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Barberad, I was going to flip mine. Thing is at the time I had the rear wheel off and was in the process of messing up a bearing ( hehe) anyhow I still took off the exhaust and had her pretty much stripped down. I was going to mabye pick it up with a boom on the back of my tractor and have some rops setup to where I could release tension from one set to let it pivot in the air and let it down again.. I never did that ..
The trouble is handling the shift forks.
Its kinda a pain getting them back into position and on the shaft again but I knew I could get away with reachin up in there and doin it because Im good with that kinda stuff. (plus I have piano player agility, my super power). I totally agree that it would be much easier to do if you could look down at it and just handle whatever. I have a skill for managing parts into place with my arm jammed up into some weird position. But most people would hate it and probaly curse much worse than I did (oh yeah it was painful but I think that the easy route is the chicken way of doin things hahhaha just kiddin, not).
If you like torturing yourself into higher planes of self discipline do it upright. If you can manage to roll it over with some friends, I would say its well worth the work.. (Im just a freak, at least I didnt have to lay in a few feet of mud).
The job itself went fast but Ive had a lot of time on a dremel and flex shaft carvers. I do a lot of woodworking/turning ect. So the learning curve was nill.. If your good with that sort of thing than go for it.. You can literally see the curve that the dog needs to be put at by the shape of the top of the dog (just like coping a joint on crown molding or base cove).
Same thing for the slots, Its already marked.
The trouble is handling the shift forks.
Its kinda a pain getting them back into position and on the shaft again but I knew I could get away with reachin up in there and doin it because Im good with that kinda stuff. (plus I have piano player agility, my super power). I totally agree that it would be much easier to do if you could look down at it and just handle whatever. I have a skill for managing parts into place with my arm jammed up into some weird position. But most people would hate it and probaly curse much worse than I did (oh yeah it was painful but I think that the easy route is the chicken way of doin things hahhaha just kiddin, not).
If you like torturing yourself into higher planes of self discipline do it upright. If you can manage to roll it over with some friends, I would say its well worth the work.. (Im just a freak, at least I didnt have to lay in a few feet of mud).
The job itself went fast but Ive had a lot of time on a dremel and flex shaft carvers. I do a lot of woodworking/turning ect. So the learning curve was nill.. If your good with that sort of thing than go for it.. You can literally see the curve that the dog needs to be put at by the shape of the top of the dog (just like coping a joint on crown molding or base cove).
Same thing for the slots, Its already marked.
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