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elizillaInstalled a new front storm door yesterday. It's not completely done yet; I think the instructions assumed I would be sticking it on the outside of the frame, instead of setting it in, so I'm having a heck of a time getting the trim across the top to go up. Maybe it'll work if I pick all the old caulk out of the corners, but that'll have to wait until I have time. At least it closes properly and latches, unlike the old one. The old one was a cheap, flimsy thing, and it got twisted in one of the storms this spring. The new one is really nice, with good insulating properties that should reduce our heating bills next winter. The cats like it a lot since it has a window that goes all the way down, and they love floor-level windows.
The TDM wouldn't start today. It's always been hard to start whenever it goes to reserve, and it's acting just like that now only it won't start at all. According to the TDM listers, the hard starting thing is due to a marginal fuel pump. I suspect the fuel pump has now gone completely bad. I wonder how hard it will be to replace? I guess I won't be taking the TDM to Tellico Plains next weekend as planned. I have tires to go on it, but no point changing its tires until I get it running again. No way I'll have parts for the TDM in time, so I'll have to take the V-Strom instead.
So today I put the stock handlebars back on the V-Strom. I had installed lower bars but I couldn't adjust them to a comfortable angle because then they hit the tank. They had to be rotated forward and then the outside ends stuck up too much, which cocked my wrists painfully. I tried them out for a couple thousand miles, hoping I'd get used to them, but they just got ever more annoying. Better to have bars a little higher, than to mess up my wrists. So I put the stockers back on.
After I finished the bar swap, I changed my CB antenna mount so it no longer interferes with the top case. I had to mount it to a place where it was about a foot lower, so I decided to get a longer antenna so I would at least have a little bit of antenna sticking up higher than my head. I had a second antenna exactly like the shorter one, still in the package, waiting to be put on the TDM, so I took it back to the truck stop and exchanged it for the longer one. The shorter one that I took off the V-Strom today can go to the TDM. So now the V-Strom has a new longer antenna. Wonder how it will do? I'll wait for daylight and not-raining before I tune the SWR, since that needs to be done outside.
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pi3832 is here this weekend to work on his V45 Sabre. It's been in my garage since last fall, getting an engine swap. Slowly, he makes progress. In the meantime, he has bought a new used bike, a 1999 Bandit 1200S. He rode the Bandit up here this weekend. After he went to sleep this evening I polished it. I wonder if he will notice?
The TDM wouldn't start today. It's always been hard to start whenever it goes to reserve, and it's acting just like that now only it won't start at all. According to the TDM listers, the hard starting thing is due to a marginal fuel pump. I suspect the fuel pump has now gone completely bad. I wonder how hard it will be to replace? I guess I won't be taking the TDM to Tellico Plains next weekend as planned. I have tires to go on it, but no point changing its tires until I get it running again. No way I'll have parts for the TDM in time, so I'll have to take the V-Strom instead.
So today I put the stock handlebars back on the V-Strom. I had installed lower bars but I couldn't adjust them to a comfortable angle because then they hit the tank. They had to be rotated forward and then the outside ends stuck up too much, which cocked my wrists painfully. I tried them out for a couple thousand miles, hoping I'd get used to them, but they just got ever more annoying. Better to have bars a little higher, than to mess up my wrists. So I put the stockers back on.
After I finished the bar swap, I changed my CB antenna mount so it no longer interferes with the top case. I had to mount it to a place where it was about a foot lower, so I decided to get a longer antenna so I would at least have a little bit of antenna sticking up higher than my head. I had a second antenna exactly like the shorter one, still in the package, waiting to be put on the TDM, so I took it back to the truck stop and exchanged it for the longer one. The shorter one that I took off the V-Strom today can go to the TDM. So now the V-Strom has a new longer antenna. Wonder how it will do? I'll wait for daylight and not-raining before I tune the SWR, since that needs to be done outside.
pi3832 is here this weekend to work on his V45 Sabre. It's been in my garage since last fall, getting an engine swap. Slowly, he makes progress. In the meantime, he has bought a new used bike, a 1999 Bandit 1200S. He rode the Bandit up here this weekend. After he went to sleep this evening I polished it. I wonder if he will notice?
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Date: 2004-05-31 01:29 pm (UTC)