No fancy pictures this time, just a general update on some things I did:
Battle Bus: A few weeks ago, I took the chevy to a do-it-yourself shop that is around near where I’m living at the moment. You can basically rent a pay for a few hours and do some work. I rotated my tires, and finally used my oil change valve I installed back in may. It worked just as I explained, and had I not been in a shop, it still would have been a fairly clean oil change. However, taking the oil filter off was another story, and now I want to have a similar system for taking used oil filters off, as that caused an immense mess. I also changed my gear oil in my front and rear diff, as I do every year just to make sure that there’s also relatively fresh fluid, and low metal contamination.
I’ve had a squealing brake for a few months now, and I figured it was likely due to the sliding surfaces needing to be greased. I discovered that my right rear caliper had a frozen slide pin. I have everything i need to do a complete front and rear brake swap, including calipers, so I threw a new bracket on from one of the kits I had. Unsurprisingly there’s no squeal now.
For the TW200, I recently changed the fork oil in the front forks. The TW is weird because it doesn’t use a dampening rod system, and I didn’t have all my tools or a space I could store the bike if I didn’t get the job finished, so I only drained the fluid out, and replaced it. Luckily I have more fluid, So in another year or so, I can do the job again, and likely not have any issues.
I also have kits to basically rebuild/replace all the front brake components. I have a caliper rebuild kit, a master cylinder rebuild kit, a new steel braided front brake hose, and plenty of caliper grease. I also have a helicoil kit coming in to repair a stripped bolt hole on the caliper bracket that mounts the slide pin to the bracket. After doing all these repairs, the TW should have basically brand spanking new brakes.