Time taken: 3 hours.

Swearing: Lots. Especially refitting the plastic tubes from the air box
to the carbs. (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)

Stupid bits of design: 2. Tubes mentioned above, plus the nearside
starter retaining bolt. 13mm head, but can only get a 1/4" drive socket
in there, can't get a universal joint in there either, so it needs about
200 very small ratchet movements to undo or tighten.

Parts lost: 1. I only have 3 airbox clips now. The other is somwhere on
the garage floor, but I can't find it. Bugger.

Anyway. I'm glad I did it, and I'm especially glad I bought a brand new
starter motor - it's not a job I want to do again.

--
SteveH

SteveH wrote:

> Time taken: 3 hours.
>
> Swearing: Lots. Especially refitting the plastic tubes from the air
> box to the carbs. (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
>
> Stupid bits of design: 2. Tubes mentioned above, plus the nearside
> starter retaining bolt. 13mm head, but can only get a 1/4" drive
> socket in there, can't get a universal joint in there either, so it
> needs about 200 very small ratchet movements to undo or tighten.
>
> Parts lost: 1. I only have 3 airbox clips now. The other is somwhere
> on the garage floor, but I can't find it. Bugger.

Sure it didn't fall into the starter housing? Or one of the carbs? Are
you? Are you sure? Really, really sure? Well?



--
Krusty

Krusty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> SteveH wrote:
>
> > Time taken: 3 hours.
> >
> > Swearing: Lots. Especially refitting the plastic tubes from the air
> > box to the carbs. (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
> >
> > Stupid bits of design: 2. Tubes mentioned above, plus the nearside
> > starter retaining bolt. 13mm head, but can only get a 1/4" drive
> > socket in there, can't get a universal joint in there either, so it
> > needs about 200 very small ratchet movements to undo or tighten.
> >
> > Parts lost: 1. I only have 3 airbox clips now. The other is somwhere
> > on the garage floor, but I can't find it. Bugger.
>
> Sure it didn't fall into the starter housing? Or one of the carbs? Are
> you? Are you sure? Really, really sure? Well?

Found it on the floor when I put the pile of tools away.
--
SteveH

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember (E-Mail Removed) (SteveH)
> saying something like:
>
>> (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
>
> Oh no, it's not. Full of salt it is and is even now quietly eating
> away at any ally it's touching.

Erm what's wrong with a bit of engine oil anyway

--
Hog

Hog <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> > drugs began to take hold. I remember (E-Mail Removed) (SteveH)
> > saying something like:
> >
> >> (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
> >
> > Oh no, it's not. Full of salt it is and is even now quietly eating
> > away at any ally it's touching.
>
> Erm what's wrong with a bit of engine oil anyway

Oil eats some rubbers. I use liquid hand soap. Tyre soap would be a
better idea.

--
03 GS500K2
76 Honda 400/4 project
78 Honda 400/4 in black
06 Sukida SK50QT (Slanty eyed shopping trolley)

Hog <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> > drugs began to take hold. I remember (E-Mail Removed) (SteveH)
> > saying something like:
> >
> >> (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
> >
> > Oh no, it's not. Full of salt it is and is even now quietly eating
> > away at any ally it's touching.
>
> Erm what's wrong with a bit of engine oil anyway

Now you mention it... that would have been a good idea, but I do recall
using Fairy Liquid in the past for tricky hoses.
--
SteveH

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hog <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
>>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when
>>> the drugs began to take hold. I remember (E-Mail Removed)
>>> (SteveH) saying something like:
>>>
>>>> (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
>>>
>>> Oh no, it's not. Full of salt it is and is even now quietly eating
>>> away at any ally it's touching.
>>
>> Erm what's wrong with a bit of engine oil anyway
>
> Oil eats some rubbers. I use liquid hand soap. Tyre soap would be a
> better idea.

Just possibly the inlet rubbers were designed to resist petrol and oil?

--
Hog

Hog <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> >>
> >> Erm what's wrong with a bit of engine oil anyway
> >
> > Oil eats some rubbers. I use liquid hand soap. Tyre soap would be a
> > better idea.
>
> Just possibly the inlet rubbers were designed to resist petrol and oil?

One would think that, but having seen so many soggy breather pipes etc on
SO cars and the LE I just dont trust it. I just treat all rubber bits
with the same suspicion and use soap.

--
03 GS500K2
76 Honda 400/4 project
78 Honda 400/4 in black
06 Sukida SK50QT (Slanty eyed shopping trolley)

Thus spake (E-Mail Removed) ((E-Mail Removed)) unto the assembled multitudes:

>> >> (Fairy Liquid is your friend here)
>> >
>> > Oh no, it's not. Full of salt it is and is even now quietly eating
>> > away at any ally it's touching.
>>
>> Erm what's wrong with a bit of engine oil anyway

> Oil eats some rubbers. I use liquid hand soap. Tyre soap would be a
> better idea.

I used to use a bit of Swarfega for jobs like this.

--
Andy Clews
University of Sussex
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