06-02-2019, 11:21 PM
My consistent advice is to the "instructions? I don't need no steeking instructions" stereotypes is go by the book. If there are no instructions take time to label, bag and photograph each piece, no matter how simple, no matter how many times you've worked on something similar, take that extra time. Do not look at an old Harley and say "man; I've worked on V8's for years, it's got 2 cylinders how hard can it be?" only to look in plastic tub full of nuts n bolts and say "shit". It would have saved a lot of time putting it back together. I thought about it, I knew better but, the ache of getting on the ground is less than getting up and hobbling into the house for baggies that I will get fussed at for using. They're for sandwiches not parts. Normally, I would have had some el cheapo $ store baggies but, not this time besides it's a bike not a car. I only made one grevious error; two nuts, same size and appearance but, crucially, a different thread, the fine thread will attach to a coarse thread and being locknuts, I expected resistance and not wearing my up close 3.25 readers they look the same. The very last nut was a coarse thread that will not go on a fine thread without slipping so I found a metric that was close enough and forced it on. The next time I install shocks, which being Progressive Suspension shocks means, probably never so, I can live with it. I don't hang with people who would look at it and say "oh, that nut is not factory correct" you know, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Nothing wrong with that "the Judge" owns a spectacular 1934 Packard and if you know a little about Packard's he'll open the hood and show you it's awesome V12. Yeah, the old classy southern gentleman and his lady with impeccable manners are dying to off and being replaced by a different sort. Anyway I drift into a cultural context that you either get or don't. The intricacies of Southern manners would take a series.