Its going to be an odd week, this one. Tomorrow the BSU will be leaving for a couple days in Oregon, leaving me to be a batchelor and pet food distributer at the Wasted Electrons World Headquarters. Buddies Kenny and Loc are both out of town so I can't go to lunch with my regular lunch partners or just hang out in the sunshine with them while I have an afternoon cigar break. The weather looks like it is going to be springtime unpredictable, cool, wet and gusty so the half-planned evening fishing trip with Mike isn't likely to happen this week either.
The Suzuki is getting closer to being ready but like the math experiment where you continue cutting a distance in half and half again and again, each time getting closer to the end but never reaching it; its not finished. I did buy a new battery for it and got it charged up, but its not re-installed. I did get the stock airbox installed but I can't get 2 of the rubber boots to seat exactly as they should. The fuel tank petcock, which I overhauled first when I began this project, leaks and never seemingly stops the fuel flow. The petcock is supposed to be vacuum controlled and close when no engine vaccum exists, but for some reason, that's not working. A replacement petcock is expensive and I can't figure out why the one I have isn't working properly to justify replacing it. I think that maybe if I preload a tiny spring with some equally tiny washers, inside the diaphram side, it might push the piston closed.
I've had to reinflate the front tire on the motorcycle twice over the winter so I'm probably going to have to take it for a bead breaking and rim clean up or other repair to keep the air trapped where it belongs. Maybe everything will come together by this weekend, since I missed this last weekend...
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