I mended a thing!!!

"Mercedes Streeter" (smart) 08/31/2018 at 22:38 • Filed to: wrenching, Two Wheels Good

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This morning the Widowmaker started making an awful pinging noise as I pulled into my work parking lot. I feared the worst in that my accidental burnout killed the engine...

On the way home, I noticed that the pinging wasn’t really in sync with the engine, so it couldn’t have been the engine, right? Sure enough, as I was rolling into my neighbourhood I noticed a cable shaking against the forks sorta kinda in sync with the throttle.

When I pulled into my parking space and shut down the engine, the culprit was immediately visible:

Hello tach cable, what are you doi ng all loose? It was still connected to the engine by...hopes and wishe s, I guess?

As it turns out, the tach cable is too short to be cleanly routed through the forks and allow full movement of the forks. It must have been pulled out when I pulled a U-Turn leaving my condo parking lot this morning.

Welp, a quick re-routing and tightening back onto the engine put me back on the road without pinging.

Steve in Manhattan > Mercedes Streeter 08/31/2018 at 22:58

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Which tiny car is the one referenced here?

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Steve in Manhattan 08/31/2018 at 23:08

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4 wheels bad

just-a-scratch > Steve in Manhattan 08/31/2018 at 23:20

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It’s probably the Suzuki 850, but maybe the Goldwing.

punkgoose17 > just-a-scratch 08/31/2018 at 23:31

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Yeah it is the Suzuki. She almost crashed it twice, that is why it is the widowmaker.

Mercedes Streeter > Steve in Manhattan 08/31/2018 at 23:52

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The GS850! :D

Mercedes Streeter > just-a-scratch 08/31/2018 at 23:53

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You're right with the GS, the Goldwing doesn't even have a tach cable right now. lol

Future Heap Owner > Mercedes Streeter 09/01/2018 at 01:07

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Brilliant! Gotta feel good to be dreading some internal engine problems and then fix it by plugging a cable back in.

In contrast I’ve been making things worse on my truck for the past two nights...

Steve in Manhattan > Mercedes Streeter 09/01/2018 at 16:46

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Oh yeah - duh, it says “forks” ... put down a bike the first time I tried to ride (some knucklehead taught me on a 750 something) and that was that. I’ve ridden shotgun exactly one other time after, and that was out of necessity.