I'll add my .02:
Wrenching:
When it comes to wrenching you need the proper manuals for the vehicle. Even vintage manuals are available for cars, trucks and even vintage shop tools. If you are tearing down anything mechanical without a proper manual it's a recipe for disaster. I've been wrenching for almost 40 years, first starting getting taught by my Father and Grandfather, and tons of self teaching and took all the shop classes in school (Do they even offer wood shop and metal shop in school anymore?). The first "tool" ever taken out on any project I was involved in was the factory repair/service manual. Auto repair shops and dealers still have manuals available for their mechanics and they're supposed to be professionals. The manual for your particular project may not be cheap, but it's cheaper than a very exspensive screw up if you didn't have one. Trust me, I know of what I speak.
I've made a lot of mistakes wrenching, some rather expensive. Knowledge ain't free, and I've even seen school edumacated mechanics make expensive mistakes. Take your time, double check your specs, and take your time. If you get advice on the interwebs, trust but verify. 3WW is one of the few sites I've seen where someone asks a mechanical question and there are several answers posted that are consistent in the advice offered, probably because we have a smaller membership of educated guys due to the particular type of wheelers we restore, modify and ride.
Drama:
I wasn't at TF, but I've perused the thread. So some D-bags showed up and acted like f-tards? Big deal. Yea it sucks, but in life there is always the chance some douche will come along and ruin a good thing, particularly in this day and age. It sounds like the incident is being dealt with, only time will tell if they show up next year and if they do how it's handled.
Internet drama:
All I can say about this subject is "Really dude?" Nobody forces anyone to read a certain thread. If you find a thread too dramatic, move on to another. Just because you have people who disagree on certain things doesn't make a thread dramatic. This community agrees on one particular thing as a basis for our comaraderie: We like three wheelers. Everything else is up for debate, every subject will have 2 and some times 3 sides of a disagreement. Every forum has one or two twatwaffles who think they are smarter, more knowledgeable and have a bigger schwincenlimper than all the others. Opinions are like a-wholes: Everybody has one and they all stink. If you don't like someone, use the ignore button, it works like it was intended.
Bottom line: Don't give up or quit. Never. Not at anything. The sense of accomplishment you get after being successful far outlasts the tiny setbacks of failure. Why? Because I said so, dammit! I'm the biggest successful failure I know!
Carry on.
Liberalism suspends the intellect of its victims, while at the same time tricking them into believing that they're smarter than everyone else.
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Liberalism suspends the intellect of its victims, while at the same time tricking them into believing that they're smarter than everyone else.
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We almost got a twatwaffle for president that one time....And then we didn't
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You ready to work on this again or did you sell it?
I still live in the same place, FYI.
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I had a 1951 BSA A-10 and rode it awhile before deciding to take it apart and rebuild it. Didn't have the equipment or expierance I have today. Why the hell did I get rid of that piece of history. (in boxes).
I'm only a month late, but I'll contribute anyhow. Not sure how old you are, but I'm in my 30s. No one around me was a mechanic. I learned on my own. Taking stuff apart, ruining things, spending hard earned barely above minimum wage $$ as a teenager to fix my screw ups. I bought auto repair manuals at garage sales for 50 cents apeice, for vehicles I didn't own. Just to read them and hopefully learn something. IMO, people learning this stuff nowadays have it made. There's YouTube videos, and helpful forum members, you can even save a few bucks on used manuals.
I did my first bottom end in my 1988 cr250 when I was 14. It ran and I rode it a whole season before running lean from airleaks. A local "shop" fixed my cases by welding them and warping them. Got to buy new cases making $6 an hour..$500. rebuilt it again at 16.
Same bike, at 14, I "rebuilt" the rear shock. It had no rebound dampening when I was done. Sent it out, rebuilder said I did a fine job rebuilding the shock..except I put the rebound shims in backwards. Lol!
I say keep at it. Nobody's asking you to design an engine from scratch, all you gotta do is get it together in the correct order. If you get in a bind, plenty of us can help you out.
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im not that far from you pm me if I can help
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