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Mixing metric and SAE should be punishable with jail time
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Jan 9, 2024 23:55
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TotalLossBrain posted:So now the bike has a 1/4" SS shoulder bolt courtesy of the local farm supply store there instead. I'm going to hell. Hell will be when it galls and either rounds or snaps off. Beve Stuscemi posted:Mixing metric and SAE should be punishable with jail time Drilled the drz seat bolts up one size between imperial and metric each time the cheese grade threads pulled out. A rack attached to the seat mounting bolts. Pretty sure 3/8-16 was the last size. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 10, 2024 06:47
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Jan 10, 2024 14:58
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cursedshitbox posted:Hell will be when it galls and either rounds or snaps off. Are you the PO of my xr650r
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Jan 10, 2024 15:52
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Lmao
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Jan 10, 2024 21:00
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Mixing metric and SAE should be punishable with jail time My first car was a Ford Probe and iirc this did occasionally happen in the areas of the car that weren't just a Mazda 626
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Jan 10, 2024 21:37
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lololololoPhy posted:My first car was a Ford Probe and iirc this did occasionally happen in the areas of the car that weren't just a Mazda 626 80s through 00s domestics were so bad. GM ime being the worst offender. There's a sub assembly with 8 bolts. 4 imperial, 3 metric. The metric is a very different size. Do not be surprised if there's a dusting of random sizes. This stupid farm truck of mine is from this era. has an imperial engine. Metric transmission and Transfercase. Front axle is imperial. Rear axle is metric. The chassis is a dusting of both. It's infuriating to work on. It'll have 12 and 15mm alongside 5/8 and such. The dash is rife with 7mm and 5/16 fasteners.
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Jan 10, 2024 22:03
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I work on extremely expensive wafer fab equipment. I assure you, we use a mix of metric and SAE.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 10, 2024 22:06
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Phy posted:My first car was a Ford Probe and iirc this did occasionally happen in the areas of the car that weren't just a Mazda 626 The probe wasn't a 626 it was an mx6  cursedshitbox posted:lololololo Just the existence of 7mm fasteners is enraging. 6 and 8 are right loving there you scum
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Jan 10, 2024 23:36
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Bike is in the shed for the winter so I started some deep cleaning and poking into places to see how much needs to be refreshed an—  aaand now I’m checking every connector on the wiring harness.
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Jan 10, 2024 23:44
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That's fine. Less insulation means less air resistance, which is important in electrical circuits if I remember correctly
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Jan 10, 2024 23:51
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That's a suspiciously European looking connector
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Jan 10, 2024 23:59
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TotalLossBrain posted:That's fine. Less insulation means less air resistance, which is important in electrical circuits if I remember correctly Air is actually an excellent insulator! Think of the weight savings.
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Jan 11, 2024 00:05
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So what I’m hearing is that this will actually IMPROVE my ABS.Slavvy posted:That's a suspiciously European looking connector Wow just because it’s flaky and surrenders under pressure doesn’t immediately make it European. Rude
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Jan 11, 2024 00:08
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TotalLossBrain posted:I work on extremely expensive wafer fab equipment. I assure you, we use a mix of metric and SAE. 
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Jan 11, 2024 00:49
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Are there seriously still SAE bits on US domestic vehicles? I’ve been working on my cars for like 30 years now and never had occasion to use the SAE half of my tools other than for spark plugs and hose clamps (1/4”). I honestly thought it was a thing of the past except for boutique brands like H-D.
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Jan 11, 2024 01:37
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Slavvy posted:The probe wasn't a 626 it was an mx6 Ok, yeah, but the junkyard I trawled for engine and brake parts never had any mx6es in them but they sure had 626es that I plundered The valve cover on the 2.0 was literally the exact same but with a Ford logo machine-screwed on instead of a Mazda one quote:
Are we talking the thread or the head? I had to disassemble some rails in my fridge to clean it that were attached with tekscrews with a 6.5mm head. The first socket set my dad gave me for Christmas (many years ago) had a bunch of n.5 metric and x/32 imperial sizes, and this is the first time I've needed any of them.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:05
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Ulf posted:Are there seriously still SAE bits on US domestic vehicles? Yes. Seatbelt anchor bolts. 7mm head. The actual thread pitch is something akin to a #10 sheetmetal screw but carved by drunks.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:10
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Yeah I'm referring to the heads. I have also encountered x.5mm screws, my old e23 bmw had iirc 6.5mm hex screws for some stuff Fun fact: on some bikes, the cylinder head studs have rolled on threads and are 9mm diameter 
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Jan 11, 2024 03:55
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cursedshitbox posted:Yes. Seatbelt anchor bolts [...] carved by drunks.
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Jan 12, 2024 13:02
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I've done road side diesel engine swaps in trucks and even I won't touch one of these*. * Probably at some point will have to do one. *sigh*
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Jan 12, 2024 17:32
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Congrats! … did it need it? I have this problem on long trips where I get really inside my head and become convinced that something on my bike is going wrong. I start to think my clutch cable feels like it’s fraying (I carry a spare now), or that I can see oil smoke in my exhaust, or that my stator has gone out. Last year I was halfway between Ely and Tonopah when I became convinced my clutch was slipping. The clutch had 70,000 miles on it and I didn’t know how it’d been ridden for the first 20k, so it was plausible enough to my road-addled brain. I spent the next 1,000 miles of that trip doing as little slip as possible, got home, bought new plates, pulled the old ones out, and they were still at factory thickness. It was still fun to change them, and I don’t worry about my clutch anymore.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:53
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Cold and snow this weekend. I think it may be a good opportunity to check the valve clearances on the KLX140 (150 hours? I really don't know), KLX300R (~140 hours), and KX250 (45 hours).
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Jan 12, 2024 20:09
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TotalLossBrain posted:Cold and snow this weekend. I think it may be a good opportunity to check the valve clearances on the KLX140 (150 hours? I really don't know), KLX300R (~140 hours), and KX250 (45 hours). Unless they start poorly I wouldn't.
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Jan 12, 2024 20:34
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Ulf posted:I have this problem on long trips where I get really inside my head and become convinced that something on my bike is going wrong. bizwank fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Jan 12, 2024 20:35
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shacked up with Brenda posted:Unless they start poorly I wouldn't. They start and run great. I just get really nervous ignoring regular maintenance intervals
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Jan 12, 2024 20:45
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Ulf posted:Congrats! … did it need it? I don't really have an A/B example of my bike to test against, but I do think that the clutch felt like it was slipping. It's my project bike and I was actually really excited to get it down to nuts and bolts and this was a good excuse to refresh the clutch on a high mileage motor. I suppose egg on my face if I take it out in the spring and nothing's changed, but it was still a really fun expedition. I had a lot of fun wrenching on it, and I found a ton of other stuff I need work on refreshing in the process.
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Jan 12, 2024 20:55
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shacked up with Brenda posted:Unless they start poorly I wouldn't. Personally I think doing stuff before it becomes a potentially damaging problem is the way to go
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Jan 12, 2024 21:32
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Slavvy posted:Personally I think doing stuff before it becomes a potentially damaging problem is the way to go What damaging problem do you refer too?
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Jan 12, 2024 23:53
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Burned valve seats usually
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Jan 13, 2024 00:05
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Slavvy posted:Burned valve seats usually I just don't live in a world where great running bikes burn valve seats I guess. The risk on his kx is timing chain or tensioner wear really, but should be 100hrs unless he's an A rider racing weekend to weekend.
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Jan 13, 2024 00:28
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?? If your clearances are tight enough to make the bike hard to start, it's already doing valve and seat damage. So you check the clearances periodically to prevent it getting to that point. Idk what else to say.
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Jan 13, 2024 00:58
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Slavvy posted:?? If your clearances are tight enough to make the bike hard to start, it's already doing valve and seat damage. This is colossally incorrect
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Jan 13, 2024 01:11
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 The absolute cornucopia of heads I've had to rebuild because people only started to care when the bike got hard to start disagree
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Jan 13, 2024 01:15
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Slavvy posted:
Nice nice This is the second set of posts you've made in response to me that I've shared around the shop lol
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Jan 13, 2024 01:22
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It's totally a thing. It depends on the construction and metallurgy of the valve. Sodium filled valves are more 50/50 with the valve guide and valve seat sharing the sink. Solid valves rely heavily on the valve seat sinking the heat. They're not really popular in high power densities and turbo applications because of such. There's an entire science behind cutting valves and seats for minimal turbulence and maximum heat transfer. The grind, angles, and number of cuts influences heat dissipation. This is a whole topic on its own. Engines with poorly designed valve seats are known to drop them at the first inkling of running coolant warm. ie: Third generation Chrysler Hemis. 5 valve Yamahas and Ti valved Hondas are sensitive to valve lash and will absolutely burn a valve before it shows much in the way of symptoms.   https://www.eaton.com/de/de-de/catalog/engine-valvetrain/engine-valves.html https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/may/pilot/savvy-maintenance-failure-to-rotate
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shacked up with Brenda posted:Nice nice Cool man cursedshitbox posted:It's totally a thing. Yeah. Everything with titanium valves is insanely sensitive to tight clearances from what I've seen.
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Jan 13, 2024 03:33
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Mixing metric and SAE should be punishable with jail time I spent the last year working on some gas turbine standby generators. Jet is Rolls Royce and uses immaculately machined silver plated whitworth fasteners. Gearbox was GE and used imperial. Generator was CGE and was metric. Also company policy means no adjustable wrenches.
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helno posted:whitworth Unspeakable horror
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