My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 6

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
05/28/2017 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, just rolled into the shop, reddit, wrenching

Reddit’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is a veritable cornucopia of the many !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of shop lyfe. You never know what’s gonna roll in. Here’s what caught my eye this week.

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Photos: soulmourning, brownbrownallbrown

Extra chunky

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Photos: MachWun

Hello darkness, my old friend...

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Photo: jethrontex

11000 HP

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Photo: MaxwellFish

Catalytic Converter installed wrong at the factory, rubbed a hole in the brake line. They are very fuckin lucky it didn’t rupture the fuel line.....

OMG

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Photo: Blankspotauto

Oh dear. Better be careful!

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Photo: Audiofyl1

Sure, keep pushing your luck. See what happens.

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Photo: jimzdat

You had one job , Mr. alignment dowel!

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Photo: CruellaDevillee

Poor Curly. Nyuk nyuk!

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Photo: Stale-Jello

Hot damn.

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Photo: askor200

Are you PC, bro?

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Photo: americazero

Wow. Just... wow.

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Photo: ICIP_SN

This looks safe.

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Photo: fullxthrottlexx

I always wanted a GI.

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Photo: manswerpants

Abstract art.

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Photo: harriswj10

For the Hoard.

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Photo: jimbo4098

It looks malignant to me.

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Photo: Rile_e_coyote

Buckling up might be a good idea. Just sayin’.

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Photo: AG2009

Look what you’ve done! Oh, what a world! What a world!

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Photo: cyno_on_my_face

Obligatory brake post

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Photo: KangahRue

Obligatory tire post. (nice grouping, BTW)

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Photo: trifecta13

Bonus tire post

Turns out the wheel speed transducer connector was was wired backwards, this was the third tire that this aircraft had destroyed.

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DISCUSSION (5)

sony1492 > Urambo Tauro
05/28/2017 at 13:26

I enjoy these

jimz > Urambo Tauro
05/28/2017 at 13:29

that PC case fan doesn’t surprise me, regulators and stators were notorious weak points on a lot of Japanese bikes from the ‘80s.

Urambo Tauro > jimz
05/28/2017 at 13:55

Yeah, I thought that was a pretty clever way to hack in some extra airflow. So was this just an extra boost for when the bike was standing still, or were they pretty much hot all the time, even at speed?

jimz > Urambo Tauro
05/28/2017 at 15:08

They run pretty hot, plus on metric bikes they tend to be behind covers. I don’t know if that bike has a field excited alternator (like a car) or a permanent magnet one. The latter run even hotter because they shunt excess charge current to ground. Harley sticks theirs up on the front of the frame for cooling.

facw > jimz
05/28/2017 at 16:19

Yeah, seems pretty cheap and convenient to just wire a PC fan into a 12V circuit. I don’t know how long it would last, but probably long enough that spending another $10 to replace it in the future is not a bad deal.