NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Just looking at that bolt made me hear squeeky squeeky

 

Crazy rusted out for 6ish year old truck

 

The early 90s honda are easy to steal because shaved/jiggle keys work easily and there are still so many on the road.

 

Built a thing outta scrap to (safely) secure the BP51s to adjust the preload easier.


It'll work in a vise, too. It just happened to be a perfect length and size for the hitch mount, so I figured why not. Made the job way easier. 1.5 hours to do both sides, start to finish.

I adjusted to 17mm Driver / 12 mm passenger. We'll see how it goes for a few days.

 

excellente! what spring compressor is that?

 

This guy, or whatever flavor like it. I got one on a warehouse deal for $76, and it came with the little plastic protector things (which are kinda useless). It is such a tight squeeze getting the cups between the coils that you'll probably end up with some scratches on 'em anyway.

MILLION PARTS Universal Interchangable Fork Strut Coil Clamp Spring Compressor Extractor Tool Set Kit w/Case

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XNPVJC3

 

@velillen if you get deeper with your vibration issue and it turns out to be the flex plate, let me know. I have 2 laying around.

 

I gave up on it lol. It hasn't done it since I started talking about it.

I'll get my video probe back tomorrow and shove it in and see if I can see anything but beyond that.....yolo it's only a 6k mile trip lol

 

I tore down my old engine yesterday so I've got a shit load of random length and size nuts and bolts off the engine along with coolant hoses and misc pieces. One interesting thing I found was an internal screen behind a bolt located towards the front of each head about 2 inches below the valve cover. I'd never heard anyone mention it before.





Cracked the #1 piston. Pistons 1 and 2 where just floating in the cylinders.

 

Those screens are filters for the oil control valves. They control the vvti functions

 

That's what I assumed since the passage they sit in leads towards the vvti solenoid and chain tensioner.

 

I should have gotten a dash cam a long time ago.

 

You just get it after your run in with the county? Getting anywhere with them paying up?

 

Yeah if the guy had said nothing, it would have been his word against mine. I turned the paperwork in thursday so I'm going to start hassling them next week.

 

FIFY!

 

Anybody selling a KLR650?

 

They definitely were not performing correctly.

 

Flex plate on my friend's chevy step van broke. It sounded like one of those clicker noise makers you squeeze with your thumb and finger.

 

too bad there wasn't a collision; one less Priass on the road... they are like cockroaches...

 

Hey y’all, I’m a Texan who will be transplanted to Seattle for the summer. Looking to do some light weekend wheeling, camping and hiking but don’t know much about the area. I’m in a locked prerunner so will probably be limiting it to forest roads and avoiding anything technical. Getting up there the 27th. Excited to get involved in the area however I can!