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drzrma
Dec 29, 2008
If you're feeling off enough to not want to work on customer cars, don't work on your own car instead. If you do, make sure the timing marks you're aligning are actually timing marks, not a badly placed piece of a part number or something. Was only ten or fifteen degrees off, but I definitely confirmed that the engine was in fact interference. Valves are softer than you think.

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drzrma
Dec 29, 2008

some texas redneck posted:

I think everyone does this at least now and then. I keep a magnet on a stick thing handy for that now.

If the drain plug has a magnet in it most of the time you can just fish it out with a screwdriver.

Pulled the DRZ out to wash and do a pre riding season inspection, forgot to pull the exhaust plug out. Could not figure out why it was harder to start than usual and barely idled, choke and idle screws are on the left side of the bike, exhaust is on the right. Five or ten minutes of profanity and frustration later I noticed the bright orange plug with it's nice "Remove before flight" streamer, problem solved. I don't own or use disk locks for a reason.

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