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Typical stuff in today's world. Tear stuff up 'cause you're a dumba@@, then act like it's someone else's fault and get mad when they won't fix it for free. I hope this guy didn't reproduce.
Here's your sign....
Tod
Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still own
A couple of months ago, one of my co-workers, Jimmy, brought a mobile conveyor belt, used for loading luggage onto airplanes, into the shop for an oil leak. The engine is a Ford 300 six cylinder. Vey common engine in the airline business.
Now Jimmy is in his mid fifties, with a myriad of medical problems, and he was huffin' n' puffing just after jacking it up, and positioning the jack stands. One of Jims' ailements is he has an artifical hip. Another is he has a big ol' fat belly. He tends to not like having to get up and down from a creeper. Well, he gets himself settled in on a creeper, and rolls under the conveyor, and after a couple of seconds he starts cussing, comes out from under the conveyor, and calls me over to check this thing out. "Look at the drain plug" he said. I roll under it and l look at the plug. It was JB Welded to the oil pan, probably because the threads were shot from having too many oversized drain plugs installed over the years. So instead of replacing the oil pan, the idiot that just did the preventative maintenence on it four days prior, just JB's the drain pug in, and then smears it all around the flats on the hex head. The idiot that did this is about as FU'd as a soup sandwich, and even this 'fix' didn't work because it was still leaking aroud the drain plug. The pan is totally unobstructed from below, and can be swapped in 30 minutes using a lift.
Jimmy took the conveyor of the stands, pulled it out of the shop and parked it. He said the idiot that did that could fix it. He wasn't touching it. He even wrote on the repair order what had been done and suggested that the idiot that did it could finish the job properly.
The idiot has transferred out of our shop and into the facilities maintenence department...those poor SOB's.
My buddy rides a nice looking 1100 virago. I class him as screwdriver challenged. I showed him how to clean up some crap on his exhaust with fine steel wool. I DID NOT tell him to use it on his tank (that was his idea).
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