DFW Wrench Party, March 26

[BuzzKill]

Houdini, I replied to your email where you said "I'll be there".  Sorry you missed it.

Was a pretty productive day.

Garfield, went Darkside, final drive maint, and changed fluids.
jimnvalk, went Darkside and did final drive maint.
Valkpilot stopped by and gave shared lots of great knowledge.
Yodamaster stopped by and did something with some highway pegs loaned us a jackstand, straps and his HD head visor. 
Disco came by dropped off the football, loaned a jack and stand and shared some of his knowledge and helped out greatly.
lucky_1_chris came over for introductions and helped out alot.
Timbo stopped in and helped out and got some fluids changed.
BnBTom also came over to hang and help out.
I got my chrome caliper covers installed, thanks to Houdini finding the hardware.
I think thats it, but if I missed anyone I'm sorry.
Thanks to everyone who came by and helped out.

First person in was at 8 and last person out was at 6. 

We will load some pics later on.

[RainMaker]

My apologies again for not being there - had an emergency with the business I had to take care of.  Hope all had a productive day.

RM

[jimnvalk]

What a day What a day.  
Left this morning at 5:30 headed for Lake Dallas Texas.  Lets see I went darkside, did drive maintenance, we argued down the guy that mounted our tires, after he tried to double the price on us, had to modify my bag hardware, nut modification for DS i put a carriage bolt from inside out with acorn nut on outside,  It stuck out to far so had to put in spacers for bags to go back on. Put new brake pads on the back, thanks to Guillie,  Andy's wife made eggs and sausage casserole that was to die for, then she grilled up some brats,  finishe up my DS and changes around 6 and headed home got home around 9:15.;l  15 minutes from being gone 16 hours today.  
Thanks Andy for hosting and hauling my butt around to look for hardware.  Need to do it again soon.

thanks to all who came and helped my out.  My ride home was great, different, but great.

[jimnvalk]

Jimnvalk I have a set of rear pads, you can have for ten percent off list which is what i paid for them Honda OEM pads. I just went DS and did not need to fo the nut mod.

Ghillie,
shoot me a PM with your address and how much i owe you.
Thanks again you were a life saver

[BuzzKill]

As promised, here's some of the pics.


Getting the old tires off jimnvalk's and Garfield's bikes.




Yodamaster doing something.




Disco, Garfield, Unnamed person, and Valkpilot taking the shaft...  out of a final drive.




Some of the other bikes waiting thier turn for the attention.




Same bikes from earlier waiting on thier new shoes to return.




And finally, the new guy, lucky_1_chris, lubing the shaft....

[Timbo]

Had a great time helping hide all the tools and various accoutrements.  Thanks to our hosts for pulling all this together, and the help changing out the fluids on my ride.  I did not know that those bubbles would look so clear....kinda like another set of mirrors now!

[Houdini]

kinda like another set of mirrors now!

Timbo, I put a set of OEM VTX 1300 mirrors on my Valk and I like them better than the stock ones.

[lucky_1_chris]

Had a great time meeting every one, and I learned quite a bit. Many thanks to thagandy for his hospitality, and for posting the pic of me lubing the shaft. Hope to see you guys next month.

[HayHauler]

Don't worry Chris, the 'new guy' always greases, er, uh, lubes the shafts...  

Hay  
Jimmyt

[Garfield]

I would like to say thanks to everyone who helped me out grtting my stuff done, and a big thanks to ThagAndy for hosting a great wrench party. I had a good time. Thanks everyone.

[Ghillie]

jimnvalk turn out NOT to need brakes?

[Valkpilot]

jimnvalk turn out NOT to need brakes?

Naw, he did 'em.  The old pads were down to bare metal.

He just replaced them in stealth mode while everyone else was at the feed trough.

[jimnvalk]

jimnvalk turn out NOT to need brakes?

Shoot me a PM with your address and how much I owe you.  Thanks again

[BuzzKill]

Someone left a socket set.  PM or email me if you want em back or I can bring em to next event I go to.

[lucky_1_chris]

Someone left a socket set.  PM or email me if you want em back or I can bring em to next event I go to.

Little blue case? I forgot those. I'm not worried about 'em. I picked that little set up at Wal Mart in Mena, AR last weekend for 10 bucks. The clamp on my heat shield was rubbing the final drive, and that set was only a few bucks more than buying a single wrench to fix the problem. If you remember, just bring 'em next time I guess. No biggie either way.

Thanks again for having me over. See ya next time.