Come to find out I'm becomeing allergic to houses. There is something in homes when I am in them to long that makes me hate life. Maybe it's the restriction of walls or cats or dust but now all I want to do is be outside, on the road.
So let me step back from my eairler post of getting the R5 running. It took a lot to get to that stage. I just wanted to hear the sound of it starting and post about it here. It's getting done to the final details and it's going well. The 35 year old electical is working. I needed to replace both the regulator and rectifier but that's normal. And I normally replace major parts with a lot of wear, points condensors, pistons, bearings, seals and chain. This stuff is older than me, and my knees needed replaced. I'm trying not to get stranded somewhere for not long.
What is happiness? As I get closer to leaving all of this behind, close friends, family, familiarity, I'm finding what give me comfort. It's like being I. A long relationship, eventually it gives you comfort and less excitement. It's not a bad thing but want more. When someone is in something for to long they either stay in it or realize there is more beyond the bubble you live in. If you raise a mouse in a room with only black and white striped vertically, the mouse will not recognize horizontal stimulus. Weird example but it shows if you stay a place to long it tends to wear on you. I never liked letting a place get to me. I always liked being out of my element. To me happiness is change and growing.
I have a couple things left to do on the bike. The clutch does not engage so I need to shorten the cable a little so wire in it reaches to push rod. I'm going to get some scrap copper from my friend Josh and make headlight brackets. The battery was draining fast than I could get on the bike. I did some simple tests to find the drain:
-First see if the battery is charging. It should read 13-14 volts running 2000 rpm+
-It was not and that told me the charging system was not working
Sometimes anything can be a drain, a grounded load, headlight.... To find it unplug everything and keep an eye on battery voltage as you plug things back in. As soon as the voltage drops you found your problem. Mine was the regulator. On the older ones they can be adjusted. This one was shot. I'm in the process of finding a universal/cheap replacement. All it does is regulates the charging voltage. That's the only minor kind of major problem with the R5 now. O, and it's missing a left exhaust baffel so it's fuckin loud.
Now just waiting on fenders, shortening the clutch cable and safer brake and clutch levers. I'll see you on the road soon.
-- Bam! From My iPhone
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