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From: schwager@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Clymer Suzuki book
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 17:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 17:19:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA!schwager    Aug 30 16:19:00 1985


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The Clymer books are pretty good, however, I recently came across a couple of
errors in mine that pissed me off.  By the way, I'm a rather poor, novice 
Honda CX500 owner (water cooled, shaft driven for the uninitiated).  I like to
do my own work on the electronic/mechanical goodies I own- bicycle, '72 Pinto
(hey- no comments from the peanut gallery :-), and motorcycle.  Anyhow, I
decided to do some maintenance on my Honda- change fork oil, repack wheel 
bearings, fix squeaky breaks.  I have to take apart my forks to change
the oil on my bike.  So I did- but I found after taking the one apart and
coming back to it the next day that I had an extra spring that wasn't shown in
the book.  Well, I kinda figured it out but managed to put it in wrong
(determined after taking the other fork apart).  That irked me a bit, but
then I went to work on the wheel bearings- ok, so I'm ignorant!  First, the
details in the book were VERY sketchy- basically, "take the bearings out,
clean them, regrease 'em, and put 'em back in."  Thanks, guys.  So here I am
trying to tap them out with a hammer and a drift, along the outside edge
of one of the bearings.  I managed to put a ding in the edge of one of them.
Argh.  Well, I took the wheel to "Bill's Custom Bikes" and he kinda just 
laughed at me, told me to throw the book away, opened up the bearings and
showed me that now only were they sealed, but they were completely greased and
clean as a whistle.  So based on his recommendation and this minor experience
that could have ended up costing me $20 plus 3 weeks of waiting (had I not
gone to Bill's), go spend the extra bucks and get the shop manual..
-mike schwager
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