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#1 ·
4 hour work day for me at the shop. Used the time to do a valve body swap on a '01 Jetta 1.8t auto .... I successfully installed a transbrake on the car .... that however wasn't my intention.

Its in 2 gears at once in park, all other gears (R/N/D/2/1) are forward gears.... they all seam to be first gear.

I have it torn back down most of the way. Tuesday I'll actually get the VB back out and see whats up.... but part of me wants to take it out for a test drive the way it is just for the fun of it.
 
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matts37chev said:
getting spring fever doing all this yard/garden work
(both the wife and I took next week off to put her garden in and do some other much needed yard work) :rolleyes:


back to the spring fever.... I bought a new batt. for my old 81 Kawasaki KZ 550
so I can get it dusted off and running :D

this a neat, very fun, run around town, little old bike. :thumbup:

I didnt get to ride it last summer, because by the time I got around to getting it out and running again, our summer was over, and it was raining again :mad:

:nono: thats not going to happen this year :nono:

I will be charging up the new batt. today :thumbup:
Ride it son, ride it. I wish I would have ridden my bikes more before my back got bad and I had to sell. Now I need to make time to enjoy my T-bucket. It could be driven more than it is, also. Everytime I go for a ride, I ask myself why I don't do this more often. :D
 
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Helped my friend with the '69 Firebird replace the front suspension today. After not getting good responses on his Ebay auction. I talked him into removing the fenderwell headers and Shock Wave air suspension, plus the reworked control arms that made it sit nosebleed high in front.
It's sitting stock height now, with all stock components. Kinda wish we'd done the 2" lowering springs too, as stock height is a bit higher than we like even.
Anyway, he'll have to hook up the new headers, and then it's ready to go back on Ebay for another try to see if it's more appealing than the first go around!
 
#890 ·
matts37chev said:
back to the spring fever.... I bought a new batt. for my old 81 Kawasaki KZ 550
so I can get it dusted off and running :D

this a neat, very fun, run around town, little old bike. :thumbup:

I didnt get to ride it last summer, because by the time I got around to getting it out and running again, our summer was over, and it was raining again :mad:

:nono: thats not going to happen this year :nono:

I will be charging up the new batt. today :thumbup:
It's alive :thumbup:
a little bit more tinkering and an oil change and it's ready to go :thumbup:
 

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#891 ·
Cool, I had a GPZ550 about the same vintage. :mwink:

Today I worked my ever lovin butt off! HOLY COW I am whooped, I am not jarshing.

First off I finished pulling the weeds out behind the garage in my "wrecking yard". :rolleyes: Then sprayed some Roundup all over everything hopefully keeping it from growing again this season.
Then I set out to sand blast all the top iron stuff. It was even a bigger PITA than I thought. It took me about 8 hours! NO KIDDING! I am WHOOPED.

But it's done and I am also thrilled. :D

Brian

 
#893 ·
Holy crap it was a work out, I feel like a blocked a whole car with a long board. :sweat: I kept thinking I would stop at noon, I would stop at 3 I would stop at 5 but I just couldn't. I marathoned it and worked from around 9:30 this morning to 6:00

Brian
 
#897 ·
Made my weekly trip to the dump, picked up some molding for the redone bath room, dropped off a couple of my 10" miter and radial arm saw blades for resharpening, put down some fertilizer in the back, flea and tick killer in the front - then went to work on my trim work. Four pieces of wood, you can hold in one hand, common trim, shoe and panel trim (like double sided door stop) - $19.

I did check the car - it's right where I left it last fall(with all this year's updates done).

Probably not going to get it out early this week either:

Today
Rain 54 °F
Rain
80% chance of precipitation

Tonight
Rain 34 °F
Rain
100% chance of precipitation

Tomorrow
Rain 61 | 37 °F
Rain
90% chance of precipitation

Tuesday
Rain Showers 52 | 36 °F
Rain Showers
60% chance of precipitation

Dave W
 
#898 ·
MARTINSR said:
Cool, I had a GPZ550 about the same vintage. :mwink:

Today I worked my ever lovin butt off! HOLY COW I am whooped, I am not jarshing.

First off I finished pulling the weeds out behind the garage in my "wrecking yard". :rolleyes: Then sprayed some Roundup all over everything hopefully keeping it from growing again this season.
Then I set out to sand blast all the top iron stuff. It was even a bigger PITA than I thought. It took me about 8 hours! NO KIDDING! I am WHOOPED
what kind of blaster did you end up using? and did you set up a tarp booth outside?


I also have a "very low milage" GPz 750 :pimp: , but it needs a lot of work (its parts have gone bad from sitting for so long) :pain:
 
#899 ·
LOL. I have crap for a blaster! You will laugh but it is a little hand held unit that is about fifty years old. I have a big siphon one but it is buried at the back of the shed and I figured I would get this done faster than digging it out. :rolleyes: But I don't know if it would help all that much. As I remember I didn't have enough CFM with my compressor at home and it didn't work very well. But what I was using works great for the small stuff and I get it done pretty fast so I just went ahead and did these things with it figuring they aren't that big, not like doing a frame or something and figured handling them the way you need to the small one would be fine. Probably should have re-thought that. I did get a chunk of fuel hose and stick it over the inlet tube and put the hose in the bag of sand after I had refilled the little quart cup about ten times. :rolleyes:

As for where I do it, sitting out in the middle of the lawn with a yard umbrella over me. :mwink: I figure the lawn can use the sand, it ain't going to hurt it (I hope someone doesn't tell me it will, I am not green thumb).

Brian
 
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