A mechanically type question thing.

He was obviously completely mechanically incompetent.

 

Yeah, lamer.

 

The older Trumf triples are like that - the main frame tube runs right
across the top of the centre pot.

 

A common question on the Yahoo Tiger group used to be "where can I get
a plug spanner to use on the centre plug - none of mine fit". I could
always visualise the red face when they were told to use the one in the
bike's toolkit

 

I was faffing with an early Sprint belonging to an erstwhile poster -
can't remember who it wa snow. The bloody spanner was m,issing from his
toolkit, and I had to molish something out of an antique box spanner and
a 17mm open-ender. Jeez.

Nothing as crazy as trying to change the plugs on Ant's old NC35,
though.

 

But does it bend in the right place?

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AndrewR says...

You make it bend in the right place.

 

You might and I'm sure you'd be happy to do one for me, but by the time I
drive to Bedford and back to pick it up I'll probably have blown my £2.50
budget.

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Just to annoy you... doing the GSXR is like that.

 

Exactly.
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Yeah, but that's a proper sized bike, not a mincy little 600.

I bet the little gixxers are a PITA.

 

Feeler gauges are for amateurs. Any mechanic worth his spanners can do
it by eye. (That's what I'm going to tell AndrewR while I drink his
beer, anyway.)

 

They're exactly the same size.

 

*Exactly*?

 

Well, the Thou is about 10mm wider and longer overall but that's about
it. I doubt there is that much difference is external engine size.

Oh, and I was basing my comment on the 750 as I've done a
plugs/oil/filter change on that. Haven't done one on the Thou yet but
I don't imagine it's much different.

 

Oh, well - Suzuki obviously aren't quite so vindictive as Kawasaki.

 

Oh they are. They fit 6 pot Tokico's for a start. And they use 4mm
hex-key bolts in all the places where you really need them to be at
least 5mm to avoid rounding.

 

Yeah, but Kawasaki do that too - or they did on AndrewR's bike, anyway -
as well as hiding everything away in small spaces that require you to
have a n-dimensional wrist to get at them.

 

My excuse is that I was never taught English grammar at school, and
I've learnt all I know from here'.

 

Eddie says...

Not quite xactly, but near as dammit. The gixer 6 is one of the easiest
600s to work on, due to having a very wide frame and a comparitively
narrow engine.