coffee_brake
Well-Known Member
My best friend and riding partner is my husband David. We argue plenty but he's a keeper overall: a fine rider, good character, and faithful as an old hound dog.
When we were just married in active duty Army and living in what amounted to a chicken shack, each with one po-dunk old cruiser and sharing my old '78 pickup, he made it clear he didn't want me to mess with his bike. But I did have to show him how to gap a spark plug. :biglaugh: I was raised maintaining the family's stuff; he just wasn't.
It's been 9 years now and we've both come a long way both with riding and wrenching. His KLR 650 is only a couple years old with less than 7k miles on it, but it sat for a year before he traded the Harley on it.
This summer it suddenly began missing and wouldn't idle. He cleaned the carb, I cleaned the carb, he cleaned the carb again....no go. Even bought a good used carb, same problem. He said he went through everything there was to test in the book. He dropped the insurance on it and it just sat. Then he got temporary work this month, so there was a good reason for me to tackle the bike. Not like he can chase me away, right? I told him I was working on it, he's out of ideas and we sure can't hire a mechanic.
I tested everything in the book too, put it all back together, and got a compression tester, thinking last shot was maybe a bent valve because he rides it hard. He said he checked the plug, but when I pulled it out, there was almost no gap at all, and the terminal was bent all funny.
I yanked a plug off my Honda CB750 that was the same kind, gapped it and went for a ride on hubby's KLR!
unk: Damn that thing is tall, and fun! And it's running great.
So yeah, I'm only gloating a tiny little bit to you guys, because it would be awful to gloat in front of him when he gets home tonight. Ya'll understand, don't you?
So...what is this worth for marital favors? :th_529:
When we were just married in active duty Army and living in what amounted to a chicken shack, each with one po-dunk old cruiser and sharing my old '78 pickup, he made it clear he didn't want me to mess with his bike. But I did have to show him how to gap a spark plug. :biglaugh: I was raised maintaining the family's stuff; he just wasn't.
It's been 9 years now and we've both come a long way both with riding and wrenching. His KLR 650 is only a couple years old with less than 7k miles on it, but it sat for a year before he traded the Harley on it.
This summer it suddenly began missing and wouldn't idle. He cleaned the carb, I cleaned the carb, he cleaned the carb again....no go. Even bought a good used carb, same problem. He said he went through everything there was to test in the book. He dropped the insurance on it and it just sat. Then he got temporary work this month, so there was a good reason for me to tackle the bike. Not like he can chase me away, right? I told him I was working on it, he's out of ideas and we sure can't hire a mechanic.
I tested everything in the book too, put it all back together, and got a compression tester, thinking last shot was maybe a bent valve because he rides it hard. He said he checked the plug, but when I pulled it out, there was almost no gap at all, and the terminal was bent all funny.
I yanked a plug off my Honda CB750 that was the same kind, gapped it and went for a ride on hubby's KLR!
unk: Damn that thing is tall, and fun! And it's running great.So yeah, I'm only gloating a tiny little bit to you guys, because it would be awful to gloat in front of him when he gets home tonight. Ya'll understand, don't you?
So...what is this worth for marital favors? :th_529:
