What did you do in your garage today..?

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It was were but at least warm to get some things done in the garage.

Changed the oil in the Forester. That’s the easiest oil filter to change. Up top beside the oil filler tube, no messy dripping.

On the bike I had to scrape off the old paper gasket for the clutch slave cylinder. That took so long. It gave me false hope when 1/5 of it just peeled off. The rest was welded on. Razor blade and so many contorted body positions to get at it. Oy
 
Glued up the plug for my Wing seat/tailpiece. I'm going to skin it with packing tape and a roll of blank address labels I have. Maybe be glassing on the weekend....
(old lady on the mug does not approve of such things....)
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timtune said:
Glued up the plug for my Wing seat/tailpiece. I'm going to skin it with packing tape and a roll of blank address labels I have. Maybe be glassing on the weekend....
(old lady on the mug does not approve of such things....)
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I see why you wanted all your carboard to be the same color and thickness.

Great job.
 
jdmsteR said:
That's some mighty fine 3D CAD work (y)
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Cardboard aided design is the best. Often easier than a computer model and you end up with a real physical object and not just some angry pixies.

I use more tape and less skill normally. Tt did some mighty fine work.
 
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A couple of boxes showed up over the winter break for the new track bike. Swapped the stock bars for clipons. Removing the left handlebar switch cluster makes it start to look like a real track bike. Also bolted on the GP swingarm lifters and swapped the rear paddock stand to use the matching adapters. With this setup the lifting spools are installed on the rear stand, rather than on the swingarm. The GP lifters should be less likely than conventional spools to damage the threaded boss on the swingarm in a crash. They also look cool, and retain the axle adjuster blocks so they don't fall out during wheel changes.

Some of the exhaust fittings for the Chinese diesel heater finally showed up, so I was able to install and try that for the first time. Mounted and vented it through the side man-door, and used an old length of rigid dryer ducting to direct the heat across the garage to my working area.

That worked a lot better than I thought it would. My garage has open rafters and soffits and no insulation, so I wasn't expecting too much, but it got warm enough that I had to shut it off after a while.
 
Bought a Dealertool for the Triumph.
Then bought an ODBII reader for the Odyssey.
 
Discharging my big Lifepo4 battery from our camper so that I can recharge it and calibrate the BMS....again. I love almost everything about the JKBMS that I built into it, but the state of charge calibration seems to lose it's **** if you discharge it at too high of a rate when the battery is reaching the bottom of it's capacity, at which point you need to charge it up to full again, discharge it fully, and then recharge it to full again to calibrate it.

280 Amp Hours takes a long time to discharge, even running with a paint stripper gun and a small micro space heater plugged into the inverter resulting in a 145 Amp draw on the battery from the inverter, that's still almost 2 hours to fully discharge. And the last little bit of the discharge needs to be done at a lower rate, around 10-20a.
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