indianscout
09-07-2009, 04:53 PM
OK, most of you know that I have older bikes (antique Indian motorcycles) and since there is no dealership available for me, I have to do all of my own maintinance on them. After all the work I have done on these old bikes, one would think that changing the oil would be very simple thing for me to do......that is unless you are having one of thoes days like today. :grump:
Draining the oil from my bike is very easy. I have a quick-connect on the bottom of my oil tank and it is simply a task of attaching the small hose to the connect and draining the old oil into a 5 gallon bucket, clean and simple just the way I like it. Not wanting to wait around, I took off to milti-task only to return later to find that I had forgotten to put the other end of the hose into the bucket! :mgbanghead: Two rolls of paper towels and a half a bag of floor dry later, I had things back under controle.....or so I thought. I use a small TV tray to catch the oil I drain out of the primary and it works wonderfully....unless you step on the edge of the tray where as it promptly coats your leg and shoe with used oil!! :eek: Oh-well, at least I had some floor dry still on the floor. I propped up the tray on the edge of the bucket to drain off what ever oil was left. But since the bucket was almost full, I had to use my toolbox to prevent it from falling over. I managed to put oil into the bike without any miss-hap but Murpy's Law will tell you that if anything can go wrong, it will. Dropping a wrench into an almost full bucket of oil result in soaking the rest of my pants!! :gaah: Now the last thing I wanted to do was to reach into this nasty bucket of oil but I couldn't fish out the wrench with a piece of wire. Note; before doing this, one should ALWAYS have had a shop rag or some paper towels handy before-hand! :mgbanghead: Ever try to reach something with your foot wile your hands are full.....doesn't always work does it? So with oil up to my elbow, I decided it was just better to walk over and grab the towels. Dripping used oil on the floor wasn't so bad, but when I reached down to pick up the towels with my clean hand, I raised up my oil soaked arm. That's when the oil stopped dripping on the floor and raced down my arm and into my arm pit.:nono: I was ready to throw the wrench across the shop but that it would be counter productive and didn't need to give Murphy any more amunition. So now instead of a afternoon ride, I think I'll take a nap. :badday:
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Draining the oil from my bike is very easy. I have a quick-connect on the bottom of my oil tank and it is simply a task of attaching the small hose to the connect and draining the old oil into a 5 gallon bucket, clean and simple just the way I like it. Not wanting to wait around, I took off to milti-task only to return later to find that I had forgotten to put the other end of the hose into the bucket! :mgbanghead: Two rolls of paper towels and a half a bag of floor dry later, I had things back under controle.....or so I thought. I use a small TV tray to catch the oil I drain out of the primary and it works wonderfully....unless you step on the edge of the tray where as it promptly coats your leg and shoe with used oil!! :eek: Oh-well, at least I had some floor dry still on the floor. I propped up the tray on the edge of the bucket to drain off what ever oil was left. But since the bucket was almost full, I had to use my toolbox to prevent it from falling over. I managed to put oil into the bike without any miss-hap but Murpy's Law will tell you that if anything can go wrong, it will. Dropping a wrench into an almost full bucket of oil result in soaking the rest of my pants!! :gaah: Now the last thing I wanted to do was to reach into this nasty bucket of oil but I couldn't fish out the wrench with a piece of wire. Note; before doing this, one should ALWAYS have had a shop rag or some paper towels handy before-hand! :mgbanghead: Ever try to reach something with your foot wile your hands are full.....doesn't always work does it? So with oil up to my elbow, I decided it was just better to walk over and grab the towels. Dripping used oil on the floor wasn't so bad, but when I reached down to pick up the towels with my clean hand, I raised up my oil soaked arm. That's when the oil stopped dripping on the floor and raced down my arm and into my arm pit.:nono: I was ready to throw the wrench across the shop but that it would be counter productive and didn't need to give Murphy any more amunition. So now instead of a afternoon ride, I think I'll take a nap. :badday:
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