Problems related?

[OldNTired]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

You can do it. There are a few members with the knowledge and experience to give you lots of helpful hints. Just take your time and think your moves through before doing anything. The one saving grace is the GZ is a single cylinder and not a multi with a lot more parts to deal with.

Thanks, friend, for the vote of confidence.
Yes, I've done harder things in my life many times,
but I was a lot younger, stronger, and healthier.
Well, nothing ventured - nothing gained,
no guts - no glory,
hell, it's not running now - what have I got to lose?
Did I leave any out?
I'll be starting on it tonight.

[Water Warrior 2]

Younger, stronger and healthier will always be trumped by Old Guy Syndrome.
One of my brilliant revelations after decades of frustration with odd jobs was to plan it out in my mind. This included having all the tools and odds an ends in place. Estimated the time frame and then multiplied by 5. Oddly enough a 75 minute oil change can be enjoyable with a can of Coke and a smoke.
Take your time and work in good light with a few breaks. Being hunched over a bike in the dark is no fun.

[OldNTired]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

Younger, stronger and healthier will always be trumped by Old Guy Syndrome.
One of my brilliant revelations after decades of frustration with odd jobs was to plan it out in my mind. This included having all the tools and odds an ends in place. Estimated the time frame and then multiplied by 5. Oddly enough a 75 minute oil change can be enjoyable with a can of Coke and a smoke.
Take your time and work in good light with a few breaks. Being hunched over a bike in the dark is no fun.

That sounds pretty much like the way I try to do things.
As much as I would like the bike to be done(yesterday!) I know that
it's gonna tale a lot longer than I would like it to.
It is better, though, to take ones time and do it right, hopefully the first time,
than to have to do it over.
Plus, there is a lot of damage to fix after those storms, and more to come
later this week, but I'm going to put off as much as I can
so I can get some work done on the bike.

I started searching the archives, but so far haven't found a writeup on
removing the head. I'll keep looking but am not going to wait on a hope
before I start working on it.

[Water Warrior 2]

To take ones time and do it right. :lol: Yeah, you don't want to have to confess you found 6 ways not to do it.

[OldNTired]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

To take ones time and do it right. :lol: Yeah, you don't want to have to confess you found 6 ways not to do it.

Good day, bad day. Woke up with more pain than usual, took some 'stuff' and went back to sleep. Woke up, while drinking a pot of coffee read the few threads left from my search and found a gold mine! Someone else replaced their cyl head and did a great job documenting it. Read post while drinking coffee, and started getting all tools together that I'd need (had to run out and get a torque wrench, my old one doesn't go down to 7 ft/lbs).
More pain, more drugs, more coffee, and started wrenching.
Soon had all bolts out but one - the one you can't get out with the engine in the frame!
Tried to take off the cover, forgetting that the thing was still bolted to the frame.
Have to get a new mallet, guess my son 'borrowed' mine. Found out while trying to get
the thing out.
Tomorrows job! Been in a kind of fog all day.
And then hope tomorrow is better. Steady progress.

[Water Warrior 2]

Sounds like you are off to a pretty good start.

Paint the handles of some of your tools pink. They will always come back or never leave at all.

[OldNTired]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

Sounds like you are off to a pretty good start.

Paint the handles of some of your tools pink. They will always come back or never leave at all.

A lot of his are painted. Don't misunderstand, he rarely takes the tools with him. He has an inability to remember where they belong. He'll take a tool from 'box a', fourth drawer, and return it to ???. And then he forgets where he put it, and sometimes forgets that he used it at all.

[Water Warrior 2]

Originally Posted by OldNTired

A lot of his are painted. Don't misunderstand, he rarely takes the tools with him. He has an inability to remember where they belong. He'll take a tool from 'box a', fourth drawer, and return it to ???. And then he forgets where he put it, and sometimes forgets that he used it at all.

A place for everything and everything in it's place. Easy to say but hard to accomplish.

[OldNTired]

[quote=Water Warrior]

Originally Posted by OldNTired

A lot of his are painted. Don't misunderstand, he rarely takes the tools with him. He has an inability to remember where they belong. He'll take a tool from 'box a', fourth drawer, and return it to ???. And then he forgets where he put it, and sometimes forgets that he used it at all.

A place for everything and everything in it's place. Easy to say but hard to accomplish.[/quote:30bpnx3r]

Progress today, but also a BIG screwup.
I got the head cover off. What a damn fight getting clearance to get it out!
But, it is out.
Found a piece of one stem between the springs.
But where I screwed up is in removing the bolts. As always, I loosened all bolts,
then went along putting them in a Baggy so they don't get lost.
What I didn't notice was that they are different lengths! And the manual
neither tells you anywhere, or let you know which lengths go where.
Stupid on my part. Guess I'll have to guess where they belong,
unless when I get replacement parts I'll see if the dealership can (will?)
help me out. Couldn't find anything in the archives here.

[Maggie]

Originally Posted by OldNTired

Progress today, but also a BIG screwup.
I got the head cover off. What a damn fight getting clearance to get it out!
But, it is out.
Found a piece of one stem between the springs.
But where I screwed up is in removing the bolts. As always, I loosened all bolts,
then went along putting them in a Baggy so they don't get lost.
What I didn't notice was that they are different lengths! And the manual
neither tells you anywhere, or let you know which lengths go where.
Stupid on my part. Guess I'll have to guess where they belong,
unless when I get replacement parts I'll see if the dealership can (will?)
help me out. Couldn't find anything in the archives here.

I thought I was in the same hot water when I removed the clutch cover (despite having read the warning on an excellent post about it) and didn't note which size bolt went where. However, the parts microfiche you can download here showed me where each different bolt should go. Whew! Thanks GZ forum! First, for all the great posts on how to do stuff and then all the encouragement. I do have a "mistakes made" post I need to write about that repair though...UGH! :retard: