Natedawgg
Sat 4/26/08, 2:35PM
Step by step instructions on how to change your shit out.
10 am - Your buddy show up at your place with the new kit and his bike.
10:30 - Stop at North Hollywood Sears to get a breaker-bar.
10:45 - Sears guy gives you directions to another Sears because they don't have what you need at their Sears.
11:15 - Purchase 1 new breaker bar at Burbank Sears.
11:45 - Get home and discover you need a chain breaker to break the chain.
12:15 - Buy chain breaker from Mike at Moto DC on Hollywood Way by the airport.
12:30 - Get lunch to go at Zankou Chicken.
1 pm - Eat.
1:20 - Break bolts on rear sprocket.
1:23 - Discover you need a bigger socket than your socket kit has.
1:24 - have your buddy measure the front sprocket bolt 2 times.
1:35 - Go to the Do It Center and buy a bigger socket.
1:46 - Discover your buddy does not know how to measure a nut properly and send him by himself to get the correct socket.
2:30 - Your buddy shows up with the proper socket. He had to go to several different places because the Do It Center couldn't do it.
2:33 - Remove big-ass bolt from front sprocket and discover that the toothed washer that lives between the bolt and the sprocket is totally mangled and needs to be replaced.
2:36 - You break the chain.
3:01 - Your buddy returns from the Kawasaki dealer on Hollywood Way with the wrong washer. They didn't have a 13 tooth washer, so he bought a 12 tooth washer, thought maybe we could fiddle with it and make it fit.
3:12 - Called Moto DC, Crago Racing & Honda of Hollywood for the part. Turns out Suzuki of Van Nuys has stuff like that.
3:26 - Your buddy rides off on your bike to Van Nuys to get the washer while you remove the back tire.
3:28 - Wash your hands and play Xbox.
4:05 - Your buddy returns with the proper toothed washer.
4:21 - You guys install the new sprockets and put the tire back on.
4:45 - You discover the master link on the new chain is a rivet type link, not a clip type link. You don't have the proper tool.
4:53 - Call Mike at Moto DC. He can sell you the proper tool for $70 or a clip type master link for $5.
4:59 - Your buddy rides off again for a new master link.
5:00 - You go upstairs and take a nap.
5:30 - Your buddy comes back and wakes you up. He has the new part.
5:55 - After huffing and puffing, after squeezing the hell out of the new master link, you call Mike up and ask what you're doing wrong. He thinks you should come by and have him do it for you and is kind enough to stay open a little late for you.
6:01 - You and your buddy make sure the new master link is on tight enough to not come off so he can ride his SV to Moto DC and have Mike put it on correctly.
Piece of cake.
:D
10 am - Your buddy show up at your place with the new kit and his bike.
10:30 - Stop at North Hollywood Sears to get a breaker-bar.
10:45 - Sears guy gives you directions to another Sears because they don't have what you need at their Sears.
11:15 - Purchase 1 new breaker bar at Burbank Sears.
11:45 - Get home and discover you need a chain breaker to break the chain.
12:15 - Buy chain breaker from Mike at Moto DC on Hollywood Way by the airport.
12:30 - Get lunch to go at Zankou Chicken.
1 pm - Eat.
1:20 - Break bolts on rear sprocket.
1:23 - Discover you need a bigger socket than your socket kit has.
1:24 - have your buddy measure the front sprocket bolt 2 times.
1:35 - Go to the Do It Center and buy a bigger socket.
1:46 - Discover your buddy does not know how to measure a nut properly and send him by himself to get the correct socket.
2:30 - Your buddy shows up with the proper socket. He had to go to several different places because the Do It Center couldn't do it.
2:33 - Remove big-ass bolt from front sprocket and discover that the toothed washer that lives between the bolt and the sprocket is totally mangled and needs to be replaced.
2:36 - You break the chain.
3:01 - Your buddy returns from the Kawasaki dealer on Hollywood Way with the wrong washer. They didn't have a 13 tooth washer, so he bought a 12 tooth washer, thought maybe we could fiddle with it and make it fit.
3:12 - Called Moto DC, Crago Racing & Honda of Hollywood for the part. Turns out Suzuki of Van Nuys has stuff like that.
3:26 - Your buddy rides off on your bike to Van Nuys to get the washer while you remove the back tire.
3:28 - Wash your hands and play Xbox.
4:05 - Your buddy returns with the proper toothed washer.
4:21 - You guys install the new sprockets and put the tire back on.
4:45 - You discover the master link on the new chain is a rivet type link, not a clip type link. You don't have the proper tool.
4:53 - Call Mike at Moto DC. He can sell you the proper tool for $70 or a clip type master link for $5.
4:59 - Your buddy rides off again for a new master link.
5:00 - You go upstairs and take a nap.
5:30 - Your buddy comes back and wakes you up. He has the new part.
5:55 - After huffing and puffing, after squeezing the hell out of the new master link, you call Mike up and ask what you're doing wrong. He thinks you should come by and have him do it for you and is kind enough to stay open a little late for you.
6:01 - You and your buddy make sure the new master link is on tight enough to not come off so he can ride his SV to Moto DC and have Mike put it on correctly.
Piece of cake.
:D