04-25-2019, 01:27 AM
This is the first Harley Davidson I've worked on. My experience is with automobiles, give me an old carburetted vehicle and I can go to town. I learned all the fiddly, tricky stuff that costs unnecessary expense if you mess it up. So, this it's more different than I had anticipated going into it. So far, I've made some mistakes of the "aw man, that was obvious why in the bleep didn't I see that coming" nature but, nothing that has cost me more than time. Everything of practical value I've learned through mistakes. Like if you're fixing a PVC pipe on a gas water heater always turn off the pilot light because you might accidentally spill purple PVC primer and catch yourself on fire, "aww nothing gets purple out "BING!" OH SHIT!" WHOOSH human torch. Now we keep a big tub of silverdene in the cabinet. As a big clumsy oaf, a first aid kit is essential, there is hardly a week goes by without me sustaining some kind of injury. There's something about a bald head that attracts hard surfaces.