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Yep, all those years of laughing at the H-D dudes, when they say, "Yeah, sometimes ya just gotta lay it down." Nope, never happen to me, I said.
I was wrong.
So, there I was, riding the '78 SR500 I'd picked up a while back, but had been sitting while I worked on a couple of other bikes. . .and then, all at once, I figured out that the oil seepage on the bottom of the engine was coming from around the sump cover! Oh nooooo! Some ham-fisted idiot had stripped one of the screws!
I made it as painless for the poor thing as I could and put a blanket on some old tires, then laid her down oh-so-gently and helicoiled the crankcase. . .had to take the right engine cover off and do the oil filter cover screws as well. . .ah, vintage bikes, it's the all-day-oil-change syndrome.
Oh, they meant lay it down in the road. . ?!?!
I was wrong.
So, there I was, riding the '78 SR500 I'd picked up a while back, but had been sitting while I worked on a couple of other bikes. . .and then, all at once, I figured out that the oil seepage on the bottom of the engine was coming from around the sump cover! Oh nooooo! Some ham-fisted idiot had stripped one of the screws!
I made it as painless for the poor thing as I could and put a blanket on some old tires, then laid her down oh-so-gently and helicoiled the crankcase. . .had to take the right engine cover off and do the oil filter cover screws as well. . .ah, vintage bikes, it's the all-day-oil-change syndrome.
Oh, they meant lay it down in the road. . ?!?!