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Jamz wrote:Of course, it does help that I'm usually in my Step Dad's professional garage with all the tools!

Yes that does make a difference, havign the right tools for the job! My dad used to work in a scrap yard years ago, got every possible tool, only once have i ever had to buy a tool especially for the job.

defo in the air! Fuel light decided to stop working on the way into work today = this



Que 2 and half hours waiting for some bloke to give me petrol

Just replaced a camchain tensioner 20 minutes flat ...............I've learned

rene : that sucks !

im thinking its something in the air as well, just been to the post office to get some postal orders printed to pay for the stuff i broke .. and the printer fecked up, then he printed them all wrong and had to ring HQ.. lol ..

ahhh you must all be having my bad luck lol my bike has gone in for the MOT today an all is well so far WUHO!

Knock on wood, Soop, quick!

dont worry im leanin on a wood desk. all must be well cos no news is good news but on the other hand there was nothing bad that could happen

Right then,

Those that came on the rideout in April might have noticed that my exhaust was a bit "fruity", despite apparently being a stock system. On getting home and removing the fairings, it was pretty obvious why - there was a nice jet of hot air coming from the join between the head and the downpipe for cylinder 1, and if you grabbed hold of the clamping ring it was quite obviously not, err, clamping.

Easy, thinks I, I'll just tighten those up....Nope, they aren't moving. Right then, I'll whip them out and have a look....SNAP. Right, that's one stud snapped off....Bugger. I'll just undo the other one so I can move the clamp ring out of the way and get a grip on the broken one....SNAP.

Off with the rad, off with the exhaust, right then how am I going to get these two snapped studs out? Proceed through a series of measures (grabbing with mole grips, dremel'ing a slot into the end, etc), none of which work, and all of which make the stud slightly shorter. Cue much swearing - bearing in mind I was doing this the weekend before going on track at Anglesey.

Having calmed down a bit, I decided that no bloody exhaust stud was going to beat me and tried a different tactic as shown in the pics. Result!

cargo wrote:Just replaced a camchain tensioner 20 minutes flat ...............I've learned

20 mins!!

theres things your leaving out in the telling of this tale arn't you

20 minutes is doable, ive changed engines in 90 minutes .. on a day unlike the one this thread is about.

deviant wrote:Right then,

Those that came on the rideout in April might have noticed that my exhaust was a bit "fruity", despite apparently being a stock system. On getting home and removing the fairings, it was pretty obvious why - there was a nice jet of hot air coming from the join between the head and the downpipe for cylinder 1, and if you grabbed hold of the clamping ring it was quite obviously not, err, clamping.

Easy, thinks I, I'll just tighten those up....Nope, they aren't moving. Right then, I'll whip them out and have a look....SNAP. Right, that's one stud snapped off....Bugger. I'll just undo the other one so I can move the clamp ring out of the way and get a grip on the broken one....SNAP.

Off with the rad, off with the exhaust, right then how am I going to get these two snapped studs out? Proceed through a series of measures (grabbing with mole grips, dremel'ing a slot into the end, etc), none of which work, and all of which make the stud slightly shorter. Cue much swearing - bearing in mind I was doing this the weekend before going on track at Anglesey.

Having calmed down a bit, I decided that no bloody exhaust stud was going to beat me and tried a different tactic as shown in the pics. Result!

what did you do there then? weld some metal to the stud?

masterofinsanity wrote: what did you do there then? weld some metal to the stud?

yarp.

I want some oxyacetylene kit, very useful and fun when bored!!

that was done with a little MIG set, but I agree, a gas setup would be cool to have in the garage.