Stuck on the side of the road in Addis LA

About 3 foot nothing, I hear.

'Nuff said.

ooooh boy.... lookie like you'll need to dump that oil a couple more times this week!!!



EDIT: SHIT! I hope it's all in the bottom and ya get it before it gets you... how many miles till ya get to a shop where ya can do a thorough re-teardown?????

As for re-tear-down, I don't know. Another $300 gasket kit? Out of my rapidly shrinking stash? Another week or more? Fuck.

I'm just going to change the oil a few times and hope like hell it gets me back to CA. What else can I do? When I left, I knew in the back of my head it could be the swan song for this bike.

How much of that bolt have you recovered??? You getting bearing material now... I hope not!:eek1

I have all of the bolt, and the spring. What you're seeing is the inside of my clutch cover, so it's mostly soft aluminum. I'll post pics of that later (it's still on the bike)

Dogdamn mailman just left-no express packages!


FUCK!!!!!!!!! Stuck in this fucked up shitty ass cheap motel ANOTHER fucking night!

Aaaah SHIT !...... Welp could be worse uh huh.

yeah..he cudda been up here! :huh

Within sight of this wonderful establishment are three casinos, A McDs, a Popeyes and a Waffle House. Oh yeah- and an Adult Video purveyor. :huh

The pinnacle of culture, I tell ya.

Welcome to Louisiana....from past resident.
Are you sure there is not liquor stores seems a staple you left out. If you get really drunk you can make pretend it is Bourbon Street just after that B!tch Katrina minus looters oh and you have electricity.

Sorry for the "character building exercises" you have been dealing with.

Where are you heading too?

It would seem I have landed in Purgatory.....


(and yes, there are a few liquor stores here too Abita Amber ain't all that bad, actually! )

Well I had a reason for asking, I am in Lake Charles La and will be heading to Mobile AL on Friday....was just trying to see if I could do anything, but I guess Purgatory is a place not on the map.......

Well, the motel is in Port Allen, LA and I'm heading west.

I'm probably going to run to the auto parts store in the AM and get a 1/2 ratchet to run my new-to-me socket and another round of oil and dump it while waiting for the mailman. I think the 5 springs will get me there and back.

I do appreciate the offer of help. I'm hoping that I've got this, but I'm also not out of the woods yet. Parts still need to be swapped and a couple more flushes will make me feel a lot better.

Well I wish you all the luck in the world ....I am thinking quite a few more oil and filter changes are in your future....I hope anyway...again good luck brother and I am in Lake chuck till Friday.....

At 120 odd miles west of here, I was wondering-

How's the tent space around Lake Chuck? Got facilities I could change oil at?

I will check for ya tomorrow after training..... what kind of bike is it there are a few riders here in our trainning class that are local.....

So, parts arrived yesterday, and I headed for the local O"Reilly's for another round of oil, and a ratchet or adapter to run my new-to-me 1/2" drive 1 1/4" socket. sstewart sent me his lockplate, making the job pretty easy. Swapped the booster and clutch discs in the parking lot, than headed for HoggJaww's for the oil change/tent space, 100 miles away.



If you look close, you can see the broken booster bolt. When that broke, this occurred:



The source of the metal in the previous pics

It's been 3 oil changes now (the above pic is from the very first clean-out), and it's starting to be a little less of an issue in my head. I have a good feeling about all this. I'm thinking the sump screen did it's job and kept the worst of the detritus out of the pump, and consequently the engine, as I have found very little in the upper screen or filters.

A couple more changes and I should be good to make it back to CA!

Awesome!