Bonehead strikes again!

[Brad]

ok...so I need to check out my baby a little more...shame..shame...shame on me!



soo...that rim is wasted, good thing I have a couple of extras. It only took an hour to get the axle out.



Good thing I have a living room to work on the bike. 

I have installed the new bearings into the extra rim and installed it...sooo much better now! 
Today I ordered the new chain and sprockets, and should be good to go by next week.
I am going from 16/42 to 18/39 as I spend a lot of time on the freeway. (Not to mention I wanna post a new speed on the...how "How fast have you been on your FJ"

And yes..I also am changing the front bearings while I am at it.

[Pat Conlon]

Don't forget to replace that Cush hub bearing! You dodged a bullet Brad.

[fj11.5]

Hell,  how did that get trashed,no grease, not fitted properly   ,, yeah post up, then change front sprockets to 17 or 18, much better on the highway, but takes longer to get speed up  

[Brad]

Hell,  how did that get trashed,no grease, not fitted properly   ,, yeah post up, then change front sprockets to 17 or 18, much better on the highway, but takes longer to get speed up  

Well...from the looks of it, I was missing the spacer on that side. When I brother send me the "new" rim and axle, I was wondering what the extra spacer was for.
I pulled out my manual and noticed that it was not 'extra' at all.

I mean I know I make mistakes, but you just never know when you buy a bike that old what the PO forgot to put back on.

[Brad]

Don't forget to replace that Cush hub bearing! You dodged a bullet Brad.

I now have 'all balls' up front and back. 

The scary part...how much better it rides!

[Arnie]

Brad,
You started off this thread with the comment in brackets, "Not to mention I wanna post a new speed on the...how "How fast have you been on your FJ"

I'm the guy who told you that your previous post to that "how fast" thread showed you to be a bonehead to ride at high speed on a 20+ yr. old bike before thoroughly checking its condition.  This incident proves my point, and lucky for you that you didn't go down.

Before you find out more problems 'caused by the PO', you should get the whole bike checked by a competent mechanic. and certainly before you do another high speed run.

Arnie

Sorry, can't resist.... You've been "all balls" (and no brains).   

[Brad]

Brad,
You started off this thread with the comment in brackets, "Not to mention I wanna post a new speed on the...how "How fast have you been on your FJ"

I'm the guy who told you that your previous post to that "how fast" thread showed you to be a bonehead to ride at high speed on a 20+ yr. old bike before thoroughly checking its condition.  This incident proves my point, and lucky for you that you didn't go down.

Before you find out more problems 'caused by the PO', you should get the whole bike checked by a competent mechanic. and certainly before you do another high speed run.

Arnie

Sorry, can't resist.... You've been "all balls" (and no brains).   

Thank you Arnie, great words of wisdom. I got excited about getting it fixed...but you are very right.
I think Heartless heard me wrong before, my brother had the bike for months not years, and you are very right.
it was or is a $600 bike. I will get it checked out before i do something that Bonehead again.
At first i took it very personal and got mad when i read what you wrote. But i am sorry now for thinking that now, cuz you were 100%looking right.

Thank you for being you, and i am sorry for being me...i nwill try to step back and think a little more before i do.

Brad

[FJ MCC VII]

I had the same thing happen to me on one of my 1100's, at the most inconvenient time you can possibly imagine. "How inconvenient?", you might ask. Well, at the exact moment my rear wheel bearings went out and my bike started to wobble like I was riding a drunken donkey, I happened to be making a diving right hand turn in front of an 18-wheeler, at 100MPH+. I was also being chased by a Wisconsin State Police car at the time, while wearing a backpack full of Mexican cigars. Lucky to live, much less not even crash the bike, much less not have to talk to the WSP. I got away on my crippled steed. Of course, that was in my younger days.
Still... Highly inconvenient! It was one of my official FJ Close Calls.

My bearing failure probably had something to do with the fact that the first thing I did when I bought that 1100 was to take it to the car wash for a nice power wash.
I got that rear rim nice and clean. (Which is something I do NOT recommend!)

Don't sweat it, Brad, you and I aren't the only Boneheads in this group. I'm sure there are a lot of us who taught ourselves, and learned as we went along, and were damn lucky to have lived through the learning curve. I know I was. Want to hear about the time I Armorall'ed my tires? Hey, they looked great!
(Which I also do NOT recommend.)

[yamaha fj rider]

Brad the saying is "live and learn". The good news is you did and you found the problem. Got it fixed. If it doesn't feel right, probably is not.

Kurt

[The General]

Brad the saying is "live and learn". The good news is you did and you found the problem. Got it fixed. If it doesn't feel right, probably is not.

Kurt

Yeah...Ya do learn from mistakes...that`s why I`m so knowledgeable.

When I was about 14 or so, I was riding a rigid frame 1949 AJS 500 single on the dirt road passed my home when I spotted dear old Mum waving her arms at me. I figured she was being maternally Cool, so I naturally gave tha beast even more throttle ta set my grin ear to ear. It was only when I throttled off, that I noticed the temperature increase around my right leg but when I accelerated, the temperature was okay again.   

I had only just rescued the Bike from under my brotherinlaws house and put it together as best I knew how. For example I couldn`t get the fork caps down against the spring tension so I just left them out - it`s not as though I was gunna attempt jumps or anything for my first run down tha road and back! - The blue petrol tank didn`t really need bolts cause I could keep that in place with my knees - but sitting on it was a real problem on account of there was no seat - Problem solved by placing my little wooden stool across the frame and using my weight to hold it in place - (because of strategy 1- not gunna attempt jumps at this stage)

...I digress...back to Mum waving and me learning from mistakes....By using my natural analytical skills I deduced the higher temperature was indirectly caused by poor carbureter tuning...and that the steel air filter (back on the shed dirt floor) was a safety device designed to stop any backfire setting the oil tank on fire (should it happen to be leaking!) --which of course was not a problem as the natural air flow under acceleration distributed the flames out tha back...However, Slowing down was a real problem...which of course became my lifelong lesson.