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Today started out with what should have been a great day. First, I took my Razr 2's down to Les Schwab to egt them mounted. $16 bucks later, I was ready to go. Then the big one for the day, I went down to the Yamaha dealer and bought my wife a Special Edition Raptor 250 as a suprise gift. Got it home, took her out to see it and she started crying! Mark me down for some good karma, right? WRONG!!
I've almost always done all of my servicing on my quads. Re-built the clutch with some help of a buddy on my Raptor. Point being is that I have pretty good mechanical skills. Well today I really f'ed up. I can't believe I did this. I was changing the oil on my XX. Got everything drained and back in place, then as I started to tighten everything down, I decided to be a real pro and tighted the bolts with my new torque wrench. Set the sucker to 9 pounds for the oil filter cover bolts. As I started to tighten them, I thought to my self, "wow, that seems awfully tight for nine pounds", just then SNAP. I broke off the LONG bolt that goes entirely thru the clutch housing to the engine case. It is impossible to get out without taking that side of the engine apart. To make things worse, I'm going riding next weekend and I need to get it fixed, I'll need the bolts, yes bolts, I snapped off a short one too, and a gasket for the clutch housing (more than likely, just to be safe). I don't have time to do it, my work schedule won't allow it. The Honda dealer is 90 miles away, so that isn't practical either. So I went down and saw my buddy at the Yamaha dealer, and the mechanics there said they would work on it, even thought they don't sell or service Honda's. But they don't know if they can get it done by Friday. If they don't, I'm screwing over the guys I'm supposed to ride with. I feel so f'n stupid for doing this I can't believe it. If I would have tightened them by "hand" with a regular ratchet, this wouldn't have happened. But I should have known better. What a dumbass. So much for karma! Well, thanks for listening, I'm gonna go get another beer.
I've almost always done all of my servicing on my quads. Re-built the clutch with some help of a buddy on my Raptor. Point being is that I have pretty good mechanical skills. Well today I really f'ed up. I can't believe I did this. I was changing the oil on my XX. Got everything drained and back in place, then as I started to tighten everything down, I decided to be a real pro and tighted the bolts with my new torque wrench. Set the sucker to 9 pounds for the oil filter cover bolts. As I started to tighten them, I thought to my self, "wow, that seems awfully tight for nine pounds", just then SNAP. I broke off the LONG bolt that goes entirely thru the clutch housing to the engine case. It is impossible to get out without taking that side of the engine apart. To make things worse, I'm going riding next weekend and I need to get it fixed, I'll need the bolts, yes bolts, I snapped off a short one too, and a gasket for the clutch housing (more than likely, just to be safe). I don't have time to do it, my work schedule won't allow it. The Honda dealer is 90 miles away, so that isn't practical either. So I went down and saw my buddy at the Yamaha dealer, and the mechanics there said they would work on it, even thought they don't sell or service Honda's. But they don't know if they can get it done by Friday. If they don't, I'm screwing over the guys I'm supposed to ride with. I feel so f'n stupid for doing this I can't believe it. If I would have tightened them by "hand" with a regular ratchet, this wouldn't have happened. But I should have known better. What a dumbass. So much for karma! Well, thanks for listening, I'm gonna go get another beer.
