superhawk996

A few YT machinists I respect say that lubing a drill bit for the average DIY guy is a waste, but I still do it most of the time. A key thing to watch for is chips. Powder is bad, long curls are bad, dark discolored anything is bad. Curls are too much pressure/not enough speed, powder is the opposite. With metals that work harden, like stainless, I've found that leaning towards excessive pressure seems to get the bit through before the hardening happens. With soft metals a super sharp bit can be problematic, that's where a cheapo or worn bit can be a bonus.

A super strong permanent repair option; Loctite the helicoil and a stud, then use a nut for whatever it's holding.

It's not typically needed, but it shouldn't cause any harm. Some loctites need a primer to cure on 'inactive' metals like SS and aluminum so check into that.

Or it only lasted 27 seconds.

It's horrifyingly ugly, but mostly a clean job so I give him kudos for that. The red reflector on the front is retarded and I'm guessing the rest of the crack kicked in about the time he started the riveting of the rear fender.

Fly & ride....how many fuel stops will it take to get to So Cal? 😂

If it wasn't on the other side of the world I'd probably already own it.

Doesn't look bad enough to matter. I might hit it with a sanding disc if you have one or just sandpaper to knock down the cheese gratering effect on the new pads, but even if you do nothing it'll just eat a bit of pad to smooth out the rotor. The work and cost savings of not replacing the rotor totally makes up for any accelerated pad wear.

Extracting broken screws is a combination of art, science, tools, and luck. I extract most of them before bringing the ez-out into play, left handed drill bits are quite helpful. Drilling well centered so you can drill a large enough hole is important if the screw is stuck hard, the bigger the hole you make the thicker the ez-out will be which means it'll be harder to break. Also, the bigger the hole is the more chance you have of the screw 'relaxing' and loosening its grip. Heat and oil also help. If it's stuck really hard and you drill very close to perfectly centered you can drill out to the point where all that's left is the thread portion of the screw and it'll pull out as a little coil. In some cases I don't try too hard to get it out, just bore the bitch out and install a nut or heli-coil, or re-thread it larger and use a bigger screw.

Perhaps, but it's electrifying.

I know what made it coil, the manufacturer, what we won't know is what it takes to un-coil.

Mine has sat for months many times over with no prep. Never had an issue. My Superhawk carbs did get clogged from sitting. Seems a bit odd since I expect the SH had larger jets so they should be harder to clog. Reminds me that I meant to post about my lifepo4 battery, pretty sure it's a Battery Tender brand. Two weeks ago when I unearthed the bike for a ride after months of sitting I thought I should probably put a charger on it before the long cranking it's going to take to fill the carbs. Every time I do it I think, 'fuck, I really shouldn't be so lazy and stress the battery like this", then just hold the button 'till it comes to life. This time I put a volt meter on it in preparation to charge and it was sitting at over 13V so I didn't bother. It does seem to crank slower than when I put a new Lifepo4 in the '01 Bird. Not obviously slow, just more like a decent 'normal' battery, not like a fresh lifepo4. I don't know the age of the battery, guessing 3-5 years.

Sometimes autocorrect leads to entertainment, thanks for taking the bait and running with it!

Holy shit, it's so cold even the stop sign was shivering.

Maybe the gas tank has a leak and it dripped seafood onto the connector.

Heat it 'till the plastic drips off plus another 500F and you'll be in the ballpark of starting to get it. But actually, if you pull it straight it'll relax the coils, the harder you pull the better it works. Winch, come-a-long, ratchet strap...whatever you got.

It's listed at a good price. You could buy it, decide you hate it, put it on eBay and get your money back.

If you hurry up and start making enemies before you start the build, your build thread could go just as well as this one did. Bonus points if you did something dumb to it that could be related to its demise, double bonus points if you're hypersensitive to anyone asking about that correlation.

I can't imagine seafoam fixing it. If the bike has O2 sensors, maybe, but it's a stretch.

I've figured out that spray paint has bug attractant in it. I don't know which chemical it is, but every brand puts it in. Brighter colors have more of it.

Not "sense of humor" but a somewhat funny cop story. I ask a cop at AM/PM what he would do if he ran across an otherwise law abiding citizen that was carrying without a CCW. "If it's concealed nothing happens because I don't know he has it, I have no reason nor right to go around searching people randomly." Ok, and I appreciate that, but what if it's not well concealed and you see it? "Well, then I'm forced to arrest him because it's a felony and I'm not allowed to let it go." But if it's a registered gun in his name it's only a misdemeanor which allows for officer discresion. "I don't think so." Please look it up, I"m pretty sure it's only a misdemeanor, so it can only become a felony if you choose to investigate it which is optional. "I don't think so, but I'll look it up to be sure." Reader's Digest condensed version.

I pull into the AM/PM by my house, back then it was like a Winchell's. At that moment there were no cops, cool. By the time I'm walking out there's a bunch, a couple on bikes. So I mentally prepare myself to leave in quiet mode...that's where I pretend I'm not on a SuperHawk with Jardine high mounts and I idle away pretending that nobody can hear it. I fire it up and one say's "that sounds cool, give it a rev." So I give it a tiny blip. "Nah man, rev it." So I give about a 3-4k rev. They seem to be legitimately "just dudes" enjoying a cool bike, but they're the men with guns and ticket books so I don't know what to think or do. By now there's one walking up behind the bike along with the others around the sides. "Come on, rev it up." 35 minutes of contemplating my life choices all came together in 2 seconds and I gave it a full rev. The cop walking up from behind was carrying papers that got blown across the lot and some of the others jumped. "Damn, that sounds good." "Be safe out there." And one laughingly said "loud pipes save lives." I was at Autozone with my '95 Mustang GT convertible and one of the guys was talking shit about Mustangs being so weak they can barely pull off a burnout. I back out of the parking spot, clutch dump/power brake and slowly roll though the parking lot smoking the place out. I exit and as I roll into the left turn lane I see a cop car on the cross street that is going to end up right behind me because of the traffic light pattern.....uh oh. About a half mile later he lights me up so I pull over and he pulls up next to me; this is strange. "What was that about back there"? Well, the counter dude is a Camaro guy and he was talking shit about how weak 5.0 Mustangs are so I just had to put on a little show. "So it wasn't some kind of road raging thing"? Nah, I'm not mad, we talk shit all the time. "Ok...it sounds pretty nice, what did you do to the exhaust?" Uh oh, here we go. By the end of the chat he was decided on Dynomax for his Mustang because he loved how mine sounded. These are pretty old instances so the details might be a bit off, but the basics should be about right.

Did he get a laugh, or a hand on the taser?

The key is knowing what the consequences are. $10 fine? I'm in....$500 fine if it's something really fun. Death row? Probably not.

It's a tool, I use the fuck out of it. The downside of the convenience is that sometimes I use it for the wrong things; prybar, screwdriver, hammer, ... And since I'm not allowed to carry a gun, it could come in handy for defensive use.