I made a couple of sketches with the dimensions of the weight rack I need to make for Coach Jen after boxing the other night. I want to get all the pieces cut to length so's I can at least get the long pieces of stock off the floor. The paper weight is something I found in the driveway gravel. I've got no idea what it was before it became fossilized but it's pretty neat.
The new hand grips for the Sportster came in last week. The soft-ties are for lashing down the Go-Go onto the carrier - should make the job go faster, especially after I shorten the straps on the ratchet straps.
The front brake on the Sportster is now operational but I'm going to drain the master cylinder and bleed the system once more. The fluid in the master cylinder looks a little cloudy. Since everything about the braking system seems to have been half-assed, I'm assuming whoever worked on it didn't necessarily use the right brake fluid in it. After all, if the master cylinder had gasket sealer in it, who knows what kind of fluid they put in it. I'll work on that today.
I didn't get the master cylinder rebuild kit installed on Friday like I wanted. I ran over something on the way to Cuzzin Ricky's and cut a tire down. Fortunately, I was close to home so I turned around and made it back before it went all the way down. I pulled the tire and wheel off when I got home from lunch and took it uptown to the tire shop. Unfortunately, its sliced too deep to be repaired so I need a new tire.
After wrestling with the lug nuts and loading the tire up in the car, my chest started hurting. So that, plus the heat, sent me into the house instead of the shop. I worked up a good sweat yesterday working on the brakes, the temp was up into the nineties, the heat index close to 100. It's supposed to be about the same today but I want to finish up the brakes so I can move to the next item, which is rinsing out the oil tank.
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