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Done. Not bad 6 hours to remove, rebuild and reinstall a transfer case. Lucked out, only had the broken tab off the pump and it didn't do any damage. Found it stuck on the donut magnet in the pan. New bearings, seals, oil pump and clutch plates and she is as good as new. Saved myself 2500 bucks to boot

It's too heavy for you because your an old duffer, just remember Michelle is a spring chicken fit and healthy ready to take on the world not ready to leave it behind

I think this is a case of mansplaining

I think when I leave home with driving up the coast on the twisty corners on a warm sunny day when the tarmac is just right I will be happy to be on a street bike. Then the next day I go out with dirt on the mind and that only. I am at an age now where I can control my urges and when I set out with a plan I follow through.... There is room for both fun times!

When I first had a garage I had all my most used sockets on a plastic wall board, really easy to get at and also to see if anything was missing. Think I bought them from Halfords in the mid 90s, they stopped doing them a little while after. I still have one with a few sockets on, then I started moving stuff about to get my ramp in and switched to more stuff in my tool boxes and decided to have a crack at the foam when lockdown started. It's easy to do, just cut round the tools and peel out how many layers you need for the right depth. My spanners were on cup hooks screwed into a long piece of random wood, with say two 8mms on the first hook, a couple of 10mms on the second hook etc up to 27mm. You occasionally need two spanners the same size up to about 17mm I have found. The piece of wood is still on the wall only now it has a few T bars hanging on it and a couple of IKEA LED anglepoise desk lamps, plugged in, which I can slot into the bike ramp on either side if I need extra light on the subject. I do have some of those hanging cabled or battery lights but they always seem to twist and shine the wrong way at a critical moment, usually right into my eyes. My work bench (which is mostly covered in crap) and half the cost of my compressor was bought with my 25 years long service money I got in 2011. If I had it as cash in my wages it was taxed at full rate, if I bought something and showed them the bill I didn't pay any tax and they transferred it into my bank account. Apparently you used to get a clock in the 50s but they changed it to cash later on. My long service certificate arrived unwrapped in a box with 4 others and it had been thrown about so was scratched to buggery, it has pride of place in my toilet!!! It is however signed by our first ever directly elected Mayor who later went on to get himself chucked out of office for electoral fraud. He's standing again this year, his ban is up. The 4 people who took him to court and won have never received any costs from him to this day, some may have lost their homes over a case that the government should have funded by rights.

I'm with you @Tym This tool chest i acquired when the Linde forklift factory closed. The boys that worked there were selling them off after they finished. they were full of tools as well but i have no use for a 1" drive socket set so just had the chest and a large steel cabinet This tool bench was also something i sort of picked up. It was on a site i was working on and i had spotted it outside while they renovated their workshop and it was still there when i turned up to do a job two years later. I just happened to be in a van large enough to fit it in that week and after asking the engineer we were working for if i could have it he said get it in the van quick when nobody is about, so it came home. When we turned up on site the next day some twat had been in in the night and stole the cable we had pulled in the day before. When the police were there the engineer only went and told the police that the workbench had been stolen as well FFS As for organised i made this to tidy up all the 3/8 drive stuff i have acquired over the years as i only seem to use the 1/4" or 3/8" socket sets on the bikes i needed it where i could find it

Well I have been shopping again, I can't seem to shake the desire for another bike. Not to replace the Himalayan, but something that provides a different experience. I keep going full circle and end up looking at sporty street bikes. All smooth and sexy they are......

Seems like a lifetime ago.??

Perimetral, that's the bit between your bollocks and your chocolate starfish aint it?

OK, Dad! Have you not seen my muscles? ? Dude, I work out, I got this.... Here, hold my beer...

I don't think Matron has given @Swagman his Meds today!

Excellent stuff @Grasshopper's Ride that tool sure beats my steel bar and hammer. The one for removing the steering stem bearing is something i can easily make but until i saw it i hadn't thought of it so simple. It was a pleasure seeing you handle those tools for the first time you looked very competent you could learn from this @XTreme

I can vouch for all of the above, he even coaxed me to donate money.??

No, i recomended bare knuckles to the face. Old school.

Bearing With My Royal Enfield Himalayan - Part 3 - Off to The Races The time has come to change the front steering bearings in Bagheera, my 2019 Royal Enfield Himalayan. Bagheera has 6000km on him and that might seem early for a bearing change, but I believe the conditions I ride in can wear things out on the bike a bit faster. It's a great opportunity to learn more about my bike and as usual things never go according to plan, so this has turned into a multi-part video. In this episode we remove the bearings and races while sharing some casual garage chit-chat.

Rain stopped for enough time for me to get some coal going and cook a couple of nice cow ribs Not very well done, but that's just my taste Had a couple of bottles of a friend's gift of some local farmer's young wine, not EU quality seal, but I approved anyway ... :

Hardly a ride report but thought I’d better put these in here. Out running some errands today and stopped down the beach at Bolnuevo where the wind and salty air have created these sandstone sculptures. Until very recently you could walk up to the cliffs behind and dangle your legs over the edge. Bollox to that! ?

@Grasshopper's Ride The only advice i can give you is to get out there and test ride bikes then pick one on the results of that. By all means take advice on what issues or what to look out for on a bike. Only you can decide what you like and want. I remember all my mates telling not to buy a YZ490 to use as a trail bike 30 odd years ago saying it wouldn't work and i was crazy, you know shit like that. But because they dismissed it so much it just made me want it more, so i bought it and after a few days on it i realised all the stuff my mates were telling me turned out to be total horse shit i'd never had such an adrenalin rush on a bike, even when it tried to kill me which was most of the time i still loved riding it. It only managed to break my collar bone but i was back on it as soon as i could. Yes it needed lots of maintenance and went through a tank of fuel almost as quick as a tube of autosol in Pete's hands but i'm glad i didn't listen to my mates and followed what my heart wanted it was great fun

Says the man who still hasn't mastered how to go up and down steps without a grownup holding him!

I am not looking for HP.... Anything will feel fast compared to my Himalayan. ? Sometimes I like more balance between power and weight.

Why thank you for your suggestions, they are appreciated from such a wise individual. ? I have looked at those for sure. The CBR650 is nice. The 4 cylinder does sound good and it is super smooth.... But the 500's are on "special" right now. The CBR500R is sexy, but I might go with the naked version, CB500F

You need 5 different types of bikes @Grasshopper's Ride!

This one never rusted away.?

Couple of nails were for holding my torque wrenches between. They're still on the same bit of wood.

I'm still have probs not sniggering with the name Motion pro.

Not as well built as the xt1200 either. I'm really enjoying it. A friend had the mt09 and said he's gonna lose his license so I thought these were maybe tuned down but once you click the sporty setting and give it some revs it's a bloody rocket ship. Far faster than I need to go. Lighter than the big XT which is why I traded but not quite as comfy, but only in the seat and more bent legs. TFT dash is good too. Once I get this front brake sorted I'll be a happy bunny again.

I know the quality has gone down on all the makes now it’s a shame, but the motors still seem bulletproof.?

I’m guessing these pucks are made in the same country as your engine.

Mine looks a bit wanting.

Yeah they look it but have you taken a look at the new bikes out they are getting massive on some, I’m not one for changing pipes they work well when made so I just leave them, I think most people change the end cans to smaller ones.

Cup hocks, you were lucky, we used nails which had prob been used before.

+1 on the couch for true content, though I couldn't be parted with any money I'm tighter than a duck's arse

Yeah I know shut the fuck up every time money is mentioned you go all goofy ,was only going to pay for your fucking teabags.???

Yeah it was on your pillow.

Fuckmine, not a single gun in those drawers , what's going on ?

Yes......but your few nice words usually involves putting a gun barrel in peoples' mouths Tym! Wasn't that your solution to the Mad Dean problem?

Just a few nice words in 3D usually fixes those sorts Pete.!

I'm not bothered Bruce! Let me give you a bit of history....... I was a member since 2013, and only a couple of months ago, I assisted them to sort out their database problems, even contacting their hosts to get them to act. (People know me in this industry so I spoke directly to the CEO in the US). Then I helped them to convert their forum from phpBB to IPB. I even chipped in to help them buy their software as well, and organised a whip round from other members to make up the shortfall. I also gave them the Help topics that I created here, advised on forum configuration, addons to get, and showed them how to set up their newsfeeds with full content as we have here, Anybody who was there a few months ago knows that's the case.....I haven't exaggerated or embellished anything. So I did my bit then! And quite frankly if they feel they need more tuition on how to run a forum properly and not treat members in an unprofessional or unethical way, then they're welcome to watch and learn.

Bloody good stuff when made in Japan. Butt plugs?

or in reality...."too cheap to pay someone to do it"

You neat freaks are disturbing types im red flagging the lot of you.

Mates that he pays in kind.?

Who did you have to shag to get that Yen asking for a friend

There's all sorts. I have a socket butchered by an angle grinder that means I can use a torque wrench to set my head stock bearings that dates back to 95, A T-handled cross head screw driver stolen off my brother in the early 80s, the infamous cheap impact driver that I've had since I was 18, an odd socket drawer for those times when nothing will fit or reach, each one may only get used once or never at all. I've got some spanners from my Dad's old car tool box which must date back to the 50s. The toolbox itself is an old machine gun ammo box made of wood which he either bought from a surplus shop in the distant past or more likely stole from the RAF Police. I've got about 4 concrete paving blocks (100x200x80mm) that are brilliant for putting a rear wheel back in. By rolling the wheel onto one to get it to the right height, another one follows to keep it there and by tapping gently you can raise or lower the wheel, move it back and forth with no effort and push the axle through in your own time.

When I was in the Algarve in June Portugal was having a much better time controlling covid than now, all restaurants and bars and establishments had to be closed and empty of patrons by 11PM. People were worried they wouldn't be able to enforce this to tourists considering that throwing out a bunch of tourists after they've already had a few too many beers by as early as 11 would be hard. The solution was an instant fine to the establishment of 300€ per person inside, and a fine to each person as well. The way this was enforced was by fully prepared riot control police, they would cruise the streets with the full squad of guys inside the van, and have a couple of officers already in riot police uniform go into the establishment and advise them in good manners to clear out by the time they would return in 15 minutes. Was it overkill to use riot control? Yes it was, but that police would be bored on standby anyway, and the sight of them made things go smoothly. I find states are too quick to declare a state of emergency to arm themselves of governmental freedoms they probably shouldn't have (and very unwilling to them give them back), but are too weak to actually enforce the actual measurements they decide are needed on account of not loosing votes for next election.

Got a lot of drawers, they aren't all neat and tidy but at least I can usually find what I want. That's your feed line Pete.

Love that, and it looks like you have the right bike too

Twat