offline xp

So yea, its been forever since I posted but hey, life happens. The only real update is that I got a new brake caliper cuz I couldnt fix the one I had. Thats what happens when you try to upgrade past +5. But hey, now i have one that works. now I can actually try to install the brake line. Just have to figure out how to clean out the brake fluid line and how to put on the new brake lever with oil reservoir. Hurray for the next expansion!

Side Quests Galore!

Ok, so I haven't posted in a long time but for good reason. I have decided to hold off on the main story and do some side quests instead. I went from getting the bike running to putting on new front forks, new tires, and changing out the front drum brake to disk brake. Ive completed the quest of replacing the front forks which was a pain in the ass and one hell of an effort. The second side quest I had partially completed before I found out that I was collecting items for the wrong quest and had put a tire on the wrong type of rim. Now I have all the correct parts and just need to assemble them, that and get more gold to buy my +2.

Leveling up the hard way

Well after a long hiatus, I've decided to level up little by little by killing some porings. So what Ive managed to do so far is completely mess up my left switch by losing a piece to the blinker that i need to get. Tried improvising a metal piece but only ended up breaking the whole part i was trying to make the piece for....so n ow instead ive taken off the wheels, the front being easy and the back having to remove the drive drain from the wheel first. Next step is to take them into a shop and get the tires replaced and the brakes fixed. Soon ill be putting on the gaskets and putting the alternator covers back on.
Heres what my bike currently looks like

latest hitch

So its been a while since I've posted, but for pretty good reason. Taking this bike apart and getting all the tools and parts necessary is like getting a complete armor set. They all end up costing more gold than I have and its gonna take a lot of drops for me to get what I need. O well, at least I got some pics of my bike to show, pre-major dis assembly.

 

 

Down and Dirty in a Book and Oil

Finally, my repair manual came in. I can get to all the down and dirty parts of fixing my bike. First item on the list, finding the gear I dropped in the engine. All it'll take is draining the oil, taking off the alternator cap, taking out the alternator, and finding the cap assuming it didn't fall somewhere else in the engine. Easy task! Except the oil plug was stuck. Unsticking the oil plug only took half an hour and plenty of banging on the engine with a wrench. Exactly how I imagined working on an engine would be. Well at least I found out that motor oil warms the hands up real nice.

The GungHo "Mechanic"

ok, so today i did my first small amount of work on the bike. The day started with my first bit of good advice..."one thing the computer never did was fix our engine"...so good advice but it killed my dreams of instantly downloading the knowledge of fixing the bike from online. I guess staring at parts on ebay really dont help put them on. Oh well. The one thing we knew just from fiddling with bike was that there was something wrong with the starter. The starter is awesome cause with it I don't have to use the kick start every time. The starters on the outside so checking it is pretty simple. So I unbolted and took it out and all the gears were perfect, nothing wrong with it at all. awesome. except I dropped the starter sprocket in the engine...and thats most likely the gear stopping the starter from working. So now I have to drain the oil, open up the motor, get the dropped sprocket, replace all the seals, and put it back together. All in all a good start. But I wont be doing any of that until I get my repair manual.

The Alternate Dimension of Gear

So here I am, a person who has been a geek all my life, finding myself on an adventure to becoming a gear head. Just last week I purchased my first motorcycle, a 1974 Honda CL450. The bike looks awesome, but it has some issues. Things I need to replace and motor parts I need to check. Yet I have no technological know-how when it comes to motors. The best I can do is check oil, put air in my tires, put ibn a new battery, and know that somethings wrong with my car 'cause I'm stuck on the side of the road. Ive devoted a good portion of my life to comic books, manga, anime, movies, regular books, and the occasional video game. I now find myself determined to get off the computer, get my nose out of a book, and to stop my 20 hr movie marathons so as to fix up and mod my motorcycle completely on my own....with some help from a repair manual and my gear head roommate.