'Twas a busy day today.
This happens to be the busiest day of the two-week cycle that is my job. Every other Thursday, I have to zip around town to 5 different locations and go to the bank twice before heading down to McBaine for my last stop around 3:30 pm. (Oh, on the way to McBaine, I was following this pickup with a flatbed trailer. On the trailer was one of those huge telephone company lookin' trucks - with cherry-picker and everything. The whole affair was leaning precariously to the right, as if the tires were low on the trailer on that side. The road towards McBaine is less than level, and often the road is curvy and has a pitch to it, mostly to the right. At least 3 times I thought the whole thing was gonna tip over. It was scary and adrenaline inducing.) Plus this brand-new NASCAR pinball is taking up my time - it's experiencing problems already...the thing is less than 3 months old. Stern Pinball sucks. I miss my Williams/Bally pins. The classics. Built like fuckin' trucks. Why did you stop making pinballs, Williams, Why!?
Anyway, Tuesday I finally got the cycles over to Garner's with Steve's help. Wednesday band practice. And directly after work today, I went home, snacked on some chips and salsa, put on a sweatshirt over my tee, broke out the longjohns, gloves and "stalkin'" cap, and took the 4-mile drive to Garner's. On the gold Honda, hereinafter known as "Mark's", I threw the battery on the charger and went to work: I ran the valves (not bad), points (right on), and checked the plugs (right on). I also suceeded in spilling oil and gas on Garner's garage floor no later than 15 minutes after I got there. I used his freshly built work table. I put on a new front brake, tach and speedo cable. I removed the old side bags and brackets, and the broken case saver. I removed the brackets for the now defunct front ferring and windshield. I also found the rear tank rubber mount down inside the frame. It was still in good shape! I started getting hungry, put all the tools away, threw the old side bags in the Suzi, and headed home.
Next visit I hope to start on my Honda. I'll break the engine loose and check the points, plugs, and valves on it, and probably yank a carb or two. Maybe start on de-rusting the tank. I cant really decide if I want to do a frame-up resto on it....that would be a lot of work. I'll probably just get it running good and looking decent. The paint and chrome are in dern good shape anyway. Yeppers.