Bob Dylan on the juke box

When Tony saw the blog yesterday he got all excited and contacted me to say he was coming soon up to help pull that engine.

After a couple of e-mails he decided he's coming Sunday, for a couple of days and wants to get the Honda running, or at the least help work on it some.

So I put Bob Dylan on the juke box (Zune) got the tools out and stripped that baby down carefully and methodically.....taking notes, making sketches, and labeling, and now the engine is ready to come out. All I need is the horse power.

Have I mentioned that "Zen and The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance" isn't really about fixing motorcycles.

Let's try this again.

After a long hiatus I pulled out the bike and the tools and started to tear into it again. It's been a good long while so I spent a fair amount of time looking at what was what and what went where because I was afraid i wouldn't remember after all this time. Then I started taking things apart. Worked for a couple of hours until I got down to the nitty-gritty and decided to stop and start fresh another day. Most of what I removed today was stuff that I had removed previously, then re-installed when I decided I wasn't going to mess with the kick-starter, but since I now have a kick-starter shaft, I may as well put it in...just in case I'm not able to get the electrical starting system fixed.


I got to the point where, if I went much farther the engine was coming out and I wasn't ready for that. I'm not sure I can manhandle it out by myself...in fact I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be real smart to try.



Next step will be unhooking and labeling all the wires and hoses and cables.