Posted in adventure on May 16th, 2012 1 Comment »
This story – the story of the worst weekend I’ve had in recent memory – really starts on Saturday morning. I go into the Jeep dealer and purchase a new slave cylinder. In the process I also go to pick up the bushings for the TJ, only to learn they are charging a fortune for [...]
Posted in adventure on May 5th, 2012 1 Comment »
So this was very exciting. I got word this week that my new rear bumper + load carrier was in at the 4wd shop in Lynnwood, so this morning I went and got the Jeep and headed out there. I left the shop looking at all my imported machines and actually thought “at least I [...]
Posted in adventure on Jun 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Anyone who has ridden in our TJ knows about the Jeep wobble. The Jeep originally did this through most of 2007 before I got around to swapping out the brake rotors (all of $60 or $40 or whatever) instantly curing the problem. At the time, I felt stupid for not making the thing a pleasure [...]
Posted in adventure on Jun 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Started pulling the bike apart for the 7500 mile maintenance. Access to the valve covers is pretty good on this particular bike (as it turns out), but there didn’t seem to be TDC indicator through the oil sight glass like other Ducati’s, so I have to figure out where the TDC reference is before I [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
A stand and some chain wax later, my chain is all sparkly again. I am not really a fan of ChainWax, they sold me a can with no spray nozzle nubby thing, so I had to improvise one from another can and it didn’t work well at all. That stuff is really nasty when it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
I have no idea if this actually works, but I ran across an interesting factoid. Apparently the anti-freeze testing tools we all probably use (which really do nothing else but measure the specific gravity of the mix) aren’t the best way to test if the coolant is worn out. Worn out presumably means absorbed a [...]