When a simple job just doesn't work out
Discussion
I went to change the front offside indicator on my T595 today. What a f
king waste of time that was. I'd bought a spare from Triumph after someone broke the indicator that's on there now (I suspect my father in law when he used the garage to plug in an Optimate to start his MG up). The indicator itself is still attached, but only by the wire running through the fairing.
I thought the job to change it would be easy. Pop off side fairing, replace part, finished kind of easy. It quickly became apparent it would be more difficult than that, as the side fairing wouldn't come off. It's secured by a nut that threads onto the back of the indicator where it passes through the fairing, to stop the indicator assembly being pulled out of the bike. I couldn't get a fking spanner on that nut to get and loosen it off. There wasn't enough room inside the bike to get a pair of pliers onto the nut either.
It looked as though best access would be had by taking the nosecone off, so off came the fasteners and three of the Allen key bolts. The last one, on the nearside air feed, felt like it would strip if it tried any harder so I gave up, before I broke something.
This fking thing is going to Triumph to have both front indicators changed, to save me the hassle. I hope their labour rate is reasonable. It's been one thing after a fking 'nother with this bike. The fan problem it had when I bought it was by the by. This is accidental damage, I suspect. But what a fking delay it's put on riding the fking thing. God bless whoever decided to integrate indicators with the mirrors instead of running them through the fking fairing.
king waste of time that was. I'd bought a spare from Triumph after someone broke the indicator that's on there now (I suspect my father in law when he used the garage to plug in an Optimate to start his MG up). The indicator itself is still attached, but only by the wire running through the fairing.I thought the job to change it would be easy. Pop off side fairing, replace part, finished kind of easy. It quickly became apparent it would be more difficult than that, as the side fairing wouldn't come off. It's secured by a nut that threads onto the back of the indicator where it passes through the fairing, to stop the indicator assembly being pulled out of the bike. I couldn't get a f
king spanner on that nut to get and loosen it off. There wasn't enough room inside the bike to get a pair of pliers onto the nut either.It looked as though best access would be had by taking the nosecone off, so off came the fasteners and three of the Allen key bolts. The last one, on the nearside air feed, felt like it would strip if it tried any harder so I gave up, before I broke something.
This f
king thing is going to Triumph to have both front indicators changed, to save me the hassle. I hope their labour rate is reasonable. It's been one thing after a fking 'nother with this bike. The fan problem it had when I bought it was by the by. This is accidental damage, I suspect. But what a fking delay it's put on riding the fking thing. God bless whoever decided to integrate indicators with the mirrors instead of running them through the fking fairing.
Triumph probably thought they were onto a winner when they fitted the fairings with those little locking twist bolt things, "This will be no problem, they'll 'ave t'fairings off in 5 minutes" they would have said, only for the whole job to come undone when one of the few screwing bolts they decided to use gets jammed. Better off leaving it once you start getting frustrated as getting heavy handed will just end up in cracked fairings!
theshrew said:
Tribal Chestnut said:
If it's any consolation OP it took me almost four hours to fit four wheels on to my old car today.
.
WTF were you doing man .
t, struggling to get a jack in place that I then couldn't rotate more than a fraction of a turn 'cos my side pipes were fouling it.Toxicnerve
Wiper arms can be embarrassingly tricky to remove, there are special tools to pull them but often they don't fit properly, it's a pain when the wipers have to come off to change the pollen filter.
I sometimes use very hot water to expand them off and a preventative dab of grease when replacing for next time.
Wiper arms can be embarrassingly tricky to remove, there are special tools to pull them but often they don't fit properly, it's a pain when the wipers have to come off to change the pollen filter.
I sometimes use very hot water to expand them off and a preventative dab of grease when replacing for next time.
Yoda400 said:
Mr2Mike said:
LoonR1 said:
Why? I don't get my hands dirty doing menial manual work.
It's pretty pathetic to call a job menial just because you don't have the skills to do it.
Mr2Mike said:
LoonR1 said:
Why? I don't get my hands dirty doing menial manual work.
It's pretty pathetic to call a job menial just because you don't have the skills to do it.(My bike is currently out of action until spring due to an inaccessible sheared bolt in the head so I do feel the OP's pain however, I really should have given up, or at least took a breather...)
Loon always gets a hard time for this but I think he is on to something. Next riding season I'm going to buy a newer bike and let some other fker work on it.
I've kidded myself for years I enjoy it, but like most people I've actually just preserved because of poverty. There's a million things I'd rather be doing. Including riding the damn thing.
ker work on it.I've kidded myself for years I enjoy it, but like most people I've actually just preserved because of poverty. There's a million things I'd rather be doing. Including riding the damn thing.
Gassing Station | Biker Banter | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff