{"id":6131,"date":"2011-05-04T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2016-03-18T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T03:13:11","slug":"wednesday-is-a-maintenance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6131","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Is a Maintenance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to drive to the base clinic this morning for an aortic sonogram, a routine test my doctor wanted to have in my records prior to my switching over to Medicare later this year.\u00a0 AFAIK, my aorta is fine.<\/p>\n

Back home, I packed my motorcycle’s saddlebag with oil, brake fluid, and a fresh oil filter, then rode over to Ed’s garage for another maintenance session.\u00a0 We changed the oil and filter, drained and refilled the rear drive reservoir, then flushed and refilled the brake and clutch systems.\u00a0 There are so many bleed valves on the brake system we had to use a checklist — not only does the Honda have antilock brakes, the front and rear brakes are hydraulically linked, and the front system also ties into the anti-dive system on the forks.<\/p>\n

I’m a big believer in checklists and shop manuals.\u00a0 Anything more complex than lefty-loosey and righty-tighty and I’m likely to screw it up, and if I were being totally honest I’d have to admit I’ve actually stripped threads trying to force bolts in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m lusting for a motorcycle maintenance stand.\u00a0 Normally when I work on the bike I’m lying on a concrete garage floor.\u00a0 Not today — we used Ed’s hydraulic stand and jacked the bike up to chest level.\u00a0 Now I’m spoiled:<\/p>\n

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Ed's motorcycle stand ... talk about luxury!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Donna’s having her bridge group over tonight and I was thinking about clearing out anyway.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll drive over to Harbor Freight and price a motorcycle stand.\u00a0 Wouldn’t that make a great Mothers’ Day present?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to drive to the base clinic this morning for an aortic sonogram, a routine test my doctor wanted to have in my records prior to my switching over to Medicare later this year.\u00a0 AFAIK, my aorta is fine. Back home, I packed my motorcycle’s saddlebag with oil, brake fluid, and a fresh oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycling","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}