives a cold rat's ass about trivial problems that you've already
> solved?


I do.

You're just a bore

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crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com
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      01-23-2010, 07:38 PM
In uk.rec.motorcycles The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> So this afternoon, I checked the tappets again to see if I'd got one
> slightly out, but they all seemed OK. I reset them anyway, towards the
> tighter end of the recommended clearance scale.
>
> And damn me, the ticking seemed louder when I restarted it. Much
> head-scratching and the odd swear-word.
>
> It's sorted now: source of the noise traced. A virtual pint to anyone
> who can guess what it was. A new one on me, certainly.


Rev counter cable ?.

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crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com
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      01-23-2010, 07:45 PM
In uk.rec.motorcycles The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Tacho cable/drive.
>
> I noticed that the shrink-wrapping, round the end of the tacho cable at
> the cylinder head, had ridden up slightly, and so decided to push it
> down to prevent any ingress of dirt and crap, and as I touched the cable
> the noise stopped.


BTDTGTTS - see my answer above.

> Even after nearly 35 years of faffing with bikes, every day's a
> schoolday.


Yup - had me tearing out hair when it happened to me.
Then I remembered the cause of a mysterious ticking behind the dash
of an MGA many moons ago.

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      01-23-2010, 07:48 PM
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


> Rev counter cable ?.


You ain't fooling me, you know.


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Gael
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      01-23-2010, 08:16 PM
On Jan 23, 11:48*am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (In All His
Glory), the Birthday Boy wrote:

> You ain't fooling me, you know.


Ths thread ought to be good for at least 200 messages, before The
Birthday Boy receives his final reward...


 
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crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com
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      01-23-2010, 08:22 PM
In uk.rec.motorcycles The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> > Rev counter cable ?.

>
> You ain't fooling me, you know.


I honestly did post this before seing your solution.
It had happened to me before and confused the hell out of me as well.

Honest Guv.

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Simon Wilson
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      01-23-2010, 08:24 PM
The Older Gentleman wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>> Rev counter cable ?.

>
> You ain't fooling me, you know.
>
>


heh. That was nearly funny.

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      01-23-2010, 08:40 PM
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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> I honestly did post this before seing your solution.
> It had happened to me before and confused the hell out of me as well.
>
> Honest Guv.


<Narrows eyes>

Orlright.

<pours pint of Best>


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      01-23-2010, 09:55 PM
Krusty wrote:
> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>> It's sorted now: source of the noise traced. A virtual pint to anyone
>> who can guess what it was. A new one on me, certainly.

>
> Someone had fixed a playing card to the camchain with a clothes peg?


You silly sod :-)

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