Last night, I had to do some work on my bike! Its a VTX 1800S Honda. I had to take the battery out (requires an engineering degree or shooting blind whichever) and I had to install the entire left rear turn signal assembly. Never done that before either and required a bit, hell a lot of trial and error. Anyway two hours later, all done!
Point: I did NOT break a single nail!!! and that included having to reach up under the rear fender constantly with these hams I have for hands and really did not fit all that well in that tight spot!
Actually kind of scary now that I think about it!
Love ya,
Virginia
First star to the right, then straight on 'till mornin!
No way am I going to touch the battery in my 2007 Toyota Pruius Hybred. As for the tail light assembly, looking at in the Maintence manual, I see that to remove the entire tail light assemble requires removing four screws, and unpluging 2 electrical connects.
My father when he was alive, was a master factory trained auto mechanic. I remember he telling me that most commision mechs charged by how long the standardized repair manuls said a certain job would take. He could always do it in less time, thus always maximized his work thus making more money per day. LOL
Just wait, Donna, that blond is going to beat you with the cue stick . . . while at the billiards table, that is!
*Hugs, Ladies*
- SL
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On a similar note, I changed the bulb in my right front turn signal the other day. I didn't break a nail either. Of course, that might be because the manicurist cut them all off.
The most common form of despair comes from not being who you are. - Soren Kierkegaard
Hmmm. Monday I needed to replace my alternator, my airconditioner conpresor and a vent fan, and also of course, recharge the airconditioning coolant. So I took it in to the mechanic and I didn't break any nails either!!! Did cost me $1800.00 though, and that was a big ouch.
I have never been mechanically inclined, though in my first year in the Navy I was inexplicably posted to engineering where I had to rewind the armature and reinstall an electric motor, trace the steam cycle that provided basic power to our vessel, set up and operate steam turbines, and sketch and lable the reduction gears supplying motive power to the props that moved our ship and thoroughly learn the evaporator system that provided feed water for our boilers and fresh water for the crew. And I had to run a lathe, clear a deliberately blocked eductor pump (delibrately is about the only way to block one) and manually start emergency deisel generators and service same, and so other Damage Control things. But, automobile engines? I know nothing about anything more recent than 1964.
"It’s not given to anyone to have no regrets; only to decide, through the choices we make, which regrets we’ll have,"
David Weber – In Fury Born
I guess I should log in more often. I didn't realize that any other CDs in the area rode. Do you make it down to Christiansburg much? I ride up to Roanoke and on the parkway from time to time (several times this last month)
Last week I removed a battery from a car and I don't even own a car. I needed a battery and thought that the car parked in front of my home would have the battrery I needed, and I didn't break a nail either, well, i got no nails, I bite mine,,, so after reading back. my post didn't make much sense.
and that included having to reach up under the rear fender constantly with these hams I have for hands and really did not fit all that well in that tight spot!
. . . while at the billiards table, that is! 
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