Good, I will try to help as best I can, but you have to help me too. Try to respond like you did above to each step or instruction just so I know that you are understanding the instruction, and have completed it. This will make it go faster and keep me from getting frustrated at having to repeat things that you may have already done. If you don't understand an instruction it is OK to say so or ask more questions. I don't mind explaining things twice if you don't understand, but I won't do it just because you skipped or ignored half the steps. Just show me the respect that the amount of effort I'm putting into this deserves, and try not to make it any harder. OK?
First do you have access to a service manual, and if so is it OEM or an aftermarket brand? If not you probably want to think about getting one as you will probably need it in order to maintain this bike, and particularly to learn how to maintain this bike. The pictures, drawings, and diagrams alone are worth the price.
Second, did you ever go back and read this entire thread from start to finish like I asked? If so, do you now have a better understanding of what we were trying to accomplish, how many times you were told the same thing by various posters, and why I eventually got frustrated at repeating myself? If you have not, then please read it, both my responses and your responses. Try to put yourself in my shoes, and then let me know what you think. If I am at fault, or did a bad job of explaining things, or need to change the way I respond in order to help you better, please tell me. I am always open to advice on how to do a better job. If you are just too impatient to focus, and skip ahead to get finished quicker, then we have to work on that.
Maybe if we knew a little more about each other it would help the communications. I am a 62 year old retired mechanical engineer. I am originally a South Carolina ******* who grew up on a farm working on tractors, trucks, and every kind of piece of equipment that you could imagine from combines to balers, planters, cultivators, mowers, harrows, bulldozers, etc. including tinkering with tools and chainsaws, sports cars, race cars, wankel engines, race boats, 4 wheelers, dirt bikes, and later motorcycles. My father was an auto mechanic before he was a farmer, My brother was also an auto mechanic, actually one of the Mr Goodwrench mechanics on the GM TV commercials, then owned his own shop, and now teaches auto mechanics at Piedmont Technical College. I graduated from Clemson University in 1976, with a BSME, and accepted a job with McDonnell Douglas Aircraft designing airplane parts. However life throws you curves sometimes, and my father died the month that I graduated from college. Plans changed, I didn't go to St. Louis, but I ran the farm, and took care of Mom for a few years. I regrettably made the decision to sell most of the farm, and put the money in the bank for Mom, when my sister graduated from Clemson and came back home, so she could more easily take care of Mom. I then went to work closer to home for a pump manufacturing company in Augusta Ga. I was a test engineer, design engineer, applications engineer, sales engineer, hydraulic lab manager, nuclear safety officer, quality control manager, field service manager, warranty manager, regional sales manager, technical service manager, and probably some more hats that I forgot over 27 years with that company. I have lived in Dallas and Aspen, and traveled to almost every country in the world, selling, installing, and troubleshooting problems with pumps, motors, gearboxes, pipelines, pumping systems, automatic controls, and other mining equipment. I have published numerous technical papers, a couple of books, edited the Hydraulic Institute Standards for Centrifugal Pumps and Testing, and taught fluid mechanics, pump and pipeline testing, and hydraulic transport of solids in pipelines. I also owned my own business for awhile in Aspen building post and beam ski chalets as a general contractor. I am now a retired Georgia ******* living in a very small rural town where my wife grew up. I play with my grandson, hunt, fish, tinker, "work" as a gentleman farmer, go to Clemson football games, play on the computer, and occasionally do some consulting if someone is willing to pay enough.
I know that seems like a lot, but it is hard to try to put a whole life into one paragraph. Now maybe you can tell me about yourself, some background, and what you do, or did, or want to do, or like to do. I'm sure we can find something to relate to.